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The Irish Potato Famine: Why Ireland exported mass amounts of food as hundreds of thousands starved
I finally learned about the Irish potato famine and it is full of seeming contradictions. Like the fact that they continued to export food during the famine and that a lot of people died from disease… not a lack of food. We dive into all that and more in this weeks episode.
https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/irish-potato-famine
https://ireland-calling.com/irish-famine-ireland-exported-food-as-thousands-starved/
https://www.dochara.com/the-irish/food-history/the-irish-potato-famine-1846-1850/
rte.ie/history/the-great-irish-famine/2020/0902/1162846-the-truth-about-trevelyan/
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By Abby Rancour
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I finally learned about the Irish potato famine and it is full of seeming contradictions. Like the fact that they continued to export food during the famine and that a lot of people died from disease… not a lack of food. We dive into all that and more in this weeks episode.
https://www.history.com/topics/immigration/irish-potato-famine
https://ireland-calling.com/irish-famine-ireland-exported-food-as-thousands-starved/
https://www.dochara.com/the-irish/food-history/the-irish-potato-famine-1846-1850/
rte.ie/history/the-great-irish-famine/2020/0902/1162846-the-truth-about-trevelyan/