Incomptence, error and yes even callousness.
But what DIDNT happen is the British ‘letting’ the Irish die deliberately. As I have pointed out, the British govt bought huge amounts of corn and sent it Ireland.
Also that large amounts of Protestants in Ireland died of the famine. So the notion of deliberate starvation/genocide is a nonsense.
You denied English callousness in your previous post. I'm glad to see your subsequent acknowledgment.
But what DIDNT happen is the British ‘letting’ the Irish die deliberately. As I have pointed out, the British govt bought huge amounts of corn and sent it Ireland.
Not nearly enough of "Peel's Brimstone", with all its attendant problems. Then there were the huge amounts of exports shipped out of Ireland under guard...while the people were starving.
Also that large amounts of Protestants in Ireland died of the famine.
Can you provide a citation?
That’s funny because the family stories of the British going farm to farm and rounding up the animals during the famine must just be a fable?
I believe Queen Victoria donated a very large amount of her own money to alleviate the disaster too, but like all of these efforts, it was too little and certainly way too late. Admittedly, the scale of the catastrophe would have been too much for any government of the time to handle, especially given the poor road net in essentially rural Ireland, but things had been allowed to get to that state, and I’m afraid the responsiblity for that lies with the government in London.