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QUICK HELP PLEASE!!!!! how did british policies and industrialization lead to the irish potato famine? what were the results?

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In fact, the most glaring cause of the famine was not a plant disease, but England's long-running political hegemony over Ireland. ... Competition for land resulted in high rents and smaller plots, thereby squeezing the Irish to subsistence and providing a large financial drain on the economy.

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