Cormac Ó Gráda historian disagrees that the famine was genocide: first, that

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The Great Famine remains a contentious issue in the history of Ireland. exo Continue discussing the British government's response exo to the loss of the potato crop in Ireland and the subsequent large-scale starvation, and whether or not it is a case of genocide. Today, on Memorial Day II the Great Famine, I join the debate: Can qualify the Great Famine of natural disaster? The potato blight it is, but ownership structures imposed by sectarian legislation of the occupying power (ie, the Penal Laws that forced Catholics to divide the land inheritance among all descendants exo in order to fragment them ) eviction exo policy (which was not interrupted during the years of famine) and the decision to continue to export food to the metropolis exo while the Irish starved policy decisions do seem genocidal consequences, which responsibility rests with other British rulers .
In 1996, Francis A. Boyle, a law professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, wrote a report commissioned exo by the Irish Famine / Genocide Committee of New York, with the following conclusion: "It is clear that between 1845 and 1850, the British government pursued a policy of mass starvation in Ireland with intent to destroy in substantial national, ethnic and racial group commonly known as the Irish People ... So, during the years 1845-1850, the British government knowingly I followed a policy exo of mass starvation in Ireland constituted exo acts of genocide against the Irish people exo within the meaning of Article II (c) of the Genocide Convention [The Hague], 1948. " On the basis of the report of Boyle, the state of New Jersey (USA) included the Irish famine in the curriculum on the Holocaust and Genocide in secondary education.
Historian Peter Duffy writes that "the crime of the government, which deserves to blacken his name forever ..." was rooted "in the effort to regenerate Ireland" through "replacement, hatched by the owners of plots of land for farming grazing "that" takes precedence over the obligation to provide food for their starving citizens. No wonder that this policy is seen by many people as genocide. "
Several commentators have argued that the searing effect of the famine in Irish cultural memory has effects similar to the effects of the genocide, but keep that did not happen. Robert Kee suggests that the Famine seems "comparable" in its force on "popular national exo consciousness to that of the" final solution "of the Jews," and that is "not uncommon" to think that hunger was something very like "a form of genocide led by the English against the Irish people. " It echoed James Donnelly, a historian at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, who wrote in his work Landlord and Tenant in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (landlord and tenant in Ireland in the nineteenth century) as follows: "I would like to draw the following general conclusion: at a fairly early stage of the Great Famine, the abject failure of the government to stop or even slow down the clearances (evictions) contributed significantly to embody the idea of genocide promoted by the English to the Irish popular mind way. Or perhaps I should say in the mind of Ireland, it was a notion that appealed to many men and cults and insightful women, and not only to the revolutionary minority ... And it is my opinion that although genocide was not in fact have committed, what happened during and as a result of evictions had the look of genocide to a great many Irish ... ".
Cormac Ó Gráda historian disagrees that the famine was genocide: first, that "genocide includes murderous intent and it must be said that even the most bigoted and racist commentators of the day sought the extermination of the Irish "secondly, that most people in Whitehall [seat of British government palace]" waiting for better times in Ireland "and third, that the claim of genocide overlooks" the enormous challenges exo facing relief efforts , both central and local, public and private. " Ó Gráda think that is easier to maintain