Am I right in thinking that the British offered the Irish corn for famine relief, which was rather stupid of them as such grain was not known and the people had no way of grinding/preparing it? I'm sure I read that somewhere. Also, despicably, the poor souls were regarded as little better than animals and not worth bothering about. My mother was Irish, a Duffy from Cork. Even in her day, there were signs on B&Bs and lodgings in London, NO IRISH OR COLOUREDS. The particular strain of potato blight caused the spuds to go black and turn to stinking mush in the ground.