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2025-10-20 10:27:48

mcmullin@musicians.today

If several generations of McMullins, Ryans, Roneys, Goodwins and I don’t know who else hadn’t decided to go “the next county over” way back when, I could be an Irish artist with a Basic Income.

Damned potatoes.

Via: @prinlu
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2025-10-20 10:38:03

David McMullin

mcmullin@musicians.today

In the interest of accuracy that no one asked for, I don’t actually know of any ancestors who came to America specifically because of the damned potatoes. I think most of them were here before the famine, and the most recent of them could have been mid-19th century sometime but I don’t know if that was precisely when or why.

2025-10-22 00:11:03

*_jayrope

jrp@hub.kliklak.net

@David McMullin Potatoes are from Southern Peru originally, so well, it wasn't the US, that attarcted your ancestors. It was - indigenous - America.

2025-10-22 18:28:31

*_jayrope

jrp@hub.kliklak.net

@David McMullin Thanks David, those details aer much appreciated here to know about. I heard about an irish famine before driving a lot of people out of the country, however wasn't aware of the modern implications.

Now i just wish you weren't restricted by a word limit.