flora is compleytely bignorant of the actual history, she's regurgitating the imperial bull.

the "over population" was the result of the english government replacing gaelic land laws with english ones and hence pushing the mass of the population unto the worst land while the "landlord"--all conected to the english capitalist/military elite grew and exported food for profit.

during the famine in ireland there was enough food exported to feed ireland three times over--for profit.

in the seventeen hundredsthere was s imilar crop faliure in ireland and the government banned the export of food from the island and presto==no famine. in the eighteen hundreds the laissez gfaire capitalist philosophy of empire had tasked hold and the britishwould not sacrifice any profit for help to the an duanaire--the dispossessed. thus starvation and ethnic cleansing on a mass scale.

i read a recent history of the famine by a university professor from liverpool who said that woodward-smiths assessement has been proven over and over by modern demographic studies, in spite of decades of attempts to discredit that first real history of the genocide in ireland. she concluded that the fact was that millions of citizens of the richest and most powerfull empire on earth starved or were displaced, all of whom lived with in hundreds of miles of the capital. damning truth.

the revisionists are much like nazi revisionists. they try to reduce the numbers by not counting those who died in the forced relocation. at leat a million-probably twice that. as if those displaced by famine who were uprooted from all economic and social support and died of disease were not famine deaths.

to put it in perspective thats exactly what the nazi's say about jewish deaths in the holoucoust. that most died of disease not gassing, so they don't count. ignoring the facts that all the circumstances that led to thier deaths were crested by the nazi camps and death machines.

the truth remains that god made the blight, but england made the famine