The Irish Exodus

There's a quote in the article that said " the migrants were leaving dear old Ireland without warning to shtart for Philadelphia in the morning." This line really stuck with me cause in my life i have lived in Philly, Buffalo, and New York city and i have to say that Philly is far and away the most Irish city in the country. Philly still has Irish pubs on every street corner and most of your big families and neighborhoods are mainly Irish. I also would love to know how Britain could be so selfish during the potato famine. They have a country that is being decimated with half of its population dieing yet still forced them to send sheep and cattle. If all of Ireland died how would they be able to get those without the Irish, they should have let the keep more of those goods so they would have had more people in the land to raise more livestock and to replace the potatoes, that seems like it would be a win win for the British in my opinion.