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GUEST,JTT	Folklore/History: Irish Famine (641* d)	RE: Folklore/History: Irish Famine	16 Jul 13
No famine is caused only by a natural disaster. All famines are made worse by economics. The trouble in the Great Hunger was that British policy of 'laissez faire' at the time took the Malthusian view that the Irish were an inferior race that should be allowed to starve so there'd be fewer of us. Scottish farms were struck by blight during some of the years when the Great Hunger was ravaging Ireland (1845-50 roughly), but the policy was quite different; aid was rushed in from London to support the hungry Scots. Anyone who doubts the reality of the Famine should read contemporary reports. There are plenty of them freely available now online.

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