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Irish Potato Famine
Throughout the ordeal of the Irish Potato Famine, c. 1845 - 1850, people throughout the world formed many
different views on the situation. Those views formed mainly through information fed to world news agencies by
the British government, the ruling power in Ireland at the time. While the Irish starved for lack of food and
medical aid, the English government looked on with callous disinterest. En ....
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.... that the Irish famine was caused solely by a blight, "which destroyed the potato
crop, the food on which more than half the population lived." Much of the world perceived the situation to be a
great, albeit unavoidable tragedy; the use of the word "famine" in most news reports (fed to agencies by British)
cast the impression of a complete lack of food within the country. True, the potato was the staple food for most
Irish families. Not only was it cheap, but it "could be grown on ....
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