"Precedent set by RCC" is irrelevant since the atrocity occurred in Ireland and the RCC was never in power in Ireland from 1690 to the famine . Thus you have no historical basis to allege this hypothetical allegation about the RCC in Ireland. The allegation is both flawed and mindless.
You would be well advised to ponder Mt 5 44:48 and Romans 12: 14. God Bless.
It's very relevant. People retaliate when given the opportunity.
Granted true Christians shouldn't but human nature being what it is, sometimes over rides that. And if the people involved aren't Christians but in name only, there is nothing to stop them from behaving like that.
Besides, most of what happened during the potato famine was political in nature.
Just for the record, where was the Catholic church in providing relief for its own members?