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How many people died during the Great Famine in Ireland?
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Famine (1997), sculpture by Rowan Gillespie commemorating the Great Famine; in Dublin.
During the Great Famine in Ireland (1845–1849), approximately one million people died as a result of starvation or famine-related diseases, such as typhus.12