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From: "Wanda VanderVeen" <>
Subject: Re: [Irish-American] Murphy / Mickey / Pratie
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 23:32:56 -0500
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The potato in use during the Irish Potato Famine are presumed to have come
from Peru originally and were called patata by the Spanish who brought them
back to Europe from the Andes. The names sound very similar.

Wanda
(I just wrote a paper on this for a class on Modern Europe.)

> Also pratie, from Irish (Ulster dialect) préata, which further south is
called a práta. Best, - jerry

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