So so sad.

Visited this cross a few times. Grew up with a view of the cross from Malavonea

Reply to Hands to Heal; I asked that of a college professor in a Culture awareness study program. Most of our work focused on Black, Jewish, and American Indian. I learned the Irish didn’t talk about the injustices done to them. There has never been any talk of Reparations!

Denying of reality! The people were beaten down physically and mentally. They were desperate souls indeed.

‘Those who could least afford to pay ended up paying the most’ isn’t this still the way it is?

Wonderful Thank you ❤️🙏❤️

Its all so very very sad, but beautifully done.

Someone should do a 60-minute documentary on this man

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This a fantastic piece of work that needs to be more widely watched. Really excellent.

Ar fheabhas... grmma ❤

I'm sure some of my mothers relatives must have experienced this in and around bandon co cork,may their souls find happiness...!😮😮

Great Britain will have hell to pay come Judgment Day for how it treated the Irish people.

Eugenics plans going on then as now no doubt.. 😢 Google Galton

Thank you for this film. I dream of my unknown Cork and Kerry ancestors sometimes.

The sad thing is all my great grandparents,are buried in kolbrogan bandon,and my mother and ourselves are exiled in england due to seeking work and poverty ...at least our ancestors were buried in their homeland but we will die and be buried as exiles...

Very interesting well done

I wonder about a connection between the Counter-Reformation & the beginning of these burial grounds, the Church trying in its own clumsy & heavy handed way to preserve the “sacredness” of regular burial grounds. Inexcusable from this vantage point, like many rules.

Thank you so much for this. I only heard about cillini from Patrick Joyce’s book Remembering Peasants. Such sadness & devotion in this whole idea & custom.

Beautiful video! Thank you

Our self àlone forget😢

This is a brilliant piece of work on Irish history

And even now, the bastards still haven’t left Ireland entirely

Love the Island and Love the people.

Certainly one of my life's most memorable events was during my only visit to Ireland, when Tadhg O'Driscoll brought me to this holy place and was able to show me the two unmarked graves where my McCarthy ancestors of Heir Island were buried. I can close my eyes and travel there despite my physical body being in the states.

Poor people today are treated nearly as bad .

Very helpful.

I'm not in to Irish history and was never very fond of my home country, but this brings home how near ago the famine was (I couldn't have told you), and the scale and the suffering of so many people. Plus the seeming inhumanity and cruelty of many people of the time, both in relation to the famine but more directly those horrendous workhouses where humans were treated awfully. Seems like any religion Catholicism could turn a blind eye if it wanted to. I grew up in Cork City until aged 17, but my father's family were originally from Skibbereen, though we seldom passed through it. I lost touch with my remaing family at that age, in 1977, so this fills a gap for me. I'm living in London 37 years (now hate it here too - being impoverished but not on the scale here) previously living in Dublin for 10 years until 1987. Thanks for the video.

thanks brits,, AGAIN...3 thousand english pounds she sent for famine relief, and then spent 250, 000 pounds on the memorial for her dead husband...i drive by that graveyard everyday and bless myself for those poor souls..i hope if there is a God he was watching this and give those poor souls everlasting happiness

Hello, I hope you will reply. I only recently picked up the topic of the Great Famine and there's one thing that confuses me. What exactly is the relation between Skibbereen and Caheragh? Does Skibbereen own Caheragh as a sort of subordinate village/suburb? I ask because of that rather infamous sketch of the boy and girl, I saw it used interchangeably for both, so I was wondering if it's an actual relation between the two places or if it's just a matter of proximity.

In der Schule haben wir von dem Wort „Famine“ nichts gehört, ich kenne es aus dem Lied „The Fields of Athenry“. Ebenso nie etwas gehört von „Holodomor“. Kennst du das Wort? Schau nach Holodomor. We didn't hear anything about the word "Famine" at school (at the time in GDR), I know it from the song "The Fields of Athenry." Also, never heard of "Holodomor". Do you know the word? Look for Holodomor. Beides sind Genocide mit über 5 Million Menschen, die verhungerten. Both are genocide with over 5 million people who starved to death. 💔

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It wasn't a famine it was a holocaust

The population has fewer people now than before the famine.

We had a workhouse in my town .... We were always afraid to go near it because, as kids, we thought there was still disease in it.

It resonates because it shows somebody recognized the problem and cared at a human level and out of generosity tried to do what they could to help.

I would seriously consider a sort of national survey of the graves to answer some questions about the Famine that either were not answerable at the time or might not be accurate. Privately, I suspect more died than we know, but the only way to prove that would be to dig up the pits. WAIT, WAAAAAIT, HOLD YOUR FIRE!!! Hear me out before you throw the rotten tomatoes and muck!!! I SWEAR, it would be for honest reasons, and also there would be every intention of putting them back to their eternal rest unless their descendants can be connected to the body and would wish to give them the burial and a coffin they were denied long ago. What we could find out or reconstruct would be how many died of cholera, how many died of typhus, how many had refeeding syndrome, total body counts per site per county, etc. it would be an unpleasant job, but it would let the dead speak when so many couldn’t bear to do it. It would be, in a way, seeking justice: Ireland is free now, and has been for 100 years. The people now are well fed and pat their bellies after eating a nice ROAST BEEF sandwich at lunchtime, something in 1846 they would have had to steal to get anywhere near, particularly the beef. Time to reckon with the ones who never got that far. And if my suspicions are right, if the numbers were fudged, the proof will show itself in those graves.

Considering the story it seems the deaths from starvation and disease had to be far more.

Why are there no reports of opportunities to fish and hunt along the land?

19:15 the story of Chactaw Indians sending money and grain to the Irish is telling of the natural truth of human nature.

Why is there never any mention of the OVERLORDS NEVER BEING HELD TO ACCOUNT FOR STOPPING ANY FISHING AND OTHER FARMING for people to feed and care for themselves!!!

Ive been to this cemetery. Why is it so overgrown?. This is so sad to see when others are looked after.

😢those work houses were nothing other than jailes.

Thank you for making this and other video's available to us to view. I am also good part Irish. I always whanted to know more about our history.

How right was he a lesson here Russia mmmm

A genocide we can lay directly at our British door, have we ever apologised, i doubt it

Hello I am desperately trying to find my nana birthplace, she said she was born in Skibereen in 1913, can you help ?

2023 and still nothing is taught in UK schools about the British oppression in Ireland...absolutely disgraceful.

As someone born in England it disgusts me what the British did to the Irish.

was this the only cemetery with a watch house