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Irish Potato Famine
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Throughout the ordeal of the , c. 1845 - 1850, people throughout the world formed many
different views on the situation. Those views formed mainly through information fed to world news agencies by
the British government, the ruling power in Ireland at the time. While the Irish starved for lack of ....
Middle of essay ....st news reports (fed to agencies by British)
cast the impression of a complete lack of food within the country. True, the potato was the staple food for most
Irish families. Not only was it cheap, but it "could be grown on small plots and not detract from the payments due
the landlord for cash crops." However, while the potato crop was wiped out, the exporting of Irish crops to
England continued at a shocking rate. The following figures are for 1845, at the start of the blight:
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