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Why did the poor of Ireland not benefit from the higher export prices of their
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✿´`·.·´`✿Nevertheless, the poorest classes did not see much of this money because the benefit of higher export prices was cancelled out by the rise in food prices. In some ways, this polarisation towards food production increased the poor's vulnerability to crop failure.

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