• ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    There was plenty of food. It was largely requisitioned by the British military.

    The peasants were allowed to grow some food for their own survival: which mostly were potatoes. When the blight swept the island, the plentiful edible food was still taken, and the farmers were left with nothing. The ones that tried to keep any bread, milk or butter lost their farms, if not their lives.

    It is why it is called the Great Hunger.