Jim Swike

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One historian puts the death rate among the Anglo-Irish at 35 to 45 percent; the native Irish probably suffered less, though how much less is unclear. Whatever their death rate, there was more than enough suffering to go around in Ireland in 1348 and 1349.
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time
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