What Made the Irish Famine So Deadly
An exploration of the causes of the Irish Potato Famine, and how the British blindspots in the attitudes of their aristocracy failed to recognize, then failed to solve, a deadly famine and depopulation in their own geographical yard.
It is easy to draw parallels to today's US Washington elite attitudes towards homelessness, rural struggles, and environmental stress can unravel things before anyone at the top realizes what's happening.
New Yorker article, archived version
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/17/rot-padraic-x-scanlan-book-reviewOpen linkView original on lemmynsfw.com
It's called genocide. You take food from people actively starving that's not a blind spot. It's genocide.
Wasn't it the English?
True, but I wouldn't discount the Fenian uprisings, Young Ireland movement, 1848 revolutions, or the Land Wars having an impact on Ireland's modernity.