Original sentence: As a result the land of disloyal catholic nobles was often handed over to protestants.British people themselves claim that the truth of the matter is not so harsh however.However, the Great Famine was in part caused by the contined export of foods while under natural disaster conditions, and was too great a problem for the government not to observe it.However, the goals and methods of Cromwell are easily compared with those of American immigrants: gathering territory by invoking non-compliance of the locals with foreign-imposed customs and laws.In this sense, 17th century discrimination and crimes against the Irish do qualify as genocide.Irish Americans often see Ireland as a victim of genoice by the British Empire.One of the most famous accusations of English genocide in Ireland was Oliver Cromwells campaign during the English civil wars.Plantations sometimes followed however even here it was more a case of taking the good parts of the island from the Irish rather then purposfully setting out to murder them.The British position is that the Great Famine of the 19th century is another area with greatly distorted folk history; contrary to popular belief was no way anything close to genocide but a natural disaster which the government policies of the time were utterly unable to handle.The closest England has come to commiting genocide against the Irish was in the 17th century where as a result of religion being a highly important factor in foreign policy many Europeans inevitably stirred up Irish unrest as a attempt to open a back door into Britain.The positions of British and Irish people differ on the Great Famine, too.This implies intent to harm, and therefore (according to the CPPCG) genocide.Though many baberous acts were carried out by both sides during this campaign resulting in many deaths it was not actually a attempt at full on genocide