[frithguild]

Talk about cutting off your nose to spite the face.

Millions starved to death as the Brits stole their livestock and feasted accross the Iris Sea not 100 years before the rise of Hitler. An injustice such as that is not just forgotten.

[the scotsman]

Thats a grossly simplistic reading of the Famine.

A Famine that killed hundreds of thousands of Protestants, contrary to myth which has only the Catholics deliberately starved. And Britain tried in several ways to alleviate the Famine, including buying grain from the US.

[the scotsman]

And the idea that Britain 1840’s feasted is ridiculous.

Most British people in 1845 were little better than the Irish. Most were poor and working class.

[driftless2]

They didn't steal the cattle, but the facts were bad enough. The cattle and other foodstuffs were transported legally as hundreds of thousands of Irish died from starvation. There were organizations in England that tried to help the Irish as the famine took it's toll, but it was too little too late. On a recent trip to Ireland, my wife and I saw hundreds of these long since deserted "famine houses" that dot the Irish countryside especially in the west and southwest. It lent sort of sad, eerie quality to what was otherwise a wonderful trip.

Having said that, the Irish who left to fight Hitler should be honored. Even if they deserted to do it.