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2015年3月31日

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What does "while selling their grain crops to pay their rent
report to the Public Works or the Poor Law workhouses to be worked/starved to death" mean?

Essentially, ‘free trade’ gave Irish farm families three choices when the potato crops failed:

starve on their farms, while selling their grain crops to pay their rent
report to the Public Works or the Poor Law workhouses to be worked/starved to death (as the Nazis did to the inmates of Auschwitz)
emigrate and take the 50/50 chance of surviving the passage across the Atlantic.
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