The Forgotten IRISH Famine Rebellion

[@bettinatofall3317]

I’m still impressed by the behaviour of Irish people after such an experience of violence and hunger, unfair treatment and death. They lost a large part of the population and are the most lovely generous and kind people I’ve met

[@JamesG89]

Some are cunts though. As an Englishman that definitely wasn't involved in anything to do with the horrible things that the Irish were subjected to, I've found some Irish people to be very unfriendly and closed off, even though many of us English are embarrassed by how we've treated many countries over the centuries. We're not all Tories fellas!!

[@ko0974]

That's a lovely thing to say ,Thanking you ❤

[@jacobbuzan374]

I watched a video back in 2014 where I man gave a TED talk about, "Which country does the most good?" That question inspired him to create the "The Good Country Index" and in that year, Ireland was at the top of the list of countries that do that most good for the entire world. Erin go bragh!

[@johnnotrealname8168]

The Irish of the time were portrayed in Parliament as biddable and perhaps emollient however the increase in crime, murder and abandonment show the dark side of famine. Of course that is the unfortunate result of such situations, not excusing them obviously, and I trust that the Tory Leader would be nice enough to give a decent portrayal of Ireland then.

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

You are also are a most kind hearted and knowledgable person, God bless you for your understanding and kindness shown to people who suffered brutal attacks, abuse and starvation inflicted by their nearest and dearest neighbor, today we have similar wars happening in many different parts of our works, our brothers and sisters in Gaza are among those people that we should stand up for and demand their immediate release from the hell that their nearest and dearest neighbor Israel is inflicting on them

[@RC-if6tx]

Thank you Holden for bringing all this content. You Irish people are very special people. Adelante!! From Spain with admiration.

[@Bromine35br]

Can you do a video about Johnson’s motorcar? It’s probably one of the most interesting rebel songs in my opinion! There are so many differences between different covers, like an entire verse that is missing from most covers! I jokingly call myself a “Johnson-tologist” just because of how many differences these different covers have!

[@Jen999]

Really interested in this one .. the Famine is what sent my ancestors to Canada.. and what caused one of them.. Michael Powers.. to stow away on a ship bound for Newfoundland.. at the age of 12.. at the advice of his grandmother.. his only living relative.. so .. Thanks for this one Davy🌹☘️ Jen999💜💙

[@OhGawdHesGotAGun]

My own ones came to Canada from County Monaghan 1848. Two boys, twins, came here with their relatives. Their parents starved but these two brothers (and I) still bear their proper parents' name. I love Ireland & visit every couple of years. Wish I had the ability to stay there. Much respect to Canada, but this climate is not for me. It's not the cold, it's the bitter cold. I'm only 53yrs old but I know I can't endure these winters much longer.

[@Jen999]

@@OhGawdHesGotAGun Understand completely about Canadian winters.. spent much of my life there.. and loved it.. we are in Michigan now.. not quite so cold.. your story is amazing.. my county is Munster.. would love to go back as you have :)

[@remydaitch9815]

Thank you Mr. Holden for the history lesson, I did not know that our revolutions influenced y'all so much. As a Franco-American I have ALWAYS stood for the Emarald Isle's right to sovereign independence.

[@davyholden]

Thank you so much!

[@remydaitch9815]

YeSir@@davyholden

[@johnnotrealname8168]

How old are you? Ireland has been independent for a while now.

[@seanohare5488]

Well said big bad Davy Holden as always

[@ATLmodK]

This is so sad. I congratulate those brave people who had nothing but the will to fight, and tried to do so. Thank you for researching this and then bringing it to us.

[@cd87104]

Cheers Professor Davy! Keep dropping that knowledge!

[@davyholden]

Thank you!

[@Anonymous-km5pj]

@@davyholden Thank you for posting, all the best

[@Jen999]

Just watched this.. surreal .. riviting.. poignant .. pick any adjective you want .. all help to describe this video .. And the ending scene .. with your shadow showing us the way round the Widow`s home .. brought on both goosebumps and tears .. Add to that the soundtrack .. this is a masterwork you have done Davy .. Thank you for letting us know that the Widow and her five children survived ..⚘ Btw that picture of those courageous young men fighting with pitchforks, pikes and staves ., broke my heart.. God Bless them all⚘☘ Jen999💜💙

[@Anonymous-km5pj]

simultaneously heart wrenching and admirable..... Shout out to the Irish, my ancestry, love from Canada.

[@davedriscoll1652]

Hello from NW Iowa Davy, i live two counties over from O Brien county in Iowa. My fathers father was born in a O Brien co Ia. 1898. My dad said that weather the ground was frozen or not he always planted taters on Good Friday as Irish tradition passed on from his people from Ohio and Ny. God bless, and ❤ from Iowa

[@ironleafcabbages7628]

Thomas Francis Meagher went on to become a very accomplished military officer during the US Civil War, leading the Irish brigade as a brigadier general. He became the territorial governor of Montana.

[@seanohare5488]

True well said

[@RRW276]

I am looking forward to this one!! I understand the population of Ireland before the famine was like 18mil, and today it's 6mil? I love the history, I love Ireland. Especially Cork!

[@davyholden]

Thank you! It was 8.2 million in the year 1841.

[@djscottdog1]

I read in the news that the population has finally recovered to the pre famine level this year

[@kellycastro6495]

Grandparents emigrated from Cork early 1920's 🇮🇪🇺🇲 and the horror stories were told to us from an early age....

[@martileah]

I really appreciate the way you included that poignant almost elegaic stroll around the McCormick house. It added a profound substance to the history/ story. Am I correct in thinking that "The Commons" in County Tipperary has a strong connection to the recently deceased Shane MacGowan.? If so isn't that remarkable how places,events, and people keep intersecting and intertwining throughout history. And in turn these intersections give rise to a poetic sometimes propagandistic perspective ( Shane MacGowan was for sure a poet!) Very interesting thought provoking piece. I don't think it's by any means a unique trait to imbue the land, landscape and architecture of a place with a significance all of its own,but being from Cork ( from a tiny place called Spur Cross or "Cros na Croithe? /Croiche?) On the crest of a hill on the Southside of the City, The lush , green,moss damp ,mildness of the place with it's occasional labourer's cottages close to the roadside while further in out of sight lay the enigmatic big houses of the "big" farmer landowners( usually of Anglo Protestant stock)shrouded in gloomy dark green groves of Scots pine, and chestnut, gave rise to poignant introspection and romantic curiosity about the relationships between the two sets of Irish inheritors of the land and landscape whether it be beautiful picturesque privileged fresh as spring water view my family and I had from one of those simple built cottages with their attached parcel of land ( ours was about an acre, full of tall grass and wild flowers, with primroses,cowslips,and redclover in abundance) Or the austere ,secretive,besieged looking grand farmhouses of families with English names like Sweetman, Horsford, or Kingston. I always felt fortunate not to belong to the gloomy, austere, private set of people who may have owned hundreds of acres of land with woodland and blackberry strewn quarries but who unlike myself or my brother's and sisters never seemed to relish the freedom and beauty of a place that defied parcelling up and limiting with tall lichen covered stone walls and rusty gates. For us as children these were places to climb to get a better view or take a short cut or play" cowboys and Indians" ( We always wanted to be Indians chased by imaginary cowboys and sheriffs out to spoil and limit our range and imagination) The big houses were the houses of the "sheriff's" and "marshalls" the kill joys and serious .

[@conorgribbin3928]

​@@djscottdog1not the native population if you want to include all the new planters bit that would be a scewed result

[@angusmcclelland4846]

Never forgotten. The english masters are the same today as then. Unite Ireland

[@josemama428]

The so called Irish government are actively importing foreigners to replace the Irish by 2040 that’s their plan anyways

[@johnnotrealname8168]

In Northern-Ireland? Win their hearts first. For once, I want democracy there not violence.

[@darrengriffin9842]

God bless the 50,000 who turned. May the green sod of Erin lay gently on the souls of all those who perished during the Irish Famine

[@Dublinireland5]

Ireland needs to be left alone.. 🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️🇮🇪❤️ England as clearly out stayed it's welcome in the north of Ireland... For the love of the home land.,.. 💓🇮🇪💓🇮🇪💓🇮🇪💓🇮🇪💓🇮🇪

[@jmo8525]

Love your historical content Davy. That you visit the actual locations makes it so tangible and brings Irish history to life in a powerful way. Just wonderful. New subscriber here from the Chicago area.

[@Chromosome999]

Brilliant davey I knew all this as I am from Ballingarry been up to that old war house many a time

[@gerardodwyer5908]

The conquest and colonization of Ireland was a massive land grab. An illegial subjugation of a Gaelic people that had ruled itself under Brehon law since 2AD. Anyone who has studied the Penal Laws imposed by the British government at the time, followed by the famine, will know that Britain was willing to use any means necessary to "cleanse" the island of its indigenous population. Britain was close to fulfilling its ambition. The "Great Famine", happening in a country where the diseased potato fields of the poor indigenous Irish were surround by estates overflowing with grain crops, orchards, vegetables and cattle herds, was strategic genocide plain and simple. It lowered a population of almost 9 million indigenous Irish to under 6 million during the period 1845 to 1860 due to starvation and forced emigration. The numbers of deaths and rate of emigration would have been much higher had the famine continued and had the potato crop not recovered post 1855. During the height of the famine emigrants flooding to ports to escape certain death had the further indignity of watching tonnes of foodstuffs, live cattle and grains loaded onto ships for export. Modern Ireland is somewhat of a miracle. The indigenous Irish, their culture, laws and language (as per British design), were meant to have completely disappeared from the island of Ireland, and history, as part of Britain's land "cleansing" plan. For Britain it was a grandiose, cost effective plan that didn't quite work in the absolute. But Britain, a hybrid power built on Germanic Anglo Saxon and Franco Norman blood lines, gave it their best shot. Thankfully their best wasn't good enough.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

It was not genocide.

[@alpine8186]

Thanks for the video Davy! I'm wondering, do you have a list of your favourite books on Irish history anywhere online? I'd love to go through the story from start to finish.

[@danjdclark]

I am enjoying learning about irish history and as an English person English history too. It is really uncomfortable listening. I am learning so much of what I was told at school was untrue.😢

[@TonyM540]

That’s right, when you were taught that Cromwell was away fighting foreign wars what they mean is that he was in Ireland murdering the populace.

[@Katie2986]

It was a Genocide, not a famine 🥹 A long ago cousin was sent on a prison ship to Oz for stealing corn or oats. Loved this Davy, as always! TAL 🇮🇪💚🇵🇸

[@carlomiller1984]

agreed 100%, a genocide perpetrated by the English crown and government and facilitated by the English army and navy. Irish tenant farmers were evicted from their small, rented farms and all food goods taken at gun point, by the English army, including livestock, grains and vegetables, as well as the good potatoes and shipped to English naval ships that surrounded the island of Ireland where the food goods were taken to England and other European countries for sale, while the Irish people began to starve. Read Chris Fogarty's book "Ireland 1845-1850: The Perfect Holocaust & Who Kept It Perfect". an eye opening well researched and painstakingly documented book, with maps illustrations, and photos, and information never seen before. Erin go bragh !!

[@deanodevereux3424]

It wasn't the only genocide dressed up to be a famine either, all in the name of greed and land grabbing colonialism, absolutely shameful 😢

[@carlomiller1984]

@@deanodevereux3424 yes, and the land that the Irish tenant farmers were evicted from was rented. the Irish people were not allowed to even own property in their own country for many years in their history.

[@deanodevereux3424]

@@carlomiller1984 for a thousand years our ancestors have been oppressed bud, I'm a proud irishman myself I'm proud of my heritage and will never forget the oppression served upon the decent folk only our rivers run free.

[@deanodevereux3424]

I know my lord well, not the same lord as their land grabbing greedy Lord

[@kfossi1986]

Another fantastic video!

[@thegridgab]

This story needs a movie made about it!

[@phillipnoone8044]

Thank you for your hard work, I appreciate it!

[@davyholden]

Thank you!

[@nigelglassey4838]

Thanks. Fantastic video. Great to see the Warhouse.

[@karlbarry6004]

How many people died on the way to the coffin ships im nearly sure it was over 100thousand could be more i know it was alot can you please tell me davey

[@johnnotrealname8168]

I know 1 in 5, 20%, died in 1847 but it tapered off. Nonetheless in that one year I think it was 18,000.

[@andrewoshea5944]

Love your stuff Davy.

[@karukun0212]

Incredible job--so deeply appreciate these videos and heart with which they are done Davy. Every one of my ancestors on my mom's side were potato faminers--I wonder who might have been participants in these events.

[@aarongreenakacavemonster904]

I'm so proud my mother s name is mc McCormack love your stories

[@Garethharoldjones]

Well the English government treated the Irish people unfairly no wander the rebels got formed i got Irish blood in my family on my mother's side of her family sir this video was very interesting history sir keep up your positive work history is interesting ❤❤

[@johnnotrealname8168]

The rebels were not really in tune with famine victims. They were just the breed of the 1798 people.

[@thepiggyprophet]

Make a video about admiral William Brown an Irish man, a hero in Argentina 🇦🇷

[@alanmacreamoinn6691]

Dia duit òn Baile Àtha Cliath ("Talafornia") Young Ireland 🇮🇪 Rebellion took place on the 50th Anniversary of Wexford's Rebellion & the disposinng of Admiral Nelson on O'Connell Street here, on the 50th Anniversary of the Easter Uprising.

[@mch12311969]

Thank you for this video. I have forgotten, if Meagher was sent to Tasmania, how then did he get to America? Perhaps that is the subject of another video.

[@tonyowens628]

Stole travelion.s corn so the young might see the morn....and the prison ship lies waiting in the bay....fields of athenry..a good true video davy..!

[@1258-Eckhart]

Breathtaking barbarity of the British. Lord Russell: "Send guns, no food."

[@Kitiwake]

It's not forgotten. I learned about that in school in the 1960s.

[@davidbouvier8895]

Didn't know about this episode in the 800 year resistance to British colonialism. That's why the Irish understand all too well what the Palestinians are going through.

[@davidbouvier8895]

@jonnyneace8928 Germany gave up Namibia after WW1 too. Because, like the Ottomans, they lost the war. It was colonialism. They lost their colonies to other colonial powers on the winning side. WW1 was a huge clash between rival colonial powers. Nobody gave a damn about the colonized. Not a lot has changed.

[@davidbouvier8895]

@jonnyneace8928 The Ottomans didn't voluntarily 'give up' Palestine. The Brits took it and assumed control in 1918, after the war ended. WW1 was a war between competing empires. One, Russia, was transformed by revolution. Two others, the Ottoman and the Austro-Hungarian, ceased to exist and were broken up into separate countries. Germany lost all its colonies. They were grabbed up by the 'winners'. Nobody ever asked the colonized what they wanted.

[@davidbouvier8895]

@jonnyneace8928 The Irish arrived only around 500BCE. Prior to that there were Pictish inhabitants. 4000 years earlier Ireland, like Britain, was inhabited by dark skinned people with blue eyes. The Aryan didn't arrive in India, bringing Hinduism until 1800-1500 BCE. The earlier inhabitants were darker skinned Dravidians still seen in the south. Canaanites were a mixture of local people and immigrants in what is now Lebanon about 5000 years ago. They are the ancestors of modern Lebanese people. The Natufian culture flourished in Israel about 10, 000 years ago. (Wikipedia and Irish Times.)

[@davidbouvier8895]

@jonnyneace8928 Who said they did? As a result of the Spanish American war 1898, the US colonized Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines.

[@davidbouvier8895]

@jonnyneace8928 Do a little reading, why don't you?

[@chad_8110]

thats pretty cool

[@peterkelly1665]

seems like many making comments here many of us are descendants of famine immigrants well not sure how to relate to the forced starvation and movement of people to new lands my life here in Australia is comfortable but we got here via Glasgow as many did !

[@morgainedepolloc4161]

Thank you Davy for these history videos. I find them fascinating. Do you have any history on the involvement of the Irish in the Jacobite uprisings? My Jacobite ancestor was brought to America as a prisoner and sold as a slave/indentured. I am trying to learn about the era. Circa 1745. Supposedly he was descended from a Fitzgerald in Ireland---he came to America from Scotland as a McDonald/McDaniel. BTW--my grandmother was a fluent Gaelic speaker from Western North Carolina. She passed at 105. Apparently, even in the US, there was a lot of shame speaking Gaelic--and I didn't find out she spoke it until the end of her life. Kind of makes me sad. Any guidance on researching Jacobite uprisings is appreciated. I especially loved the Rebel Songs series.

[@tommercury3349]

There was no shame speaking Gaelic, the reason for not speaking public,was, one could be identified as a Gaelic rebel

[@morgainedepolloc4161]

@@tommercury3349 In the US there was no Irish resistance--no Irish freedom fighters. English was forced on the public. My grandmother (US) hid the fact that she spoke Gaelic---make of it what you will. But those were the facts in my family. US --Western North Carolina. (Speaking Cherokee was also frowned upon---English was forced)

[@tommercury3349]

@@morgainedepolloc4161 not speaking Gaelic in public was very common in eire also. There was huge numbers resisting in the Americas, de voy and Irish with support of thousands of native peoples invaded Canada.

[@tommercury3349]

Not sure if all the nations of the US were represented, many were

[@morgainedepolloc4161]

@@tommercury3349 thank you for clarifying. We don't get the full history in US schools. BTW--I heard the story of the Acadians from my grandmother---apparently they traveled through NC on their way to Lousiana. I have had many good discussions with the Metis in Canada and the Cajuns/Creoles in Lousiana---we are all mixed heritage.

[@aidengranahan3598]

Ive been calling it the irish genocide as of late as they knew what they were doing exporting the food that would hsve feed the country. Great video keep up your amazing work ❤

[@deanodevereux3424]

Makes me sad, makes me even sadder that this is just forgotten about and to this day we still fight for our freedom all over the world... for you stole truvelleans corn so the young might see the morn now the prison ship lies waiting in the bay, NEVER EVER GIVE UP YOUR FIGHT FOR FREEDOM,, good will always prevail against the forces of evil... if your lucky enough to be Irish then your lucky enough 🍀 blessings ✌🏻

[@mackey1224uk]

God bless all Irish men, Catholic and Protestant. People here in the North were never told their true history. I first learned of Elizabeth "Betsy" Gray, 1778-1798. She led a Protestant, army against the English at the battle of Ballynahinch. A United Irish-women. I blame St Patrick and the English coming to our Island and imposing their beliefs. I know I'll get alot of stick about this but to me it is a truth, non the less.

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

The Irish people who suffered repeated brutal attacks, abuse and starvation for4 over 800 years inflicted by their nearest and dearest neighbor, today we have similar wars happening in many different parts of our works, our brothers and sisters in Gaza are among those people that we should stand up for and demand their immediate release from the hell that their nearest and dearest neighbor Israel is inflicting on them

[@Loppy8]

Davy Holden - ESPECIALLY FOR YOU Last year I donated a letter from Frank Morgan, the solicitor for the Young Irelanders, to the National Library of Ireland. It was written just after the Ballingarry incident when he was ‘on the lamb’ avoiding the British authorities. (I actually found the letter hiding inconspicuously online.) It is an extraordinary piece of history as he writes from Liverpool on his way to Paris. There is not enough space here to tell the whole story, but I can forward a PDF, if you’d like.

[@davyholden]

Hey there! I’d absolutely love that. Can you email it to me? Thanks so much

[@Clusters3rdStrikeArc]

Carefully curated comments. 😂

[@ianneill1400]

Tasmania is part of Australia - Not south of Australia!

[@vixen878]

capitalism...

[@martinhenrybezer8516]

Terrible part of history...one that isn't spoke about enough...

[@chrishilton3626]

It was not a genocide

[@vixen878]

it absoloutley was, objectively.

[@chrishilton3626]

@@vixen878 no it wasn’t

[@vixen878]

@@chrishilton3626 that's a brilliant take my friend i will spread the word

[@chrishilton3626]

@@vixen878 be quiet 🤫

[@peterallison-ex4yy]

Loved this one Davy. So insightful and informative to these early events in Our Country's history. Brilliantly put together. Go raibh maith agat 🇮🇪💚🍀✊

[@redwjiteandblue]

my Great Grandfather was a young Irelander so i guess i am one