There was a potato blight, but a deliberate British policy forced the continued export of the food the Irish needed to make up for the shortfall of the potato harvest. Thus, widespread starvation. Some say that this was as an attempt to eliminate a portion of the Irish population.
The point of talking about it is to give an example of what the “empire” was willing to do to control the population. Some say that “covid” was the same sort of thing.
I don’t see President Trump as an Emperor
No wonder the Irish hate the English.
There was a potato blight, but a deliberate British policy forced the continued export of the food the Irish needed to make up for the shortfall of the potato harvest. Thus, widespread starvation. Some say that this was as an attempt to eliminate a portion of the Irish population.
Yes, it was to reduce the Irish population to where the English could take over the land.
It was genocide.