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Explain how the events in the Black Harvest can be linked to the Irish potato famine.
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... Explain how the events in the Black Harvest can be linked to the Irish potato famine. The Black Harvest is a play about a mother and her children, Colin Prill and baby Alison, and their cousin Oliver, who are on holiday in Ireland. They are staying in a new bungalow that has been built over a burial ground. It is set in about the 1990's.. Oliver likes to think he is an archaeologist and digs a trench out in the garden where he finds a decayed rattle, a child's skull and a buckle from a belt. After he has disturbed the ground strange things start to happen, because he has released the potato blight disease. The food in the house they are staying in goes mouldy especially the potatoes. The cow's milk, which they get from Donald's cows, goes off. They collect it fresh in the morning but it goes off very














