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To: greenspirit who wrote (67242)	12/18/1999 7:41:00 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Ireland lost people because of the potato famine- caused by a disease in the potato crop. I don't think Ireland's loss of population had much to do with the Church- possibly with conflicts between the Catholic and Protestant- but I don't see that primarily as religious, but more as a divide between the Ascendancy and the Irish Catholic population over power and sovereignty. I could not remember the exact dates of the famine- here's an interesting URL: humboldt1.com