Articles related to theGreat Famine (1845–1852), a period of massstarvation anddisease inIreland that constituted a historicalsocial crisis and had a major impact onIrish society andhistory as a whole. The most severely affected areas were in the western and southern parts of Ireland—where theIrish language was dominant—hence the period was contemporaneously known in Irish asan Drochshaol, which literally translates to "the bad life" and loosely translates to "the hard times". The population of Ireland on the eve of the famine was about 8.5 million; by 1901, it was just 4.4 million.
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