I read a history of Ireland's Potato Famine a few years ago which gave me an insight into this enormous tragedy but in retrospect I believe the author of that work was more than slightly biased in his reporting of the events of that history.
"It has been frequently declared the the parsimony of the British Government during the famine was the main cause of the sufferings of the people, and the parsimony was certainly carried to remarkable lengths but obtuseness, short-sightedness, and ignorance probably contributed more."Īs Sydney Smith, the celebrated writer and wit, wrote: “The moment the very name of Ireland is mentioned, the English seem to bid adieu to common feeling, common prudence and common sense, and to act with the barbarity of tyrants and the fatuity of idiots".
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