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To: epicure who wrote (67244)	12/18/1999 8:07:00 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

X, to me it's all about freedom. Ireland and it's people have historically given power and influence of their lives over to the church or to government. Would the potato famine have happened had the land not been owned by a handfull of people? I don't know, but my assumption is that if free enterprise had been allowed to flourish in Ireland, the people would have suffered far less and not been driven to America and her shores in such numbers. Michael

To: epicure who wrote (67244)	12/19/1999 5:48:00 AM
From: nihil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Irish demography is a complex subject. First, the Irish and the Scots have been moving across the northern Irish sea for a thousand or more years. In the 18th century, many northern Irish protestants move to the American colonies because of English destruction of Irish commerce. The American Scots-Irish were very anti-English, e.g. Andrew Jackson. The potato famine in the 1840's was primarily the result of monoculture and the disease that infected the potatoes. The landlords were primarily English and absentees. The Irish were mostly short-term cash-rent tenants. When crops failed completely many Irish were expelled from their farms, and those who stayed starved. It is said one third of the Irish died, one third emigrated, and one-third survived, but adopted delayed marriage and abstinence and reduced birth rates enormously. Many American people and governments sent food to Ireland for relief. Much of it was maize, which Irish grain hand mills could not grind. No one knew how to eat it, and it is said that many starved to death rather than eat cornbread or grits.