News on the Potato blight

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22596561

This year has been a bad year for the Irish potato as it happens
Note the BBC, simply mentions people starving but neglects any historical context. Surely the poor policies of Brian XI King of Ireland are to blame

Great Famine spud returns after almost 170 years

Great Famine spud returns after almost 170 years

A taste of history. You can actually taste what they ate, day in, day out. In Kerry before the famine. What immigrants in the shanty towns, of the USA remembered. Note that what was once a staple of peasants is now a rare dish. A tribute to Irish agribusiness

I have not written a Famine AH. Though perhaps I should. I have seen speculation that without the great famine, the population of Ireland would be 20 million. You are then subtracting several million people from the UK, and the US population. The descendants of famine emigrants. A US without the Irish famine is very different. No Democratic machine. No JFK.

Oh and Hooligans would be called something else