>If anything, we should be proud of britain’s response, especially knowing that it would never get aby kind of gratitude for it. Some examples of Britain's res

>If anything, we should be proud of britain’s response, especially knowing that it would never get aby kind of gratitude for it. Some examples of Britain's response: * Establishing soup kitchens for the starving, where, to acquire food one must renounce your religion, anglicise your name, and abandon your native tongue. * Provide maize for the starving and destitute but not for free for fear it would generate a sense of self-importance amongst the millions who are dying of hunger * Maintaining the exportation vast amounts of food to Britain throughout the Great Hunger * Requiring the starving who couldn't afford to buy food from the British to build pointless walls in order to earn that food * Forcibly evicting the starving and dying from their homes because they couldn't pay their rent for some reason * Denying aid to anyone who owned more than a quarter-acre of land, forcing starving farmers to give up their land and become destitute in order to qualify for relief So, on behalf of all those before me in Ireland; go raibh maith agat.