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on Thursday July 26 2018, @12:52PM
from the can-you-make-soda-bread-using-potatoes? dept.
from the can-you-make-soda-bread-using-potatoes? dept.
TheJournal.ie reports:
Because of poor weather most spring crops were planted between 6 and 8 weeks later than normal.
Farmers were banking on a perfect growing season for these crops to achieve a normal yield, however the drought set in shortly after planting and many crops have received almost no rain since they were placed in the ground.
Total cereal production is set to drop by 27% while, with production set to fall by a staggering 58%, the worst performing crop is forecast to be wheat planted in the spring.
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Irish Cereal Harvest is Forecast to be the Worst in 24 Years
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It's not reality that's important, but how you perceive things.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @03:00PM (5 children)
Perhaps a pint of stout would help you reflect on the fact that English peasants were historically treated no better than the Irish.
(Score: 1) by oldmac31310 on Thursday July 26 2018, @03:48PM (4 children)
Actually, not a fair comparison. Look instead at the potato famine that occurred simultaneously all across northern Europe, extending all the way to Russia. Why make fun of such a terrible loss of life that could have been prevented if it weren't for the 'laissez faire' policies the big wigs of the time thought such a good way to handle things? Or the multiple famines in India in the 19th century? The British were complicit in the deaths of countless millions. As were the Poles, Russians etc.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Sulla on Thursday July 26 2018, @04:34PM
Because thats how humans respond to crisis.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @05:02PM
Correct
As dreadful as that was, alternatives for Ireland could have been worse. [bbc.co.uk]
For the same reason Jews make jokes about the Holocaust [theconversation.com] and Ukrainians about the Holodomor.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday July 26 2018, @09:19PM (1 child)
This is true. In fact my own ancestors were tenant farmers in Devon and during the 1830's were basically starved off the land by their landlord.
Luckily for them, they were accepted as settlers by the New Zealand company and granted 50 acres at the new colony of New Plymouth [wikipedia.org]
There are couple of errors in the Wikipedia article, but the broad outline is correct.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @12:28AM
It was a blight and the absentee landowners insisted on eating and profiting -- the Irish landowners were not all protestant. Ireland had reached an unsustainable population density. [wesleyjohnston.com] We will see the same awful situation unfold again in Africa and will be in no position to help this time either. Reality is horrific and gallows humor is a common mechanism for coping with it.