I’ll send you an email to my sister’s paper on the Irish Potato famine both as part of my artifact, and also as the background inspiration for my research paper.  I will also send you mine on Irish Immigration for shits and grins. You can see what the Jakester was popping out back in military school. 😉

So I’m gonna catch flak for saying this, but this entire incident occurred because of the British.  Yes I am Irish. Yes I support a United Ireland. Yes I supported the ORIGINAL IRA. Not the terrorist organization it has become. (though I can understand their view and may have or have not sent a friend I have in the Irish Mob in Boston some money to send to the homeland.) but that’s no concern for this Artifact. The British raised taxes, abusive and racist laws, filled the land with Scots, and took away a majority of the other food of the Irish leaving them to survive on potatoes.  The systematic genocide of an entire race, culture, and creed through this blight, although proven by science not to be of the fault of the English….was too convenient for them. While unlike any other disease we have covered, this one didn’t kill necessarily from the contaminated potatoes, but from starvation. The systematic moving, and other diseases transfered from moving killed them though.  But the Irish did what they did best. They scattered and took over the world. The joke is that god sent whiskey and the plague so the Irish wouldn’t take over the whole world.  Yes the British did try and “help”, but by how much really? get the fuck out or die is not usually the best form of help people can give. To say the British handled the situation poorly is an understatement.  Their bloody fault. UP THE RA.  TIOCFAIDH AR LA

(ok, yes there was natural disasters as my sister will discuss, but lets be real… too fucking convenient for the British. )

For  little light humor, here is the unicorn song: