1. The Potato Blight
... the Irish, no free food, no money to develop infrastructure or subsistence. Sadly, many died as a result of the actions committed by the "most powerful and wealthy empire the world has ever known." VII. Britain: Guilty of passive or opportunistic genocide The term famine leads people to believe that the blight in Ireland was caused by no more than the devastating weather, crop failure due to fungus, overpopulation and the wrath of ... God. The term famine, according to Frank O"Conner is "a useful ... ...
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