Irish Potato Famine
The Great Irish Famine of 1846 was called "God's Famine" when an unknown, uncontrolable disease (which we now know as potato blight) turned Ireland's potato crop to slime. By definition, God's Famine is the general scarcity of food brought about by divine intervention. But the statistical commisioner, Captain Larcom, in 1847 found the total value of the agricultural produce in Ireland to be £44, 958. That was enough to feed the eight million people living in Ireland plus another eight million besides. One might ask why then this "Great Famine"? It is true that in the early nineteenth century, the potato did dominate the lives of two thirds of the Irish population, but there was plenty of other food sources like wheat, barley, cattle and corn. It is safe to say that, in reality there was no scarcity of food and the failure of the potato, though a factor, had little to do with the root cause of the famine.
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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