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Part Two: That Time Britain Did A Genocide in Ireland

Behind the Bastards

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Seed Potatoes - What's a Potato Seed?

The famine is not caused by a lack of things to eat that are being grown on the island. It is caused by the failure of a crop that causes a surge in food prices, which puts avoiding starvation outside of the budget of most irish families. The population of ireland at the start was about nine million; now it's an estimated 18 million people. A quarter of all irish grain crops were being exported when the famine started. Three fifths of the island's total agricultural output is being sold outside of ireland. 60 % of the food produced in ireland does not stay thereyes. In ireland has plenty of food to feed everyone in ireland. Ye during the

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