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Part Two: That Time Britain Did A Genocide in Ireland

Behind the Bastards

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The Potato Blight

There's only six counties in ireland that lose more than a third of their crop, which is significant. There are ways to deal with these now, like, i think it's a copper sulphate solution that you can spray on your tubers and stuff. And obviously one of the better way to deal with it is to grow more than one kind of potato. One thing about growing potatoes: You don't eat them. When you harvest potatoes, you set aside a chunk of your harvest as seed for the next planting season. So usually you might set aside like a third, a quarter of your harvest,. something like that, as seed potatoes. Well, if people are losing a third

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