Maryamyriameliamurphies
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- milia (Latin): thousand[s]
- míle marbhadh (Irish): A thousand murders, hyperbole for a great commotion (anglicized as meila murder)
- thousands of murders by murpies (potatoes) - The Great Famine (Irish Potato Famine) where over a million persons slept the final sleep.
- Is this a thunderclap word? Perhaps a local, Irish, thunderclap word, for this famine surely started a new cycle of relations between Ireland and Britain, and perhaps the world.
