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  • Ireland still recovering from 19th-century potato famine

    From Byker@21:1/5 to Byker on Sun Sep 5 12:01:55 2021
    XPost: can.politics, uk.politics.misc, soc.culture.ireland
    XPost: talk.politics.misc

    "Gregory Carr" wrote in message news:4e21ab24-f1e4-4ad0-be58-ad8ca721d859n@googlegroups.com...

    On Friday, 3 September 2021 at 16:50:18 UTC-7, Byker wrote:
    "Gregory Carr" wrote in message

    Stupid micks. The Potato Famine was very, very, very bad.
    Which one?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Famine_(1740%E2%80%9341)
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Famine_(1879)

    Found your 1740 Irish famine reference very informative.

    Irish famines were periodic well into the 20th Century:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ks9e7GaORA

    "A short film produced by Pathe News around 1905 that
    brought attention to famine in Ireland in that year."

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