to you all spitting hairs above, a famine is a famine and there was a famine, that it involved more than just the failure of one crop is both true and beside the point. there was a famine and there are songs about it. this academic crap is an insult to all who died of hunger, disease and exposure, not to mention those who died on the coffin ships on the way over. I've heard other idiots state that 'there were a lot of Irish who made money during those days...' as if that in any way mitigated the suffering of the many. Like saying there were Jews who profitted during the Holocaust. So there were. So what? The Irish died just the same of hunger, cholera, typhus, etc. brought on by the potato blight and exacerbated by economic and political institutions, religious bigotry and intolerance, racism, classism, and just plain bad luck. to blithely pronounce 'was never, ever a famine in Ireland' is more than just bullshit ignorance. though it may be, narrowly speaking, in a dictionary meaning, 'true' it is inflammatory and 'false'.
shame on you. the person asked for songs about this period. you obviously understood the request and chose to 'politicise' or 'erudise' (new word!) instead of respond. a big GFY from me to you