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They were trapped on the bogs in the utmost poverty...bogs don't grow crops well at all...ever notice how they keep digging up corpses from 10000 years ago on the bogs perfectly preserved?
The potato was pretty much the only thing that would grow there. And the potato wasn't even brought back to Europe until the 1500's. A lot of people at that time considered it to be a poisonous plant. Forcing the Bog Trotters to live on potatoes was a real insult, like feeding them pig food basically..
The Irish didn't own any land, Ireland had been divided up by English lords when Cromwell conquered it. If an Irishman grew crops or raised animals they would belong to the English lord, since it was his land.
During the Irish famine Ireland was one of the most productive agricultural areas on earth. The only food that was having problems was the potato, which had been hit with a disease.
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Not as pleasant as their German cousins, the Limeys have a ruthless streak. They invented the concentration camp during the Boer War. Unlike the Germans camps, the people there where not treated well. But that's how you conquer a quarter of the globe.