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Irish Potato Famine - Isle of Blight
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16, 2019
The potato blight hit the United States first before it came to Ireland (and other countries). But what made it particularly devastating in Ireland was the factor of human .. show full overview
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Irish Potato Famine - The Corn Laws
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23, 2019
Prime Minister Robert Peel was caught between the political pressures of the Whigs and the Tories. He repealed the corn laws in Britain to keep food prices low in Britain, with the .. show full overview
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Irish Potato Famine - Black '47
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02, 2019
Watching the Irish suffer from the view of London, Sir Charles Trevelyan believed that the potato famine was part of God's will. Inspired by the meritocracy-based philosophy of .. show full overview
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Irish Potato Famine - The American Wake
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09, 2019
Not all of the 214,000 Irish immigrants in 1847 made it safely to their new homes--and of those who did, many faced classism and xenophobia and even bullying from the "Ulster Irish" or .. show full overview
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Irish Potato Famine - The Young and the Old
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16, 2019
Irish leaders entered the picture when the 1847 Poor Laws backfired, leading landowners to mass-evict their starving tenants. Daniel O'Connell tried to maintain an alliance with the .. show full overview

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