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Famine Pier

Posted by
Keith Woodard (killarney, Ireland) on 17 May 2011 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.

These piers were built all around Ireland during the famine and afterwards in an attempt to have food ships land with their food for the starving

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Steve Rice from Olympia, United States

I read a bit about the potato blight in the "Botany of Desire". In spite of the tragedy, it's a fascinating episode to read about. Finding a resistant potato required returning to the source in Central America. Apples are in a similar situation with only six types making up most of the world's commercial apples the production of which takes huge amounts of pesticides.

Your photo has an air of the desperation the pier's builders must have felt.

17 May 2011 8:57pm