Why did so many people die during the Irish potato famine? Couldn’t they have imported food from the mainland?
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1. At the time, most of Irish land was owned by the English who exported it all to England.
2. The ones that grew potatoes were usually poor, living on marginal land. They couldn’t buy imported food
3. The England blocked charitable food donations from overseas and taxed food purchases.
4. UK Parlement underestimated the full impact of the Potato Blind and didn’t realize that most of the farmers had eaten their seed crop, leaving them with nothing to plant.
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