The Big Hunger .. Ireland 1845 ,,, Excerpt from the Book : A Guide to the Silence of the Irish Other World Click here : amazon/dp/B00C5WJ688 " There was a potato blight across many European countries at this time, including England, Scotland and Wales. The potato blight did cause deaths elsewhere yet millions did not die or exodus en masse from the other European countries, only in the main, it was the Irish. There was food in abundance in Ireland, there was fish in the sea, fish in the rivers, fattened cattle, sheep, rabbits, deer, vegetables, fruit, oats and lots more and it was exported under British Military guard. Why historians have constantly failed to focus on these matters or scrutinized the food abundance is surely a field of study in itself. 1.5 million Irish are estimated to have fled the big hunger hoping to arrive in the many faraway places to enhance their here and now, Irish reality. " .. ..
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