My Dad was Tom Lonergan and we live in Waterford,Ireland 🇨🇮

Thank you Jason!

I found this video while researching my ancestors who came from Boyle. I I would love to hear more from this extremely interesting man. How can I contact him or find his books?

Quite a few were

My parents lived in Bryson PQ in the 1950s. Even then it was impossible for a Catholic to buy a house in Shawville. We didn't need apartheid in Canada back then, and we don't need it now.

Hi Janice I'm Tony Mella from Buenos Aires Argentina, political father Layla Esper Torres. I remember you very good Regards Love.

It may be at a later date there was the song in New York called: Shuffle Off To Buffalo. At one time Buffalo was a honeymoon destination for New Yorkers. Later on air travel look honeymooners and others to far flung destinations.

Canada here. My Irish ancestors came over in 1817 -- a couple Michael Cahill and wife Anne Shirley with 6 children who paid their own way over. Michael was given 25 acres of rocky Laurentian Shield land in Perth, Ontario as he had served as a private in the 19th dragoons. They were dirt poor in Canada, (settling eventually near Ottawa and finally on Calumet Island up river from Ottawa) but my God the dire poverty in 19th century Ireland is mind boggling. It's a wonder every Anglo Irish landowner was not murdered.

That pair of shoes looks like POOP

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Hi..an interesting find. Can I ask what part of Co Down you decend from? Currently researching Dickson History in Dromore area and can trace some to Canada, and in fact back again. Thanks

The name is originally Tighe. They'd actually sailed via Liverpool from Dublin, along with nearly 100 000 others that same year (many of whom having died at sea, or on Grosse Île there, itself)

Liverpool was still a town back then it didn't become a city until 1880. The reason there were no lists of Irish arrivals in Liverpool was because Ireland was part of the UK and Irish people were British subjects. Likewise there were no lists of Welsh or Scottish people coming to Liverpool. God knows it would have made it a lot easier researching our ancestors! Liverpool had a catholic community before the 19th century. People whose ancestors were recusants persecuted for holding on to the catholic faith. By the time of the Famine large numbers of Irish people had been settling in Liverpool for decades so Liverpool had a long established English catholic community with English clergy and an Irish catholic community. Fever appears to have been the biggest cause of Famine deaths in Liverpool. Conditions on the ships were bad and then you come into a town with a population swelled by mass emigration and into some of the worst housing conditions in the country no wonder fever killed so many.

It's an Irish fairy banshee town in Cree Native area. Our family is part of Bristol Ridge Pentecostal Church.

Sad for the people of ireland at that time but families wer leaving ireland in the 1950 and 1960 through hunger and no work when the irish wer running the countrey

Very well done. I visited Toronto, Kingston and Montreal recently and saw the sites of the fever sheds and Famine memorials. Alas, I didn't make it to the Black Rock in Montreal or Grosse Isle but if I'm ever in those parts again I will see them. Thanks to all those Irish Canadians & Irish Americans who have paid for and erected all the monuments to the Great Famine victims in North America.

There was no fucking famine. Beef,grain,fish,mutton,lamb,milk,cheese, goat, vegetables were all exported.. NO FAMINE. -

The Pakenham-Mahon family of Strokestown House had produced the General of same name who led the British forces at the Battle of New Orleans where he was killed. His body, preserved in a barrel of spirits, was returned to his home and laid out in the entrance hall.

Greetings from Killybegs! 🛳 🌊 ⚓

any king connections with deveaux,, beautiful song

The Irish hunger was a genacide and holecost against the white straight Irish Catholic people of Ireland by English Prodistants and some historians try to hide that.

Just done my family tree and my great great great great grandmother Bridget Glenning and her son Michael Glenning came to Liverpool from Roscommon. There is no record of her husband Patrick in Liverpool so sadly he may of died in the famine or on the way. Michael married Mary Murphy from Wexford in St Anthony’s church Scotland rd Liverpool. I wonder did he meet her on the way over or when he got here! A Fascinating but sad history

Thank you Joe for the info on Irish Heritage. My mother,s name was Rita Gunnip raised on Champlain st and her sister took care of the Church and the Gunnips lived above the church. You probably knew George, ed, mamie, katie and nargaret. My mother was a sister to them and narried Lucien Dore and raised 8 children, Bob, Ron Mark, Carmen,Louise, Diane, carole and me, Anne, I married An American Airforce man and moved to the States. I am now living in Florida and my friend Isabelle Mcmahon, from Quebec lives an hour away from me. I welvome any Irish infomation from you. Take care and be safe. God bless.

one of the few nations to help was the Othoman Sultan Caliph of the Muslim who didnt hesitate to donate 10 000 pounds, but Queen Victoria personally interfered asking him to lower it to a 1000 because her donation was only 2000 Pounds. The Othoman Sultan Abdul Majid the first agreed in a very diplomatic way, but he sent the equivalent for the 9000 as ships loaded with food, which the british tried to get on its way. eventually they docked and help was delievered. Real Irish people who know history know this.

Mike was my mum's lecturer at the University Of Liverpool during the early 00's and it was through him that I got my love for researching and learning about the slave trade and he introduced me to the diary of a man called olaudah equiano, who is one of the most interesting men in history to me

My grandmother’s name was Gertrude Lonergan of Rochester and St. Paul Minnesota

My father was from strokestown Roscommon, and his farther worked in strokestown house late nineteenth century. I have many stories about this, mostly sad and unjust. Thank you for this insight.

Jason King thank you! This is priceless to me.

My Ancestor was James G Ryan he was from Ashbrook (also called Knocknabarnaboy) townland just south of Scramoge, and southeast of Strokestown. His wife and father had died, certainly from the famine, he was left with a mother and his four children. He had to leave them and send them back money from America. He arrived in New York City on Oct 9, 1850. He ended up as a Clerk/Collector in a fine clothing store. He also served in the Civil war in the 32nd NY Volunteer Infantry. I’m very proud of him.

Shawville is "The Celts," with a strong Native base. I have Pentacostal family there in Bristol Ridge, Quyon. I am from Toronto.

Her name is Gerry Ffrench, (with 2F's)

My dad was Joe Lonergan. His family had the children in Boston and the moved to Prince Edward Island.

I would like to thank Mark Mc Gowan for bringing to life the memory of these famine victims and sharing their history with us. We know so little about the famine, but linking it to the places and monuments is very real and moving. That land lord Mahon is a disgusting, disgraceful person. I'm also very grateful to the Americans who research their Irish roots and share their information, of which we would not be so well informed.

"No coloured, no irish, no spiks no dogs". My dad was cypriot so considered a spik . This seems like a smaller version of 'the plandemic' we had in 2020. Less people around & now is coming a winter where many will not afford food or fuel... It seems we have always been fighting the Tyrannous hidden hand for our lives. Grow potatos in upright sacks asap. oh the irony ! My heart goes out to all those who suffered in the great hunger 🙏💕🌞

Wow! A very enlightening documentary and sad! As an Irish Catholic residing in Canada, I feel much anguish for the poor souls who endured these unbearable and inhumane conditions!

Wow! A very enlightening documentary and sad! As an Irish Catholic residing in Canada, I feel much anguish for the poor souls who endured these unbearable and inhumane conditions!

loved it thank you.

Fantastic film, It should have hundreds of thousands of views! Thank you, from an Irish American in Colorado.

Wonderful interview and a very inspiring man!

Catherine Holmes is my 4th Great Grandmother (through her oldest daughter, Mary Holmes Flemming). I can't thank you enough for helping me share our family legacy with my children.

My partner are from different parts of the UK and met in our 20’s. We had no connections whatsoever before this but we’ve just found out our roots go back to Galway and Donegal. Her family came to Liverpool during the famine and mine went to Glasgow. So weird to know we lived far apart but our ancestors 5 or 6 generations back came from the same island and region.

Awesome stuff man

God bless the Choctaw people.

I just heard her being interviewed on the Irish History Podcast and, as a biracial Irish-American, I was so excited to hear the story and voice of another biracial Irishwoman. It's so gratifying that there's finally an increase in our stories and that we can stand up, speak out and say we're proudly part of the Irish story too!

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Thanks for this. My father's family left in 1847

I love this so much. Thank you Michael for giving us your family history. I'm Liverpool Irish with a Spanish seaman grandfather, and I'm incredibly proud of my family history. I grew up in L8, off Park Road, in those days largely a white area of L8, but I went to school with kids from all sorts of ethnic backgrounds. I used to think of Park Rd being a sort of boundary, which puzzled me as a kid. It's fascinating now to see how immigrant communities have integrated across the city, particularly the south of course. That's humanity for you - the 'rich urban and ethnic tapestry' that built our community and shared identities.

Thanks, fascinating and moving.

My great grandfather is listed as living in a 4th class house in the 1901 census, in a village in Co Carlow. Six people lived in this hovel down the lane by the graveyard. The first child of great grandfather, Catherine, died at 1 year of age from marasmus, or starvation as we'd call it today. This was 1890, well after An Gorta Mor. For the landless poor, life was terrifically hard well into the 20th century.

Thank you. I didn't know any of this in spite of having lived close to the Erie Canal in Clinton (near Utica) for several years. An Irish-American through my father, I'm always interested to learn about Irish people in America. My father came from Ballina in County Mayo in 1923, to Rochester, Minnesota.