Thousands died or emigrated during the Irishfamine.
在那次爱尔兰饥荒中，数千人饿死或背井离乡。
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Many Irish people went over to America during the famine.
许多爱尔兰人在饥荒时期迁徙到美国。
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And a strange penultimate chapter on the Irish potato famine in which the potato blight is the villain, responsible for many deaths and massive emigration (shades of McNeill?).