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20th February 1997, Page 32
20th February 1997
Page 32
Page 32, 20th February 1997
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Potatoes, Irish Diaspora, Famines, Ireland, Ballinascarty, Great Famine, Henry Ford, Ford Motor Company, Irish Language, Cork, Disaster / Accident, Social Issues
[It's just possible that had it not been for the ravages of the Irish Famine, which killed a million Irish people between 1846 and 1851, the greatest car empire the world has known might have sprung up on the Emerald Isle rather than the United States.
During those terrible years, when enough Food to sustain the •aopulation was instead diverted to Englanc, Henry Ford's father left Ballinascarty, County Cork and sailed to North America along with a million other desperate emigrants. If history had taken a different turn the Model I Ford would still have come in any colour you wanted—but it might have been green instead of black.
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