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This paper provides a discussion of the Irish potato famine in the 1840s that wiped out more than one million Irish. The discussion provides reasons responsible for the famine and how British reaction and policy were very ineffective in abating the horrific outcome of the crisis.

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"The Irish potato famine of the 1840s was caused by a fungus known as Phytophthora infestans or blight, a condition that wiped out the main source of sustenance for the Irish peasantry and killed more than one million people. Though Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, Peter Gray demonstrates in "Famine Land and Politics" the response in Britain which basically furthered the notion that Ireland should be responsible on its own for the crisis. This analysis will discuss the Irish potato famine..."

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