Was the Irish famine a genocide?

Was the Irish famine a genocide?

Why/why not?

Nope. They were just making room for more Ulster Scots to move in :)

Yes
Because it was the deliberate killing of a massive population

No, the British government was exasperating the famine to clear the island, with the intention that starvation would drive the Irish to immigrate to the Americas.

They never meant for anyone to die, it's not their fault the paddies were stupid enough to die of hunger, while they had the clear option to leave.

>The potato blight was the Brits' fault

Gee, I wonder who could beady behind this post.

more of a genocide than the so-called holodomor

Of course it was. I mean, everyone knows what happens to a population if you deny them food access to food, but it doesn't surprise me that governments to it that way instead of deliberate murder, because there is a small element of plausible deniability.

Yes, it was.

And the Turks were simply relocating Armenians, Assyrians, and other Christians, they didn't mean for anyone to die either. :^)

>Because it was the deliberate killing of a massive population

This desu, but the irish also kind of deserved it for:

1. Being completely dependent on a Peruvian mountain root for survival
2. Importing foreign bat guano for fertilizer when they already had some of the best soil in the world
3.
>Live on an island surrounded by fish
>fish is a traditional food
>stave to death

>Be an Island
>Surrounded by water, with fish in it
>Potatoes stop growing
>Panic and move to America or starve, rather than mass fishing

...

it was negligence and indifference, but not a directed event

simply put, the Irish are starving and who could give a monkey's

I'm sure our malevolent forbears forbade them to fish and the like

Stop victim-blaming you perfidious Albions.

Implying it wasn't part of their natural population cycle

What percentage of the Irish population migrated to America, Canada, and Australia in the 19th century?

>I'm tired of feeling guilty, so I'll resort to memes

Deploying soldiers to protect food exports for profit from a country where people are starving to death is INTENTIONAL STARVATION.

Pic related.

No. Genocide only applies to people. What happened in Ireland was more akin to culling badgers.