Why did so many people die during the Irish potato famine? Couldn’t they have imported food from the mainland?

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Why did so many people die during the Irish potato famine? Couldn’t they have imported food from the mainland?

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Very short answer: Britain was deliberately starving them.

They couldn’t import food because Britain wouldn’t let them.

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