Firstly, my paternal great-great-great grandmother’s family, who were Protestant Ulstermen and women of Scottish descent (the family had emigrated from Lowland Scotland to NI in the early 1600’s), returned to Scotland in 1850 BECAUSE of the Famine.
So dont dare tell me that I am laughing at anything.
Secondly, there is no denial. What I am doing is to rightly criticise your ludicrously simplistic version of the Irish Famine. To say Britain ‘feasted’, when most of Britain in that time were poor people who had little to eat themselves, is laughable, and shows you have no knowledge of Britain or Ireland.
You probably think I cant access the internet without permission from the Queen. And that I know Sean Connery and Paul McCartney personally. Or that the Irish wear kilts and DO live in little bog huts on windy moors.
I though I would quote the words that caught your attention. So tell me, where did the exported livestock go? Schlesweig Holstein? Were the wagons accompanied by the Papal Swiss Guard? So congradulations for setting up a straw man and knocking it down - "Oliver Twist" didn't feast, the workhouse owner did. Woopeee!
And I will dare tell you or any other punk whatever I please, especially when it is richly deserved. Your the one who brought the specter of laughing at a genicode save for a clear showing of murderous intent - not me. You shame your ancestors.
The very words you use show denial. The potato blight impacted production throught Europe, while millions died only in Ireland - hardly a "famine."