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Paddy's Lament, Ireland 1846-1847: Prelude to Hatred

by Thomas Gallagher · 1982

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Ireland in the mid-1800s was primarily a population of peasants, forced to live on a single, moderately nutritious crop: potatoes. Suddenly, in 1846, an unknown and uncontrollable disease turned the potato crop to inedible slime, and all Ireland was threatened. Index.

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