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Wikipedia: The Great Famine (the Bad Life) was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852 during which the island's population dropped by 20 to 25 percent. Approximately one million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland. The proximate cause of famine was a potato disease commonly known as potato blight.
![[The memorial to the victims in Doolough valley]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Doolough_s.jpg "The memorial to the victims in Doolough valley")
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![[Ireland's Holocaust mural on the Ballymurphy Road,http://cain]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/An_gorta_Mor_s.jpg "Ireland's Holocaust mural on the Ballymurphy Road,http://cain")
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![[Famine Memorial in Dublin]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Famine_memorial_dublin_s.jpg "Famine Memorial in Dublin")
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![[Skibbereen 1847 by Cork artist James Mahony , commissioned by Illustrated London News 1847]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Skibbereen_1847_by_James_Mahony_s.jpg "Skibbereen 1847 by Cork artist James Mahony , commissioned by Illustrated London News 1847")
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