hey man just wanted to let you know about this little thing britain did to us in the 1800's
@EstrogenBrick So who lives out there now? Is it just rural folk?
@EstrogenBrick It’s more what we didn’t do rather than what we did do.
@EstrogenBrick It's almost like genocide can negatively impact a population.
@EstrogenBrick Only country to have a lower population now than in 1840. You either left home or died.
@EstrogenBrick I've seen this comment a few times, I agree, but can we stop calling it a famine please. Ireland was producing more than enough food to feed the population.
@EstrogenBrick Hmmm. I wonder what happened after 1841.
@EstrogenBrick The famine was horrific, however it is arguable that ireland was overpopulated given the times farming technology. The average irishman subsisted almost exclusively on the potato crop. Which is due to hundreds kf years of landlordism and changes. Not entirely the will of individu
@EstrogenBrick It even left its mark on the land - I grew up on the Dingle Peninsula in a landscape dotted with 'famine houses'. Like, sure, we were blasted by gales and had to contend with the Conor Pass, but these places were emptied through eviction and forced starvation.
@EstrogenBrick The village my family is from literally doesn't exist anymore because of depopulation