Ireland continued to export food for the duration of the famine.
Organised relief consisted of public make-work projects, such as roads to nowhere and the like, which at their worst basically worked people to death. Or workhouses which were specifically designed to be as awful and distasteful as possible so that only the absolute destitute wouild be willing to suffer their regimes. These were overcrowded, and arguably a death sentance.
The general saying is, God sent the Blight. Englan sent the famine. The potatoe was a basic subsistance crop that was destroyed by an act beyond people's control. It's an event that demands state intervention without question - a natural disaster, an act of God. No different than a flood or a hurricane. It was permitted to become a famine by the acts of men who considered a pure market more important than people's lives. And especially, Irish people's lives.
Organised relief consisted of public make-work projects, such as roads to nowhere and the like, which at their worst basically worked people to death. Or workhouses which were specifically designed to be as awful and distasteful as possible so that only the absolute destitute wouild be willing to suffer their regimes. These were overcrowded, and arguably a death sentance.
The general saying is, God sent the Blight. Englan sent the famine. The potatoe was a basic subsistance crop that was destroyed by an act beyond people's control. It's an event that demands state intervention without question - a natural disaster, an act of God. No different than a flood or a hurricane. It was permitted to become a famine by the acts of men who considered a pure market more important than people's lives. And especially, Irish people's lives.
I love the smell of rotaries in the morning. You know one time, I got to work early, before the rush hour. I walked through the empty carpark, I didn't see one bloody Prius or Golf. And that smell, you know that gasoline smell, the whole carpark, smelled like.... ....speed.
One day they're going to ban them.