And the British, despotic rulers of the Emerald Isle, did nothing.
I’m not sure about what the British did, but the Irish sure don’t like the Brits.
What would you suggest they do? Curing the blight was beyond the technology of the time.
Worse than that. during the whole period of thefamine, Ireland was a net exporter of oats and other grains.
The British couldhave relieved the famine, but were indifferent to the plight of the Irish who many considered little better than talking monkeys.
This is why even today in Ireland, Queen Victoria is known as "The Famine Queen".
And the British, despotic rulers of the Emerald Isle, did nothing.
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Actually the potato blight in Ireland wasn’t as severe as in other countries.. The English increased their purchases going foreward from Ireland and instead of cancelling or reducing the contracted amounts the Irish fulfilled their quota for shipment to England while their own people starved.
“And the British, despotic rulers of the Emerald Isle, did nothing.
So what were the British supposed to have done?
Well, Well, Well Looks like we have a follower of the Irish Rev Wrights.
The English did try to help, everything from direct aid to importing American corn (the Irish wouldn’t eat it). Up to that time it was the largest relief effort in history.
But after the famine the Irish Nationalists and the Catholic Church in Ireland propagandized and demonized the British about the Potato famine.
The Irish radicals brainwashed down the generations. It is much like Black radicals spreading stories of levees blown up and no help in Katrina.
I have read several books about the Famine. Like Katrina it was an overwhelming situation but the English did help.
And I am more Irish than most Freepers who hold the grudge against the English because their great grandfather came from Ireland. My mother came from Ireland in 1959
Not true.
Britain could have done more and better, but this idea of leaving the Irish to starve is simplistic myth.And remember Catholics and Protestants both died, not just Catholics.