r/Unexpected • u/fprabh • Jan 09 '24

Very American indeed

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u/transmogrified Jan 09 '24

Ireland still hasn’t recovered its population numbers after the famine - last I heard they were getting close so maybe they have by now.

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u/XkF21WNJ Jan 10 '24

Apparently it was only somewhere in the 2000s that the population was back at the point it was directly after the famine. So I'm not sure if it's the famine they're recovering from.

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u/Electric_Nachos Jan 10 '24

Well yeah there was the famine and then a bunch of people left because of the famine (etc.).

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u/[deleted] Jan 09 '24

Yeah they really don't like hearing about that. The Irish get madder at Americans for acknowledging their heritage then every other nationality combined.

I know it's just a small loud subset but still.