A ____ is when there is not enough ____ to feed all the people in a country or region. Many people may become ill or die because of famine. During the Famine of 1845–49 in ____, more than one million people died. Another two million people left Ireland to find a better life in other ____. The immediate ____ of the famine was a ____ called blight, which affected ____ crops. Blight stopped the potato plants from ____ properly. Most people in Ireland at the time were very ____. Potatoes were their main source of food, and they had little else to eat. Without the potatoes to eat, the people ____ weak from hunger. Many ____ from illnesses or ____. In the 1800s, ____ ruled Ireland and wealthy British men owned much of the land. Irish ____ sold the grain that they grew and the ____ they kept in order to pay ____ to their British landlords. ____ people could only survive by ____ and eating potatoes, so when the ____ crops failed and the ____ took hold, people blamed the ____. The famine was a ____ for Ireland and the Irish people. Many left the country and never returned. Those who ____ the famine lived with awful ____. Many never fully recovered from the ____ and illnesses they had ____. People born after the famine grew up with a ____ against Britain. It was many years before the ____ began to ____.

The Great Irish Famine

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