Patrick O’Donovan obviously wasn’t around in the 1840s for the great famine in Ireland.

But the more the country’s minister for culture, communications and sport researches and studies the subject, the angrier he gets. Even though it happened so long ago, O’Donovan said it should not be forgotten. He is passionate about how the British government treated the Irish causing millions of deaths and defections from that country at that time.

“There were those who were dragged out of workhouses and died like dogs on the side of the road,” O’Donovan said. “In many cases the stench became so overpowering that somebody would eventually do something with the lying corpses that laid everywhere and were strewn everywhere across the so-called United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

“This is som

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