Blindboy

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The Blindboy Podcast · Climate action for Spring with Collie Ennis · 22 Apr 2026 podcast

But the other thing too is...

It was a monoculture.

And when you were speaking earlier about the newts and the newts are doing so well, that's actually what happened to Irish people when the potato came in.

Because when the Brits, like, so post-Cromwell, they were really, like, serious about the colonization and they kicked the Irish off the land and said, fuck off over there to Connacht, right?

The farmers that were brought from England, this is actually interesting because this, you can explain why there's orange marches because of the type of crops that were grown.

So the colonization of the South was mostly English farmers, like from England.

They were growing wheat.

The wheat wasn't doing very well here.

So those farmers that were colonizing were like, fuck this, this isn't working.

So in the south, they said, I'm going to sell up and I'm going to go back home to England.

And they sold their land to giant farmers.

So that's how you ended up with the massive landlords down south is the wheat wasn't growing effectively.

But up north, they were Scottish Protestants and they grew oats and the oats grew brilliantly up north.

So you ended up with a community of people there who were able to remain solid.

So that's one of the reasons why the colonization was so effective up north was because oats grew better and the English ones couldn't grow the wheat.

But at the same time, the Irish are over in Connacht and they're growing this new thing, the potato.

And the plan was, I think it had something to do with the fucking penal laws.

In order to effectively stop the Catholics, if you had land, you couldn't give all of that land to one son.

You had to divide your land equally to all of your kids.

Smaller and smaller plots.

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