If Bono really knew the history of his own people, he would ...

If Bono really knew the history of his own people, he would be aware that the Great Irish Famine of the 1840s was not the result of a food short. Famines rarely are. There were plenty of crops in the country, but they had to be exported to pay the landlords' rents. There was also enough food in Britain at the time to feed Ireland several times over.