As a history graduate, I read and studied the Famine widely, and still do.
You wrote:
“As a history graduate, I read and studied the Famine widely, and still do.”
My PhD in History was in a different area, but I still read about the Irish famine. Look at the book I mentioned. There’s no getting around the fact that Ireland was a net exporter of food for those years, and that food was carted away for sale in Britain under armed guards. It reminds me of Stalin’s policies in Ukraine in the 1930s. No one needed to starve to death.