I don't know of any landlords that actually allowed any tenants to continue to farm without paying rent (so it seems that advice was hogwash),
I THINK some did back in the first year, but well....
Many Irish wanted to leave, but were too weak to actually go to the ports and had nothing to sell for the ticket money.
Plus, didn't help you'd get scalpers in say, Manchester who would sell an adult male a ticket for a child on a ship that left last week, and be congratulated he only paid 14 English pounds by the only honest man in Manchester. Stuff like that didn't help matters.
Also it was actually cheaper to just evict and boat out many tenants as opposed to evicting outright, thanks to the
Poor Rate.
That could have disastrous long-term effects for the British Empire.
You would have a white population in the colonies that really didn't like the British with centuries of experience of getting around British rule and would cooperate with the natives against British.
Hell, that assumes you can evict them en masse. If I'm starving and most of my family is dying from the plague, and oh look, now I'm being evicted, well..... Not like I have that much to lose.
One thing can’t remember which Middle East country ruler upon hearing of the Irish plight sent relief food to Ireland but the British embarrassed by the outside offer refused it.
Turkey, but probably a legend. Depends on who you ask.