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disgruntledphd2 49 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: What made the Irish famine so deadly

What, like stealing Cromwellian corn so the young might see the morn?

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Gibbon1 49 days ago | [–]

I made a guesstimate that it was cheaper for Britain to send unemployed people to Australia than it would be to feed them.

disgruntledphd2 49 days ago | | [–]

Definitely not. My line was from a very famous Irish song, called the fields of athenry, about exactly this.

I_complete_me 49 days ago | [–]

Is this a deliberate replacement for Trevelyan?

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