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The Irish potato famine was artificial. The English landlords were exporting food to England throughout. The potato famine only effected potatoes. The English chose to profit by exporting food and letting people starve to death on the subsistence farms. That looks pretty artificial to me. how is this different than warlords in Africa or Myanmar holding up relief shipments to areas with ethnic groups they don't like so as to kill off the ethnic group they don't like? Those people being herded, some of them against their will onto coffin ships could watch food ships leaving for England from the same ports.

Contrast this to the English Famine of 1315-17. local crops failed and a large portion of the sheep population died of murrain. As the same weather conditions that hit England causing food shortages hit the continent as well, there were shortages in net grain exporting areas like the HRE. People on the continent weren't hit quite as hard and were generally able to feed the locals, but there was not enough surplus to export all the way to England when good prices could be got within a short travel. As a result, they literally ran out of food in parts of England, and what there was was spread thinly among the better off. People quite literally starved to death because there wasn't enough food within shipping distance to feed England.