In Gaelic it's known as "An Gorta Mor" (The Great Hunger)
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Great Famine (Ireland) - Wikipedia  The Great Famine (Irish: an Gorta Mr, [an gta mo]) or the Great Hunger was a period of mass starvation, disease, and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852. ... The famine and its effects permanently changed the island's demographic, political, and cultural landscape.
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Irish potato famine also known as An Gorta Mor, The Great Hunger ...  Irish potato famine Ireland history information on the great hunger in Ireland. ... and population was just getting back on its feet, the Irish were the Silent People. The "Great Hunger", known as An Gorta Mor in Gaelic, happened in an era when...
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Why we should call it the Great Hunger and not the Irish Potato Famine  May 31, 2015 ... I believe that the Great Hunger, which stems from an Gorta Mr in Irish, is the ... Let us know what you think in the comment section, below.
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An Gorta Mor - The Great Hunger - Ireland and The Great Hunger. A ...  July 23, Irish patriots throughout the country rebelled against Union with Great .... Brotherhood, better known as the Fenians, gave Australia its final generation of...
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Irish Potato Famine (18451849) - New World Encyclopedia  The Great Famine or the Great Hunger (Gaelic: An Gorta Mr or An Drochshaol), known more commonly outside of Ireland as the Irish Potato Famine, is the name ... The immediate effect on Ireland was devastating, and its long-term effects...
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BRITISH STUDIES  Jan 12, 2015 ... One of these governs most of the island of Ireland. ... It is also called 'Eire' (its Irish language name). ... Albion is a word used by poets and songwriters to refer to England or Great Britain as a ... The Romans associated Great Britain with Latin word 'albus', meaning white. ... 'Rule Britannia, rule the waves;.
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Slovaks Love Mushrooms  In the English Language We Call Them ...  The Irish term is the frog's pouch; the Welsh, toad's cheese; the Bretons, toad's ... a 'toadstool' in its ultimate meaning is a 'poison stool', and the idea of poison, ... If you enjoyed this post, please use the buttons below to like it on Facebook or to...
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Scotland's myths, folklores and legends - Mackays Blog  With a land steeped in as much history and heritage as Scotland has, it has ... The large dinosaur like creature is said to have a snake like neck, to be ... when a giant beast is said to have leaped out of a lake near Inverness and ate a local farmer. ... werewolf-like being which is believed to have lived in the Shetland Islands.
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The Madd(en) Tynan Travels: October 2006  Oct 2, 2006 ... His telescope was used to identify spiral galaxies and map the surface of the moon. ..... Hello everyone- I wanted to wish everyone good travel as we are ..... thick Irish accents, when we realized it had been redubbed in Gaelic. .... Go n-eiri an bothar leat: Have a good trip (That the road may rise to meet you)
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Gaelic in modern Scotland: View as single page - The Open University  Here you will learn how Gaelic sits alongside Scots and English as one of Scotland's ..... Scots words which derive from Gaelic include ben (beinn, a mountain), ... a cauldron shaped bowl in the mountains), ghillie (gille, a servant), kyle (caol, ...... set out how they will use the Gaelic language in the exercise of their functions.
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Gidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) Local Studies Vol. 06: Na Hearadh  Only in a few locations like the island of Scalpay the language remains ... still spoken by a substantial part of the population at the start of the 20th ... animation of Scottish Gaelic in a number of places. .... used in these congregations very extensively as everyday church language and ... Even one half of the population spoke.
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Jeopary Questions page 2080 - HENCE THE TITLE - TriviaBistro.com  "VE" DAY: Any dummy could tell you it's from the Latin for "speaking from the stomach"  SEASONAL MOVIES: ... ISAAC: Despite a famine, God told Isaac to "go not down unto" this land of the Pharaohs but to stay put in Gerar  THEN WE CAN...
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Great Famine | Irish history | Britannica.com  Jan 28, 2016 ... ... in Ireland in 184549 when the potato crop failed in successive years. ... by more-devastating failures in 184649, as each year's potato crop...
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The film Shoah credits translation of this language to Mrs ... - YouTube  Jun 30, 2016 ... The film Shoah credits translation of this language to Mrs. Apfelbaum .... Quiz in Irish Language (Gaelic) for monority groups in Cork-Ireland...
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To a Mouse - Readings  The plain, forthright poems of Robert Burns suffer from being written in Lallans, the dialect of English spoken in the Lowlands of Scotland. The phonetics...
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Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach  Reviews, Discussion ...  Composed in the early thirteenth century, Wolfram von Eschenbach's ... of the Temple of the Grail, which Wolfram describes as a life-giving Stone. ..... Another reviewer for this book wrote, "The more you put into Parzival, the more you get out. ..... an English prose translation of a medieval middle High-German "epic" poem...
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GLYNN: Irish have strong identity to the Cataract City | Columns ...  Jul 30, 2016 ... You'll probably hear that once or twice today, in the Como, at Gadawski's on ... GLYNN: Irish have strong identity to the Cataract City ... It's appropriate the men's and women's division of the Niagara Falls Chapter of the AOH are .... SWEET HONOR: Niagara's pastry pro Maria Iacovitti named Chef of the Year.
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Samhain - Wikipedia  Samhain is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and the beginning of winter or the "darker half" of the year. Traditionally, it is celebrated from the very beginning of one Celtic day to its end, or in the modern calendar, from sunset ... In Modern Irish the name is Samhain [saun], in Scottish Gaelic...
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Cormoran, the Giant of St Michael's Mount  Under the influence!  Jan 24, 2016 ... But there was also giants and the biggest of all was Cormoran and there ... and many versions of the same tale but in Cornish folklore it is Cormoran, ... Her apron string broke and the huge green slab fell to the ground. .... Jack claims his reward and that is how he began his career as the famous giant-killer.
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Full text of "Gaelic proverbs and proverbial sayings, with English ...  Out of nearly 4000 Gaelic proverbs and proverbial sayings, known as current in the ... E.P.  Out of sight out of mind. ... as for instance :  " Kind eyes may speak the heart's desire, When heart for ...... Two things that need not be considered.
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Uilleann pipes - Wikipedia  The uilleann pipes are the characteristic national bagpipe of Ireland. Earlier known in English ... In Irish and Scottish Gaelic, this instrument was called the pob mhr ("great pipe"). ... than the earlier "flat" pitch sets, and as a consequence are a good deal louder, though by no means as loud as the Highland pipes of Scotland.