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Thread #13830   Message #2797575
Posted By: GUEST,999
27-Dec-09 - 07:48 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Over There
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Over There
"1740 => First Irish potato famine, 1740-1741, due to The Great Frost of the prior year, causing devastating crop failure for Ireland, as well as most of Europe."


"Great Irish Potato Famine, the famine in Ireland between 1845 and 1852
Highland Potato Famine, a major agrarian crisis in the Scottish Highlands from 1846 to 1857"