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| {{ https://theninthwavenovel.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/dublin-3.jpg?480x640|}} //Photo: Section of Dublin memorial to victims of potato famine, 1845-52. Around one million people died while landowners continued to export food. Neither church nor state provided much help. TLM-P's grandfather, the last of his direct family to live in Ireland, died just after the famine, in 1854.\\ | {{ https://theninthwavenovel.files.wordpress.com/2014/08/dublin-3.jpg?480x640|}} //Photo: Section of Dublin memorial to victims of potato famine, 1845-52. Around one million people died while landowners continued to export food. Neither church nor state provided much help. TLM-P's grandfather, the last of his direct family to live in Ireland, died just after the famine, in 1854.//\\ |
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| A proportionately more devastating famine was [[wp>Irish_Famine_(1740–41)|'the great frost' of 1740-41]]. A sickening estimate is that nearly 40% of the 2.4 million people in Ireland died as a result of that climate change, again while little help was extended.//\\ | A proportionately more devastating famine was [[wp>Irish_Famine_(1740–41)|'the great frost' of 1740-41]]. A sickening estimate is that nearly 40% of the 2.4 million people in Ireland died as a result of that climate change, again while little help was extended.\\ |
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