The famine wasn’t a myth. It was a tragedy.
Many different individual flaws, no one of which in itself was enough, combined to create the reality of the famine.
In hindsight we can see it. At the time, it was harder to understand.
It was a myth in the sense Irish people died of starvation cause of no spuds.What about all the other tuber plants turnips,parsnips and carrots and let us forget the Irish had cows or pigs and sheep.
It disgusts me to this day that the Irish had to leave Eire cause our spuds got sick.
The brits rewrote history kinda like if Hitler had won WW2 the jews would have died from a famine.