They had to work a landlords farm then work on a quarter of an acre of farmland that they rented to support their family user. You grow Potatoes cause of efficiency.
Wtf is wrong with ireland??
Samuel Ortiz
Daniel Barnes
so lately I have been reading about the gret famine...
tfw op makes a freudian slip
Adam Robinson
It was all about the potato. It was sacred to the Irish. They just ate potatoes and forgot how to fish.
Then all the potatoes died in a plague.
The Irish were like dependent children of the potato.
And the British got too scared to help because of the potato plague so shut their doors. The rest is history.
Things are a bit different now. I mean the Irish could order potatoes from Amazon, for example. Fish too.
Josiah Butler
> Potato blight also hitting parts of England (and rest of Europe) at same time
> British government had relieved dozens of famines there leading up to this one
> Finally the big one hit and a mixture of exasperation, struggling capacity to respond, gleeful opportunism, lack of fishing skills = mass death
Christian Price
yeah makes me wonder why people who get stranded on desert islands just dont try fishing
Henry White
user they ate potatoes for efficiency due to lack of land for self farming and for cheapness. You'd know that if you read a book once in a while.
Bentley James
the irish only farmed potatoes, so no crop diversity.
the irish split land up among the descendants when the owner died, meaning farms became smaller over time, and less productive.
Dylan Garcia
Imagine being punked and genocided by the brits, they are complete faggots.
Gabriel Reed
I have read and know that the potato was everything to the Irish and therefore sacred. But for the reasons you condescendingly stated.
Mason Torres
We fucked the brits up easily and created the most powerful country on the face of earth.