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So, it was only fair that I tried out the Michelin-starred Paul Ainsworth at No. 6, a restaurant known for its inventive plays on Cornish fare. While No. 6 pays homage to the area's fishing heritage, it doesn't overlook Cornwall's more land-locked offerings. Sometimes in one dish – like my first course, a warmed, raw scallop in an acorn ham broth with kohlrabi tartare.

"The city itself did not suddenly evacuate. Around 1900 BCE, you see a shift happen, fewer traces of people living in the city start to emerge in the material record. It's not that everyone is gone, but there are certain neighbourhoods that you begin to see in disrepair. These later time periods do not have the same density of population as earlier time periods. You see the slow movement of folks leaving the city," she said.

By the time Irish freedom fighters finally helped regain the country's independence in 1921, bataireacht had all but died out. Hurley explained that the Great Irish Famine of the mid-1800s caused more than one million Irish people to die and another two million to emigrate. "By the 1830s, it seems like bataireacht was something being done more by the poorer people in Irish-speaking communities, and they were the people hardest hit by the famine," he said. "The famine really dealt [bataireacht] a terrible blow."

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