Right - here it is
Your "majority of historians" amounts to one single quote from an obscure journal (Freeman) by an obscure historian - that is all you have managed to come up with - that's that put to bed.
This is the Famine I understand it
Ireland's rural economy was developed from the beginning of the 19th century to serve the British Empire.
Along comes the potato blight to upset the potato cart.
The Peel Government, in a mixture of compassion and a recognition of duty to its subjects, sets up an inadequate scheme to offset some of the effects of the developing Famine.
The feeble scheme has hardly had time to take effect when Peel is replaced by Lord Russell.
Sir Charles Trevelyan, a religious maniac put in charge of Famine relief, who believes the the blight is God's punishment for Irish slothfulness and misdeeds, and that it provides Britain with an opportunity to solve 'The Irish problem', tells the Famine Relief Commissioners that "the landlords and other ratepayers are the parties who are both legally and morally answerable for affording due relief to the destitute poor", and sets about dismantling Peel's relief scheme.
He locks the grain warehouses and places them under armed guard, instructing that "relief should not be given but should be sold to the starving Irish - "Famine relief should not be allowed to interfere in any way with the free market".
At the height of the worst year of the Famine. 'Black '47', Trevelyan closes the overworked, understaffed, full to the gunnels workhouses, leaving a few in the worst hit areas to survive under charities run by Charity organisations such as the Quakers.
Some of these, run by Protestants adopt a policy of 'soupism' - simple put, "change your religion and we'll give you a bowl of soup".
Throughout all this, enough food is being shipped out of Ireland to feed the population several times over.
Famine relief ships, now in the hands of 'the free market', are subjected to deliberate delays in order to raise the market price of Charity bought grain; some ships crossed and re-crossed The Irish Sea up to four times before they were unloaded.
Nothing whatever was done to prevent this, presumably in line with Trevelyan's instructions that "nothing should be allowed to interfere in any way with the free market"
The Russell Government propose sending cargoes of food to offset the worst effects of the accelerating Famine; Trevelyan objects and the proposal is abandoned.   
In 'Black '47', evictions of bankrupt farmers begin in earnest; the evictions are backed by armed military force and teams of workmen whose job it is to demolish the former homes of those evicted; in some of the worst hit areas, like Skibbereen, West Cork, the technique was to set the thatched roofs ablaze and then demolish the smouldering shells with battering rams.
The starving poor are left to die on the side of the roads, some of the luck ones manage to dig holes in the earth like animals in attempts to survive the elements.
In 1846 a number of seagoing vessels were hastily assembled in order to ship out Famine refugees who had been given only two alternatives, 'emigrate or die', some of these vessels had previously used to ship slaves - in one year alone, 1847, 125,000 died en-rout to there 'chosen' new homes.
The evictions continued for another half century, passing the arable Irish lands into the hands of absentee landlords, which caused long-term agrarian unrest, land wars, and attempted revolution.
Emigration has become a permanent feature of Irish life right up to the present day; in the forty years of my association with Ireland I do not recall having met a single individual whose family has not been touched by Emigration - Britain's great legacy to Ireland.
There Keith - you want to be taken seriously, how about them apples, or should I say potatoes?
No more "historian" cobblers, your cover has been blown on that one - you have the unchallenged facts on the Famine - challenge them or go away, as promiAsed.
Jim Carroll