Nea Byzantia wrote:Napkizemlja wrote:I said that they didn't occur more famines than most other places. They weren't even the only place to be hit by the potato blight, just the hardest hit. And I'm pretty critical of how the British government handled the Great Famine, at least in the beginning. I just disagree when people treat it like it was a genocide.
I'd say the Anglos definitely used it as an opportunity to take the Irish population down a peg or two - at best, they just let people die. Arguably, on purpose.
The Brits never missed an opportunity to fuck over the Irish. There's a reason why the name "Cromwell" is hated so much there today.