Guest heley Posted February 14, 2006 Share Posted February 14, 2006 There is one question that puzzles me: When the potato famine occured, why didn't they go fishing :animenose ??? Crazy Irish people... :animestun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheShinje Posted February 14, 2006 Share Posted February 14, 2006 [color=crimson]It was more to do with the fact that most of Ireland at the time was into farming potatoes, when the blight struck, these people lost their homes and source of income, therefore, they starved.[/color] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raiyuu Posted February 14, 2006 Share Posted February 14, 2006 [font=Trebuchet MS]That, and it's difficult to fish when you live inland. Fine for people living on the coast, but you can't fish on a potato farm.[/font] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gavin Posted February 17, 2006 Share Posted February 17, 2006 [SIZE=1]Interesting, most interesting. As an Irish person, I must say I find the concept that the deaths of one million people could have been avoided had they simply had the intelligence to fish and thus save themselves from a slow, painful death, quite offensive. Rather dredge up the nationalistic side of myself in some tirade against a now dead Imperial Britain, I'll just provide the link to Wikipeda [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Potato_Famine][b]here[/b][/url], and let people make up their own minds on the issue. [/SIZE] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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