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by kryptiskt 4016 days ago
> If the famine didn't happen Ireland could easily have a population of over 30 Million. However it did happen and alternate realities are hard to predict.

In a way it has, there are that many with Irish ancestry in America, not strange as emigration there cost Ireland much more people than the famine.

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Wasn't one of the forces dictating this migration the famine itself?