*starving*
*look at fishing boat*
*look at fishing net*
*look at fishing rods*
I KNOW!
*sells all of my fishing equipment, buys whiskey*
Why did this nation that is literally surrounded by water on all sides not just fish during the famine? Irish laziness and drunkenness? Or better yet, not rely on a single vegetable to feed your entire population less when blight hits everyone dies. Talk about incompetence and lack of foresight.
Did you really think this was worthy of a thread
Don't you know OP? Britannia ruled the waves and they didn't want to share.
England actually sent a ton of food to Ireland during the famine but people would sell it for alcohol.
they sent them fucking indian corn which is useless without a mill for grinding it
Why didn't Irish build mills then? Were they really that incompetent?
>Irish
>build
What's next? Gingers have souls?
This. Also fishing is a skill, it takes time to learn, and fishing on the ocean is a dangerous occupation. People didn't just have boats, those cost money. Plus salt was too expensive. Even if they could manage to poach some fish, they wouldn't be able to store it.
Finally, potatoes were one of the few things that grew well there. They did grow a few things besides potatoes, but those were often what they kept to feed themselves. IIRC, the rest was sent to landlords as payment.
The northern coast of ireland is basically a massive cliff, and the boats that irish people had weren't suited for going out far into the ocean, which is where you'd want to be to catch a lot of fish, people ho didn't have these boats were generally too poor to afford them as a result of British policy dividing up land between the entirty of the landowners sons rather than it being inherited by a single son, Irish people had larger families, and so they inherited smaller and smaller plots of land, meking them poorer, and making it so the most efficient crop (the potato) would become extremely popular, setting the stage for the potato blight.
They were fucking starving to death moron
They DID build certain things in order to get money from the English, but all eh English wanted were roads so they literally build roads to fuckigg nowhere to get enough money to buy more Indian corn for their kids
kind of hard to build mills from nothing when you have no experience doing so and you're in the midst of dying
they tried boiling the corn and other ways of preparing it, they even ate it harshly "hand-ground" and cut up their innards because of it, but indian corn thats been dried HAS to be mill-ground to be eaten, its inedible otherwise
what I'm saying is that "food" that the british gave them was hardly food
The Irish are basically white niggers.
>potatoes
Prior to Britain forcing free trade on them, the Irish agrarian economy was varied and dynamic.
After free trade flooded their markets with cheap foreign produce, farms began planting potatoes as a cash crop because nothing else could be sold profitably on the open market so that they could buy the cheap imported foodstuffs.
The potato blight deprived them of their source of revenue, and Britain’s response was “oh well, that’s God’s economy, rewarding the good and punishing the wicked. Not our problem” and did some half ass measures to at least make the external appearance of caring.
TLDR globalism is what fucked the Irish economy
Why do Irish people have significantly lower IQ when compared to their British neighbors
>all these replies
Clearly it's because someone kept taking all the bait.
irish get the last laugh watching english children get raped by muslims tho
If you want evidence of Irish people getting the last laugh look at northern ireland. Republicans literally just shitpost and banter while Loyalists/Unionists are on a constant state of anger and damage control whilst masquerading as "smug."
People really overlook how infinitely fucked over the british people of Northern Ireland were with the end of the Troubles. The IRA didn't win but Loyalists/Unionists sure as shit lost.
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>British policy dividing up land between the entirty of the landowners sons rather than it being inherited by a single son
There was no such policy in Britain.
>The IRA didn't win
The IRA couldnt win in 1920 and they couldnt win in 1990 either
You have to understand that the Irish have no sense of self-preservation. The whole of Ireland was given to the English by the Pope, yet nearly every Irishman kept with the Pope even as all of their neighbors converted. They had dozens of children when land was divided evenly between sons, and yet most of the children killed at the time were girls. The Irish could've switched to English Primogeniture law at any time, yet they stayed with the corrupt Satanist Catholic church for no discernible reason. And so, when blight scoured the land, what did they do? Round up everything they had, put it up to market, get a bit of cash, and spend it all on whiskey.
Truly there is no race whose existence is more miraculous than the Irish.