1. Short-Term Significance of the Great Famine
... of the blame would be Adelman and Pearce who've written that the "speculators, who raised rents to extortionate heights"13 were certainly part of the problem. Elizabeth Smith, who was the wife of a landlord, disagreed with the view and blamed the poor Irish for their own misfortune due to the fact that they were "dependent on the ... ...
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