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The Role of the Irish in the Industrial Revolution
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The Irish provided a surplus of food for the English during the Industrial Revolution, freeing up English labor to work in the growing factory system. Racial stereotypes about the Irish being quarrelsome and violent played no role in their crucial contribution.
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The English media focuses on how the Irish are not efficient when it comes to farming, but this ignores the fact that the Irish are growing crops for export at the expense of their own people, while also providing a lot of the food for England’s population.
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Summary
The English media focuses on how the Irish are not efficient when it comes to farming, but this ignores the fact that the Irish are growing crops for export at the expense of their own people, while also providing a lot of the food for England’s population.
ChapterThe Role of the Irish in the Industrial Revolution
EpisodePart One: That Time Britain Did A Genocide in Ireland
PodcastBehind the Bastards
The Irish played a significant role in providing food for the English people which freed up English labor to work in the growing factory system during the industrial revolution, while at the same time, Irish stereotypes of being quarrelsome and wanting to fight contributed to faction fighting in Ireland.
1:15:28 - 1:18:45 (03:17)
Summary
The Irish played a significant role in providing food for the English people which freed up English labor to work in the growing factory system during the industrial revolution, while at the same time, Irish stereotypes of being quarrelsome and wanting to fight contributed to faction fighting in Ireland.