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Even worse, the famine was entirely caused by landlords and especially the English. It wasn’t a natural disaster, but a product of monoculture that was forced on the people through no fault of their own.

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It was caused by the government of England subsidizing the export of food from Ireland.

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Initially, yes. And then when it went wrong? They doubled down on it because they WANTED people to be desperate.

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