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GAELIC IRISH:  an Gorta Mór  ‡

GAELIC IRISH:  Droschshaol  ‡‡

  ‡ ) Lit., “The Great Hunger” — the Irish Potato Famine,  resulting in mass famine & starvation & a diaspora between 1845 & 1852,  & later a reason & rallying cry for the (re)birth of the Irish Nationalist movement;

‡‡ ) Lit., “The Bad Times” — the Irish Potato Famine — see above;  less commonly may refer to the civil war in Northern Ireland of the 1970s through to the 1990s.

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