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Wasn't the famine a potato-specific blight?

• davkan 3mo ago
  Yes but the death toll was in large part because of Britain forcing the Irish to export everything that wasn’t a potato among a myriad of other oppressive practices.
  • jimmydddd 3mo ago
    And while I was taught repeatedly in school that all the Irish folks came to the US due to the potato famine, I don't ever recall anyone mentioning the forced exporation of other food to India, etc. Didn't learn it until I was like 50 years old. lol.