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#OtD 17 Mar 1846 one of the first boats of famine refugees left Dublin for New York. During the next five years more than a million people followed and a similar number died in the manufactured famine. However, the rural poor continued to resist https://t.co/0Z2komvpKB https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8902/first-famine-refugees-depart-dublin-on-st-patrick%E2%80%99s-day-1846?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Christine Burns MBE 🏳️‍⚧️📚⧖

@workingclasshistory When I first came upon this street sculpture in Dublin last year I couldn’t get the image out of my head because my paternal great great grandparents — Byrnes originating from Co. Wicklow — only start appearing in English records from about 1850, anglicised as Burns.

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Christo

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And many ended up in London, Liverpool, Glasgow too. I have ancestors from Skibbereen who ended up in Greenwich. The rest of the family went to America

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Nicole Parsons

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The UK forced Ireland to export its grain during the Irish potato famine.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1997/09/27/the-irish-famine-complicity-in-murder/5a155118-3620-4145-951e-0dc46933b84a/

It was not the only planned famine conducted by the UK.

Famine and forced migration for an indentured labor supply to tea plantations in Assam was just one.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_of_1876%E2%80%931878
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_India

Stalin learned how planned famines can be utilized.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holodomor

So did the Chinese
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Sino-Japanese_War

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