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THE STREET - IRELAND - FOOD Food Colcannon Mash some potatoes, add onions and cabbage and you have Colcannon – an Irish dish associated with hard and hungry times. Listen to The Black Family sing about colcannon Famine Over a million people died in the Irish Famine, and 2 million more were forced to emigrate when a potato crop failed in 1846. Many songs have been written about this tragedy including Chicago, by the Irish folk singer, Christy Moore. Listen to Christy Moore

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