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Blight was a pretty medium sized factor in the potatoe famine as even though the irish's main source of food was cut off, they still would have had enough to eat if the english werent continuing to export wheat, grain and barley out of Ireland over to England. If they had even split the exports in two giving half of the products to the irish it is estimated that the amount of deaths would have been reduced by 70% and the rate of emmingration would have decreased by 90%. Even today the total population of Ireland has yet to equal the population of ireland a year before the Famine.

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