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An Gorta Mor
(The Great Hunger)


	1847 4,000 ships carrying peas. beans, rabbits, salmon honey and potatoes left Ireland for English ports. 9,992 Irish cattle were sent to England 4,000 Horses and Ponies were sent to England Approximately 1,000,000 gallons of butter sent to England In 1847 alone, 400,000 Irish people died due to starvation Distinguished legal scholars, like Professors Charles Rice of Notre Dame U. and Francis A. Boyle, U. of Illinois, believe that under International Law, "The British pursued a barbarous policy of mass starvation in Ireland from 1845-50, and that such conduct constituted genocide.ä[22] The struggle for Independence continues. Nothing short of Independence will free the souls of Ireland's sons and daughters murdered just because they were born in Ireland.