Did Any Group Prosper From the Famine Here? Er?

Famine historians write in terms of winners and losers. But we know that people can make profits during the famine. The corn merchants of both ireland and britain made massive amounts of profit. So people did make profit, and they used the famine as an opportunity to do things that theyd wanted to do beforehand. What was the impact of the famine on irish speakers? And why did it seemingly cause a big drop in irish speaking e so the irish language had been and declined for centuries,. by the nineteenth century, it was mostly the poor people who spoke it.