I think they engineered the famine by making life for the Irish precarious and marginal, on small plots of land. They didn't have a diverse agriculture as a result of that.
If everyone grew potatoes, that's how a blight might spread easily.
I'm not saying the English made or distributed the blight (though distributed is possible) I think that they had the Irish in such a precarious position that it made the famine worse.
I think they engineered the famine by making life for the Irish precarious and marginal, on small plots of land. They didn't have a diverse agriculture as a result of that.
If everyone grew potatoes, that's how a blight might spread easily.
I'm not saying the English made or distributed the blight (though distributed is possible) I think that they had the Irish in such a precarious position that it made the famine worse.