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?
The profoundly uncomfortable truth is that Ireland started to become modern when its poorest people were wiped out or sent into exile
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.
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