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Great Irish Famine

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The Irish Potato Famine

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The Irish Potato Famine

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The Irish Potato Famine - Explained

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History through the eyes of the potato - Leo Bear-McGuinness

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THE HUNGER: THE STORY OF THE IRISH FAMINE Trailer – 2021 Capital Irish Film Festival

The Great Famine or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1849. With the greatest impacted areas to the west and south of Ireland, where the Irish language was primarily spoken, the period was contemporaneously known as in Irish: An Drochshaol, loosely translated as the hard-times. The worst year of the period, that of "Black 47", is known as Irish: Bliain an Drochshaoil. During the famine, about one million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland, causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%.