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One of Ireland's worst natural disasters was the Great Famine of the 1840s. At that time people mostly lived on a valuable food: the potato. In 1845 a fungus struck the potatoes and the had nothing to eat. 1 million people died and about a have a million emigrated to Britain, America, and Australia. It lasted until 1848

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