So I have just finished reading this : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Listen-Land-Speak-Journey-beneath/dp/0717192598
At the end he talks about the Potato Famine - from an Irish perspective. As someone who has survivors guilt because his family survived it.
But it wasn't famine. It was genoslaughter (as he terms it). The ENGLISH land owners sold the food because they could make more money than by feeding people.
1000s died. Whole families, communities were destroyed. Bodied were in mass graves. Because of English greed.
An entire nation traumatised. And this was less than 200 years ago - still within the cultural memory.
No wonder we want to pretend it was the potatoes fault.
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