1: Relief corn was not sold

2: "The Russell Government closed all the relief centres and workhouses his previous Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel had opened"

Taking that statement at face value is extremely difficult when confronted with the evidence in the form of recorded fact that there were more relief centres/workhouses in Ireland at the end of the famine than there was at the beginning. But then there were no such places in Ireland at all before the Act of Union, the poor and the destitute simply had to fend for themselves as best they could.

The deliberate starvation of the population of the Ukraine under Stalin is documented fact