That the British were to blame for the outcome of the famine is now beyond reasonable argument and is fully accepted,

Except by the professional, academic historians, but what do they know?
Right Jim?
The majority are revisionists and reject that.

mg, it is true that I have "said very little" in a large number of posts.
I have just said that there are two versions of the history, and established which is in the majority and for how long that has been the case.

For all his reading, Jim was completely unaware of those facts, and dear old Grumpy had the terms "nationalist" and "revisionist" the wrong way round.

I have clarified all that completely, unsupported by any other contributor, and in the face of an unrelenting tirade of nasty, malicious abuse from many of you.

I ask no thanks for this service.
My reward will be to learn more of these tragic events from the ensuing discussion as a passive observer.