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The Irish Potato Famine led to the deaths of more than a million people and provoked a massive exodus from the country in the mid-19th century. The famine was the result of the confluence of several factors, including a disastrous British economic policy, discriminatory landholding laws that tended to subdivide land into sizes too small to sustain families, and the appearance of a malicious potato fungus. What other factors contributed to the severity of the famine?