"That is, as I said, shite."
No it is not, it is slightly incompletete.
Many of the landowners in Scotland were British landed gentry, members of the House of Lords in many cases - The Duke of Sutherland being one of the worst offenders.
They voted money to be sent to Scotland to provide assisted passage to Canada for the tenants they evicted, thus using British taxes to clear their estates.
English churches and charities did send money to Scotland to provide some relief for the evicted tenants.
The only "troll" here is the self-confessed ignoramus who dominates these threads with his (usually unlinked) bespoke cut-'n-pastes which seem to be the sum total of his knowledge - guess who?
You have yet to respond to Trevelyan's (the feller who was doling out famine aid) statement on the famine being "God's punishment" and I doubt if you will.
Something else for you to ignore - during the Famine, (mainly English) landlords evicted a total of 109,000 families.
Given the size of Irish families (thanks to Christian Church doctrine), that adds up to somewhere between half and one million human beings left to starve and die of typhus and cholera by the English landed classes.
Now there's a bit of English history to be proud of, doncha think!!
Jim Carroll