I was using province in the classical Roman sense. Ireland did not have self-determination. Removing England from the tallies would be like removing members of

I was using province in the classical Roman sense. Ireland did not have self-determination. Removing England from the tallies would be like removing members of the Chinese communist party from the population of China. You're basically making the tacit assumption that the oppressors had no right to the food and therefore the fact that they did not have a famine is irrelevant. There's an interesting argument there, but you're not actually making it, you're just manipulating the numbers to tell a specific story.