Curious how many know this MT @ChMadar: the real Irish catastrophe of the 1840s was a matter of political economy: http://prospect.org/article/why-real-story-irish-exodus-america-isnt-taught-schools#.VRiNNBX-KFl.twitter …
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@ChMadar I had (an otherwise conservative) Irish high school teacher so I knew something about it. But it's rarely mentioned.
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"...during the first winter of famine, 1846-47, as perhaps 400,000 Irish peasants starved, landlords exp 17 million
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pounds sterling worth of grain, cattle, pigs, flour, eggs, and poultry—food that could have prevented those deaths."
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