In 1850 the Irish famine
Was still oppressing the population
Many look back now and looked back even then
At the somewhat cruel administration
Back in far more comfortable London
And on those landowners' country estates
With servants dishing up piles of protein
Much of it meat and grain onto their plates
Grown and grazed in Ireland. As mortal waste
Followed potato blight that struck hard in
'45, food exports just carried on
Profit above relief, farm tenants chased
Out of their cottages to save paying
For food for them. Starvation, one million
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