Well, Well, Well Looks like we have a follower of the Irish Rev Wrights.
The English did try to help, everything from direct aid to importing American corn (the Irish wouldn’t eat it). Up to that time it was the largest relief effort in history.
But after the famine the Irish Nationalists and the Catholic Church in Ireland propagandized and demonized the British about the Potato famine.
The Irish radicals brainwashed down the generations. It is much like Black radicals spreading stories of levees blown up and no help in Katrina.
I have read several books about the Famine. Like Katrina it was an overwhelming situation but the English did help.
And I am more Irish than most Freepers who hold the grudge against the English because their great grandfather came from Ireland. My mother came from Ireland in 1959
Well, everyone tends to judge our forebears by today's standards. The English did TRY. The government mechanisms, (not to mention NGO's) were simply not in place then. Those larger scale farmers in Ireland at the time had well set-up export systems to England (and France), and they merely continued business as usual throughout The Famine, when they could.
Which of course, is not to say that the wealthier Anglo-Irish did not seize upon the opportunity to take over more land, as it was depopulated.
But after the famine the Irish Nationalists and the Catholic Church in Ireland propagandized and demonized the British about the Potato famine.
They placed all the blame where some was undoubtedly due.