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Was the 1845 potato famine a true food shortage or an attempted genocide by British authority?
MarkS01
* The Irish potato famine was a real famine caused by potato blight - that is a potato disease. * There is no evidence of attempts to "block famine relief". Hundreds of mainly small soup kitchens operated during the famine. * The British government provided some public works schemes in order to counter unemployment and poverty. * Restrictions on the import of foodstuffs into the UK were abolished. * Please bear in mind that the key economic doctrine at the time was laissez faire, which is unsympathetic to government intervention. (Many people in England didn't have enought to eat, either). The accusation of genocide is absurd as there was no intention of killing the Irish. Having said all this, the Irish Roman Catholics had been persecuted since the 1690s and most of them had been reduced to a condition of utter wretchedness. If potatoes are the sole means of nourishment, that's a dangerous and miserable state of affairs. There were other foodstuffs available but the British government (aided by the church) placed restrictions on what the Irish population could eat and this facilitated famine.
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