A famine that occurred in then English-controlled Ireland from the years 1845-1849. It resulted from a catastrophic food supply failure that approximately led to one million deaths, most commonly in the areas of County Kerry, County Cork, and County Limerick.
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Example: A news report describing a famine as a "tragic natural disaster" caused by failed rains, while omitting how international debt regimes forced the country to shift from subsistence farming to cash crops for export, destroying local food sovereignty. This famine rationalization depoliticizes starvation.
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