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TIL March is Irish American heritage month, but we don't have a British-American, or Scottish-American heritage month. (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by ParabolicMotion@lemmy.world to c/todayilearned@lemmy.ml

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[–] hitmyspot@aussie.zone 4 points 7 months ago

Just to increase your knowledge, the official term is not the famine, but the great hunger. Famine means a lack of food. There was sufficient food for all, but it was crops from wealthy British landowners, sold overseas for profit. The Irish went hungry as the potato croo failed and it was their staple food.

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