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Definition of The Great Hunger
1. Noun. 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).
Lexicographical Neighbors of The Great Hunger
Literary usage of The Great Hunger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1812)
"The great Hunger and other Calamities the Admiral and his Men endured, and how
he returned to Jamaica. THE admiral failing thence on ..."
2. Johan Bojer, the Man and His Works by Carl Gad (1920)
"the Great Hunger BY JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER THE tragic difficulty of novels unannounced
by adventitious circumstance or stereotyped names is to find friends. ..."
3. Lifeby Johan Bojer by Johan Bojer (1920)
"JOHAN BOJER the Great Hunger "It is the first work of fiction I have ever ...
Desire to reach, that is the great hunger. The story of Peer Holm is the ..."
4. Estonia and the Estonians by Toivo U. Raun (2001)
"The total population reached 325000-350000 (Otto Liiv) or 350000-400000 (Palli)
by the mid-1690s. the Great Hunger (1695-1697), occasioned by a combination ..."
5. The Drama and the Stage by Ludwig Lewisohn (1922)
"And to-day, as never before, and in the drama as in no other art, the great hunger
which is also the great rebellion and the great striving to remold the ..."
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