No, but the refusal to ‘intefere’ with the markets when the disaster happened and hoping that the simple expedient of abolishing the corn laws would drive down food prices and negate the effects of the shortage was woefully flawed. The government was more concerned with the consequences of artificially adjusting the price of food by purchasing and distributing aid than it was about ensuring that adequate supplies to ensure the survival of the distressed population.
This is to say nothing of the lack of decisive intervention in the years before the famine to wean the Irish off their over-reliance on the potato as a subsistence crop...
Refusal to interefe?
The markets were completely and utterly interefered with - the Corn Law tariffs were in full effect as the famine got underway: the famine began in an atmosphere of coercive government intervention in food prices.
and hoping that the simple expedient of abolishing the corn laws would drive down food prices and negate the effects of the shortage was woefully flawed.
Abolishing the Corn laws was a necessary first step - but your fellow anti-capitalist market interventionists refused to allow them to be abolished outright, and demanded that there be only a gradual reduction in tariffs over time. Why? Because Disraeli argued that repeal would favor "commercial interests" to the detriment of the landed aristocracy.
People were dying, but the opponents of free markets didn't care.
You prove my point. Government intervention in the market created an enormous and deadly inefficiency in the allocation of resources.
This is to say nothing of the lack of decisive intervention in the years before the famine to wean the Irish off their over-reliance on the potato as a subsistence crop...
Why were the Irish dependent upon the potato in the first place? Do you even know?
Because of the English laws that restricted the market in land to Protestants only, forcing the Irish to work as tenant farmers on tiny patches of subdivided land - patches where the potato was the only crop that could be grown economically. Moreover, the protectionist Corn laws kept the price of grain far too high for the average Irishman to afford.
Government intervention in the land market that made cultivation of grain impracticable as a product created the potato monoculture in the first place.
Government intervention in the grain market ensured that grain would be unattainable as a food.
And you are now claiming that yet a third government intervention would have saved the Irish from the first two?
Unreal.