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In Ireland during the catastrophic famines of the 1840s, when the country's condition was desperate - successive rebellions against English rule had failed, the economy was in collapse, the language was as good as dead whole families of starving countrypeople would turn in upon themselves, shutting and barring the doors of their cabins and blocking out the windows against the world's gaze, and wait for death.
En Irlanda durante las catastróficas hambrunas de la década de 1840, cuando la situación del país era desesperada —sucesivas rebeliones contra la dominación inglesa habían fracasado, la economía estaba en quiebra, la lengua moribunda—, familias enteras de campesinos hambrientos se encerraban en sí mismas, cerrando y trancando las puertas de sus cabañas y tapando las ventanas para protegerse de la mirada del mundo, y esperaban la muerte.
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