WordNet
the Great Hunger
n. 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) [syn: the Irish Famine, the Great Starvation, the Great Calamity]
Usage examples of "the great hunger".
But you couldn't fight typhus, or cholera, or the nameless fevers that had taken off nearly as many people as the great hunger, or the new sickness people whispered about, the black plague.
He had not realized the great hunger that had built up inside him for new sights and experiences such as those he had found today-for companionship, too.