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Noun: the Great Calamity
  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)
    - the Irish Famine, the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation

Type of: famine

Encyclopedia: The Great Calamity

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The Blitz
the boot
the chop
the City
The Dagda
the devil
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the fuzz
The Gambia
the Great Calamity
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the Great Compromiser
the Great Hunger
the Great Starvation
the great unwashed
The Hague
the halt
the Hill
The Holy See
the hots