mainly to jtd i think i've just scanned through this discussion stuff having read the article my initial impression was that this was going very kindly on the british indeed it is admitted at some point in the discussion that there is a move among irish historians away from previous over simplifications of the matter but isn't this move itself perhpas reactionary i mean irish historians of this or any generation speak for their times and for lay readers like myself the context of this estimation of the role of the british imperial adventure in the famine is lost to those who have not studied so carefully the history of the history of the famine this is afterall a general encyclopedia so please twist the screws a bit i won't go editing the article but some feedback would be appreciated in this regard basically you're all better historians than myself but maybe some of your nuances are therefore misplaced here a bit less d'alembert and more diderot as it were cheers simon