Why did the Irish not turn to the sea during the Great Famine?

>>2957702
They forgot how to sail after generations of being farmers

>>2957702
A lot of fishermen sold their tackle or boats when the famine first started to buy meal. Having a crop fail one season was not unprecedented. They didn't anticipate multiple years of blight

>>2957702
/his/ seems to have an obsession with Eire

>>2957702
*falls off cliffs into treacherous sea*

>>2957735
A lot of irishmen browse 4chan

>>2957702
The Irish coastline is not very good for fishing, you need to go out much further in bigger boats which were all owned by anglos

And also due to the efficiency of potatoes Ireland had a much bigger population than just eating fish would allow them to, so even if they could fish it would hardly feed anyone.

>>2957702
probably slow boiling frog syndrome
by the time you're hungry enough to abandon the land your family worked for generations (and its the only work you know how to do) it's probably too late to get very far

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Fuck the Brits, that's why.

>>2957742
And Americans who's pope fellating ancestors came to the U.S.

>>2957789
It's the reason there's always one guys in high test/thicc threads that complains that the women being posted have fat asses

The Irish coastline is very high and jagged. It's not great for fishing. Plus a lot of fishermen sold their equipment to buy food after the first failed harvest, and of course the next year they would have no crops to sell to buy new equipment. There was no wood to make new boats or rods or tackles out of either, Ireland was practically devoid of trees back then.

Also on top of all that you're not going to be able to feed several million people on fish.