In the time of his essay A Modest Proposal , Jonathan Swift believed that poverty, famine and overpopulation in Ireland is all because of the of the families having babies and then they cannot provide for them. So because of this the babies were doing nothing but just overpopulating the area and which soon ultimately lead to poverty and famine.
Now the potatoe Famine was pretty much caused by mainly two reasons. The potatoe famine happened because a disease spread throughout Irish's most important and main crop area, the potatoe. Almost all the potatoes in the area went bad. Thankfully since the english oppression the nation could get food from other areas. Some poor people were so starving and desperate for food they ate rotten potatoes, which in turn just lead to the people getting sick or dying.
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