The proximate cause of the famine was the infection of potato crops by blight (Phytophthora infestans)[13] throughout Europe during the 1840s. Blight infection caused 100,000 deaths outside Ireland and influenced much of the unrest that culminated in European Revolutions of 1848.[14] Longer-term reasons for the massive impact of this particular famine included the system of absentee landlordism[15][16] and single-crop dependence.
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That's still going on?
FFS, just eat something else.
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Ireland was under pretty extreme food export requirements while part of the empire, and those lumpy, bitter potatoes were what the soulless devils wouldn't take.
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There's ground everywhere idiots, just plant stuff in it.
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Did they consider not breeding like rats?
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Or do rats breed like us?
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no vermin breeds as aggressively as the irish
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