On Aug 5, 2008, at 9:19 AM, Wendy Lyon wrote:
> That's not entirely accurate, Chris. It's true that very few people in
> Ireland - although there are some - accept the diaspora's image of the
> famine as an intentional genocide. But nearly everybody accepts that
> the death rate was as high as it was because of Britain's utterly
> inadequate response to the blight.
Didn't Ireland continue to export food to Britain during the famine?
Doug