The Great Irish Famine - documentary (1996)

What is commonly known as Ireland's Great Famine of 1845-1849 was a catastrophic tragedy that has embedded itself in the island's consciousness. The crop collapse and the political decisions around it decimated the island's population changing the course of Irish history. World history was also affected by a resultant wave of mass migration that spread Irish culture abroad, particularly to the United States. This documentary aired on the A&E cable channel in 1996. A small portion is missing at the 1:12:58 point (it is marked by a program ID) but the documentary and its information are basically intact and it is well worth watching.

[@williamjohnmyers9442]

My Irish great grandfather fled the second famine in 1874 as an illiterate 19 year old. He came to Canada to swing a hammer building our railways. He married a woman who taught him to read and he became a better-paid locomotive driver. He and his wife had eight children and now hundreds of we decendants are spread across this vast country. They are policemen and soldiers, engineers, doctors, authors, and university professors. I sometimes wonder if as a young man he ever imagined this in his wildest dreams.

[@janemars5225]

Mine went to Wales and the mines and did similarly. Wishing your family well.

[@hannanolan8140]

I love this story, Hope is eternal. God set eternity in our hearts. ( quotation from the bible). Praise God. Thank you for your heart warming story.

[@melska]

I'm sure he didn't but he'd be very proud of his grandchildren doing so well in life.

[@barbarapalmer8224]

Love your story.william.what a great array of amazing people descended from your great grandfather

[@jody2873]

I expect he didn't, as he was a survivalist and simply doing his vocation under God to feed his family and be a good employee. What a thought though, huh? To see such a future from such a standpoint. Glad you're here 👍🇺🇸🇮🇪

[@norm1143]

I live in the West of Ireland it’s truly a beautiful place to live , I look out my windows today and can still see the ridges over the hills left behind from famine times. I always take a moment to think about those people starving out in the fields and those that left across the sea to escape the hunger and save their love ones . I guess it’s a miracle that my ancestors survived and I’m able to live here . God Bless all of them .

[@JRobbySh]

Life is tragic. Those who wish to blame others must realize that we all lack the wisdom we need to bring heaven to earth. We are all out of eden.

[@LadyIarConnacht]

@@JRobbySh An island nation can't starve without help, unless they ran out of fish. The Irish were purposely starved.

[@norm1143]

@I Em Hoo I Iz I'm so pleased he survived the journey and your proof he made it over the sea . I'm sure he is is dancing with joy looking down on you .

[@norm1143]

@ZiggyPlayed Guitaaar co Mayo .

[@norm1143]

@I Em Hoo I Iz many thousands of people perished from the famine Co Clare , today as you know millions of people visit the area , the Burren and the cliffs . You must be so proud of your family

[@benowen6750]

This should never be forgotten, I’m a proud Welshman and proud of the relationship we have with the Irish Nation. Ireland we salute you! 🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿❤️

[@billycaspersghost7528]

What relationship?

[@oo88oo]

I read The Great Hunger, a two part book written long ago about this, and it was so heartwrenching and horrible I couldn’t go on to part two.

[@benowen6750]

@@billycaspersghost7528 you will never know my friend what the Irish, Welsh or Scotland’s relationship is, sadly for you. 😉😎

[@benowen6750]

@Michael John Dennis that’s so nice of you Michael, I used to live in Holyhead a few years back, and ironically from there moved to Manchester for a few years, I’m now back home in a lovely place called Bala in North Wales, home is where the heart is as they say, hope you are all well and safe wherever you are. 🙏😉👍🇨🇮🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@Honorablebenaiaha]

I have no sympathy for white Supremacists.

[@cdfdesantis699]

This was a shameful horror. It's ANOTHER damn shame that this same horror is going on still, in countries all over the world in the 21st century.

[@mikeveis6393]

It's true. It's happening in North Korea.

[@cdfdesantis699]

@@mikeveis6393 Indeed, Kim Jong Un is more interested in feeding his nuclear weapons program than feeding his citizens. Thanks for your reply.

[@kaypaxian1]

As a scotsman, my heart goes out to the irish people, like the highland clearence, We should always remember.

[@canturgan]

People don't remember ww2 so it's a stretch to think they'd remember anything else.

[@tt-vu3oz]

NO SURRENDER...LIKE ME YOUR SCOTTISH AND BRITISH......AND ALWAYS WILL BE....WATP.

[@tt-vu3oz]

@@nepiris 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@Peggyanns]

I’m a decedent of both peoples. Every St. Patrick’s Day I proudly and sadly put on my gg grandmother’s Black Shawl. After my gg grandfather died of starvation, she walked out of Mayo with her children.

[@firewaterbydesign]

@@Peggyanns What an absolute TREASURE to have your gg grandmother's shawl!!! I am sure that she is looking down and smiling upon you, every single time that you wear it. Sending love, light and beautiful blessings to you and all.

[@noelgenoway9360]

My mother immigrated to Canada in the early 1950's. She never spoke much about her upbringing in Ireland. She was born in county Cavan. I still have her Irish Birth Certificate written in Gaeilge. She was a very very proud Irish Woman who came to Canada for a better life! Thanks Mom! I will always love you!!!

[@joanmcdermott6798]

Your mother sounds like a typical Irish lady. Despite the difficulties that the Irish had experienced the Irish have never been complainers. They took everything in their stride and they ran sewer always be offer it up. Most Americans won’t understand what this means. it means that the Irish were willing to offer their trials and tribulations up do the Lord as payment for any sins they might have committed. And what sins could they possibly have committed especially at that time?

[@joanmcdermott6798]

Correction: They took everything in their stride and their answer always was to offer it up.

[@karenwaddell9396]

You could get Irish citizenship if so desired.

[@treylyde999]

She’s in you

[@beautifulrose8619]

@@joanmcdermott6798 Glad you corrected. I read: they ran sewer over and over trying to make sense of it. LOL

[@692ALBANNACH]

Learned all about it from my Grandma who learned it from her Grandma who was there. The only one of her immediate family to survive !

[@NegativeAccelerate]

Apparently when we asked my great granny about it she burst into tears. So now we don’t know the story just that it was sad

[@edmundpower1250]

@@NegativeAcceleratewhat a strange name you have with all that's going in in Ukraine right now

[@NegativeAccelerate]

@@edmundpower1250 lol yeah I had the name before the Ukraine situation. Also, I think its important to make jokes about powerful ppl, especially if we dont like them. I think most ppl can assume I don't support putin based on the fact that putin hates gays and would be mortified if he had a twin that was openly gay.

[@edmundpower1250]

@@NegativeAccelerate here's one for you... What does putins gay twin say to his gay boyfriend when he bends over?

[@MaryanneBallenden]

My Ancestors emigrated to Australia in the 1850’s. This documentary is probably one of the saddest I have ever watched and it goes to show the neglect & abuse they must have suffered. They were Irish Catholics and remained so all their lives. The Great Famine and what happened should never be forgotten!

[@ronwhitehead3824]

Either should the dark ages where over a period of 1260 years the catholic church put millions to death just for as little as haveing a bible.

[@spamtownhamilton6200]

Similar to my ancestors, Irish Catholics that immigrated to the US in the 1850s ❤

[@timmolloy7574]

It was Genocide not famine. There was enough food in Ireland to feed the population 11 times over, which was exported at gunpoint by Britain.

[@noelgenoway9360]

Yes it was a Genocide of the Irish People!

[@Peggyanns]

I recommend the book ‘Famine’.

[@patti4785]

And that's the truth, genocide, buried!!

[@CanadianMonarchist]

The documentary seems to suggest that the trouble was that middle class Irish farmers made more money selling their food to Britain than helping their poorer counterparts.

[@hermanngoulhorn581]

@@CanadianMonarchist those who farmed the land may have been Irish but those who owned the land, called the shots and ultimately profited from the misery were British absentee landlords, learn the difference mongo.

[@rssmdb1]

The potato famine of the 1840s also killed many Scots whose diet was dependent on the same crop. Coupled with the Highland clearances, this brought about a mass exodus out of Scotland all throughout the 19th and early 20th century. Some of the poorest Irish only made it as far as Glasgow in their quest for a better life; they’d have found themselves worked to exhaustion in mills and victimised because of sectarianism. My 4 times great grandfather changed his name from Murphy to Murray when he arrived in Scotland from Ireland for that very reason. I’ve been researching my family tree and am amazed by what these people endured. Utter misery, grinding poverty; the most horrific standard of living.

[@TheTubeTube2]

So true, many of my near and distant Scottish relations found themselves in New Zealand.

[@patchgen]

why did he change his name?

[@rssmdb1]

@@patchgen in the west coast of Scotland, even to this day, there is a real divide between Catholics and Protestants. You only have to look at the vitriol between Rangers and Celtic fans to see the proof of that. During the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century, Glasgow was home to a booming ship building industry on the River Clyde and most of the yards were run by Protestants. They’d tend to prioritise their friends and fellow Freemasons for work and were known to operate an “Irish need not apply” policy. There was also a belief that The Irish were somehow racially inferior; leading scientists of the time spewed out garbage on atavism and phrenology to support this theory. I believe my ancestor changed his name to avoid being subjected to the xenophobic persecution that his fellow countrymen faced on leaving Ireland.

[@patchgen]

@@rssmdb1 I did not know that. I know in Massachusetts, USA that was a really big issue that the or one of the first Catholic Churches in Boston built a bomb shelter underneath it and used it to protect the Catholics from persecution. Decades later the Irish would control the State House for generations.

[@rssmdb1]

@@patchgen yes, unfortunately anti-Catholic, anti-Irish feelings were just as prevalent over the pond!

[@johnwright291]

I have a very good set of 1898 encyclopedias that are very detailed. The section on the Irish famine says that there was no shortage of food stuffs on the island and in fact they were exporting more food than at anytime in their history. It was a crime plain and simple.

[@annereidy7981]

Absolutely!

[@aimeekubik8803]

Of course it was. When Governments and political leanings don't care for those caught in these horrible situations, they should be thrown out of office.

[@theCosmicQueen]

you mean no shortage of crops.

[@johnwright291]

@@theCosmicQueen no my article in the 1898 encyclopedias says meat and even dairy products were plentiful. These encyclopedias are the best to be had at the time. They cover current events from the time in great detail. The situation with Armenians and Turks is covered.

[@joanmcdermott6798]

I heard that also. Only makes what happened to the Irish so much more atrocious. And heartbreaking.

[@suzannemcclure7412]

I just watched this Irish struggle documentary. Yes, Tim, you are correct. I was moved utterly & I'm so proud of my Irish heritage. I now understand why/how some of my relatives ended up in Canada & then Michigan. Thank you A&E. Suzanne McClure

[@kristinebailey6554]

Us Kelley's and Stitt's ended up in Michigan as well.

[@suzannemcclure7412]

My dad was born in Alpina Michigan.

[@Exotic3000]

I fell the same way Suzanne! 🇮🇪

[@nancysmith6685]

I think I must have Irish ancestors because a good part of our diet was potatoes.Beans and cornbread made up the rest along with tea to drink.

[@thecrafteaneighbor5177]

My Irish immigrants ended up in Jasper, IN & Newfoundland, Canada.

[@Itsik2]

It only goes to show how brave and tough our ancestors were. Thank you for the upload.

[@anthonyabbinanti5739]

The rich always prosper,while the poor struggle and die

[@TheBrettarcher]

@@anthonyabbinanti5739 andstill you voted trump hypocrite

[@xTruncz]

@@TheBrettarcher pathetic comment

[@CanadianMonarchist]

@@TheBrettarcher How do you know he voted for Trump?

[@chiefkaha5650]

@@anthonyabbinanti5739 that’s the way of life the strong survive while weak die.

[@SeldimSeen1]

My great great great grandfather William came from Donegal Ireland some how found his way to Toledo Ohio. His son William was born in 1848. It is now 2020 and it breaks my heart to think of what he must have gone through.

[@margaretohara7250]

People like your dear grandfather William helped build USA. God bless him and always hang a Christmas stocking for him. In Ireland, it was customary to put a big red candle in the window Christmas Eve with the front door slightly ajar because it was believed that deceased loved ones visited. My sibling ( favorite brother) passed suddenly in recent years) and Christmas Eve I feel he was present in my living room. I had the big red candle in the window and the front door a little open. It was just a feeling of his presence and it was in no way spooky. Yes, the poor Irish as well as most immigrants suffered silently - long way from familiar surroundings in the midst of hostile environments at times. Yes, there was a lot of discrimination back then. Seems like every race experiences same but they survived. The Pandemic now, unfortunately, gives people a glimpse of what the immigrant endures I.e. isolation, loneliness, etc. So, hopefully we will be a kinder people to one and all. God bless. Mairead, USA, Eire

[@SeldimSeen1]

@@margaretohara7250 Thank you for your kind words and sharing your traditions. I know your dearest brother is looking after you still.

[@margaretohara7250]

@@SeldimSeen1 thank you and hope you stay in touch with your roots.

[@ianreynolds8552]

Same here only my family headed for Britain don t forget they were an embarrassment for the government, not the British people ! Most of the brits did nt care who they worked with as long as they were ok. It was just a small top oligarchy of bastards who caused this genocide

[@marty49jm]

My third great-grandparents escaped starvation by immigration.

[@ronaldmacpherson3345]

My ancestors were Irish and how they overcame the famines is unrecorded and unknown . But that they survived is a testament to their courage and ability to overcome adversity and look forward into a new environment

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

We managed to survive somehow The tenacity of the human spirit is astounding

[@Cork8790]

I watched this documentary and I was heart broken. I’am so PROUD to be 1/2 Irish my mother was from there and her entire family is there. I’am so very sad that the Irish people and my ancestors had to go through this horrifying ordeal and it was preventable. Shameful how they all were treated. Erin Go Bragh….🇮🇪💚

[@henry6451]

Genocide of the Irish failed, genocide of Native American succeeded. Carried out with a considerable proportion of Irish participation.

[@henry6451]

@NEVERmoreLenoreEVER there civilisation has been destroyed and there land are 99% occupied. Evolution causes extinction, genocide will always leaves remnants.

[@henry6451]

@netloc0611 so you are not only supporting genocide but also promoting the idea of racial superioity. Hitler would have loved you.... I suppose you also think the palestinian have scurried into their ghetto? Does that then mean that you support hamas because they resisted?

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

I remember well the days when the A&E network featured this sort of programming before graduating to “Pimp my Ride” and “Dog the Bounty Hunter” marathons; as for the ‘History’ Channel...

[@miyojewoltsnasonth2159]

@Dorian Pawn Stars etc. deal with historical _items._ But it's been a long time since I've noticed a doc about history on History. It should be renamed "Tangential History." Funny thing is, TLC originally had good docs, hence its name once being true. Personally, I looked at BBC, then search for their videos. BBC still makes very good documentaries. PBS too. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/categories/documentaries/a-z en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:BBC_television_documentaries thetvdb.com/series/bbc-documentaries Happy Searching!

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

Miyojewolt S Nasonth - Very kind of you; thanks very much!

[@maureencarolan-dalton1563]

Collage artists

[@maureencarolan-dalton1563]

Collage artists

[@miyojewoltsnasonth2159]

@@dorianphilotheates3769 No problem at all ... if you haven't watched any BBC docs before, let me know your reaction to the first you watch. I'm curious to hear what you think.

[@gguzmanrico]

I have always felt a connection with Ireland. My wife and I visited the country in the summer of 2023 and loved every minute there. The connection to the land was profound. After this trip, I decided to get a DNA test and was shocked to find out I am 3% Irish! Logic tells me my Irish ancestor may have left the island during the Great Famine. I do not know if they went to Spain or straight to Mexico ,and that is really not relevant. What truly matters is that now I finally understand why I chose Ireland other than other countries as my first European destination. The connection was there at the genetic level, granular, indeleble, and deep. Thank you Ireland.

[@LAnt808]

Oh amazing lol, most English people have way more than 3% Irish ancestry, such as myself who has 7% and aligns more with an English identity. Stupid Americans and Canadians who think they have Irish ancestry have way more English ancestors than any other! Almost hijacking an entire culture.

[@Irishherbs]

Lovely brother.Now you know what you knew.I feel the same about Asturias..

[@LAnt808]

@iUsedToGETreportedALOT this is anecdotal and not based on generalisable empirical observable facts. The statistics outdo your anecdote by showing otherwise. Try again.

[@gguzmanrico]

@@Irishherbs Thank you. Have you visited Asturias?

[@laurasmith14]

3% Irish? So… not Irish. Maybe 1 ancestor from long long ago.

[@johndoyle2397]

I visited an Irish centre in Manchester. There was a statue to the choctaw chief who collected the money for famine relief

[@jamespower2984]

Great people the Choctaw and all native people who were also starving when the British killed most of the food (bison, buffalo)

[@susanmercurio1060]

So the "wild savages" of North America were less savage than the Tory and Whig parties of England.

[@marthasimons7940]

@@susanmercurio1060 Yes, around the world the British were considered as savages by Idigeonous People. They were thought to be unclean and ignorant, in Asia. North America, Australia, Africa.

[@theCosmicQueen]

@@jamespower2984 i think that was deer. It was just done for food for settlers. So the natives became farmers . Later it was some american hunters who killed off the buffalo for thier tongues as delicacies to sell. But only for a time, and it was the Great Plains Indians. They then got peace treaties and got farming supplies, animals and raised cattle instead.

[@jimwalsh8520]

@@jamespower2984 The British?? You have a warped idea of History you pathetic clown. the 13 British colonies were on the East Coast. Buffalo and Bison run in the mid west plains. Gosh the sheer ignorance also what about Andrew Jackson who signed a bill of active genocide that saw 12 million native americans murdered? Go back to school dunder head

[@jerryhayes2351]

I am of the Hayes clan of county cork. We must always be proud of who we are, and what we survived. Erin Go Bragh!

[@andrewdaly9503]

Cousin

[@erinhebblethwaite2452]

My Grandfather was Patrick Hayes and my Grandmother was Ellen Daly from County Cork and County Clare and I am so very proud of my Irish roots. Erin from South Africa ❤

[@beverlyhayshouston2770]

My great grandfather was Henry Hays from County Antrim. They are buried in Byhalia, Mississippi in the United States.

[@ryanhenne2092]

That’s neat, hope you have success with your family and life 🇮🇪

[@Danny-sr1eh]

I am also a hayes Hayes is an Anglo name our ancestors escaped England in the times of Oliver Cromwell to find refuge in a catholic country

[@tab9773]

I'd been reading "The Dead" by James Joyce. It mentioned a song called "The Lass of Aughrim". I found several versions of this song on KZbin. A very good one was by Ewan McGregor. Anyway, alongside the music video on KZbin, the right-hand column showed other videos related to Ireland and Irish people. One was a sad and deeply beautiful movie called Yesterday's Children, starring Jane Seymour. Next to that movie were thumbnails of other videos, including several documentaries of Irish history, this current video being among them. From reading one short story, I am now learning the particulars of the Irish Famine. Education is a wonderful lifelong journey with many interesting unexpected trails and winding side roads.

[@waynedoyle5070]

My great-great grandfather, Peter Doyle, left Ireland during the famine. Settled in Mason county, KY. Fought for the union during the Civil war. Buried in Shannon cemetery in Mason county.

[@DragRNfly]

Can I ask your age? Because I think my Great-Great Grandfather was an Irish orphan and adopted by a German family who brought him to America and settled in Missouri. My grandpa was born in 1919 so his father would have been born in the late 1800s and his father the Irish orphan most likely was alive during the potato famine dont you think? That's my guess. I'll never really know though only that he was Irish and took the German family name and that we mistakenly thought we were German when in reality we were Irish. Now I'm interested in knowing them because they were the people who made my existence possible. I wish I knew their names.

[@jimwalsh8520]

He would have been great 3 times over and not twice unless you are 100

[@Snappypantsdance]

Wayne Doyle- what a neat heritage you have. We too came from Ireland and started out in KY. After having lived all over for 3 generations, we are settling back in TN near where we started. I believe we were all drawn back. Blessings- Denise Murphy-Foster

[@jimwalsh8520]

@@Snappypantsdance No you did not! Your surname is English for a start. What is wrong with you plastic micks? Why this pathetic desire to be irish when, you heritage would say you are British. Frankly, the East coast plastics are tedious, they funded NORAID, money sent to terrorists who murdered 4000 innocent people, are you proud of that?

[@kentclark6420]

Poor guy went from the frying pan to the fire. What a world!

[@CissyBrazil]

They were a tough people. God bless them.

[@goldielocks2621]

They were desperate people.

[@cerveza2297]

Peasant stock my father called us. Irish American.

[@annbush1826]

Look at the names of those who died on 9-11. Irish-American firefighters, police, and other employees of the city of New York. The photo of the young fireman climbing UP the stairs past crowds going down that staircase in the World Trade Center before it collapaed. My daughter lost 29 friends that day.

[@diyaroy5059]

@@annbush1826 were these the mostly Irish Men who were deployed on Vietnam war and Afghan War and lest to die by US govt.

[@boundariessetinstone5893]

@@diyaroy5059 My Irish Fathera brothers all went smh my dad couldn’t cause he was deaf in one ear.

[@wk1810]

My paternal grandparents came to Canada in the late 1800's. My father was so proud of his Irish heritage!

[@aytidaatpug812]

Well it's time for you to go back then

[@canturgan]

I visited Ireland last year and the old abandoned cottages are numerous and scattered all over the countryside. There are also many burial pits containing the remains of thousands of starvation victims. Another historical feature in plain site are the 'famine roads', these are perfectly straight roads going from nowhere, to nowhere, built by the starving as the only way to survive. They were only fed if they worked, and that included mothers with children. This was by order of the Government.

[@aimeekubik8803]

When Governments suck, they need to go. I had no idea that all this evidence is still in place today.

[@aimeekubik8803]

look at our food supply chains now. We will have mass starvation because of war, greed, and climate change. To those of you wanting children, think again. Do you really want these innocents to enter a World where food is scarce, and clean, potable water will be even more scarce? I am guessing that the next ten years, if we have ten years, will usher in an Earth that is not compatible with human life. Tend to the little ones here, already suffering, and do not add to the anguish of Future generations. To the elderly: you are Lucky, in that your time is short. Bon voyage to a better place and Time.

[@hermanngoulhorn581]

@@aimeekubik8803 I'll take that as a promise you never have nor ever will breed.

[@ruthmaryrose]

@@aimeekubik8803 If there are no young people who will rebuild civilization when we have destroyed this one? We are living in the most advanced civilization of all time and yet people are not happy. For generations people have been refusing to have children so they can pursue pleasure and what has it gotten them? it’s not the people living in in poverty that are committing suicide it’s the people with every modern convenience and pleasure. The specter of climate change is a bogeyman invented to give us something to worry about. The trillions of dollars being spent to supposedly stave off this bogeyman could bring relief to all poverty stricken people in the world. There’s no way the people carrying on about climate change truly care about anyone except themselves. The climate changes four times every year; spring, summer, autumn and winter and people learn to adapt. We have minds. We can predict the weather and adjust accordingly. This is an imperfect world but we have the power to make it better. Consider all the people who lived before us that have helped make all the conveniences that make life easy for us and be grateful rather than complain that things are not perfect. We also have the power to destroy everything and that seems to be what we are bent on doing now.

[@aimeekubik8803]

@@ruthmaryrose You are a person without a scientific mind. You would ignore the laws of physics and science. You prefer a fairy tale world. Climate Change is real. The summers are getter hotter than they haven't been, the hurricanes are more destructive, weather patterns are unpredictable. The Earth is changing, and mother nature is truly mad at her human residents. You speak of people living in poverty as somehow happy with their life, as opposed to what? Hunger hurts, lack of shelter kills, ignorance does not bring Bliss. We should all, according to our ability, ensure that no human being on this planet is sans food, shelter and education. Unfortunately human beings, including the church going ones, are more interested in accumulating wealth than sharing it. The dust we were molded from was defective. Thank you for your take on life. I appreciate your view points, and hope that the scientific community is wrong about climate change. In any event, it really is too late to do anything about it, so I support your suggestions about using the monies donated trying to abate a situation that has gone far beyond our control, toward the ills

[@davidwilliams1396]

That was fascinating and disturbing at once. Love the old style presentation without corny cgi or interviews with people who sound more like motivational speakers. Wish they'd taught us this at secondary school. Great video.

[@vintagebroadcastingsystem8028]

Thank you for the comment. We posted it for reasons that include raising awareness of this chapter in Irish history that many people are unaware of. We hope you will like and share it and even subscribe if you choose. Thanks again!

[@jimwalsh8520]

Most of this is not based on fact. Rather anecdote and myth.

[@hermanngoulhorn581]

@@jimwalsh8520 keep.saying it and you'll eventually believe it you old crank.

[@jimwalsh8520]

@@hermanngoulhorn581 It is not a case of believing sonny, it is historical fact, something which the micks and US plastics have but a fleeting acquaintance

[@hermanngoulhorn581]

@@jimwalsh8520 dunno why you keep calling me sonny like some sort of pedo - But I've told you before "that which is asserted without evidence shall be dismissed without evidence".

[@giggiddy]

Never forget about this horrific tragedy in history. Never Forget!

[@RosieAleman1]

My 3rd great grandfather landed in New York from County Clare in 1850. He fought for the Union in the Civil War. He had 12 children and his descendants pepper the USA.

[@rosannepaul3663]

my 3rd great grandparents were Pennsylvania/New Jersey settlers from Mayo and Cork. Somehow they got to Ohio

[@spacecowgurl57]

Yes, as my ancestors landed in New Jersey but were miners and farmers headed to Kentucky some staying in the east. My heritage as I knew my great Grandparents who told me stories of the persecution and to be proud. The last name was mispronounced as ,'McQuinn ' but its actually, "McQueen " .

[@spacecowgurl57]

@@rosannepaul3663 Mine also from New Jersey where some stayed, also Kentucky and Ohio. Sprinkle to the Carolinas.

[@jimwalsh8520]

The Irish Brigade went on to fight with Mexico during the war with the US

[@hermanngoulhorn581]

@@jimwalsh8520 wow, look who learned to use Google, well done champ!!

[@robbiejenkins4379]

My heart goes out to the Irish people in those days, my Great Grandfather was from Belfast Ireland and migrated to New Zealand, apparently he was very young, I believe he was 16yrs old, I believe he came to NZ with the British army, maybe joining the army was his way of leaving Ireland and to make a new start in NZ. He met my Great Grandmother, a Maori lady the indigenous people of NZ, they married and had 11 children, his name was John Moore, that must have been in the 1800's, NZ was being Colonized by the British in those days as well, I hope my Great Grandfather found happiness, I felt so sad for my Great Grandfather and wondered did he go through this why he left Ireland, I have been watching a lot of Irish Documentaries, to help me understand why my Great Grandfather left Ireland, wow we have been through alot, but we survived. God bless Ireland and its people.

[@jeaniehorton5964]

I learned that my great grandfather immigrated from Ireland to North Carolina. My father’s people are Irish as well. Though not many stories were repeated to me when l watched this documentary it broke my heart thinking my relatives and so many other families were so mistreated and abused.

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

You got that completely correct, mistreated and abused. by a superpower of the time, Ireland nearest neighbor

[@cincoy3679]

And most Irish where slaves in the USA. You need to learn about that too.

[@jeaniehorton5964]

@@cincoy3679 l have heard and read about the hatred of the Irish when they came to America. Heartbreaking .

[@cincoy3679]

@@jeaniehorton5964 No really they where slaves ..you don’t have to believe me. But it’s true.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@cincoy3679Indentured servants perhaps but not slaves.

[@pbohearn]

Excellent documentary, as an Irish American I see the strength of my ancestors

[@margaretohara7250]

The history of Ireland is a recipe for survival. My dad fought for its freedom, yet he was never bitter toward the party responsible. He always composed and recited poetry and had a keen interest in world affairs. Yes, majority of family had to go to USA to earn a living. God bless USA for opportunity. We should always be kind to people who have to leave their homeland.

[@TinaButcher-r6m]

The passage from Ireland to the US/Canada/Australia/NZ during these times was a hardship we cannot imagine. Those that emigrated and survived were made of tough stuff and it's why their descendants all over the world are the best survivors and thrivers

[@googlethis313]

My my my! My ancestors were a hardworking lot! Thanks to your fortitude and survival, I am here today with my own little branch on a very hearty family tree. Sometimes, hearing what your ancestors went through so that You are alive today, truly puts your life into perspective. Thank you great great grandfather and great great grandmother for passing along your strength, and persistence to not give up during adversity. Thank you for instilling those qualities into our/my ancestors. Your courage as you survived this famine showed in my Mother. She being the 4rth eldest of 19 children was the strongest and most loving woman I’ve ever been blessed to call Mother and friend later in life; may she rest in peace. May God bless us all to have the opportunity to learn from our ancestors. We have plenty for all. Especially when compared to what our forefathers suffered. Let us live in a state of gratitude for their sacrifice and knowledge learned through adversity. I pray I’ve raised my own in a way that makes you feel and know your suffering serves as a guide; even till this very day. Thank you. ❤️, A Dorothy In Kansas

[@Historyfreak-f7o]

Google This ..........Also an Irish descendent with a rich history and also from Kansas! God Bless!

[@francisdoran8992]

Very nice words . And the Brits wonder why we have no love for them in Ireland

[@francisdoran8992]

@Para Zyte the green ones

[@francisdoran8992]

@Katherine Harvey yeah it got nothing better to do.

[@francisdoran8992]

@Para Zyte aye she must of started to agree with me.

[@Oscarhobbit]

I read about some of the topics covered in this documentry at university. What was not mentioned was that soupers was only half the story. The term Souper was often followed by jumber. Many people would convert during the week, but jump back to their on place of worship on Sunday. Rev. Robert Trail was also a doctor and died after visiting a cabin of a sick family. There was also a third people in Ireland whos story is untold. Many poor Presbyterian desenters also starved. This was not a Protestant Catholic issue, but rich aginst the poor one. The Goverment looked down on all poor, to be poor was viewed as a moral issue. Nothing has changed much! This is a very sad chapter of Irish history.

[@dbfisher5555]

A religious organization that requires people to convert to get food are doing the devils work

[@Oscarhobbit]

@@dbfisher5555 I think the Bible is very clear. Those who profess to be Christian are called to love the poor and the widow, help those in need, give food to the hungry, water to the thirsty, and love others as we love ourselves. Jesus said himself that when we help others it is as if we helped him personally. There was a disturbing mindset among the middling and upper orders in c18 and c19. Many of these people believed that poverty was caused by a lack of moral fiber. They knew nothing of DNA, but we today would say it was part of their DNA. We see this thinking migrate into social Darwinism and eugenics. When the starving arrived in America they encountered similar treatment from the established Protestant churches. They sought to provide for the soul before feeding the starving. Local parish priests in the US were more hands on. They lived and worked among the poor. For many Catholics poverty brought people closer to Christ. Christ had a closer afection for the poor. Personally, I beleve that it would have been better to feed and love the starving. I doing so these soup kitchens would has shown Christ love which in turn may have led to real conversions.

[@Oscarhobbit]

@Emori100 Just ignore this person. Perhap they will go away and get a life. If the person keeps troubing you report them to youtube.

[@Oscarhobbit]

@Emori100 I think that this person may have changed her name. I had issues too. I love history, but the potato famine is still a political issue in Ireland. Many have turned it into an anti-English issue. They have made it into an Englan V Irish issue. The English are guilty of much opression in Ireland, but history is full of shades of grey and not black and white. Some people have never read a book in their life and are an expert on the famine because their grandparents told them story once. The Famine Village in Co. Donegal is one such example. If it gets personal report it, or ignor it. I am sorry that I commented on this thread because it is full of troles and sectarianism.....

[@Oscarhobbit]

@Emori100 I ended reporting some of the posts to KZbin as they were sectrian. The ironic thing is that I am Irish. I also was a professional mediator during the Northern Ireland conflict and now I read History at university and Lecture on early modern and c19 American history (American Civil War) and I and I was involved in Iiving history where I gave talks to the public. Perhaps you could check out my KZbin channel.

[@marysmith2261]

The things we may never know. This is one story I didn’t know about. The schools I attended kept this story in the dark. Thank you for bringing this to our attention. It was very educational and you presented it well.

[@newpham957]

True, I'm nearly 40 just hearing about the details of this. Definitely further evidence of a theme of the English behaviour outside of their shores. Imagine a whole population being systematically starved and knowingly going along with it.

[@loneyman-o6p]

Hello, as a Turkish and Ottoman historian, I write the truth of the story based on concise Ottoman records. The period when the Irish people were deliberately left to genocide by England. The Ottomans were not interested in this at first. They did not want to confront the British and Ireland was not a Muslim country. At that time, the Ottomans were busy suppressing the rebellions in the conquered regions. There was also a power struggle within the palace. Celtic soldiers and officers serving in the Ottoman Empire did not remain silent any longer about the genocide committed in Ireland and reported this situation harshly to the sultan. The Sultan had to accept the offer of help. In addition, Celtic people living in Anatolia also supported the aid campaign. It is estimated that the Celtic population living in Anatolia today is 9 million. When the Ottoman Empire ended, the Celts living in Anatolia were not shown as a minority at the Lausanne meeting of the newly established Turkish state because they lived in a Muslim state. When you go to Anatolia, you can see people with red hair and green and blue eyes. Celts living in Turkey are educated, polite and mostly atheist. In my opinion, those who helped you are the Celts living in Anatolia. What I said is available in official documents. Thank you.

[@Max-trek]

From Kilrush: the ELLEN for Bristol; the CHARLES G. FRYER and MARY ELLIOTT for London. This one-day removal was of 550 tons of County Clare's oats and 15 tons of its barley. From Tralee: the JOHN ST. BARBE, CLAUDIA and QUEEN for London; the SPOKESMAN for Liverpool. This one-day removal was of 711 tons of Kerry's oats and 118 tons of its barley. From Galway: the MARY, VICTORIA, and DILIGENCE for London; the SWAN and UNION for Limerick (probably for transshipment to England). This one-day removal was of 60 sacks of Co. Galway's flour; 30 sacks and 292 tons of its oatmeal; 294 tons of its oats; and 140 tons of its miscellaneous provisions (foodstuffs). British soldiers forcibly removed it from its starving Limerick, Clare, Kerry and Galway producers.

[@venus_envy]

Yes, and for further evidence that there was no famine (as a famine implies a lack of food and there clearly was plenty), look to the massive English forces stationed in Ireland, did any of them starve to death? No? Oh, and what a about horses, was there a massive die-off of horses in Ireland? Oh, what do you now? There was not. This a was a deliberate starvation of the Irish, not a famine.

[@CanadianMonarchist]

The British didn’t steal anything; the middle class Irish farmers made more money selling their produce to the British.

[@Max-trek]

@@CanadianMonarchist yea yeah

[@WJFK480]

One of my 2nd great grandfathers came to NY from Tipperary in 1851, but for some reason only stayed a year or two before returning, and my other 2nd great grandparents came to NY from Kerry about 1858, it seems like they got married and left Ireland soon after. Others came later from Ireland. Great documentary, it helped me understand a little bit more about my ancestors.

[@Briganteman]

My great great grandmother left County Antrim, Ireland around 1850 to escape the famine and settled in Manchester.

[@flowerchild7820]

My family fled the famine I can’t imagine how horrible everything was for the Irish people

[@shutup.commer]

Ditto

[@stefanpaul842]

The IRISH PEOPLE is great and their terrible experience GOD put them to go throughout hystory strenghtem them being united.😍😍😍😍

[@beeohel6787]

@@stefanpaul842 thanks very much Sending you love and happiness from Ireland 🇮🇪💚🍀😘

[@cindybaker4922]

😪

[@marymcsherry1965]

The Famine led the way for a real Irish revolution. It was a step too far on top of hundreds of years of humiliation. My grandmother used to tell me stories that her great grandmother had told her, from that period. It's deep in the Irish psyche for many

[@shaunmcgee4204]

It’s often overlooked, but the British upper class hold the English working class in contempt too. George Orwell’s, “The Road To Wigan Pier” highlights this in detail. England’s poor were also starving to death and living (dying) in the most appalling conditions. The British upper class were shitting on everybody else and living in luxury. They still are.

[@blanchecarte782]

Well said yet they the Elites and Governments still manage to escape by having the people own their Attrocities that don't belong on their shoulders to begin with.Wish people would wake up to this such sneaky snakes they truly are!

[@timmolloy7574]

Well said, look at the conditions of say the east end of London during this period and the way the working class lived in slums and squalor, malnourished while the royals and upper class lived a life of luxury. They had workhouses in England as well, although obviously it was not to the same degree.

[@timmolloy7574]

There was no famine, it was forced starvation to try and wipe out the Irish. It was a Genocide not a famine. Huge shiploads of food were taken out of Ireland every day at gunpoint. There was enough food in Ireland at the time to feed the population 11 times over.

[@CanadianMonarchist]

@@timmolloy7574 The British paid middle class Irish farmers for the food.

[@boundariessetinstone5893]

Hmmm sounds like America guess they haven’t changed.

[@americana1234]

‘The great hunger’ is the most comprehensive history book about the Irish famine

[@margaretohara7250]

Yes, Ireland's history is quite the eye opener - my poor dad lived through a lot of it. He remained there and despite what he experienced, he was never bitter and never filled his family with hatred toward anyone. Yes, he fought for Ireland's freedom in the 1900's as a young man and then later in life he married mom who was a beauty inside and out. All of their children had to leave to earn a living in USA/elsewhere. They sent us into the world with good values and open minds, free and clear of prejudices and bigotry. Yes, Ireland is free today but we owe a lot of our freedoms to people like my dad who spent his youth fighting for such freedoms. They were very honorable people not motivated by money - just simple decent values of equality, justice and freedom. They are long gone but left quite an impact.

[@starofdavid9919]

@@margaretohara7250 God bless them all.

[@margaretohara7250]

@@starofdavid9919 bless you too this beautiful Easter Sunday.

[@miakeogh6844]

Please say genocide underline genocide the only crop that failed was the potato crop

[@Kampup]

nope! here is why we really starved, the british stole out food. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHyrYqmYoZaVZ8k

[@debbievanbrunning4802]

One of the saddest documentaries i've ever watched! It does make me appreciate how brave my ancestors we're! God Bless the Irish!

[@georgehetty7857]

Brave or very unfortunate?

[@joprocter4573]

Chinese rice Egyptian potato Irish fish of all kinds

[@nancyquinn522]

@@georgehetty7857 Brave. They fought for their independence in 1916, overthrowing British rule. Ireland Forever-

[@georgehetty7857]

@@nancyquinn522 Ah , quite a different subject!

[@lichotropical3350]

@@nancyquinn522 Irlanda para siempre!!!

[@faithrada]

Man's inhumanity to man knows no bounds.

[@lemostjoyousrenegade]

And it's sickening.

[@anthonytindle5758]

Well as the saying goes dont put your potatoes all in one field especially if the field belongs to a man named blight.

[@kkandsims4612]

Man is mans worst enemy it’s sad

[@donaldmacdonald4901]

It’s human nature, the strong prey on the weak and that won’t change.

[@DubSun33]

It boils my blood when I see the word 'famine' associated with what happened in the 1840's in Ireland. 100's of thousands of tonnes of food were exported from Ireland for profit right throughout the period of most dire hunger.

[@timmolloy7574]

Exactly it was a GENOCIDE against the Irish people.

[@hakapeszimaki8369]

Brits did it with India as well between 1942-47 approx 6 millions of Indians died in famine. During British rule they estimate it around 32 millions died in India, all starved to death. London eat everything.

[@CanadianMonarchist]

That was because middle class Irish farmers made more money selling food to the British.

[@DubSun33]

@@CanadianMonarchist What a useless piece of excrement you are, regurgitating the putrid propaganda of those too ashamed to live up to their past actions. Monsters made monstrous by their greed and inhumanity. Keep your lies and feed on them yourself, just in case you wake up one day and see what a stain you've become.

[@hermanngoulhorn581]

@@CanadianMonarchist oh look, it's dopey hole back again, repeating itself like an autistic parrot.

[@jamesbradshaw3389]

It always brings tears to my eyes when I hear or read about the famine also the brutality of our nearest and dearest neighbor Britain/ England, they killed, hey stole, they plundered, they abused, they left hungry people to starve, deep shame of the British people in power at that time for their crimes committed on the Irish, I know that there were many good British English people who did they best to help. In our family, we have 2 of the large old cooking pots that were used in the poor house to make a watery soup or cook some Indian grain for the starving people. I have a brother who is a missionary priest who works with some of the poorest people in the world in Africa, he often refers to the Great Irish Famine when talking about his people, he feels that it is his duty to help those people have a better life by education, providing some health care and teaching better farming ways also bringing them hope in God above.

[@anniebee2962]

There was NO famine in Ireland, yes we had a potato blight, but that wasn’t the only crop grown in the fertile lands. Travalian exported our crops to Britain and starved the irish population.

[@cedricsmith8188]

I am glad you told me that, that explains more to me. I have Irish ancestors. And that is sad those roman British people starved the Irish people, land of Heroes.❤

[@NiSiochainGanSaoirse]

EXACTLY SISTER!!! It was NO famine. It was cold blooded genocide, which the people around my hometown of Rostrevor, in the Mourne Mountain, refuse to call a famine. We call it 'an t-acras.' The hunger. we irish HAVENT forgotten that incredibly important distinction. God bless. Slainte.

[@sidmac50]

That is why the term "the Great Hunger" is more fitting

[@jacmlondon]

@@NiSiochainGanSaoirse Never forget, the parallels with today are chilling!

[@wariaragachie8237]

@@sidmac50 ⁶

[@arladicey]

My ancestry is over 1/3 Irish, and I have felt that connection deeply all of my life. I was blessed enough to be able to visit Ireland over a decade ago; I honestly felt as if I had come home for a visit after a lifetime away. I saw some of those tumbledown stone cottages for myself, and felt a deep sadness in my heart for all those who died or were driven out of their homeland by the Great Famine. It should never have happened. Very good documentary.

[@malachytully5469]

Genocide it was!

[@balansheppard3336]

Throughout the famine, the land owners exported wheat.

[@theburnhams2925]

One of earth's more outstanding examples of the danger(s) of mono-cropping. There is strength and resilience in diversity of agriculture. The humble potato was the dominant staple of the Irish diet. When the potato blight struck, it spread widely with a savage intensity, causing famine in the land. Mono-cropping, while still a "bad idea" now presents fewer of the dangers of the past since resistant cultivars and chemical controls have been developed. But the danger, while reduced, is present still.

[@Smiler2724]

You have forget that the ottoman turks save Ireland from the famine

[@heatherk8931]

Arla, isn't it amazing, that connection to your family's homeland? I knew what you felt and meant. I feel a listlessness when thinking of my own beloved Canada. My dad moved us away from 100% of our family, maternal and paternal. Its truly an empty feeling and hatred for that decision. There is not really a deep connection to anyone on this planet save the immediate family and my own daughter who moved 3 days drive for the service.

[@wendywollington3544]

I feel such a lot of anger about the way these lovely Irish people were treated. I read a book about this famine when in my teens. The book was called Famine by Liam O’Flaherty. It made me cry. The British government were so negligent then, in helping these unfortunate people. Charles Trevelyn was hard hearted and indifferent to them. Thank God for those wonderful people who did help them. The work houses were the same in Britain, separating all families, with very little food. A miserable existence indeed.

[@timmolloy7574]

It was actually a genocide not a famine. There was enough food in Ireland to feed the Irish population 11 times over at the time, the English army exported it out of Ireland at gunpoint.

[@CanadianMonarchist]

@@timmolloy7574 The British didn’t steal it; they bought it from middle class Irish farmers.

[@jj591]

​​@@timmolloy7574ritish army not English army.

[@maryjeanjones7569]

Many Irish arrived in Montreal due to the Potato famine in Ireland. The many that died on ships during the Atlantic crossings, were buried on an island outside of Montreal.

[@billygray6757]

There was plenty of food but the British kept it and sold it abroad and let the Irish people starve

[@brianbreen1026]

@Para Zyte Para Zyte there was no mass starvation in Britain and Europe ,They could eat other foods they grew.The Irish were dependent on one food source the potato,when that failed the Irish were condemned to die. Ask your Mummy about the penal laws. The English presence in Ireland has been nothing short of disastrous. This is a very hurtful time in the Irish mindset..We feel great anguish for our people.

[@annmuller8609]

@@brianbreen1026 Please don't waste your energy on this parazyte. He/she is aggravating 'for the sake of it'. RIP Michael Collins.

[@annmuller8609]

In Cornwall we've always had to put up with bad treatment by Westminster. Read 'The Killing of Cornwall' by Kevin Cahill.

[@thomasweldon9325]

@Para Zyte haha you seem to know alot about England for an Irish man, you mong, the English drained Ireland like it did India and other countries it invaded, Liverpool might not be big on your German royal families agenda but they weren't robbed of their lives

[@thomasweldon9325]

@Para Zyte you're actually putting blame on the ottoman, you are one ignorant clown, this is world history, fact, but of course you know better than historian's around the world

[@slappymcbutterballs7326]

Irish/Scottish American....my grandmother always made sure we knew where we came from, knew these stories well, and she instilled a strong sense of pride in my siblings and I. Went to Ireland a few years back, saw the potato huts, it hurt to see, but was so proud of my ancestors for never giving up, and eventually making their way to America.

[@chasedwar2]

But they did give up and left for America. I don’t blame them, it was a wretched existence. The laws of the land rule. The land can only support so many people.

[@slappymcbutterballs7326]

@@chasedwar2 you win idiotic internet comment of the day...congrats.

[@markpitts8936]

No such thing as an Irish/Scottish American. You like a Whisky with your Guinness?

[@slappymcbutterballs7326]

@@markpitts8936 Sure dummy.

[@markpitts8936]

@@slappymcbutterballs7326 yes I’m sure you mug

[@sydhughes6041]

I am Welsh born,but on researching my family history my family originated in Ireland and moved over to the Welsh valleys around 1850 to work in the South Wales coal mines.

[@mattkaustickomments]

The same is true for my Welsh grandmother’s family. I’m not certain when they came over, but most likely during the famine.

[@suek.3448]

So sad! Every country has it's deep pain! I can't imagine!

[@stephenkolarac5305]

What a wonderful and well crafted documentary! Very informative. Thank you ever so much for posting it!

[@GeordieHandle]

Ireland was Britain's Ukraine basically.

[@jennyjen7000]

Exactly what I was thinking too.

[@jennyjen7000]

@@ernestscribbler2294 that's good. Unfortunately nobody talks about it and it's not taught in schools here. Almost everyone I know has never heard of it. It's sad.

[@jesusespinoza8052]

God bless the Irish people! Love from Spain.

[@Honorablebenaiaha]

They are racists.

[@OndaBoosters]

@@Honorablebenaiaha They hate their own more.

[@tobiasmcintyre7777]

@@Honorablebenaiaha Who are you on about

[@tobiasmcintyre7777]

@@OndaBoosters who hates who

[@michaeldunn8972]

@@Honorablebenaiaha Ya But we are the cool kind of racists "Thats my Black" "Thats my Chinese" "Thats My Slav" "Thats My Arab".

[@57113]

One of the saddest documentary I have watched. However, my ancestors from Wales and Scotland, I have no doubt we have Irish ancestry as well. I knew of the potato famine and felt I needed to learn all the issues that caused such horrendous conditions forced upon the Irish. Thank you for this documentary. ❤ to the Irish people who are so warm and friendly and so welcoming to tourists. 😊

[@altheacraig2904]

My history on my mom's side is the Cochrans from Armauge County Ireland, the Thains from Banffshire, the Sims and Dicks from Perthshire Scottland. Some day I hope to be able to go to all 3 places to see if I can find "families" that are related to me! 🥰🥰🥰

[@Willsy85]

@@altheacraig2904Good Luck to ya Laddie☘️😎Hope ya find them.

[@123loanna]

God bless the Irish people..

[@audreydempsey7269]

Thank u

[@kensyskye8965]

Being half Irish myself, bless you! 🙏🏼

[@darrenayres3146]

Just so you know. It wasnt potato blight it was British genocide. While we starved the British gained weight on our food. The famine was man made

[@audreydempsey7269]

@@darrenayres3146 well said Darren

[@nicomeza6080]

I love Ireland!🇮🇪

[@cynthiabowkett4082]

I watched and listen to this Irish history with a broken heart, as all my family came from Ireland County Mayo County Clare. My parents at different times in there young life left their families in Ireland and came to live in England. They meet in England and married they stayed silent when asked about their Irish history. How sad to know their families was treated worse than animals. My mom and dad have both passed now but we still have families and are still in Ireland today with beautiful homes land but boy have they all earned it. from dads( The Finnerty) moms side THE( FAUL FAMILY COUNTY CLARE). Not once did my parents speak ill of their treatment they love all English people I was one of eight and our home was always open and full of our English friends. To all our kin out there where ever you live May Gods Blessings be with you. My Heart belongs To Ireland. The Irish are without doubt the Most Friendly, KIND HUMBLE PEOPLE. Ireland is still THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. All THE IRISH PEOPLE LOVE, AND EMBRACED ALL NATIONS WHO ARRIVE IN IRELAND.

[@silvertip8k278]

My family ended up here in the 1850s because of all the essay portrays...they eventually homesteaded logan county colorado in 1870... It must be in my dna...talking about my disdain for the crown all my life...something I've never fully understood until seeing documentaries like this... My great,great grandparents had their passage paid by the familys as they were just teenagers ...their way of seeing the line have a chance in the new world...my thanks to their generosity...if not for that I wouldn't be here... Erin go bragh!

[@TheAkan99]

Sultan Abdülmecid I of the Ottoman Empire originally offered to send £10,000 but was asked by British diplomats to reduce it to £1,000 to avoid donating more than the Queen.

[@carolannevans7533]

My Great Grandparents made the journey to Glasgow...had 10 children born there and many ended up in Birkenhead for work on docks...Large families from this history and many early deaths...seems a miracle to be alive to me the suffering from the past...My great grandparents address in Ireland was "The Barn ,what a hard life many had...Thank you for this Video it brings in further information much needed...🥺...

[@timmolloy7574]

Never forget it was a genocide not famine

[@timmolloy7574]

@MsMissy You've obviously no knowledge of history and probably not even Irish. Do one ya Amadán 🖕

[@pattybaugh442]

My great grandmother came from Ireland she left when she was. 16 yesrs old gone to Liverpool England she boarded a Clippers ship sail for three month it sail around the horn outside of South America then arrive. In San Francisco Cailfi. Live there till she pass away

[@trojanostar]

Wow what a travel! going down the Beagle canal in that time was for brave people!

[@pattybaugh442]

@KoivuTheHab I'm sorry how can. I make this better it's a true story. My mother told me this I.mrant to say she pass away later 1967

[@cal-qw8ov]

Why to Liverpool,can't you go straight to America from Ireland seems like going backwards then forwards,still that explains a lot...

[@bcent5758]

Wow how brave. I’m Irish through and through and It makes me wonder how my ancestors got through this.

[@bcent5758]

KoivuTheHab - Why are you so angry?

[@zakur0hako]

God bless Irish one of the best people I've ever met

[@toni4729]

God caused most of the damage and half the starvation. Keep your bloody god.

[@Skarfp]

No wonder the Irish learned to be as strong as steel. I believe this strength has been passed down through the generations. I feel it running thru my veins even though it's been four generations since my family came over from Ireland.

[@margaretohara7250]

@@KarenKelley-gb9nz Never heard any stories of the Irish stealing, killing, robbing, etc. They were and are a proud self sufficient people. No wonder they are known the world over.

[@kinkle_Z]

This is an excellent documentary. Thank you for posting!!

[@msmavris1]

I grew up in Bay Ridge Brooklyn, in the 70's, then a primarily Irish neighborhood. Stories of the Great Famine were told by the older generations and some of them were pretty gruesome.. Most of the old people who told them believed that the Protestant masters saw an opportunity to get rid of all the Catholics and re-populate Ireland with Protestants or convert those that had remained to Protestantism... A sad story by any means...

[@bobwoww8384]

And one we’re soon to repeat for our ignorance

[@Timothy-lb2vr]

A tragedy repeated over and over throughout the history of man kind. There is always a pseudo ruling class willing to see his fellow countryman suffer for his benefit.

[@mikeveis6393]

It's still going on today in 2023. It's happening in the United States.

[@green2stayecoswdmarketingn339]

'Never forget where you are or what it took to get there!'

[@guilhrrminacarvalho6114]

Respected to people of Ireland

[@lisarigglebug7263]

There was plenty of food....it was G E N O C I D E !

[@fractalnomics]

Total Government failure.

[@rodneycaupp5962]

@@fractalnomics That's how every Empire falls, "Total Government Failure"..

[@ianmcatamney7213]

250000 scots died during the blight it wasnt just an irish thing

[@rasher6290]

I don't understand,,, what happened to fishing?, fruit,, other veg?

[@quentinquentin6752]

@@rasher6290 well, good questions. Fishing was an industry tightly controlled by the govt. They regulated who could and who could not fish. In order to protect English fisherman there were laws on the books going back 100’s years which effectively strangled any real Irish fishing industry. So you had the appalling situation of people dying of starvation when the seas around them were teeming with fish. As for fruit, please watch the video again. The vast majority of the poor tenant farmers lived on land that was suitable only for potatoes. The soil was too poor to grow anything else. There was huge quantities of food being grown in Ireland at the time, wheat, barley, oats there was vast amount of livestock and poultry etc but this was largely exported to, of all places, England. Here is the ugly fade of all this. This occurred in the richest country in the world, at that time. This was allowed to envelope our countrymen. I am British, the Irish no less British back then as i am now but were treated like foreigners. They were treated abominably and thats a sad and awful fact. The seeds of the Irish struggle for ultimate freedom came from the callous disregard that the British Whig leaders displayed time and time again during this period. If this is how ones govt treated one then better to have our own. Who could blame anyone for this conclusion. This was the opportunity for the British govt to show they really cared about the people of Ireland and they failed miserably.

[@liamevans1630]

One interesting, but rarely discussed, aspect of The Great Hunger, is how it affected, and arguably still affects, those Irish and their descendants who survived. It's classic survivor guilt, but shrouded in the mists of time. How did my family survive? What did they have to do to survive? Did they use immoral or unscrupulous survival techniques? Did they steal food from others, were they complicit with the British authorities, did they try curry favour with them in order to gat access ot food and relative security? These are the questions which nag at every Irish family whose antecedents didn't have to migrate. But we prefer not to look for answers which may prove uncomfortable.

[@r_1901]

Everyone alive today is a survivor of thousands of generations of competition and mayhem and repeated local or global resource scarcities. The end justifies the means. Identity politics is a credible threat. Wield it wisely.

[@khtan585]

The Irish is one of the few truely peaceful nations in Europe which has no colony but was itself "colonised" by the English. Great respect and love to people of Ireland and the Irish Nation.

[@janheard3826]

Peaceful? There are loads of hothead Irish men I personally have encountered…very aggressive men who probably not a good idea to get on the wrong side of.

[@lyndareilly6893]

@@janheard3826 Who wouldn't be angry, because they couldn't believe what they want. How about you go live with the Muslims? Because the GD religion got in the way and POWER. How fricken stupid is that??? Their

[@toni4729]

You can't be very old. You have a very bad memory.🙄🤬

[@CanadianMonarchist]

There were Irish and Scottish who took part in the British Empire.

[@hermanngoulhorn581]

@@CanadianMonarchist yet none benefited a fraction of what the English did. Nice try though.

[@Melody-st4df]

Thank you for this documentary. It helped me understand the horrors of the famine.

[@albertkhare2711]

I am 1/8th Irish my maternal grand mother was born to Irish immigrants I am infact named after her father Albert Whetton I have heard about this first from my grand mother, when she told me about two famines, the other being the Bengal famine. She taught me to respect food and always give unto those who have less or none.

[@rosebud2222]

The Irish suffered so much yet they are the strongest kindest & most genuine people I know.

[@katherinemahon9471]

Putting a hold on taxation until the famine was over would have saved lives.

[@GM-kp7yw]

The rosbifs didn't want to do that. Grumbling stomachs and empty wallets were helping them in maintaining a stranglehold over Ireland.

[@greendesert69]

oh no.... stop taxation? that would not sit well with the democrats.

[@sayitlikeitis9868]

During the genocide of the 1840s Ireland was known as the garden of England as the land produced an abundance of food, cattle, sheep & poultry which was shipped across the Irish Sea to feed the British population. The logistics was a huge undertaking, so huge it took more Britsh soldiers to move the product than it did to conquer India. Please stop calling it “The Famine!”

[@johnburns4017]

British soldiers *did not* move produce from Ireland to England. That is normal civilian trade.

[@sayitlikeitis9868]

They robbed a country of all of it’s crop & livestock leaving the population to starve & you think the produce was transported by civilians. Get real, do your research!!

[@sharonmiller5825]

It's terrible what England did to Ireland

[@lisamcauliffe1817]

I just came in this and you've no idea what those people did to us

[@Chu3505]

That’s what happened, if you have one person have absolutely in power of a country like a dictator or a king.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

AGREED ...... However .... Mid-1840s to 1870's were a tough time for those farming marginal land --All over Europe! The population had expanded due to new crops like the potato and the Industrial Revolution had not begun (at least not in force) in Continental Europe. Prior to the Potato crop failures of 1845-1850 (all over northern Europe)[1][2] There had been Land Clearances in the UK --Northern England, the Lowlands of Scotland as well as in the Highlands of Scotland (after 1745) and in Northern Ireland (Native Irish and the Scots-Irish to a lesser degree) These people had emigrated -- Sometimes as "indentured Servants' (i.e. "Slaves" for a set time period) Or they had been "transported" forcibibly (Irish and Highland Scot rebels) to the Sugar plantations in the British West Indies.(Later rebels, along with petty criminals) were transported to Australia and New Zealand to work on the Crown's lands (for "x" number of years. At that point they got free passage home or were allowed to stay -- Where they settled the land).

[@Mercmad]

@@here_we_go_again2571 One of my ancestors,David Horan, was transported to New South Wales (as Australia was then known as) for the term of his natural life in 1835 . His crime? he was accused of uttering unlawful oaths (swore in gaelic at an Englishman) and Whiteboy activities. He was 12 years old. New Zealand never got convicts as all of the initial settlers were immigrants invited there by the New Zealand Company and i count many of Euro ancestors amongst the First settlers. And even more ancestors as Maori. Slavery was not unknown to the people of Ireland going back centuries ,especially those taken by the islamic slavers,the corsairs.

[@Neil-yg5gm]

@@Mercmad What is your point? Lots of English, Welsh and Scots were sent to Australia for minor crimes

[@khappy1286]

Proud to be Irish, desperately grateful to be born again. Jn3:16 God bless all the Irish here, -and those who need some hope.

[@patriciacole8773]

Remember the fourth commandment KJV!

[@bobwoww8384]

Righteous

[@johnboy4067]

Good for you ,don't be ashamed to be irish , it could be worse you could be Scottish

[@feedtherich11]

Born again ??? Unhinged is what you are . Seek help.

[@marymendicino9132]

England has much blood on their hands. May God show them more mercy than they showed their fellow man.😢🙏🏻♥️🕊

[@gradualdecay1040]

It's all bs.

[@bt6624]

Respect for ireland 🇮🇪

[@BalmoralBaal]

This was not a mistake, it was deliberate!!

[@tombergendahl7652]

My own family fled by ship from Sweden after losing their country in mainland Europe, they stopped on their way to Canada, in Belfast. Although the refugee's describe the Irish as having close to nothing, normal Irish people fed, clad, bathed the refugee's. On their way many Irish and priests blessed their voyage across the Atlantic in winter. Such fantastic people

[@rosehart341]

For anyone wanting to learn more The Great Hunger by C Wadham Smith is an in depth researched book on the subject. Not an easy read

[@DrChaunceyBlevins]

What makes it difficult? The way it’s written, or the subject matter? Thanks.

[@patp3800]

They will use this same tactic to cohere people into taking the mark of the beast...they will control all the money and the food

[@rosehart341]

@@DrChaunceyBlevins its just such a desperately sad read, the famine only happened because of political expediency just like today.

[@DrChaunceyBlevins]

Rose Hart Thank you. I’m only about 1/3 Scot-Irish myself but I greatly cherish my connection to the Isles.

[@hawthornetree646]

habit.of.creatures: Bless you

[@lawrence1960]

I can’t even watch this it’s so sickening. WTF is wrong with people. And has humanity as a whole really changed at all.

[@tompauley7412]

@Lawrence Cisek What's wrong with people? If God isn't in your heart, love isn't either. Humanity has gotten worse. More callous. More self-centered people. Here in America, the radical, socialist terrorist organizations , Antifa and BLM wants white people to apologize that we are white! They want to defend police. They burn and loot their own black communities! The world is going to hell in a hand basket. We are in the end times.

[@marshabennett7440]

@@tompauley7412 And do we Irish care what BLM says? No, never. We know our worth.

[@Honorablebenaiaha]

You judging with a fat gut nonetheless.

[@WilliamAndrewPhilipBodie]

@@marshabennett7440 But we Turks did help the Irish people :_:

[@noorgonzalez1076]

ISAIAH 35:5,6 Revelation 21:3,4 Isaiah 65:21,22 Daniel 2:44 Revelation 11:18

[@baycast]

I'm an Irish famine descent. My people left Mayo and landed in Glasgow. I'm 50/50 of both these beautiful countries. It breaks my heart to be educated of their suffering. The English have so much to answer for.

[@markpitts8936]

Why just the English? Aren’t Scots and Welsh British too?

[@baycast]

@@markpitts8936 Read your history books.

[@markpitts8936]

@@baycast I have and the Scots were a very significant part of the Empire.

[@baycast]

@@markpitts8936 It's not the Scots i mentioned it was the English. However i will agree that James VI and I played his part.

[@winnietheshrew2957]

What happened in Ireland and the blatant inaction and neglect by the government in London eerily reminds me of today's neoliberal ideologues. Also, Naomi Klein's book "Shock Strategy" comes to mind. In case you haven't read it, I urge you to do so. It's a real eye-opener, especially in the age of COVID.

[@lindakeays2864]

Naomi Klein is a drooling far leftist. Not a good source for even looking both ways before crossing a street.

[@Honorablebenaiaha]

Racist white supremacist spotted.

[@jamesrose6751]

@@lindakeays2864 no matter where you go there's a rwnj spewing bile. The blight of our times

[@jamesrose6751]

@Loki &Loki

[@peterwhitaker4038]

in Victorian times kids were starving in English cities and sent up chimneys to sweep or forced to work at mills often injured or killed in industry. the 'Bleak times' were rough for all please don't think just Ireland was getting it.

[@Redsince66]

A few things to keep in mind as you watch this. The Act of Union 1800 that came into effect on Jan 1st 1801 meant that Irish citizens were as British as any Scottish, Welsh or English citizen. Which begs the question would the British Government have reacted the same had this tragedy happened on the British mainland? From the early 1700s the British Parliament,under different parties, had enacted Penal laws that impoverished and undermined native Irish/catholic people on the island of Ireland. Successive British Governments had also passed laws to undercut any industries in Ireland that could in any way compete with those same industries on the British mainland. And since Ireland had long been a thorn in Britain’s side she had wanted to break, for once and for all, the Gaelic/Catholic tradition in Ireland. Britains actions and goals during the famine were as much political as the were economic. And my opinion of one Charles Trevelyan is not quite as charitable as the producers of this documentary.

[@johnburns4017]

There was a food shortage in Britain at the time as well, which is always forgotten. I do believe one in Italy as well. The Irish had representatives in Westminster. It was, as you have highlighted, not a colony. There was no movement, or groundswell felling, pre the famine for Irish independence. The deep route problem was *land ownership* - most of the land was in the hands of a few people. After the famine Westminster established the _Irish Land Commission,_ to split up the land ownership. This continued after independence, being disbanded in 2001. The solution before and during the famine, and even now, is *Land Value Tax.* For an understanding read _Progress and Poverty_ by Henry George.

[@KPlyf]

Heart wrenching but a well put documentary. Thanks.

[@michaelbristol6467]

Irish had it as rough as anybody, but nobody talks about that. 💪🇮🇪

[@bobr7359]

Then keep talking about it lad☘️👍🏻👊🏻🇮🇪

[@MICHAELCAMPBELL69]

No Irish lives matter

[@gypsylake4982]

Incredible history and horrific suffering and loss of life. How beautiful that the Irish people commemorate those who struggled and those who perished during that tragic time. How truly beautiful the Irish people have drawn to themselves the starving poor over the earth and have compassion for them and send what relief they are able. It seems in end the Irish people have embodied souls of Angels by caring for the poor in this world so that tears and fears can be replaced by smiles and hopes turned to dreams once again. Bless them for their courage and commitment to a profound humanity which each and every one of us alive on this earth have the duty and responsibility to fulfill, to remove human suffering is of the highest order. Christ did request in return for the sacrifice of his life, that we may love one another as he loved us. That message from him is not lost on the Irish people. Thank God the people have remembered his message and their outreach to the poor everywhere in the world is Divine. Bless you all!

[@carolkristian1146]

Thank you! As a first generation American, it has grieved me to realize just how little people know about the Irish genocide overseen by the English and later here in America. I am not a drunken leprechaun, nor a devious housemaid, I don't run about with a beer in one hand and a weapon in the other, we don't live in a pub, nor do we spend our time fighting and our husbands are not n'erdowells. We are a proud ancient culture, intelligent and industrious. Why else does everyone want to be Irish?!!!

[@margaretohara7250]

When a person or people suffer oppression or adversity, they identify with the suffering of others. A native Indian tribe gave what little they had to the Irish when they were starving and during the recent worst part of the pandemic, the Irish returned the favor by helping the Indian tribe. People remember kindness and good in people. Perhaps the Pandemic in some way has given all of us a better understanding of hardships. There is a lesson to be learned from everything bad that happens. A silver lining always shines. Blessings.

[@cberry6751]

The British royals have blood on their hands.

[@BilgemasterBill]

There's a bit of a missing gap about 1:13 into it, but thanks all the same for getting this up here, presumably off an old VHS tapes recording. You still earned a well-deserved thumb's up from me. A fascinating program from back when channels like A&E and the History and Discovery Channels weren't just loathsome peddlers of "Reality TV" swill.

[@vintagebroadcastingsystem8028]

Yes. Unfortunately, a small bit was missing. We actually included an advisory about that in the written introduction. Glad to hear that you found it interesting. You're quite right about how those channels have changed. Sadly, they probably changed because what audiences want changed as well. A distressing sign of the times.

[@nancyquinn522]

The British starved my ancestors, I will never forgive them. I am related to Thomas MacDonough, one of the signors and authors ofthe Irish Declaration of Independence. He was shot w 7 others, they are buried together in Dublin. I am so proud of him and all Irishwomen and Irishmen who fought for independence. The thought of the boats loaded w grain bound for Britain, while the Irish ate grass, chilling. I will Not be watching the coronation.

[@MikeM-rj3ub]

Quit playing victim. Irish are British too.

[@medusa3050]

Interesting to hear about the history of the famine. My great great Grandparents came over to England from the west of Ireland during this time, they must have really struggled.

[@emmabenedek646]

We supported Irish Families in Cent London. What the society had done to them is almost not describable. They are the victims who a accompanied us for 12 yrs knocking on doors. The English made a huge mistakle when they chose to abuse these people because they turned out to have qualities beyond belief. The scams we found going on at the Embassy Cent London didnt help either. Nor did the EEC Ombudswoman in Brussels OReilly telling us this- "Nothing Can Be Done About 1000s Avoid Deaths. Squandered Money etc. She is from Offaly Ireland. She is paid over £200.000 per yr for that. She is reported by the media as turning up at meetings in backless frocks and heels. Heres a bit more- The Police. Others.UK. We then got in touch with Police to ask them th stop abusing the clients of ours as they had not recd competent help. The responsa was this- "Come Here You F-B. You Wont Come Here will You Cos If You Do You know I will Section You You F-B" We went straight round there. There we saw a gang black youths hurling every kind of abuse at the clowns and thumping the walls with their fists.l After they went we told the Police that if the abuse of ourselves continued we would see they went to prison. They then said that they engaged in no call so we left. We were then told to stop all work on clients because we were interfering with the incomes within the system. When we approached private Med Insurance Companies we were told this- "Nobody can be put through to any dept within that Org".The 12 yrs hike thro London which found the evidence caused us to approach BBC because we were noticing that they were hoodwinking the public regarding the issues. They were being assisted by the Universities and Govt plus the Lottery and Charities like "Mind" The BBC advised us to " Hide the evidence abroad".All of this propped up by the media like Mail. Mirror and others. We also found Banks like Lloyds throwing money at the scam. The idea of course is protection of the Govt, Drug company profits. University earnings. By the way the first victims who approached us said this- "Don t try to expose what we tell you. Its all about the Royals so you will end up dead". We, at the time could noit see the validity of the warnings. For instance we did not know that the Govt had sworn allegiance to that woman. However we were about to wake up. We began to get attacks by the Police and others. We experienced attacks by US based US Security employed by UK Govt One of them Pinkerton. We were getting death threats. We approached the Embassy who offered violence and started experiencing more Police attacks. They have told us this- "The public must not read the evidence" They also told us - No one should be helped if they don't request it" We now ignore anyone found to be unconscious.We were obliged to employ bodyguards which scared the cowards. By now we were convinced that everything we had been warned about was not only valid, it was understated. The orgs found to be doing crrptn include. HM- Courts. HM Bar Council. HM CPS. HM Prisons. Magistrates Courts incl Westminster. HM Princes Trust (police crrptn) YMCA.HM Coroners (cover ups re 30000 deaths over 35 yrs) Local Govt. HM Govt. Charities. 26 Universities..Entire Press and Media. Lottery Board. (involved with Manch University. No replies ).Theres no UK Govt because of crrptn throughout the country incl Electoral Commission. Local Govt. Universties.Local and National Press. The BBC told us to hide 1000pp evidence abroad and we have had death threats from the HM Court system and US Embassy and others. UK Police have told us that this evidence should never be read by public.They also said they had been sent by HM Religion.We can not get any questions answered by HM MPs or Ministers. We now have no acess to health system either. I lay here dying and in extreme pain for 7 yrs and got no help. The NHS wont reply nor will Matt Hancock either from h of C or his cottage in West Suffolk.No Police area will answer questions nor will Minister Rudd. Theres another 1000 pp of this. We are exposing O Reilly in Cent Ireland.We need more members.Theres anothewr 999 pp of this. The English have no backbone comapared to a lot of Irish. We helped people expose the famine scam.

[@janeyd5280]

@@emmabenedek646 the Irish are extremely intelligent. they are hard workers. I am descended from Gallagher and Armour and Cochrane. my mum was Dux of her school. my gran was widowed with 6 kids but she managed. my ancestors arrived in greenock. when I was 2years we came to Glasgow. but my stomach flips when I think of Greenock.xx

[@shawnpa]

@@emmabenedek646Wow. That is an impassioned and detailed account. There's no doubt the English people would help out, and this confirms it.

[@timmolloy7574]

It was Genocide not famine. Never forget

[@paulmchugh8695]

Not all slaves were black !

[@JAF1323]

This documentary is by far one of my favorite documentaries and one of the few that I have watched about Irish history. It filled me with a deep sense of sadness for my family because I am Descended from some of those, who suffered in the famine. I never knew much Irish history but what my mother told me. She told me about the brutal enslavement of the Irish by the English and the ruthlessness of England’s treatment of the Irish people. She told me how her family and the entire Irish population when the English were in control were treated like animals. She can not get over it, and I do not blame her. I am descended from immigrants on both sides of my family. Both sets of my mother‘s grandparents were Irish, and my father’s family was German from Wayback when. I can not bring myself to imagine how my family suffered during the famine because it brings me so much sadness to think about it. None of my family left Ireland until the 1900s. They left for the United States for a chance at a better life. Some worked as indentured servants, others bus drivers. They made what they would of their life and wanted to give their children what they did not have in Ireland. Their children were able to rise from that and went into many diverse careers. Most went off to college, and one even went to law school. That child was my mother’s father. He was my grandfather that I never met. Family lore has it that my great grandfather was forced to leave Ireland for setting fire to an Englishman‘s barn. My mother, knowing him as an extremely deaf man, who had the television loud enough to wake the dead, highly doubted the authenticity of this. My great grandfather never kept in contact with his family after he left Ireland. If the legend was true, that makes sense. My grandfather went to visit Ireland and managed to get into contact with his long lost family using the phone at the local pub. They had no idea that his father had had four children, that his father had married, or even that his father was alive. When my grandfather called, they thought it was their relative who had left; It did not help that they had the same name. My mother saw her Irish family only once when she was nine years old. She told me their names and how they lived. They lived, I suppose, as they always had, on a small farm with one room of their house heated by Pete, a few animals, and each other. She talks about how her family treated them like celebrities. I really want to see them one day, but I have no idea of where they are. I only know the counties that they lived in and one or two of their names. My mother and grandmother no more. I wonder how they would receive us. They have no idea about anything with my mother, unless their farm somehow has Internet and they have ancestry. I highly doubt this. Yet, I do not entirely believe that they live the same way. I just hope that they are OK. I bet you they talk about us. We do talk about them and wonder how they are doing. I miss them, even though I have never met them. Sorry for this long rambling. This documentary affected me deeply, and usually things do not. I guess it is because I was descended from the survivors of the famine. I hope my Irish family is doing well. What are your stories?

[@vintagebroadcastingsystem8028]

It heartens us that this documentary had such a powerful effect on you. It's gratifying to know the posts on this channel can make a difference in people's lives. We hope you will subscribe to this channel and share this documentary with others. Thank you for your comment and good luck to you as you explore your ancestry.

[@JAF1323]

Thank you. I will definitely be sharing this documentary, especially with my mom. I think that she will definitely take a look at it. Thank you for putting this on KZbin. I will do my best to explore my ancestry and hope to one day meet my Irish family. Thank you again for sharing this video.

[@vintagebroadcastingsystem8028]

@@JAF1323 All the best to you.

[@JAF1323]

Sorry about that. I did not mean to confuse you. It was not my great great grandparents but further back generations of my family. It is impossible to find records from Ireland before about 1910 because the Irish destroyed the censuses to make it harder for their English overlords. This is why it is difficult to find out much about families, unless someone does some serious digging. I know that it might seem ridiculous that I care about something that happened so long ago, but I do, mainly because it affected my family. No one is sure how many people died in Ireland, and I know virtually nothing of my family's genealogy. My grandmother does. It was not my great great grandparents but farther back. Sorry for the confusion.

[@msbrowngault]

@@JAF1323 black Americans are having the same problem... bless you 🙏

[@MrLoftusjj3]

There was no famine. The landlords barns were full of grain both British landlords and (much to their shame) Irish landlords.

[@emmabenedek646]

We supported Irish Families in Cent London. What the society had done to them is almost not describable. They are the victims who a accompanied us for 12 yrs knocking on doors. The English made a huge mistakle when they chose to abuse these people because they turned out to have qualities beyond belief. The scams we found going on at the Embassy Cent London didnt help either. Nor did the EEC Ombudswoman in Brussels OReilly telling us this- "Nothing Can Be Done About 1000s Avoid Deaths. Squandered Money etc. She is from Offaly Ireland. She is paid over £200.000 per yr for that. She is reported by the media as turning up at meetings in backless frocks and heels. Heres a bit more- The Police. Others.UK. We then got in touch with Police to ask them th stop abusing the clients of ours as they had not recd competent help. The responsa was this- "Come Here You F-B. You Wont Come Here will You Cos If You Do You know I will Section You You F-B" We went straight round there. There we saw a gang black youths hurling every kind of abuse at the clowns and thumping the walls with their fists.l After they went we told the Police that if the abuse of ourselves continued we would see they went to prison. They then said that they engaged in no call so we left. We were then told to stop all work on clients because we were interfering with the incomes within the system. When we approached private Med Insurance Companies we were told this- "Nobody can be put through to any dept within that Org".The 12 yrs hike thro London which found the evidence caused us to approach BBC because we were noticing that they were hoodwinking the public regarding the issues. They were being assisted by the Universities and Govt plus the Lottery and Charities like "Mind" The BBC advised us to " Hide the evidence abroad".All of this propped up by the media like Mail. Mirror and others. We also found Banks like Lloyds throwing money at the scam. The idea of course is protection of the Govt, Drug company profits. University earnings. By the way the first victims who approached us said this- "Don t try to expose what we tell you. Its all about the Royals so you will end up dead". We, at the time could noit see the validity of the warnings. For instance we did not know that the Govt had sworn allegiance to that woman. However we were about to wake up. We began to get attacks by the Police and others. We experienced attacks by US based US Security employed by UK Govt One of them Pinkerton. We were getting death threats. We approached the Embassy who offered violence and started experiencing more Police attacks. They have told us this- "The public must not read the evidence" They also told us - No one should be helped if they don't request it" We now ignore anyone found to be unconscious.We were obliged to employ bodyguards which scared the cowards. By now we were convinced that everything we had been warned about was not only valid, it was understated. The orgs found to be doing crrptn include. HM- Courts. HM Bar Council. HM CPS. HM Prisons. Magistrates Courts incl Westminster. HM Princes Trust (police crrptn) YMCA.HM Coroners (cover ups re 30000 deaths over 35 yrs) Local Govt. HM Govt. Charities. 26 Universities..Entire Press and Media. Lottery Board. (involved with Manch University. No replies ).Theres no UK Govt because of crrptn throughout the country incl Electoral Commission. Local Govt. Universties.Local and National Press. The BBC told us to hide 1000pp evidence abroad and we have had death threats from the HM Court system and US Embassy and others. UK Police have told us that this evidence should never be read by public.They also said they had been sent by HM Religion.We can not get any questions answered by HM MPs or Ministers. We now have no acess to health system either. I lay here dying and in extreme pain for 7 yrs and got no help. The NHS wont reply nor will Matt Hancock either from h of C or his cottage in West Suffolk.No Police area will answer questions nor will Minister Rudd. Theres another 1000 pp of this. We are exposing O Reilly in Cent Ireland.We need more members.Theres anothewr 999 pp of this. The English have no backbone comapared to a lot of Irish. We helped people expose the famine scam.

[@JRobbySh]

Of course there was famine. It is when the amount of food needed by any society to maintain its equilibrium is no longer available. War produces famine and plague. Hard hearted rulers do, many because they thought they were right to do what they did. In a way the Whig Government was as bad as the Soviet Government of the ‘30s. On the other hand, many were better off before they got the shares they needed to prosper the entire country.

[@Lauren-vd4qe]

@@emmabenedek646 phone the tv newsstations? ask God to send u help etc

[@pjpugapillarfan2750]

One of the best docs i ever watched. The old docs are THE BEST I would like to travel there someday at least i"LL know a wee bit of their history. GOD BLESS YOU GUYS

[@JosephKeenanisme]

The brit attempt to depopulate Ireland like the US did to the First Nations in the US, the the crown did in Canada.

[@TS-ef2gv]

It's interesting how the biggest so called "depopulators" in the Americas escape the notice of the predictably edgy virtue signalers. You take your indoctrination well. The colonial powers of Europe, primarily England, Spain, France, Portugal, and the Dutch, were in possession of North, Central, and South America beginning almost 300 years before the US even existed. The great majority of the native "depopulation" took place in those nearly three centuries (1492 - 1783) before the US won their independence , and in areas of the Americas that were never part of the United States even after the fact. After the US won its independence in the 1780s, for decades it was a small nation clinging to the eastern coast of North America, expanding over the next 50 years to the Mississippi valley. By far, the champion "depopulators" of the post-Columbian Americas, aside from disease and the natives themselves, was Spain, and it isn't even close. As for countries in the Americas, educate yourself on the history of Mexico and Brazil for starters. In general, nowhere in the world where stone age people who hadn't even yet invented the wheel came in contact with more advanced civilizations, did it go well for the stone agers. What happened to the primitive hunter gathers who used to roam Europe and Asia? Same thing as everywhere else on Earth. Run off, killed off, died off, or assimilated by more advanced, later arriving cultures. If you want to find the world champion depopulators, look in Asia and Africa even as recently as the last 100 years, and in some cases still ongoing.

[@margaretnylandnyland4735]

It's called colonialism and it worked the same way all over the world. As Joseph Conrad said (preface to Heart of Darkness, a novel about the darkness at the heart of colonialism) 'Colonialism, when looked at closely, is not very pretty.'

[@mynamedoesntmatter8652]

@@TS-ef2gv It’s ongoing the world over. People just aren’t paying attention.

[@themercifulguard3971]

@@margaretnylandnyland4735 Nah no colonizing power before the Europeans committed atrocities on such a scale except for the Mongols The level of theft, slavery, and suffering was terrible and unequaled.

[@ianreynolds8552]

Yes the brit government.i m half Irish and working class and know that it's governments that make decisions not nations !

[@henryninegraphics7533]

When the Irish people were dying of starvation, the British government was busy expanding an empire overseas, parliament never stopped singing the phrase "THE SUN NEVER SETS ON THE BRITISH EMPIRE" its unfortunate that they were unable to feed their own people.

[@thevirginmandy8326]

@me hee Bahahahaa, awww, and you did your little bit to help... Emptying the bins. Bless..

[@paulbucklebuckle4921]

Genocide , Ireland was exporting enough food to England to feed itself easily when the potatoe crop failed , Irish people were legally bared from foraging , hunting and fishing during the deliberate famine . I'm English born of Irish stock just out of interest .