RTE The Hunger The Story of the Irish Famine

A thoughtful and challenging analysis of the worst European humanitarian disaster of the 19th century, with input from historians and witness accounts, marking the 175th anniversary of the Great Irish Famine.

[@bp7495]

Thanks for sharing. The Irish Famine was not mentioned once in my English schooling. Brushed under the carpet along with many other shameful episodes of British colonial and domestic history.

[@gradualdecay1040]

@@bp7495 it's all lies.

[@ecaeas4439]

It was taught in mine

[@DannyNev15]

Thank you to whoever finally put this up here. On PBS site, not watchable. Cheers🍀

[@roisinmalone3015]

Great programme. So sad. We should be taught more about this in Ireland

[@mraclark6171]

Thanks Nicholas this really helps with my Irish history class that I teach in the UK

[@lynseymcgarry4475]

Always knew my family where part of the irish immigration caused by the famine but watching and hearing really hits somewhere else along with my family stealing sheep

[@Sean-jc6cu]

Everyone needs to watch this

[@Pollyanna012]

Informative and very sad, thank you for sharing this.

[@Arab--Man]

Great upload, thank you... Very informative and sad part of Irish history

[@NeilC-yc1zd]

If this doesn't bring a tear to the eye there's something fundamentally wrong with the heart in my opinion.❤

[@DamienHalliday-jc7xf]

Why is it so. easy to feel sorry for the victims of tragic events many years after they happen without. doing anything about it at the time: Irish Famine (170 yrs); Holocaust (75 years). Will it take 50 - 100 years to regret that we in the Western world didn't do anything to alleviate the suffering of the innocent in Gaza. How pathetic we are as a species.

[@charlottescott6609]

Sad poor people starved to death

[@dmitryostrovsky5763]

If that happened in Ireland today, they would call it The Great Irish Food Insecurity. They used to call it Famine and Hunger, but now days it's called Food Insecurity. What's going on? Hunger is hunger, not food insecurity.

[@andreahodson7031]

deliberately meant to dilute the reality..

[@hint0122]

How many poor people in the us have resorted to cannibalism?

[@dmitryostrovsky5763]

@@hint0122 How about Jamestown, the Donner Party, The Utler Party Massacre, as well as Liver Eating Johnson, Boon Helm the Kentucky cannibal, prospector Alfred Packer, Mississippi Alonzo Robinson, Stanley Baker, Lester Harrisen, Albert Fentress, Brandon Flagger, and of course Hadden Clark and Gary Heidnik, Dan Rakawitz, Mrs Nelson in Costa Mesa, and a lot of other Americans that I can't recall tier names. Also.sorry that I probably misspelled a lot of these names, but I hope it helps you for whatever reason you asked such a question?

[@hint0122]

@dmitryostrovsky5763 haha, that's funny. Those are people who don't have a choice, or are insane killers. People who food insecure are not hungry enough to eat people.

[@hint0122]

@dmitryostrovsky5763 food insecure is a far cry from eating people

[@izzyRider877]

Did ottomans helped to irish people during the femine?I would like to know any comments.

[@mylittledaddy9137]

The Turkish-Irish relations had begun with the remanding of an Irish merchant ship which was captured by pirates while cruising the Mediterranean Sea by the Ottoman Navy in the 16th century. Ireland suffered the Great Famine between 1845 and 1851 resulting in the loss of lives of around one million of the Irish population and causing another million to flee overseas. During the Famine, the Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecit provided 1.000 Pounds of financial aid to Ireland. Furthermore, the Ottoman Empire sent ships carrying grain and food to the island. It is known that the Ottoman ships departing Istanbul were not allowed to enter the Port of Dublin, and thus had to unload their cargo secretly at the Port of Drogheda, a town 70 km further north of Dublin ( In remembrance of the aid, a plaque was unveiled on 2 May 1995 on the building which served as the City Hall of the period, on the occasion of celebrating the 800th Anniversary of the historical Town of Drogheda and in commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Great Famine). Diplomatic relations between Türkiye and Ireland first started with an Exchange of Note Verbal in 1951. The Turkish Embassy in Dublin was opened on 10 December 1973, whereas the Irish Embassy in Ankara was opened in 1998. Türkiye is among top destinations for Irish tourists. In 2023, the number of Irisih tourists visiting Türkiye reached 158.962. In 2023, Turkish-Irish bilateral trade volume reached 2,09 billion USD. 4.700 Turkish citizens live in Ireland. About 800 Irish citizens inhabit in Türkiye.

[@OSTARAEB4]

The Choctaw in the USA who had nothing scrounged up money for the Irish.

[@mylittledaddy9137]

@@OSTARAEB4 Indeed this has been recorded. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZ3EoXh3jLx3h8Usi=yi3aEX2RtddrtySx

[@gradualdecay1040]

Turks 4 ships of food. Cash donation.

[@gradualdecay1040]

English govt donated £8million. English public £500k+ Queen Victoria was the biggest individual donor during the famine.

[@action963]

Very narrow view of a complex issue

[@user-zo8gz9yp7n]

The British taught the Germans all they needed to know about genocide, then judged the Germans for perfecting the British example.

[@gradualdecay1040]

The Irish committed genocide on their own children.

[@horatiotodd8723]

Yes and the turks

[@gradualdecay1040]

@@user-zo8gz9yp7n talking shite.