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Definition of The Irish Famine
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 Irish Famine
Literary usage of The Irish Famine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Douglas Hyde, Charles Welsh, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"A SCENE IN the Irish Famine. [This description is very bitter, but probably very
true. It appeared in a letter addressed to The Times, April 22, 1847. ..."
2. Source-book of English History: For the Use of Schools and Readers by Elizabeth Kimball Kendall (1900)
"the Irish Famine (1847) I left Dublin by mail on the i7th of First-month, 1847,
and joined my father and his companions at Westport on the following evening ..."
3. Domestic Service by Lucy Maynard Salmon (1897)
"The first of these changes was due to the Irish famine ,of 1846. Previous to this
time the immigration to this country from Ireland had been small, ..."
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