Say that the British government was more expedient in providing aid and relief that succeeds in avoiding the mass death and the kick-off of emigration in Ireland. How does it effect the rest of British and Irish history? What state of development is Ireland like today (I figured that if Great Britain and Ireland today had the same ratio of people it did in 1840, roughly 18/8, the modern population of Ireland would be 28 million, right between the population of Romania and Poland), and is it an independent nation or still a part of the UK?