the great calamity

Noun

the Great Calamity - 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)

the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, the Irish Famine

famine - a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death

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