Boston Yankees. in the 1840s. sent relief donations to the starving Irish in the socalled potatofamine years. There never was any famine in Ireland. In those dreadful years when over onehalf of Irelands population of 8 million people either died of starvation or emigrated to foreign lands. American and other relief ships had to anchor in Irish harbors while British ships held space at the docks and piers. being loaded to the gunwales. with tons upon tons of foodstuffs for transportation out of Ireland and Into Englandenough to feed a population twice that of Ireland. It was British law and British law. alone. which caused the starvation of an entire populace. However. America benefited by the strong wave of Immigration. The history of the Irish brigade in the Civil War. of Gen. Thomas Francis Meagher.
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