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uponit7771

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3. +1, "...The Potato Famine only happened to potatoes..." yeap, everything else didn't die so how did

Reply to deminks (Original post)

Fri Mar 17, 2017, 03:10 PM

Mar 2017

... all those people starve?

Cause the Irish parliment allowed exporting in the 1840s

Simple legislation would've kept so many people from starving !!!

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The Irish potato famine was caused by wealthy landlords who prized profit over people [View all] deminks Mar 2017 OP

K&R smirkymonkey Mar 2017 #1

Strong parallel to climate change here. Proper education should include the facts about the food and suffragette Mar 2017 #2

+1, "...The Potato Famine only happened to potatoes..." yeap, everything else didn't die so how did uponit7771 Mar 2017 #3

"Grass stained mouths on all of them as they trudged down the lane." - My grandmother, Mary Collins monmouth4 Mar 2017 #4

It's why my ancestors came here mcar Mar 2017 #5

Same here. 3 of my 4 grandparents were born in Ireland. n/t FSogol Mar 2017 #8

Sean Spicer, Paul Ryan, Mick Mulvaney..... all Irish.... IcyPeas Mar 2017 #6

The best book on the subject is by Thomas Keneally (he wrote Schdindler's List too), FSogol Mar 2017 #7