'Littleweedrummer, there was no English government during the Irish famine, .....'


I don't understand that. I usually think of the famine, they taught us about in junior school in England as black '49 and 1848. they taught us also about England's shamefully inadequate response.

It was a cruel age when they hanged and transported people for not very much, and sent little kids to work down coalmines and up chimneys. there was much casual cruelty everywhere that most citizens (most of whom were hardly living high on the hog) were desensitised to.

There was a government. Are we talking at cross purposes - the above is what I think I'm talking about......?