> England continued to export food out of Ireland and maintained an official policy of not intervening in the "free market" of Irish exports I know that state

> England continued to export food out of Ireland and maintained an official policy of not intervening in the "free market" of Irish exports I know that state economics were coming out of their mercantilist phase; did the English state export food from Ireland, or did English agricultural companies export the food they produced? Those are two very different things.