BBC Travel Show - Ireland - West cork food (week 35)

[@joecully5761]

It wasn't a famine! There was plenty of food in Ireland but the British took it but not many know that because the British are ashamed of it

[@corgisrule21]

Joe Cully a lot of people died for there to have been no famine...

[@joecully5761]

@@corgisrule21 it was genocide not a famine

[@gloin10]

@@corgisrule21 Famine is caused by a lack of food. There was NO lack of food in Ireland between 1844 and 1848. Food was being exported from Ireland in huge volumes throughout the Great Hunger. Let's be honest here; the average British Army horse had a better diet, and a more assured food supply, than Irish peasants of the period.

[@annagilda1]

I love how the BBC gloss over the "famine" and the British influence in how catastrophic it was. All the talk of Wes Cork history and not a mention of Ireland sticking 2 fingers up to Britain. Keep up the perpetuation of British ignorance to their part in Irish history.

[@22grena]

I have to say I was surprised how often they mentioned the Famine

[@cathalodiubhain5739]

It was not a famine as there was plenty of food other than potatoes. The British government stood idly by and let millions of Irish die in what is now being called genocide. Starving Irish peasants tried to eat the rotten potatoes and fell ill to cholera and typhus and whole villages were struck down. Many landlords evicted the starving tenants who could be found dying on sides of roads with mouths green from eating grass to fill their bellies. Other families were sent to workhouses where the overcrowding and poor conditions led to more starvation, sickness, and ultimately death. Going to a workhouse was akin to marching to one's own death. The British government and the British and Irish Protestant landowners still required the Irish peasants and laborers to pay their rent for the land they could not work due to the blight and the hunger upon them. In a lush island surrounded by water teaming with fish and land that fattened pig and cattle alike, how could one failed crop cause a Famine? According to British law, Irish Catholics could not apply for fishing or hunting licenses. Their pigs and cattle were sent to England to feed the British and to export for trade, while the landlords kept the fine cuts for themselves. Ireland was part of the British Empire, the most powerful empire in the world at that time - yet the British government stood by and did nothing to help their subjects overcome this hardship. In our time, an enforced famine such as this would be labeled genocide yet in the 1800s it was merely an unfortunate tragedy. As defined in the United Nation's 1948 Genocide Convention and the 1987 Genocide Convention Implementation Act, the legal definition of genocide is any of the acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, including by killing its members; causing them serious bodily or mental harm; deliberately inflicting on a group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; and forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. The British policy of mass starvation inflicted on Ireland from 1845 to 1850 constituted "genocide" against the Irish People as legally defined by the United Nations. A quote by John Mitchell (who published The United Irishman) states that "The Almighty indeed sent the potato blight, but the English created the Famine. A famine did not truly exist. There was no food shortage in Ireland evidenced by the fact that the British landowners continued to have a varied diet and food stuffs were exported. This was not the first failure of the potato crop in the history of Ireland. The starvation (and genocide) occurred as the British carried on their historical exploitation of the Irish people, failed to take appropriate action in the face of the failure of the potato crop, and maintained their racist attitude toward the Irish. The Penal Laws, first passed in 1695. were strictly enforced. These laws made it illegal for Catholics (Irish) to own land, and required the transfer of property from Catholics to Protestants; to have access to an education, and eliminated Gaelic as a language while preventing the development of an educated class; to enter professions, forcing the Irish to remain as sharecropping farmers; or to practice their religion. In addition, Catholics (Irish) could not vote, hold an office, purchase land, join the army, or engage in commerce. Simply put, the British turned the Irish into nothing better than slaves, subsisting on their small rented farms. The exportation of wheat, oats, barley, and rye did nothing to help the financial status of the poor farmer. The produce was used to pay taxes and rents to the English landlords, who then sold the farm products for great profit. These profits did nothing for the economy of Ireland, but did help the English landlords to prosper. The Irish farmer was forced to remain in poverty, and reliant on one crop, potato, for his subsistence. It is time for the world to stop referring to this disastrous period in Irish history as the Great Famine, and to fully realize, and to acknowledge, the magnitude of the crime that systematically destroyed Irish nationalism, the Irish economy, the Irish culture, and the Irish people.

[@iZacq]

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[@rochaps]

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[@venomhammer7918]

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[@donalmurray9794]

Living in Dublin we are restricted to what we can consume we can't relish in fresh Atlantic produce however we are also flooded with the most authentic produce from bantry bay upwards to donegal. Even in Dublin the average consumer is spoilt for choice from sea food to grain fed delegacy. Hon the two johnys

[@patrickfitzgerald2861]

LOL! Gluttonous food consumption described as a "revolution." The 21st century gets more surreal every day.

[@gloriatapel1333]

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[@chinkyoquias9689]

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[@jonnolly]

Local? Mozzarella?

[@EMMYK1916]

Yes...milk comes from Italian buffalo cow, then the curds are separated from the whey and so forth. I'm not sure on the numbers of farmers...but we do have great tasty buffalo mozzarella here. Whilst one may associate the cheese with the Campaigna & Molise areas its a €300 million euro industry alone in Italy. Why shouldn't some wiley farmers in Ireland also produce. We have the best grassland in the world. It's absolutely beautiful mozzarella. Incidentally the Italian buffalo are very sturdy creatures, hundreds of years ago they were used as draught animals so the Irish climate is no bother to them. Hope you find this helpful.