Why did so many people die during the Irish potato famine? Couldn’t they have imported food from the mainland?
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The people who were starving didn’t really have the money needed to import food from the mainland. In addition, British policies at the time were really restrictive in regards to food imports/exports which made this process even more complicated and expensive. A lot of outside countries offered food aid, but the British government declined a lot of it because of reasons
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