Why were the Irish so dependent on potatoes as a staple food at the time of the Great Famine? Why couldn’t they just have turned to other grains as an alternative to stop more deaths from happening?
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the potatoes were a big part of the famine but werent the only reason. english landlords had been taking resources from them at the same time that the blight happened. the deaths werent just a natural disaster, they were the result of a intentional and malicious actions inspired by horrible greed
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