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>I skimmed that article for evidence of your claim that free trade caused the Irish potato famine It was causing food to be exported to Britain while the Irish
by crdoconnor 11y ago
>I skimmed that article for evidence of your claim that free trade caused the Irish potato famine
It was causing food to be exported to Britain while the Irish starved.
- mseebach 11y agoThe article doesn't seem to concern itself with that aspect at all? And the famine predates the repeal of the corn laws, to the point where the famine was an explicitly cited motivation for the repeal.