Kinda depends on how much they were hurt and what are the results today.
For the Irish, read The Great Hunger by Cecil Woodham-Smith, and realize that (from an Irish perspective) England is still occupying half the country.
You link me one article by a student as to express the weight of historical analysis? Also, that article isn't focusing on the famine, but the concept of free markets as it relates to contemporaneous British economic thinking. Good grief man. If you really want a decent historical book on the subject, I think this is rather accessible and good. https://www.amazon.com/Great-Hunger-Ireland-1845-1849/dp/014014515X i don't really expect you to read a book on the subject, but I have, and I'm not used to having to find online articles to suit my view, so unsure of where to look I'd at least suggest you read the wikipedia page on government response, and if you find something there that you take issue with feel free to let me know, but from my understanding it looks accurate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)#Government_response
Evidence based policy my foot. Do you believe other people like to think their policy is based on something else? People die to hunger every damn day, the moral poisiton would be to feed them and set up systems where people wouldn't go hungry, but instead we've slightly adjusted from 160 years ago to think we've solved the problem when we really haven't. Millions of Americans go hungry as do British, and that isn't a neoliberal concern, well it fucking is mine. I don't give a damn about your free markets and deregulation, I want people to be fed and I want regulations so that people employed can always find nutritious cheap food. And that means I'm not for free markets because I'm based on outcome, and every single outcome so far has shown that neoliberals would rather postulate about lifting out of poverty through economic means than the reality that in the greatest burst of economic progress and in the richest countries in the world, working people still go hungry.