There are letters from British officials that state that the famine is good for Irish people, because they need to be forced away from the potato which makes them lazy.
i’m not saying the british weren’t evil, racist, pieces of shit. I’m saying it’s more userful to recognize the actual dehumanizing force of the profit-motive as the overarching trend of both the famine & the current housing crisis. It was at the root of the system of british imprerialism & it is at the root of the current neo-liberal Fine Gael government.