For example...
> The difference is that the Irish famine was just a big whoopsie while the Holodomor was an evil plot.
Have you heard of Charles Trevelyan? He was in charge of relief efforts during the famine, but he had a different take on the issue which informed British policy. In his words:
“The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.”
The Famine was a natural disaster which would have led to some amount of starvation and death, but that natural disaster was GREATLY enhanced by British elites who saw it as a convenient and "natural" solution to Irish overpopulation.
In many ways it shares the hallmarks of the Holodomor, with "we care about trade" used as a cover for genocide.
It essentially mirrored the Holodomor - an occupying power exports all the food from an agrarian colony during a bad harvest. Famine happens. Occupying power shrugs. People wonder if it was a covert attempt at ethnic cleansing. Probably it was.
The difference is that the Irish famine was oh, just a big whoopsie while the Holodomor was an evil plot.