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A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
Interesting, I never heard about that before. Did this only happen at the same time as the potato blight or was it over a longer period?
gpt
It was in a documentary on a PBS station (The Irish in America?). I watched 20+ years ago but the fact that the wealthy land owners found it cheaper to ship people out than to pay a tax was fascinating to me and really stuck in my mind.