What caused the Great Potato Famine in Ireland in the 1800s?

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aielliot
Jul 28, 2016

A combination of a almost total dependence on potatoes as food for the lower classes, a mold that mass killed potato plants, and a mostly unsympathetic land owning upper class.

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Migration from Ireland had a significant influence on the American Civil War.

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