[Legatus]

You left out the operative part of the sentence I wrote: “The reason the potato blight was a problem is that was all the people could grow in the poor soil they were allowed to farm for personal use.”

Fertile lands were used for crops sold abroad by the landlords. Ireland at the time had some of the richest land in the British Isles, it was a net exporter of food during the potato blight.

Snide comments at the end of posts only point to the snideness of the poster rather than any truthiness of the content.

[Natural Law]

I would encourage anyone interested in the times of the famine to read "Trinity" by Leon Uris. Neither a Catholic or a Protestant, but a Jew and a WWII combat Marine, Uris' fictional story is very fact based and paints a very dark picture of the treatment of Catholics by the "benevolent" Protestants.