Synonyms for The Great Starvation (same or very similar meaning)
WordNet sense 1 (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 Irish Famine, the Great Calamity, the Great HungerFrom the ODE community, based on WordNetadd/edit