Recently in my us history class we were talking about immigration to the us and it’s effects on the economy and so on and so forth. I came across information suggesting that the famine was bad but that the British had caused it (not the fungus but by forcing them to live off potatoes) and could have intervened. I heard they sent back ship full of donated grain from Massachusetts and their excuse was it would interfere with trade. To what extent did the British cause and continue to cause Irish suffering and were the people of Great Britain complicit in this?