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223: Dreher - Cultivate Cultural Memory

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My Irish Ancestors Fled Ireland, Because of the Famine

i know why my irish ancestors fled ireland because of the famine, which was not a potato famine. It's the british taking the food away from them and they weren't allowed to deal with it themselves. You don't end up with mass graves of children in orphanages who were murdered by nuns, ests and british uetakers. I'm removed from my family on that side geographically, but i have a shared memory that's passed down over generations. And maybe iavet been here, but that's how i got here.

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