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These are the people that donated most to the Irish Famine relief.
The British government has been widely and justly criticised for its callous attitude towards famine victims, which led to thousands of unnecessary deaths. However, the indifference of government ministers is in sharp contrast to the generosity of the ordinary people of Britain who supported numerous famine appeals, particularly in the first few years. The Quakers were especially active, raising hundreds of thousands of euros in today’s money for famine relief. Irish soldiers serving with the British army in Calcutta, and employees of the East India Company, many of them Irish, raised more than Ł14,000, which would be worth more than a million euros today.
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