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Originally Posted by Xellos-_^
i don't get much news form the other side of the Atlantic much. But does GB does rerwrite the history and play down its role or the number of dead in the Irish potato famine? or does things that is certain to riles its neighbors?
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You think they didn't? That's standard procedure. Especially since famine deaths are hard to calculate and they hardly cared what peasants are dying from. Disputes of number of deaths is common in history, if not all the time. And as such it is hardly worth noting that one side would generate different numbers from the other.
Historians tend to go for ballpark figures between both sides.
Not "Ireland's number is more accurate than the GB version".
It is not some grand insult if the numbers don't match up. Not unless you think Ireland had no incentive to inflate their own casualties for political gain. It happened; that doesn't mean the numbers are precise.