the great calamity

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the great calamity - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  the Great Calamity
      n 1: a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between
           1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6
           million emigrated (most to America) [syn: the Irish Famine
           , the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, the Great Calamity
           ]