Thank you. And Congratulations to you, too. I admire the Irish for their poetry and their love of family and their crystal.
But I've never understood how a country surrounded by water (and thus lots of fish) could suffer a famine when the potato crop is off.
Perplexing. 8~)
Well, Dr. Eckleburg, that's because the potato failure wasn't the reason people starved.
oh that's easy....England hoarded all their other produce, they had taken off with livestock years before that. Food was literally rotting on the docks waiting to be shipped to England. All that we were left to subsist on were potatoes.
I lost too many family members in the Potato Famine.