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[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago

Would you mind explaining what happened? I don't know anything about Irish History.

[-] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago

They were colonized by the British and essentially taxed through landlords above their ability to produce, but were allowed to support themselves on potatoes, which was okay (not really) until there was a blight damaging the potato crops, which brought on huge amounts of emigration and led to over a million people starving to death. If you want to read more

[-] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago

Thanks. Now I understand, why that joke was quite an asshole joke.

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