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Thread #150911   Message #3616866
Posted By: Teribus
09-Apr-14 - 08:33 AM
Thread Name: BS: Irish Potato Blight- Cause found
Subject: RE: BS: Irish Potato Blight- Cause found
Policies leading to the famine Christmas?

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Audited costs to the British Government of aid given £9.95 million.

As demonstrated by the figures relating to imports of grain into Ireland over the period of the famine steadily increasing as exports from Ireland declined sharply - If you have figures that dispute that then I would be glad to see them.

That at the height of the Famine 43% of the population of Ireland was being fed and three quarters of a million people were being given work?

Deployment of Royal Naval vessels to distribute aid on the west coast of Ireland.

That the number of workhouses in Ireland went from 0 in 1838 to 128 in 1845 to 163 in 1851.

That an assisted passage scheme was instigated for those who wished to travel to the new world.

That due to policies adopted Ireland never suffered another famine.

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Still waiting to hear what should have been done differently that actually COULD HAVE BEEN DONE.

Still waiting to hear how the diseases that raged throughout the period and which actually accounted for the vast majority of the deaths could have been attended to between 1845 and 1851 when no-one had any clear understanding of them or the effective treatment of them until the early 1880s.

Still waiting to hear your substantive evidence to support your contention that Charles Edward Trevelyan was a religious fanatic.