"However, given the scale of the problem and the acute nature of the crisis once the harvest had failed for a second time in 1846, there was little they could do."
an out-of context selection - missing out the bits of closed warehouses, closed workhouses, continuance of exporting foods, closure of Famine relief schemes - all covered in her writings - summed up thus:
"The workhouse study for her doctorate led to an interest in the Famine. Even while working as an administrator for an American firm in Dublin and later for an organization based in the public records office in Belfast, she continued to dig into Famine records in her spare time. In the late 1980s when "tourists were not really going to Belfast, and there was high unemployment," she says, "I consciously included the city and the
Praised – and vilified – for her writing on the Famine, Kinealy says much of the criticism leveled at her was ideologically based and did not focus on the actual research. What she said about the Famine shook up some accepted interpretations. In her award-winning This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845-52 (1994), in A Death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland (1997), and in many other publications, she offered concrete evidence that the British government was fully aware of the gravity of the tragedy unfolding in Ireland during the potato blight, but, for reasons of economic and social philosophy, deliberately chose to limit its response.
"My conclusions were not what I expected," she says. "I never imagined I would find that the British knew what was going on. But my interpretation is what my sources have led me to." "
TRUTH AT LAST - KINEALY SAYS "IT WOS BRITAIN WOT DUNNIT"
There you go - horses mouth - now will you piss off, as promised?
Enough of this - you say you will not debate history
You refuse to respond to facts and continue to hide behind invented historical 'facts'
You will not debate the facts of the Famine.
I suggest you go away and come back when you are prepared to debate history on a thread on a historical subject.
Out
Jim Carroll