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by emmelaich 458 days ago
Private charity from England and others did send a lot of money to Ireland during the famine(s).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Relief_Association

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There may have been individuals within the British citizenry who independently did the best moral actions they could in the circumstances, but there's documented evidence that the political body at large and their leadership at best did not care an iota for an any and all deaths in the Irish due to the consequences of their leadership, or at worst actively hoped and planned for the deaths to remove an inconvenient people.