>>14966906>Ireland owned by Anglos for almost 1,000 years by the 1800s>Staged a huge rebellion and killed tons of Protestants in the 1600s>Based Oliver Cromwell comes in and fucks them up, sets up a Protestant ruling class >Over the next 200 years, the ruling class restricts the Irish Catholics more and more, they start growing pretty much exclusively potatoes because they give you all the nutrients you need to live, and the excess can be turned into alcohol>Potato blight shows up in America>American crops of potatoes devastated, but Americans grew plenty of different crops>Blight makes its way to Ireland, absolute devastates the country>British "corn laws" mean they can't import cheap grain from America because it would undercut the British>Irish are starving because they only have potatoes>British start serving out food, but the Irish browbeat each other for giving in and taking food from the Protestant English, some Micks were even lynched, and the ones that weren't were ostracized for taking aid they needed to live>Protestant North mostly fine, Western Ireland absolutely devastated There's a bit more to it, like a political game in the British Parliament, but that's the quick rundown of the whole catastrophe.
