What would Ireland be like if the Famine never happened?

dd972 · 24-06-2013 01:47AM #1

There were 8m plus here at one point in our history, do you think we'd have industrialised and become akin to the Netherlands or Sweden, not so much a question based on 1916 or 1922 events, more based on the sociological and emigration effects of An Gorta Mor.

tdv123 · 24-06-2013 01:50AM

We would have crushed the English in 1916 & the Japanese in 1970 if it wasn't for the blasted famine.

Hedge11 · 24-06-2013 01:57AM

Sure if the subsisting on spuds grown on tiny plots thing wasn't broken, why fix it?

jobeenfitz · 24-06-2013 02:00AM

The fekn traffic would more hectic.

ted1 · 24-06-2013 02:01AM

Where do the japense fit in?

The island would sink.

Too Tough To Die · 24-06-2013 02:02AM

I think we'd have taken the potato to the next level.

fergiesfolly · 24-06-2013 02:06AM

Less American tourists for one thing. A lot less.

policarp · 24-06-2013 02:38AM

I suppose something like Somalia.
Maybe India Or Pakistan or Uganda
or somewhere else like Afghanistan.
Next year plus 2 we're celebrating
100 Years of something. . .:)

Tom_Cruise · 24-06-2013 02:51AM

There is a famine every 30 years or so, so we are due one soon.

With the aid of technology we can detect a famine and prepare for it.

BOHtox · 24-06-2013 02:54AM

If there's one thing Ireland needs it's more famines, can you imagine an Ireland without the famine?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhkmOThIySc

TNT2k_ · 24-06-2013 02:55AM

We wouldn't have 90% of America think they have Irish roots because their great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother emigrated there and then they wouldn't believe they're "half Irish" because of it, somehow.

monty_python · 24-06-2013 02:57AM

policarp wrote: »

I suppose something like Somalia.
Maybe India Or Pakistan or Uganda
or somewhere else like Afghanistan.
Next year plus 2 we're celebrating
100 Years of something. . .:)

thats the worst post ever
i mean **** like

Duggy747 · 24-06-2013 03:09AM

Wouldn't have to be "SSSSSSHHHHHH!!" at by people in the pub while they let a 1000 year old woman sing a depressingly bleak famine song.

"OOOOOooooooh, ware are all da pootatoeeeeeeees, me Daddy cried............."

shy_boy · 24-06-2013 03:11AM

Simples.... England unfortunatly

policarp · 24-06-2013 03:15AM

monty_python wrote: »

thats the worst post ever
i mean **** like

Do you mean no famine and unrest?

policarp · 24-06-2013 03:27AM

monty_python wrote: »

thats the worst post ever
i mean **** like

Sorry.

Cookie_Monster · 24-06-2013 04:10AM

It'd be full

MadsL · 24-06-2013 04:16AM

Towns, villages and open countryside instead of bungalows every half mile?

kneemos · 24-06-2013 05:43AM

Wouldn't have The Corrs.

ted1 · 24-06-2013 07:08AM

There was no famine, it was a great hunger.

We were exporting food.

IM0 · 24-06-2013 07:09AM

15 million people

ShagNastii · 24-06-2013 07:15AM

They say if the Dutch discovered Ireland it would be the bread basket of the world. If the Irish discovered the Netherlands it'd be flooded.

kneemos · 24-06-2013 07:19AM

Would land be divided into much smaller and unviable farms than we have today?

IM0 · 24-06-2013 07:20AM

also what was it like in ireland before the famine, compared to europe ?

were the boats irish they went on?, were they built here? how many different boats were there?

and how many american presidents would there never have been!

kennedy
bush
bush the retard
obama
and theyre just ones I can think of off thetop of my head

kneemos · 24-06-2013 07:23AM

Paddy's day wouldn't be the international event it is today.

24-06-2013 07:48AM

Probably about 25 million and mainly Irish speaking.

WanabeOlympian · 24-06-2013 03:49PM

Probably be more like Netherlands or Denmark and we'd be all Irish speaking but like the dutch and danes be awesome at English too for trade etc..

RossyG · 24-06-2013 03:55PM

Sinn Fein supporters would be saying, "Those bloody English making us eat all those potatoes until we were sick of them. They wanted us to die from all that cholesterol. It was nothing short of genocide."