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Was it to get more colonists for America? Many Irish went there because of the famine or am I mixing up stuff?
America was independent for like 100 years by this stage, so I doubt that was a motivation for them.
It was for profit (exporting food made money, importing free food would lower prices/distort the market) . . . and to get less Irish in Ireland.
"According to legend, the Sultan had originally intended to send £10,000, but either British diplomats or his own ministers requested that the Sultan send only £1,000, so as not to violate protocol by donating more than Queen Victoria, who had sent £2,000."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland%E2%80%93Turkey_relations#History
The Great Hunger is a masterclass in British Colonialism not giving a single fuck.