"I have nothing else to say on this."
You never have had - just Imperialistic rantings
"Very pleased to hear that you consider Mitchel's work on the subject to be purely propaganda and should be ignored as a source of reliable information with respect to this subject."
I didn't say that so please stop distorting what |I did say.
Mitchel used the factual behavior of the British Government to further the cause of Irish Independence, for which he has my respect.
Everything else is waffle and denial.
You have the facts of the famine - I make the same invitation that Keith has just done a runner from
Which choices exactly are disputed -
Closing warehouses - don't think so.
Closing workhouses - nope - definitely happened.
Laissez-faire policy - nope, down in black and white
Trevelyan's hatred of the Irish - likewise
The British Government appointing such a man to feed the people he hated - a million corpses to confirm this.
Coffin ship casualties - done and dusted
Irish left only the choice of dying or leaving Ireland - ancient history
Being racially abused both in England and America - libraries full of books on the subject.
Murderous evictions leaving thousands of families to starve on the roadside (a practice which continued to the end of the 19th century) - a legacy to prove it.
Your hit and run bullying and blustering bullshit may impress your mates around closing time but it really doesn't alter anything.
The factors I have listed turned a natural disaster into a holocaust - disprove them or GFY
Jim Carroll