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Other crops continued to do well, and Ireland still exported food; but the peasantry relied on potatoes, and the potatoes rotted.
by cafard 11y ago
Other crops continued to do well, and Ireland still exported food; but the peasantry relied on potatoes, and the potatoes rotted.
- emodendroket 11y agoI guess we could call the parent comment half-right, then, since presumably halting exports of food during a famine would have ameliorated it.