I dispute that there was a famine. I don't dispute that there was a mass starvation. A famine is a monumental lack of all types of food. There was more than enough food to feed the nations of Ireland and England. People starved not because a single root crop failed but because of a government enforced mass starvation by the policies of the Crown. I also don't dispute the transportation and death in the coffin ships of millions of Irish people. Nor do I dispute the criminallity of it all.

Since you quoted me Bill, I will tell I am not ignorant of what happened in Ireland 150 years ago and it is I hope very inflamatory and it most certainly not false. People starved in the worse conditions imagineable because of the actions of a government who claimed to be the most compassionate and enlightened of the age. The story of the starvation was so well known and wide spread that members of the Five Civilized Tribes in Oklahoma sent money to buy bread to feed the starving Irish children while they themselves were never far from hunger.

Strictly speaking there was never a famine there was plebty of food that many, many people were not allowed to eat.

Vienna, go into the data base and look for "The Mother's Kiss", that may be song that will interest you.

Don