the irish famine: 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)
famine: a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
civil censorship: military censorship of civilian communications (correspondence or printed matter of films) entering or leaving of circulating within territories controlled by armed forces