The Irish Potato Famine

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My great grandparents fled Ireland due to the Potato famine and along with their parents my GG grandparents .. with thousands of others and made their homes in the highlands of Scotland... ...after they settled there and made small farms ( crofts ) and worked the land.. the Scottish Government very shortly after took their land from them in what was to become known as The Great Highland clearance....

Highland Clearances - Wikipedia
 

Was it an example of putting all your potatoes in one basket. Plant other crops and move on.
Blight resistance is a farmer's knowledge. Was a stubbornness an inherited characteristic?
I have planted seed potatoes in Virgine Potato Soil. Lots of Manure too. Raising potatoes
like all underground treats are a dirty business.
 
 
Lewkat said:
It is also a fact that the Brits built a fencing and walls to keep the Irish from reaching the beaches to gather cockles, mussels and the like. They used every method known to man in that day to get rid of the Irish.
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the Irish were hated by England , Wales and Scotland right up until the 40's.. there was signs on lodging houses, saying No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs !

My family and others like them had to very quickly assimilate into Scottish Culture over the next generation or 2 to be able to survive without persecution from the Scots.

All that has changed since I've been born and the Irish and the Scots are the best friends of all.. there's probably as many Irish in Scotland as there are true Scots...
 
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papa tiger said:
Was it an example of putting all your potatoes in one basket. Plant other crops and move on.
Blight resistance is a farmer's knowledge. Was a stubbornness an inherited characteristic?
I have planted seed potatoes in Virgine Potato Soil. Lots of Manure too. Raising potatoes
like all underground treats are a dirty business.
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When you only have a tiny patch of land to grow food for the family, you're going to grow what is the most filling and high calorie food as well as what will grow in your climate. They weren't likely to waste space with a large cucumber patch.
 
 
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humans disliking each other ; fighting each other and killing each other and it's still going on today around the globe - have we really moved on that well since the crucifixion ?
 
IMG_2234.jpegVincent Van Gogh, The Potato Eaters (1885), considered by many to be his first great work of art…
 

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