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Re:After 168 Years, Potato Famine Mystery Solved by moomin on Thursday July 13, 2023 @03:39AM (#36706121)
Exactly, a harvest failure for a single crop does not cause that kind of devastation.
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Re:After 168 Years, Potato Famine Mystery Solved by coremoff on Thursday July 13, 2023 @04:08AM (#36706280)
it does when the crop is the single staple crop used by most of the population
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Re:After 168 Years, Potato Famine Mystery Solved by mtlmtlmtlmtl on Thursday July 13, 2023 @04:39AM (#36706438)
Which it was because everything else was being exported to England.
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Re:After 168 Years, Potato Famine Mystery Solved by moomin on Thursday July 13, 2023 @05:32AM (#36706772)
Which in turn was the result of… government policy.
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Re:After 168 Years, Potato Famine Mystery Solved by MengerSponge on Thursday July 13, 2023 @04:36AM (#36706419)
Ireland was a net exporter of food throughout the famine
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Re:After 168 Years, Potato Famine Mystery Solved by EliRivers on Thursday July 13, 2023 @05:20AM (#36706698)
I understand the numbers suggest this not to be the case: https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-202289...
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Re:After 168 Years, Potato Famine Mystery Solved by coryrc on Thursday July 13, 2023 @05:28AM (#36706748)
That's extremely misleading and leaves out important information.
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