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A quarter of my ancestry is from Ireland but I don't consider myself Irish. I find your post weird, how are you considering "world Irish population?" The fami
by wavefunction 11y ago
A quarter of my ancestry is from Ireland but I don't consider myself Irish. I find your post weird, how are you considering "world Irish population?"
The famine was a political issue anyways, the English oppressors could have released the abundant stores of wheat to feed the starving Irish but didn't want to depress the commodity price of wheat and were also content to let the Irish die. The Irish potato famine happened during an abundance of food withheld, which is the real tragedy.
- jacquesm 11y agoThat same story is playing out a on a much larger stage with medication and food as the elements and much of the third world in the role of the Irish. Money is a great tool, but like any tool it has good uses and bad ones.
- dingaling 11y ago> The famine was a political issue anyways No, the famine was an dietary issue. The Ulster-Scots communities in the north of Ireland and western Scotland also suffered potato crop failures but had a more balanced diet with much more wheat. Same in Germany and Denmark.