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There was a big problem regarding the type of potato that the Irish people wanted to grow.  It was called the "Lump" potato and it was favoured because it had in good time a heavier crop.   Unfortunately this potato was more prone to the blight and the authorities could not get people to plant alternative types.

Beside that, there is in the American Records of Rt Rev. John Lancaster Spalding, Bishop of Peoria, President of The Irish Catholic Colonisation Association, information that from 1851 to 1887 the sum of $30,000.000 (thirty million dollars)  donated to Ireland in the New York area, donated chiefly by servant girls who incidentally were those who contributed most to the building of the churches, hospitals and schools in USA. that was not counting the donation from Boston which had an even higher population of Irish Immigrants.

In the Chicago Daily Jounre 21 April 1852 it says  The United sons of Erin sent all funds that they had to Parnell to be used by him wherever it would do the most good.

Now I haven't done a conversion to present day money but that was an enormous amount.  why did the people starve?

Where did it go?

I have for many years contacted researchers and institutions in Ireland to no avail, I have been told that they would not assist with English surnames and I have spent a lot of money trying to get the documents (I have provided the reference numbers ) out.

An American cousin also had the same problem he went armed with the reference numbers and was told he was too late in the day to get the copies.  It was not too late in the day.

The problem was and is that our ancestors owned estates there.

There is also Newtonards in Northern Ireland.

You cannot go on what is posted even on the IGI, Census or any other site,  there are many errors due to human being being involved in processing them.

Accents, abbreviations, nicknames all come to mind.

http://www.travelpublishing.co.uk/CountyIntros/NorthernIrelandIntro.htm

This may help with place names.