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021: The Irish Potato Famine Part 1: A look at the English Takeover of Ireland, the State of Agriculture, and the Dependence on the Potato
Hello! In todays episode, we start our first look at the Three Part Special on the Irish Potato Famine.
Over the course of this episode, you will learn how the English came to dominate over Ireland starting way back with everyones favorite Henry, Henry VIII. With the help of his two daughters, Ireland would soon be fully under English control.
We aslo take a look at how the farming practices over the course of hundreds of years, aided by a controlling tennet/landlord system, set up Ireland to be dependent on a single Crop.
The Potato.
Sources for todays episode include:
The National Irish…
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