Wasn't there also a thing where the economic trend at the time for English landowners was to deem potatoes as not lucrative enough so they'd evict all the Irish, raze the plots, and turn it into sheep pastures? So a not insignificant percentage didn't even starve to death but died of exposure cause they were homeless desperately sheltering in ditches?
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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