The Holocaust is taught to students in schools, what about the American Indian genocide or Irish Potato Famine?

It was actually a famine. Poor Irish farmers ate potatoes. It sounds crazy, but that was really all they had to eat.

Even their illegal moonshine (poteen/poitin) had potatoes as one of the bases. In 1845, Irish potatoes were infected with a fungal infection called potato blight. It makes the potatoes inedible.

Such a huge proportion of the Irish relied solely on potatoes for food that in the six-year period during the blight more than one million Irish people died. That was also responsible for the mass immigration from Ireland, most of it to the Americas (Canada and the United States) and to Australia and New Zealand. It was so bad that people tried eating grass and weeds and other things just to fill their stomachs.

Potatoes may not have any protein in them, but they will keep a person alive. Once the potatoes all went bad, mass starvation followed. The Irish overcame the same way they've overcome every trial ever thrown at them.

They hung on for dear life, and made the best of it. The famine did affect potato crops in other areas of Europe, but there was no place else where potatoes were the sole food source, so Ireland suffered disproportionately to the rest of the people in Europe. Reading about the blight is some of the saddest, grimmest reading I've ever done.

They tried everything, but there was simply nothing to eat. The people were dirt poor, so while they might be able to come up with the funds to send one child as an immigrant, entire families could not go. A family whose child was able to get a job in a new country and send money home was a lucky family--that money allowed them to buy other foodstuffs to keep them alive.

So, that's how the Irish died in droves because of potatoes. When you think about it, a million deaths due to starvation in a period of just six years is horrifying.

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