Sunday, March 23, 2025

Freemarket Holodomor on Ireland, 19th C.


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Why didn't Irish people eat fish during the Great Famine
Irish History Podcast | 20 March 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17RE_G-DJzg


3:46 That's certainly not true according to the stated profession of Molly Malone.

A society with no one able to fish will not have fish mongers. Arguably, while getting up cockles and mussels is perhaps a bit more complicated, they know how to do that too.

5:36 OK, UK rules Ireland as part of itself, and wants to prefer "itself" over part of itself?

Or did it perhaps want to prefer other parts, with more Protestants in them?

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