@BigDave @00b07ccb @21d229c4 

Indeed - great post @21d229c4 .  When millions starved in post-revolutionary USSR or China it's 'killed' by communists' - when it's in the British Empire etc it's never 'killed by capitalism' - yet the numbers of the latter are far higher overall - and still counting.

At the height of the Irish starvation, in 1847, Ireland exported  £17million of food to England, under the protection of English troops.  In 1845-50 a million and a half poor Irish died of starvation and the disease that followed it - but the disaster went on much longer in terms of both deaths and emigration - between the 1840s and 80s the population of Ireland almost halved, from over 8 million in 1841 to not much more than 4 million in 1891.

This was not a 'famine' - it was the deliberate gutting of a country for profit - and it went on all over the European empires.