The Great Starvation - Re-defining The Irish Famine

Over 30 years Afri has been joined by thousands of people to walk the famine road through the Doolough Valley in County Mayo. It is a walk like no other, abounding in memory, music, history, solidarity and spectacular beauty; retracing the steps of the dispossessed of the past and forging solidarity with the banished and oppressed of today. This documentary reflects on the issues at the core of this event...
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For over four decades Afri has been involved in opposing war, promoting food sovereignty and tackling climate change - working especially with Secondary and Third level students as well as with the general public. We organise the annual Famine Walk in Mayo, a Hedge School in TU Blanchardstown and Féile Bríde in Kildare.
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[@MrMrFishtacos]

Can’t believe my people survived this tribulation, God bless the Irish May my ancestors struggle never be forgotten 🇮🇪🙏🏻

[@burakkucukbas31]

Always had a soft spot for the Irish people 🇹🇷🇮🇪

[@preacaininternational5637]

@Mark Tierney exactly his father was in educted in Ireland and could not ignore the plight of a nation of scholarly people

[@preacaininternational5637]

Tír gan teanga tír gan anam

[@EMMYK1916]

@Mark Tierney And it should never be forgotten. Also the brits turned away cargo ships of food that were sent by the ottomans.

[@secallen]

What about Armenians, Assyrians, Kurds?

[@arladicey]

I visited Ireland in 2007; dream trip of a lifetime. I remember seeing the sad, overgrown, tumbledown, roofless ruins of little cottages along the way in southwestern Ireland. I learned that they were among the physical evidence of the horror of the Great Hunger. I was moved to tears at the thought of the suffering of those times. A little over 1/3 of my ancestry is Irish. I have always felt a strong connection to Ireland, its history, and its culture. A part of my heart will always be broken for the memory of those who endured the horror, the desperation, the grief, and the outrage of this genocide.

[@arladicey]

@Catherine Murphy as I said, I visited Ireland, and have always felt a strong connection to my Irish heritage. Plus, the more you learn about those times in history, the more you feel the sadness of the tragic situations. On the other side of it, it gives you growing respect for the survivors of those times.

[@michaelwalsh9145]

I’m Irish and our government are diluting our culture and have been for some time just like other countries, governments are just puppets for the world’s illuminati who want people like you and I dead, forget about history for awhile and concentrate on what’s happing right now.

[@ruskiryan2398]

The British were selling and exporting food and grain from Ireland DURING the famines (genocide), no reparation has ever been paid or offered by the crown.

[@mikequirk6879]

No shite yeah..??

[@seanhannan6700]

arfer minute how is building bridges with the British, that over 7 centuries killed culture and people, going to solve the fact that your government wants to keep a part of Ireland for itself? What bridge needs to be built to get a large part of Ulster back from occupation and stop the British from erecting a physical border again because you “want out” of the EU?

[@seanhannan6700]

arfer minute you mean the British people? What fear would Irish people have of Irish people?

[@seanhannan6700]

arfer minute that’s your way of looking at it. I would say you’re being a little arrogant by proposing a solution that has not worked for decades, washing off any guilt the UK has in the horrible treatment of the Irish for centuries, starving them at it’s peak, not allowing language or culture to be expressed, and then having the gall to say it might be the Irish’ fault for being rebellious instead of building bridges. I don’t hate the English. I don’t “hate” anyone, but I also don’t like your attitude of saying “all in the past let bygones be bygones, as if that’s a solution for anything. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t know what the solution is either, but the current British attitude of neglect and disregard for N-Ireland as it faces the dire consequences of Brexit for our people and history is disturbing at the least and if nothing else shows how little has truly changed. You do not get to decide when people should “get over it”.

[@claireshakespeareevans9842]

@arfer minute well said!!!!!! 👏

[@leighness1988]

The generosity of the Choctaw people while enduring their own suffering just destroys me. It's one of the only shining sparks of humanity in this whole dark episode.

[@barbarahallinan1151]

pick up the dark book...........we irish know what the choctaw done and have contact both ways to doday.

[@deanodog3667]

@@barbarahallinan1151 and the turks !

[@mfjdv2020]

The Turks were the only Europeans who helped us. We will never forget the kindness of our Turkish cousins. Turkish people are apparently also Celts.

[@OSTARAEB4]

YES! Thank you for stating that. I don't think many know what the Choctaw People did for the Irish.

[@Tboy439]

@@mfjdv2020 ....The Irish Potato Famine was a planned event just as most of the Pogroms against the Jews. They wanted them somewhere else to help with their plan of world domination. By far, most of the immigrants ended up in America. What would soon happen in America? The Civil War. This not only would increase the number of Democrats,in America, but put as many as 3 million agents of the Pope in America. The Pope was completely on the side of the confederate states who called Jefferson Davis his favorite son. So not only did the Pope sit on his hands during the famine, he was clearly on the side of slavery. I think it's about time for Catholics to pay attention of the agenda of their leaders. At first,the plan was not for a Civil War but for an invasion by Britain and France to bring America back to colonial status. What twarted this plan was that when Napoleon 3 of France approached Tsar Alexander 2 of Russia to join them in this venture, the Tsar stated that not only would he not join, but then said that if Britain and France attacked America, he would join the war on the side of Lincoln. He knew it was the same forces that had been trying to worm their way into Tsarist Russia, and would eventually succeed in the First World War. And the Tsar would latter back up his threat. So after they fomented the Civil War, during a very crutial time in 1863, when Lee's forces had made it as far north as Pennsylvania and the North was fighting the battle of Gettysburg and other battles, leaving New York void of Federal Troops to protect the City, Pope Pious 9 came out with an Edit directed mostly at Irish Catholics that called any Catholic who raised a hand against the government he called the only legitimate government {confederate} that they were heratics, lower than the common criminal and would be cursed with enternal damnation. With this, Irish Catholics not only started to desert the Federal Army in droves, but Catholic Priests and Bishop started agitating for rebellion. This created the draft riots of 1863. This was by far the most destructive riots in American history, completely caused by the Pope of Rome. Because of these riots, and the threat that Britain and France could possibly invade a New York in chaous and unprotected, the citizens of New York woke up on the morning of Sept.15, 1863 to a huge war fleet in New York Harbor. It was the Russian Fleet that had also sent a large fleet to San Fransisco to protect the West Coast from invasion. In New York the Admirals had them written orders, that stated that if the British or French were to attack Washington that they were to proceed to Washington and to place themselves under the direct command of Lincoln himself. This was actually the reason for the Irish Potato famine in the first place!!!1

[@LS-ly8gl]

I'm from Yorkshire, just discovered when my great x3 grandfather left Castlerock, Sligo. He was in his early 20's. Now, I think I know why he chose to leave such a beautiful country. Looks like his choice was stay and starve, or make his way to England in search of work. Many of his descendants still live in Halifax, the town he chose to settle in. Thomas Quinn Born 1847 Castlerock, Sligo.

[@mikequirk6879]

Devasting poverty aside ... Have you ever been to Sligo? Xxx

[@LifeInStone]

This can not be forgotten. While studying the history of Irish music and why the harp and bagpipes and the Irish language almost disappeared, this kind of human suffering experienced here for hundreds of years explains a cultural death. God rest all who died and what rich culture was lost with these people.

[@brandyschmidt7615]

My grandmother 4 generations back was chawtaw Indian Charlotte Dove and married John Henry O'Daniel. Hearing this story made my eyes tear up as that is how they probably fell in love .

[@janeyd5280]

brandy Schmidt wow I bet you are all so good looking with those genes.!!

[@Abcd-hr9ot]

Rip ur nan

[@Ger-vn7dy]

Again I say, read the history. These are true stories. And as far as the question of "how could Ireland have been oppressed", Ireland was oppressed by the English for over 300 years. That oppression contributed greatly to the famine.

[@Ger-vn7dy]

Correction for me. I did mean to say 800 years.

[@leighness1988]

Catherine Murphy geez calm down

[@michelslaura]

Why was the Irish hated so much , I realized that the British were hateful by nature , but they treated people in India better, and ireland is their neighbor!!

[@mfjdv2020]

800 years, dear, and we are still being oppressed by those bastards. Only this time it's the brexit.

[@mfjdv2020]

@Catherine Murphy exactly

[@danielinnicg2114]

brillant, anyone else feel a deep hurt watching it? our ancestors sit at a table in heaven with jesus now happy with a feast of food, r.i.p to them

[@mfjdv2020]

Yes a terrible hurt ... right now I feel our ancestors very close, they're with the Holy Family and saints and angels.

[@doneldamacdonnell8602]

Angry. That’s what I feel in my gut.

[@nicholeocornes543]

Amen yes!

[@lindaralston1867]

Heart breaking

[@davidkeenan5642]

@@doneldamacdonnell8602 So long as your anger is directed towards the English of the past.

[@paulmcardle9542]

The Quakers, more than any other group must never be forgotten for their selfless and compassionate commitment to the Irish People during this time.. Countless thousands of people were saved by their efforts.

[@roxanneoshaughnessy9804]

Also, never to be forgotten, the benevolence of 'The Turkish Ottoman, Abdulmacid' who sent money and shiploads of food to the starving Irish. kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGHFcpyvf6iqjLcfeature=shared "An Górta Mor"/ "The Great Hunger." There was no famine in Ireland! Ireland was rich in every kind of produce, which the English loaded on to English boats and exported to England.

[@jimmy27paul]

That famous Irish famine illustration of the starving woman and children at 1:52 ....Never knew her name was Bridget O Donnell!!!......That really brings it all home to you.....That was a real person with two kids, with a very common Irish name,who was sketched not some made up drawing of a woman and children.....

[@mitchamcommonfair9543]

Yes it's an illustration of a real person. It was published in British newspapers at the time

[@medusa3050]

This is so horrific and makes me really sad for all those people, as well as my own Gt, Gt Grandparents and all their children must have gone through, they were from Castlebar, Mayo, during this time they made it over to England and settled in a little town of which myself and all my family still live today. Listening to this helped me understand what they must gone through and the hunger they must have endured. I'm very proud of them.

[@Success4u247]

Their gentle spirits still abide in the music of the lamenting pipes, in the sadness of depression ,in the unconscious rage in all Irish people,

[@khappy1286]

I am grateful Jesus healed my subconscious rage, and He really did. And I feel for those still burdened in their heart. Thank you Jesus for setting me truly free.

[@ME24689]

A totally different kind of people than what we have today.. Those innocent people have gone with the wind and we now have vicious young thugs roaming our towns and cities.. It's disgraceful.. 💔

[@snakes3425]

The more I studied what happened the more it made me sick because this was something that never should've been allowed to happen. The cruelty and brutality of the Landlords in their evictions was barbarism equaled only by the Nazis, the bigotry shown by Charles Trevelyan, the man charged with providing relief for Ireland at the time, and the failures of leadership in Britain are inexcusable and unacceptable. This wasn't oppression or a famine, this was ethnic cleansing.

[@barbarahallinan1151]

snake3425......................they dont teach this in the uk.....pure genocide..........

[@mfjdv2020]

Trevelyan believe it or not was a fellow Celt. So was Cromwell. Welsh and Cornish.

[@keithkeegan9776]

@@mfjdv2020 he did not consider him self a celt .or else he would not 9f done wat he done

[@dogsitterlife5023]

You are forgetting many other horrible cruelties done by powerful evil leaders. Mao for instance and many others that were not written down

[@dogsitterlife5023]

@snake3325

[@dianeconti7602]

We love you till today, our brothers and sisters in Ireland!

[@AoibhinnMcCarthy]

Ireland is a beautiful country, Irish are nice and friendly. I’m studying in Ireland. When I read stories in the great famine. I feel my heart broken and sad so many were starved. Just hope Ireland can be prosperous forever.

[@kccgurl]

I'm an American of Irish ancestry. My Irish ancestor, Patrick McDermott came over to America alone at 14 years old a few years before the famine. And yet, I've had this intense grief and have been crying a lot watching this and learning about this famine. It seems strange but I think it's because the Irish people of that time are my people too. In 2023, I'm an American, but 1847, the Irish people were my people. And I'm coming to terms with the horror of what happened to them.

[@TrueBlueEG8]

Was there today, April 21 2018, and the images of my poor ancestors dying, starving by the roadsides will not leave my head. Mans inhumanity to man knows no bounds....

[@TrueBlueEG8]

Yes we have spoken before sister. These stories fill me with emotion, my wife thinks I should let the past go, but I just cant ,it hurts so much. I travel the country to the monuments of the fallen, of the famine and the revolutions of 1798 and 1916 just to show my respect, and keep their memories alive, so I hope they didnt die in vain. I am in tears now thinking of the hardship they endured at the hands of the inhumane.

[@TrueBlueEG8]

Yeah, the destruction of gaelic language was a huge part of beating people down, some children here are embarrassed by it :( I was born and reared in Dublin, and my mother was from Dublin and my father was from Cork. I am still living in Dublin 41 years later, however my surname is MacSuibhne, MacSweeney in the english tongue. I believe it to be a Scottish name.

[@Mark-ql2wp]

TrueBlueEG8 MacSuibhne Know your history: "Don Alonso Martínez de Leiva was shipwrecked off Blacksod Bay in County Mayo. He was the number two in command of the Armada. Despite the conditions, he managed to get his men ashore in good order. There they learned of another Armada ship anchored nearby. Don Alonso marched his men across land to unite the crews. Encouraged by their good fortune, they made good the second ship and sailed north. At this point their luck temporarily ran out, as the ship ran aground off the Donegal coast. Despite suffering a broken leg, Don Alonso miraculously got his men safely ashore. Once on land, they took refuge in an abandoned castle on lands of the Gaelic lord Mac Suibhne Banagh. Fearing attack from both the roaming bands of English Militia and local Irish opportunists, they dug in to create a defensive position. Incredibly once again word came that there was yet another Armada ship, the Girona, at anchor off Killybegs, some 20 miles away. Exhausted but trusting in their commander, the Spaniards broke camp. With help from the local Irish chieftain MacSuibhne they marched to Killybegs, carrying the injured Don Alonso in a litter. At Killybegs the port became a hive of activity, as the combined crews, with assistance of MacSuibhne's men, worked for 7 days to repair the Girona. With the work complete, a total of 1,300 Spaniards expectantly set sail for Scotland. They rewarded MacSuibhne with their surplus supplies, together with a great store of weapons and ammunition for use against the English. But there was no happy end to this remarkable story. In the stormy Donegal waters the Girona's jury rudder failed and the ship went aground at Bunboyes near Dunluce with massive loss of life. Less than ten survivors got ashore."

[@mfjdv2020]

@Caroline Lees happy to meet you sister. Alba go bragh!

[@mfjdv2020]

@@TrueBlueEG8 We Gaels can never let the past go. We must never forget those poor people, and what they suffered at the hands of those evil murderers.

[@vinstyles]

Ireland is surely the greatest country ever in the world. To suffer this genocide and then the cold hand that awaited them in the US and then Cromwell's murderous regime and then to rise above all this, to be a land of forgiveness, prosperity and beauty, surely no country can match Ireland for this greatness. Famine people experienced hell in a paradise giving up all sorts of food produce, but not for the Irish. No fault of the fertile land. We know where the blame lies.

[@mfjdv2020]

Don't be excessive. We aren't the greatest country at all. And you got the chronology a bit wrong. Cromwell's genocide of the Irish came first, then an Gorta Mór 200 years later. And forget about forgiveness and prosperity. We don't forgive any of those English for what they did to us and still doing to us with their stupid and puerile brexit.

[@secallen]

The Jews can match it and more - they are even hated by many (but by no means all) Irish, people who rarely if ever meet a Jew.

[@freebeerfordworkers]

@@mfjdv2020 The great and good in Britain are Remainers which is why you do not hear much about this. Prior to EU rules on free movement of labour a UK fieldworker was paid £100 a day and seasonal labour was brought in on six-month visas from places like Morocco. Recruitment was by agencies and farmers had to provide accommodation and all support services for them. Crucially, they only admitted workers not families and dependants. The EU allowed free movement of labour, so the agricultural combines went out to Eastern Europe and to quote a Polish lady in the Guardian “Recruited people off the streets - adding “and when we got here, there was no housing or school places for us”. Why? Because they were/are paying them £40 a day! They took it because for six days in the UK a fieldworker gets £240 - in Romania a Doctor gets £300 a month! Also they were able to bring their families to the UK to benefit from better housing, education and health care. There was so much cheap labour from Eastern Europe, the seasonal agricultural scheme which had worked for over 50 years was unnecessary. British agricultural workers in East Anglia found their wages cut by 60%, which they would not and could not afford. They were short of houses and schools were filled up with the immigrants’ children, their doctors were having to employ up to 3 interpreters per surgery, costing the British health service £40 an hour each. To add insult to injury the BBC tells everyone they would rather live on benefits than work! They show "farmers" actually executives of the agricultural combines, standing in fields pleading “I need 1000 workers to harvest this crop and no British workers will do the job”. Quite true, but firstly farmers do not employ workers by the thousand, but by the dozen and secondly what the lying bastards would not say was that Brits could not take a 60% pay cut. Agricultural workers in East Anglia voted 75% in favour Brexit and never for one minute thought of Ireland or the Irish border. If you were in their situation how would you have voted?

[@michelslaura]

I am glad this is coming to light! This should have never happened! I now have a hunger to know what happened to my ancestors , and why , and who was responsible , why did the British hate the irish so much , and why queen Victoria the Famine Queen block any help from other countries, like Turkey and American Quakers ... so many questions 178 years later ... ..

[@janeyd5280]

LA ok I would also like to know the names of who was responsible for sending food out of Ireland when Irish people were starving.

[@EMMYK1916]

@@janeyd5280 3 words the british empire.

[@dbrunsrtrom]

@@janeyd5280 queen victoria

[@mitchamcommonfair9543]

She didn't block any aid to Ireland. That's a myth. She made a large donations herself amd encouraged others to as well

[@BushTelegraph]

Hello I'm a member of an aboriginal food program in Australia ... distribution is the hardest part.

[@mfjdv2020]

Workers Bush Telegraph, hi and welcome ... anyone from Australia is welcome

[@petemullineaux6269]

A moving and ultimately uplifting overview, so important that people remember and care and that we are alive to the injustices of the past and present. Well done Roj and Afri for all the brilliant work!

[@haimbenavraham1502]

Take our land take our food take our house. But you can't take our spirit. We are still standing.

[@mikekavanagh8952]

Excellent Presentation,

[@annemccarthy5073]

During the famine , the American Indians, sent the last off, their money to the irish. They were on their trail off, tears. I think that's why, the Irish people are loved everywhere. Godbless the American Indians. Their kindness, and thoughts for the Irish. Anne McCarthy

[@gradualdecay1040]

British govt donated £8million!

[@deaganachomarunacathasaigh4344]

​@@gradualdecay1040They orchestrated The Famine and caused the population to drop from 8 million to 3. The money "donated" went to The Royal Irish Constabulary, which was ran by The English

[@gradualdecay1040]

@@deaganachomarunacathasaigh4344 false.

[@deaganachomarunacathasaigh4344]

@@gradualdecay1040 Here we go. Ok, The British Crown sent over 8 million pounds in todays money, true. But is was not for the people, it was a touble ended blade as the money went to building workhouses, roads, railways and soup kitchens. To "Take The Soup" you had to take part in Protestant Sermons and use of the native language was banned. People who built roads and workhouses had a 40% mortality rate from exhaustion. The workhouses themselves wss ripe with something called The Fever or Typus and Relapsing Fever. This was the 2nd biggest killer of people particularly older people and young children. A Poor Tax was introduced, which led to half the country being evicted from their homes and die of exposure or the cold. Fishing and Hunting were banned for all Non-Anglo people and it was punishable by death if caught. Food like grain and meat were taken off the natives and sent to England and other countries like India where the English were at war. It was genocide, the English were bastards bqck then and did nothing in reality to stop people dying. Because they wanted to wipe the Irish people from the face of the Earth. War counldnt do it, Cromwell couldn't do it, but The Famine almost did

[@saffiyehbrandhijaffer-mcne2800]

Wow, these are my people. I live in America, I DNT know when my ancestors came to America, I DNT even Know my own people. My fathers last name is McNeill. I am German-Irish , alone, living among the Black American, who often mistake me as the descendent of the slave masters... But we were poor.

[@fabiorambaldi1716]

Thanks for this contribution, world MUST know what happened. May God bless and bring unto the Saints who suffered and died during this ghastly era.

[@brogmyster]

Calling it famine today is the ultimate betrayal of those who suffered terribly and made to perish unaided at that most dreadful time of persecution on the Irish race.

[@sonomawinetourdrivers3895]

In the book Trinity...Irish families were reduced to living in a ditch with a tarp roof after being evicted by their British Landlords....

[@keithkeegan9776]

Call it wat it was genocide. Rip to them all.

[@sa2ideas]

and dont forget ottoman ship send the food to Ireland get attack by England but lucky they escape to other harbor

[@Mark-ql2wp]

Of course, 1847 was the blackest of years. The world listened to the screams but, for diplomatic reasons, had to feign deafness, Ireland then being nestled snugly if unwillingly inside the embrace of the world’s great superpower, ‘the Empire on which the sun never sets’. No country wanted almighty Britain as an enemy. But one man could not stay silent. Khaleefah Abdul-Majid I, Sultan of an Ottoman Empire centuries past its own prime, was so moved by the Irish plight that he offered £10,000 (the equivalent today of around €1m) to help ease the suffering. Queen Victoria, upon learning of this, requested that he reduce his donation to a more modest £1,000, so as not to embarrass her own relatively meagre offering of £2,000. Reluctantly, the Sultan agreed, but bolstered his contribution by secretly sending five ships loaded with food. For the Sultan, “compelled by my religion to observe the laws of hospitality”, empathy overrode any risk. The British fleet attempted a blockade but, according to the story, the Turkish ships made it through the line, sailed up the Boyne and docked in Drogheda to unload their cargo of aid. Today, in that town, the event is hinted at with a plaque, unveiled in 1995. The inscription reads, “In remembrance and recognition of the generosity of the people of Turkey towards the people of Ireland.” Such teasing brevity marks a monumental happening.

[@mfjdv2020]

@@Mark-ql2wp Yes the Turks were the only Europeans who helped us. They are our friends forever.

[@mikequirk6879]

What?

[@giorgiosfondrati4263]

Not only the Ottoman Court in Istanbul tried to help. Also poor Swiss Mountain Peasants have been sending parts of their small grain production. Important food supply to the famine victims also had been sent from Russia and Austria-Hungry, but then mostly stolen and diverted by protestant help organizations, who had been feeding only converts to their confession.

[@mikequirk6879]

Dieing people had to sell their " immortal soul" for a couple of mouthfuls of mouldy gruel.

[@harrietstolp]

To escape to the so called new world only to find there was nothing new. The staggering grief came with us.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

@Weston Shortnacy A lot of Irish settled in the South. And fought for the Confederacy. My great grandmother had a sister who had emigrated to Savannah Georgia with her husband and two sons. The last letter the family received from her stated that her(new) country was now at war. (that would have been about 1860)

[@patrickbonney8082]

Remember the fallen but never forget the injustice.

[@c.b.s.3495]

Our brothers and sisters from El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras now walk thousands of miles only to be sent home or worse. The climate crisis will displace millions more in the coming year. Will countries with space and resources welcome them? Or will these people also become victims of false famines?

[@michaelodonnell824]

One memory of the Famine that lives on today is that proportionately per head of population, Ireland sends more to developing countries than any other. AFrI, who produced this video is only ONE of the many Charities founded and based in Ireland that helps in Famine scenarios. Also, the fact that Live Aid was founded and fronted by Irishman Bob Geldoff isn't a coincidence!

[@brandyschmidt7615]

I eat potatoes at about every meal I dont feel like my meal is complete with out them.

[@TrueBlueEG8]

How could humans do this to each other, the epitome of evil.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

Humans are not "humane"

[@michaelodonnell824]

The "Humans" who did do were and are English! And it was Not Only In Ireland. During English rule of India OVER 60 MILLION INDIANS were Starved to Death by English Policy! This was DELIBERATE BRITISH POLICY! As late as 1943, 4 years before eventual Indian Independence, Over 2 Million Indians were Starved to Death. Canadian, US and Australian grain ships, sent by their Governments to feed the Starving Millions, were refused permission to Land on DIRECT (and as the open record of the British Cabinet records prove RACIST) orders from Winston, the Butcher, Churchill! And they haven't changed.

[@TrueBlueEG8]

@@michaelodonnell824 Im an Irish man and I am only too well aware.

[@lisasmith516]

Coming to all... SCAMDEMIC, NOVEL "VIRUS" So Smart it stays away from AMERICAN GOV'T Authorized "Big Businesses" and "Chosen Cause RIOTERS." SICKENING WICKEDNESS.

[@secallen]

@@lisasmith516 The scamdemic is the latest attempt at grand dispossession. Who is standing up against it? As many as stood up against the Great Hunger.

[@marialuke3747]

So tragic history ,,, ,,,many millions people died!!!!

[@stuartkelly3106]

The woman is referring to GMOs by the way

[@OBrunoPedo]

It is indeed a shame what the British have done to a nation that still carries the inheritance of the Indo-European peoples/Celts. You are special. Don't you ever forget that.

[@user-on2ys9jr6t]

/ourgirl

[@Namratiug]

G E N O C I D E. 💀💯

[@seanhartnett79]

I am a decedent of Irish refugees who fled the famine.

[@blinkspacestudio8892]

Unthinkable suffering happened, most these days would not be able to dream of it.

[@dig1ify]

Genocide

[@seannamadra5675]

Dempsey said it all in the song Sam Jenkins.Cruelty personified Food Removal Regiments ffs? This can happen & is going on today.

[@jeanhunter4310]

This is another example of genocide ..

[@fiachoconnor]

@Peter Doyle even after Travelans words? I agree that it wasn't engineered but it was capitalised on to "remove surplus population" to avoid paying poverty tax. What would you call it? An accident? How would you let our past colonial masters off the hook for this one? I understand where you're coming from, i do, I want to know what you would call it? One crop failed. Potatoes. There was a lot more food here with people too impoverished to buy it. That, a famine does not make.

[@itstime6495]

@kbooax The Irish were free to sell their crops to who they wanted and did. Dont give us shit about genocide. As for Bengal famine do your fekkin home work !!

[@itstime6495]

@kbooax Wow, you really are stupid are nt you.

[@itstime6495]

@Loki &Loki So simple for you then. Be a racist and blame a people, rather than nature. Doh !!

[@mikequirk6879]

The tiger rages on....

[@zenjen1295]

My grandfather used to tell me that during the famine (forced starvation) groups of starving people would wander on foot for days to beg the rich English in there big houses because they had plenty... He also told me groups of protestants would set up soup kitchens but only feed someone if they denounced their catholic faith and convert. These were stories he heard as a kid in the 1930s and he said some of the families that converted were know as the ones who drank the soup... I don't think they meant it in a good way...

[@lapislazulii141]

There was plenty of food in Ireland -Daughter of Ireland

[@gradualdecay1040]

But the poorest still couldnt afford it.

[@kathjacquier3993]

I think it was a despicable act by the British Government, what they did on the Irish people. They could have helped the Irish people but they didn't give a stuff, the Irish people were a nothingness to the English. I was born in North Ireland and came to Australia when the trouble between the North and South flared up again. I didn't understand what it was all about, only what I had been told by friends at school, who knew very little about it themselves. My Country is Ireland, and always will be.

[@patriciaclarke5188]

There were many reasons for the Great famine, a dangerous reliance on one variety of potato, that was susceptible to blight, being the major reason, but politics, greed, indifference to the plight of the poor, from English and Irish landowners alike, all played their part, in the avoidable and unnecessary tragic events of 1845-1852.

[@lamonochromatique]

Never looked into this before, this is awful. I've always thought it was just a famine (like it's famously called). People like to make history sound better than it was. For goodness sake, look at Americans celebrating a mass genocide on thanksgiving.

[@brokenglassesshaner]

Cinedhíothú na hÉireann

[@biulaimh3097]

Really it was to do with people being kept off the land. Yes they were allowed to rent small plots but had the land been aportioned much more liberally, even on a rental basis from the English occupiers, the tennants could have grown a greater range of crops and a lot more food could have been produced. Some plots were as small as a quarter of an acre and some families had as many as 18 children. This island had far more acres than people even though the populalion was 8 million at the time. In other words, it should have been possible to rent 20 acres to a couple with 18 children. Because the people were kept off the land, I see the nature of the famine as being similar to the genocide in South West Africa in which people were kept away from water sources at gun point.

[@joyb5525]

Latest research shows 2 million, I'll repeat that 2 million people murdered. 2 million forced to leave between 1830-1880. From the 1600's Irish people forced into slavery anywhere the Empire could shift them. History is repeating itself now via displacement. We have to know our history to know who we are. Bas in Eireann 🧙

[@gradualdecay1040]

Everything you said is wrong.

[@TimBehan-ze7nx]

It was probably 5 million

[@stephenraddie2752]

Has anyone got information on what and where all the good crop's and animals were sent and sold to during that timeframe? There must be ship's manifests with signatures to prove.

[@sparkmanuk]

If Britain were not in Ireland the blight would still have killed off the crops.

[@coppermoth6069]

Nope, they would’ve still had their cattle, oats, bran, wheat, and a diversity of other crops

[@dig1ify]

The English empire is still operating in ireland taking land via banks

[@mfjdv2020]

And that brexit!

[@mikequirk6879]

Irelands pissing it's self now tho. The tiger rages on. Xxx

[@gianna5869]

why do they ruin documentaries with terrible loud music??

[@giorgiosfondrati4263]

It seems today politically incorrect talking about the not very christian role protestant organizations had been playing during the Irish tragedy, which was a real genocide not so far from the shoa in WW II. All over Europe, including Russia, grain and other foods had been collected and shipped in order to help the starving Irish. Distribution authority however had been granted by Queen Victoria - with probably best intentions - to protestant humanitarian organizations. Much of the goods however then had been deviated and sold on the free market. The rest was only given to people in need if converting to protestantism. The so called "suppers" had first to spit on pictures of the Virgin Mary or a crucifix and then to convert to the new confession. Only after that they had been nourished and saved from an inevitable death by the "benefactors". These are proven historic facts, however up to this date well hidden in Anglo-Saxon school books and media ! A shame !

[@Mscarolgoddard]

how could you forget it?

[@mfjdv2020]

We never shall. But the English have conveniently forgotten.

[@janeyd5280]

@@mfjdv2020 time to remind them?

[@irisheye7430]

It was a genocide, not a famine.

[@TICTACMANTIPS]

Theres a famine pit in mount jubilee hill near belmullet co mayo locals think.theres up to.100 children under 4yrs of age buried its a shame its just left there unmarked buried like dogs

[@denisegore1884]

What about the locals getting together and fundraising for a memorial?

[@aarongreenakacavemonster904]

This tha TV hunger

[@johnhopkins6260]

Arriving Shannon Airport ca. 5 Aug, 2019; Ann Glennon (nee Hopkins) died 1869, Cloontuskert Married Patrick Glennon. ggg grandfather Michael Laughlin Hopkins born ca. 1800, "Roscommon" IRL I believe Hopkins may originally hail from "Midlothian" Scotland; was there also a purge/persecution of Scottish Catholics? (that left for Ireland)... scattering of names/places... Timlin, Leitrim, Colandra, Tighe, Tipperary.... Laughlin arrive U.S. (New Orleans) ca. 1860... with several Ireland- born children in tow (wife, Bridgelina Tighe, b. ca. 1805 Colandra)... this is a "shot in the dark". FWIW, Michael William Hopkins b. ca. 1776, Sussex.

[@jenmb2679]

Cavendish?

[@Judgementday-qp1ol]

It was plain Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing. We had many British Unionists still left in Ireland after the War of Independence, and the Truth of this horror was kept out of the School Curriculum History, as to not offend these People.

[@christopherkearney3869]

Very good... But you need to move on quick time... You've got a new problem coming that may be just as bad or worse... Your about to be erased all together ..... From your friend in Birmingham 🇮🇪

[@1sirteddles]

PLEASE WATCH HERE ON KZbin "The truth about the Irish Genocide - 5.16 million deaths." Pls also note that UK PM Tony Blair apologised in 1997 for the way the English government of the day treated the Irish. Also, the "potato blight" fungus affected ALL potato crops across Europe. It was worse for the Irish because the English had forced to make the potato the staple crop for both humans and animals.

[@michaelodonnell824]

No. Trevalian's letters, journals and other documents make it clear that he saw the Potato Blight as a God Sent opportunity to "educate" the Irish. Furthermore, EVERY Country in Europe suffered from the Blight. Polish and Russian peasants were as dependant on the potato as were the Irish. The Welsh and Cornish miners were dependant on the potato and the Blight was just as rampant in England, Scotland and Wales as it was in Ireland. However, out of all the Countries in Europe, ONLY in Ireland was there Mass Starvation and as both the Parliamentary record of the time AND the newspapers make clear, THAT was what you English wanted!

[@gradualdecay1040]

​@@michaelodonnell824 what do you call state sponsored systemic mass murder of illegitimate new borns?

[@petermullen5319]

This

[@William91W]

What famine?

[@roberthiorns7584]

A rather well made video, if a little to fickle in places for me,and in terms of the Irish problem I'm often reminded of one of the greatest Englishman to date. None other than St Patrick himself who was kidnapped by Irish Slavers and made good Irishmen out some of them. Long before Norman/French, or English were invited in to sort out the Bully boy chieftains and Scandinavian problem out . You see no matter how you look at it or who you would like to blame. If you do not take heed and listen and learn from the good mother (Earth) and keep midering her to produce more than she can. You eventually wear her out. Here is a ditto is for Black Robe, Hell hath no fury, like a women scorned. My American friends would probably term it, not enough teats on the poor sow to go round. I guess it must be the Irish on my mothers side of genealogy that allows me to say it how it should be said. A lesson from that black book me thinks: Go forth and multiply! " I says I", and be reaped like locusts when there is nothing more to eat. For after shortage comes war, famine and sickness. Then guess what? the hole thing starts again. Commerce has not always been one way traffic to England/Wales and miss placed Irish/Saxons known as latterday Scots. I'm t'hnking now of how Grandfather as a boy would drive flocks of sheep/and cattle on foot out of the surrounding hills down to the docks at Liverpool for export, "surely not", these fine beats are not on there way to feed Irish faces. After all, is it not said, that the Irish are a forgotten race to Britton. Arh be dammed and blessing be on all good Irish for keeping alive the tradition of making good Porter, commonly known as Guinness. May your glass be ever full. A top of the day to all, it must be the Leprechaun's after silver in my pockets again.

[@mfjdv2020]

St Patrick was NOT an Englishman you silly bugger, in those blessed days there were no English. He was Romano-Brythonic from the island of Britain.

[@aTruster]

A famine is a Just and Upright Judgement from On High.

[@1sirteddles]

Sometimes these things are the wrath of God punishing people who refuse to repent of their sins. The Great Hunger, like COVID-19, was not an event precipitated by God.

[@aTruster]

@@1sirteddles Nothing has ever happened that was not predetermined by The Almighty. He is the wise and good First Cause.

[@margreedholm2580]

England has to carry that unforgivable nastyness ....SHAME SHAME AND SHAME

[@bettycastro835]

Genocide 😔😔🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@neilanthony9288]

This great crime against a great , proud and friendly people always has me fighting tears....never should this of happened.😐

[@patrickfitzgerald2052]

Silverback Bantu

[@gradualdecay1040]

No crime, no great people either. Stop listening to the bs.

[@Aircraftsystemst]

The rich are always getting richer, and the poor get poorer!!

[@gatewaysolo104]

My ancestry is Irish. All this talk about reparations from the english is absurd. Everyone involved has been dead for 150 years. I am not entitled to someone else's money simply because of things that happened 150 years ago.

[@dedraross7350]

REPENT, PEOPLE.

[@philipodowd227]

If u throw money at a peasant race and then throw people in then take the money away you can create a famine without blight.

[@joynkindness]

No ones fault that the potatoes got a fungus. I am part Irish. Our Irish ancestors taught dont be a victim of the past or live in the past.. live in the present.. Mm arr

[@stuartkelly3106]

Where was the Roman Catholic Church? Doors shut on them

[@brianbreen1026]

Stuart Kelly,,where indeed.Where were their soup kitchens (Quakers) .Where were their food ships(The Turks)??????The food ship was attacked by the British navy.

[@1sirteddles]

The English landlords bribed the Catholic hierarchy to turn a blind eye.

[@florenceobrien2822]

yes great starvation and UK never helped same on them

[@janverboven]

I can make a film like this with all the sad music about every people. And to the deniers, No, the rest of Britain was NOT exporting more food to other parts. 'Whether the British government could ever have dealt with a misfortune as tragic as the Great Famine, even if it had increased its spending and practiced the policies proposed by classical political economists such as Senior and Mill in a way recommended by them, remains to be analyzed. At least, however, I would like to conclude that the quotation of John Mitchel at the beginning of this paper was, favorably speaking, an overestimation of the influence of political economy, or putting it strongly, an undue accusation of it, and in normal terms, an exaggeration.' Only for people who seek facts.

[@janverboven]

@@martinecoyle8223 If I see around me I see you with your impotence of giving a decent answer. - I will not talk to you - good riddance.

[@janverboven]

@@martinecoyle8223 OK Martine - and now some science, history and facts please. The 'SHIT' answer is the most easy to give.

[@ssshadowwolf6762]

@@janverboven ok. You are wrong .

[@winningbigly9012]

The great diet

[@countcliff6079]

Actually it was the Irish themselves, the land-owners, mainly Catholic, who refused to lower the price of food or provide their own people with food.

[@yogapratama9584]

Potato only

[@itstime6495]

And the biggest food aid programme the world had ever seen at that time happened the next year ! But that ruins the 'self-pity' angle does nt it now?

[@joynkindness]

It was a fungus that killed the potatoes . Potatoes are a staple crop in the world even in 2020. Mm arr

[@johnsmith-bx4rn]

STFU... Mm arr

[@joynkindness]

@@johnsmith-bx4rn no I won't. Colleges have taught that for decades and those were colleges that weren't politically correct. M

[@grose2272]

It was Genocide!

[@TimBehan-ze7nx]

Royal dail eireann is still alive and well in Ireland...TRUTH IS HARD TO DIGEST.. IT WAS MURDER GENOCIDE And A Crime AGAINST HUMANITY BY THE BRITISH EMPIRE....THIS IS TRUTH NOT POLITICAL

[@JuliusCaesar888]

This is the first video on my YT recommendations after setting up my new living room set. Just posting here to talk some shit to see how comfortable it all is. If you read this comment, you are a homosexual.

[@EuroWarsOrg]

So all ye who are so willing to learn a lesson from this, please explain to me why you cry that a biodiversity of seeds and crops needs t be MAINTAINED, yet you readily promote the racemixing and destruction of diversity amongst humans? Once we are all brown skinned, black haired and brown eyed... what will happen if a blight arrives which kills off brown eyed humans only... Wake up and understand the lesson. Protect human dignity for all. Protect human diversity. Protect DNA heritage which contains that diversity. Multiculturalism destroys diversity... It is this very same thing, namely hegemony and imperialism (aka globalism) which deprived the irish in the famine, which will make mankind itself extinct.

[@mfjdv2020]

You're a nutter. Keep to the point. This is about an Gorta Mór, not your peculiar ideas about racial purity. Anyway it wouldn't be a bad thing if the human species went extinct, we've completely ruined this beautiful planet. And your idea of a virus killing off people with brown eyes is loopy. You obviously have no grasp whatever even of elementary biology.

[@mikequirk6879]

Bullshite.

[@baronsecuna]

I don’t know how the Irish put up with British rule anymore

[@gradualdecay1040]

They're not under British rule dipshit.