The Great Irish Famine - documentary (1996)

[@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 👍🇺🇸🇮🇪

[@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.

[@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

[@Onthefritz777]

I was born in Ireland in 1949. I was adopted here to the U.S. in 1951 at 17 months old. My birth family found me when I was 38. I love the Irish stories and my heart breaks at the horrific suffering of the famine. I’ve always tried to stay aware of my Irish heritage. It means so much to me. I’ve also stayed in touch with my family! ❤ 🇺🇸 💚🇨🇮

[@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123]

We’re you a child sold by the Catholic Church ? It is horrific what the church did to unwed girls and then profited by selling their babies ! You reminded me of the story of Philomena, so tragic !!! I’m so happy you have met your biological family !!! God bless you

[@Onthefritz777]

@@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123 no, mine was a private adoption through a family friend. But I have read about those and saw “Philomena”, which just happens to be my birth mother’s name! It was a terrible thing. Then the girls that were sent to the “laundries” when they got pregnant and the poor young boys placed with the Christian Brothers orphanage, really went through hell. My younger sister was placed in Golden Bridge at the age of two.

[@JaniceManning-w7b]

What if The Kennedys had stayed in Ireland? There would be no JFK or JFK.​@@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123

[@thomashennigan1676]

What is better for a baby? To be adopted by a good couple able to raise him rather that be the child of an unwed mothers was considered better for the child. It was not uncommon for such children to get to know their biological parents as many Americans who adopted were able to visit the parents of the child. How do you know what was best in the circumstances? You don't

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@rnupnorthbrrrsm6123 From what I understand the recent Irish government report rejected this theory (It caused a lot of hullaballoo because of this.). This is not to write there was no problems and I am glad he found his parents. Also stop blaming the Church, start blaming deadbeat dads who would not stay to marry the woman they impregnated. The Church does deserve blame where she did wrong but I am positively surprised that the men who left the women are just never discussed.

[@duncescotus2342]

The Choctaw Nation who had recently walked the Trail of Tears took up an offering for the Irish. They donated as much as Queen Victoria.

[@lisagghg630]

That's amazing and sad all at once.

[@silversolver7809]

A wonderfully generous act, which was commemorated a few years ago by a sculpture and ceremony in Ireland. www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/cork-sculpture-recalls-generosity-of-choctaw-nation-during-famine-1.3118580 Thank you, Choctaw Nation, Go n-éirí an bóthar leat :)

[@alanaadams7440]

How interesting didn't know that

[@tracyMcC]

Somehow they missed telling us this in our Oklahoma history class. Not surprised. It's not like they spent a whole lot of time talking about the Irish Famine either.

[@patreis3722]

@@tracyMcC Right?! Well my friend, that’s exactly how the Rockefeller Schools were set up ....to dumb us down and steal our cultural histories from us. My family’s link to Ireland is strong as well as Cherokee Indian. The elite psychopaths of England enslaved and genocided both of them, as well as many of yours! Sadly, the beat goes on! Many people around the world are still being starved to death by the elite globalists who rule the world! There’s truly NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN! Praise God 🙌🏼🎚There will be a day of reckoning 🔥📖🤗

[@thehappyplace4u]

I visited Ireland in 2000 and they were the kindest, warmest and sweetest people. The idea of them starving and suffering is heartbreaking.

[@brianmurphy6243]

We don't suffer

[@hermanngoulhorn581]

@@brianmurphy6243 you do though.

[@tomasofaolain3117]

I'm a Irish American living Lexington SC its appalling the attitude of law enforcement have on my life and my family just because I come from Ireland

[@kitfrew9983]

@@brianmurphy6243 NOT now maybe, but your ancestors did .

[@kitfrew9983]

@@tomasofaolain3117 Really, I thought America loved the Irish.

[@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.

[@occidentadvocate.9759]

My Great great Grandfather Edward (Ned) Mc Farlan fled the famine from Leinster aged 16. He landed in Wales, and married an Irish girl called Ellen Hurley whose family had fled. He became a foundry man, working in various Foundrys. He ended up in Harlepool. They had 8 Children. Then they moved to Newcastle to work in the pits. Those children had numerous children, and now on Tyneside theres thousands of us decended from that desperate 16 year old who fled Famine and Tyranny. But we arnt just on Tyneside, iv researched my family tree. He has many decendents in Australia, America and Canada. Even back in Ireland as my Sister married an Irishman had 4 children and numerous grand children, and lives near to where 16 year old Ned fled from during the famine. His bloodline is back in the land of his ancestors. God Bless all Gaels world wide. Ireland for the Irish.

[@tab9773]

I send thoughts of love and deep respect to you and your ancestors and descendants. May your present and future relatives have peace, good health, and prosperity ❤

[@niallcurran7894]

That is amazing to hear. Go on Ned! I bet there's many stories like this. I love your sentence - 'that his bloodline is back on the land of his ancestors', to me in such a perfect way. Just magic.

[@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

[@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 ❤

[@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?

[@Papa_Ubu]

American of Irish descent here, my people emigrated from Donegal in 1820 and 1840,first to New York City , they became wealthy working as a building contractors. As they were adequately fed, proceeded to have eleven children. All survived. I am of the west coast branch that set up in San Francisco just before the gold rush. Family produced several priests,one active in NYC politics in 1880s , one a church sculptor, his work now in The Fatima Shrine in Portugal.Another relative an American film actor of the 1930 s. All prosperous in America. I like , as does my granddaughter , the baked potato. God bless Ireland and the Irish.

[@maureenmckenna5220]

Historically, given any opportunity, the Irish prosper. Their heritage here in the USA is vast, highly successful in every sphere of life, and a credit to those who crossed the sea for a better life.

[@robertahubert9155]

This is all new to me. They should teach this history in our schools. I've learned more here on you tube than in our public schools. Thank you for the history lesson.

[@johnnotrealname8168]

School is not where you learn absolutely everything that happened.

[@ladyjane9619]

I’ve always called it the Great Starvation instead of the Great Famine. There was plenty of food. A country doesn’t export food to another country when there is a famine going on. I’m proud to be Irish American. What happened to my ancestors is heartbreaking and I pray it never is allowed to happen again.

[@Irishherbs]

Great to hear: Lady Jane, that some people recognize it for what it was/is Genocide.Like what the puppet masters of modern medicine are doing with populations today.2024.

[@peteb7248]

Garza

[@mikeveis6393]

It's happening today in North Korea.

[@beautifulrose8619]

@@peteb7248 GAZA?

[@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!

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@wmr9019]

I notice at the very beginning of this documentary you don't make any mention of the English monarch of the day stealing all of the other food (wheat, barley, oats, animals, etc etc etc etc) that the Irish peoples toiled to produce which is really how they starved

[@musiclover-jk9ii]

Watch black 47 great movie

[@brownwarrior6867]

They did the very same thing during the Bengal Famine in India. DOUBLED the grain EXPORT FROM INDIA TO ENGLAND and left MILLIONS to perish.

[@billycaspersghost7528]

@Katherine Harvey It is a pointless "fact" . The Monarch of the time was a constitutional monarch.. did not cause any of the policies that could be held to be responsible for the famine. Victoria did not own farms or steal any of the produce grown on them. The exports could not have replaced the failure of the potatoes and it would have taken more effort to distribute it and convert it than Peel`s policy of importing huge quantities of grain from America. The food was sold and exported by Irish farmers and landowners and the idea of crashing the economy was a non starter ,and the same decision was taken on the fisheries .. if you want to picture Q Vic, stuffing a stolen haddock down her throat feel free . The comment is not well researched at all ,in fact it is plain avoiding history and substituting emotional imagery that has the pantomime villain of Victoria scoffing food she has "stolen" from Irish farms. I love history ,just get tired of hearing the same stupid comments ( you know like the "Black and Tans" were recruited from prisons and lunatic asylums is another "standard" fact) Just love your class rooted snobbery ,by the way.

[@billycaspersghost7528]

@Katherine Harvey I did not say you did mention the Tans .. was making a comparison as to the veracity of the idea that Victoria was stealing food . Even if she had been ,the prevention of her so doing would have made no difference to the famine ... The subsistence crop that had allowed to the population of Ireland to grow to huge proportions had failed .. no wheat exports kept at home could have solved that ..only a huge input of replacement sources. I have read the link you give before and many other sources it was not the cause ,source or answer to the famine .. it would have crashed the economy and done nothing significant If the Irish exports had been enough to sustain that huge population how come it never came back to those numbers even when the naughty old Brits had gone .. been a hundred years now.. where are they all. The IRA `s involvement with the Nazis is limited and well known and easily researched .. I do not say DeValera was a pal of Adolf or make up any submarine stories ( how could it have happened) "My side " you say .. the side of history,fact and reason? What happened was bad enough and should be studied and never forgotten .. ridiculous crap about Queen Victoria stealing food cheapen ,demean and diminish historical fact and peoples suffering. The Liberal Governments black hearted callous market forces doctrine was the cause, not some old lady in a castle somewhere .. it is a foolish view that exists because people want nice ,simple villains.

[@billycaspersghost7528]

@Katherine Harvey I am not happy to remark on snobbery ,prejudice , racism ,ignorance or bigotry of any kind. In fact it saddened me deeply to see such attitudes openly touted by yourself.Especially when there was no need for it or relevance to it. I wonder how you and James Connolly would have got on Katherine. I wonder who he would have felt he was fighting for .... you ? don`t think so. I answered your comment because you directly reference my perceived (by you.. a bigot ,and snob ..all the same) "Class"

[@Exotic3000]

Wow! This was a very sad documentary! As an Irish Catholic living in Canada, I can’t help wonder what my ancestors must have went through! Thanks A&E.

[@asmodeus0454]

_Must have gone through_ is correct.

[@margaretohara7250]

Man's inhumanity to man. You see how the Irish prospered despite the horrors they endured. Just proves that the human spirit cannot be broken. Happy St.. Patrick's. Slainte.

[@joprocter4573]

Kevin it wasn't a Catholic only famine..

[@LMB222]

You're a Canadian catholic, unless you were born in Ireland.

[@jacquiewalton1996]

@@margaretohara7250 I've been a naughty girl Margaret ...Could you bless me ?

[@theviper1999uk]

I feel a great shame at the neglect and abuse inflicted on Irish people by the English ruling class. It despairs me to know that the British government and lords have never had to accept responsibility for the amount of Irish blood on their hands (not to mention of the rest of the Empire's subjects). Being from England I feel it is important for us to become educated and wise about the true intentions and reality of our so-called 'proud' history. With love to our neighbours in Ireland

[@margaretohara7250]

I heard that her majesty, Queen Elizabeth, in recent years, went to Ireland and apologized. Or, was it Prince Charles (now King).? History is horrible all over the world and do we ever learn?

[@debayanbose9983]

❤❤❤

[@debayanbose9983]

I am also feeling sorrow about how " the Irish genocide " been happen purported,same happen in Bengal (specially in, Eastern Bengal , where first British purported ' the Bengalee genocide, in 1947, through partition of Bengal, and India, and then,in 1971, where, the Hindu genocide was happened and purported by the Pakistani military supported militants,of Bangladesh.Bengal Famine, historically been noted,happen recorded only, 4 times !!!,actually its' more than that... same and shame ,binds together us , Ireland and East Bengal (specially, in the southern parts of it...),known as the ' level plains fertile, and enriched soil '... I'm truly emphathized ,with this matter.😢😢😢❤❤❤

[@debayanbose9983]

" 'farmers ' are really, affected ,devasted with both of this, nation's history far said about in the skeptic history, what only be embedded in the ' commoners vision,backs in that time.what, I can say about this, I really can't forget what the hellish 'history ' be made for our future learners of today's world..."🇨🇮🇮🇳😢😢😢

[@debayanbose9983]

"sorrow for the famous Irish born great noble hearted lady,and singer, just suddenly,she passed away, Sinéann O Connor,pray for her,who have knows very well what her forefathers be 'the subject of atrocities done very well by those English psychopathic kings and lord's,from the ' un - glorious ' past of their ' pseudo - history ' been written and scripted through their ' filthy ' veins , and made a ' proper causal relationships ' with others 'invented' a 'shared common feelings with noteworthy interests in ' consuming ' those , 'cattle' aka 'colonies' wealth ' smoothly' like sipping a ' smoothie' and deposite with those 'pee' like 'instrumention' for 'divide' and ' policy ',where they have feel to quench their thirst..." 😠😠😠

[@edwardgabriel1946]

1995, I visited the Irish American Folk Museum in Ireland. I read the most heartbreaking stories while in it. One of the trials and tribulations suffered, and hardly ever mentioned was the boat trip to America. They had a prototype of the hold of the typical ship - it said it all. America gained. My parents went through an equally harrowing experience to get to this good old USA. from the near east. They were all pioneers in the strictest sense. Thank God.

[@jody2873]

"Good old USA" is correct!👍 Glad you're here!

[@Sameoldfitup]

“Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?”― Tennessee Williams.....................

[@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.

[@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.

[@Unicorn-on9to]

I, from Scandinavia, lived in Dublin for a few years about 20 years ago. I loved the beauty when I went to the west coast areas. But seeing the old walls of the abandoned houses everywhere left a sense of pain at all the gruesome fates. A clear feeling that it had once been much more populated before something terrible had happened.

[@imalikconnor]

Irish Pride is very strong in the USA. I remember when I used to work for a bank in customer service. A customer called and commented on my Irish surname. He said he delighted to get a good Irish girl on the phone. I laughed and told him I'm German but I had the good sense to marry an Irishman. He replied he appreciated my comment.

[@Honorablebenaiaha]

No, that’s white supremacy. Racist, white supremacy!!!! 😡

[@imalikconnor]

@@Honorablebenaiaha Uhm...The Irish are White...

[@Honorablebenaiaha]

@@imalikconnor exactly, whites are all racists!

[@Honorablebenaiaha]

Irish pride = Racist white supremacy

[@alexcarter8807]

@@Honorablebenaiaha Irish only became considered "white" after WWII.

[@shrug_shrugsly]

Thank you so much for this documentary and also the comments, where my world, and worldview, have gained so much perspective. God Bless Us All ❤

[@Mordechai_Tennenbaum]

Convincingly well produced documentary. Truly touched. Gratitude for the upload.

[@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

[@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.

[@stephenkolarac5305]

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

[@Kinkle_Z]

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

[@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.

[@kitsilanomusician2669]

Nature caused the blight and the crown caused the famine

[@ianreynolds8552]

There should have been proper releif as it was possible from governments

[@lindakeays2864]

Nature caused the famine. Rents shouldve been forgiven. and a different crop planted.

[@kitsilanomusician2669]

@@lindakeays2864 Nope. Ireland was not Ethiopia. There was no drought for a start. There was plenty of other food sources in Ireland at the time, and it was all exported out of Irish ports by the crown under armed guard. I know they don't teach you this in the UK. Look it up.

[@lindakeays2864]

@@kitsilanomusician2669 I am not in the UK. I am not excusing the Enlish. But Irish farmers selling for export should've helped. They didnt.

[@FPSIreland2]

Is nádúr an cúis na duchana é, ach is ise an coróin an cúis an ghorta

[@SaoirsenahÉireann1]

As a very proud Irish woman, we will never forget..never

[@cdunne1620]

..search for a book called “The perfect Holocaust”. If you can get that book and read it you will be a proud and very angry Irish woman

[@harrycarson6766]

Never forget. Never forgive.

[@norwegianzound]

Forget what? I can't remember what this is about.

[@hotelkilo404]

​@@harrycarson6766you make peace with your enemies not your friends

[@johnnotrealname8168]

@@harrycarson6766Forgive whom? There is no-one to forgive. Ireland has their country.

[@kitfrew9983]

So proud of my Irish ancestry, my dad was Irish, he came from Newry in Co. DOWN, HE WAS A GREAT MAN AND A GREAT DAD, I'm proud to be his daughter ❤

[@kitfrew9983]

@Slim Pickens everyone is under someone's feet in this life, it's the way of the world, sad but so so true 😩

[@jimwalsh8520]

So he was a planter

[@hermanngoulhorn581]

@@jimwalsh8520 oh look, Doris "the Historian" is back - what's wrong with "planters" , Doris, did they abuse your daddy too ?? 😆😆😆

[@SaoirsenahÉireann1]

Dads and daughters..its a lovely thing for sure. My Dad God rest him is gone also..a lovely father..best wishes from Ireland ♥️♥️🇮🇪🇮🇪🤗🤗

[@kitfrew9983]

@@SaoirsenahÉireann1 Thankyou, I miss him so much,he was only 54 when he died.

[@gaymichaelis7581]

All a very well done documentary/video, where I learned a lot, and I’m sure many other people can learn a lot!

[@kateh.2327]

Both sets of my grandparents came from Ireland...they came from BelMullet in County Mayo..... in the late 1800s they emigrated to the US n settled in Brooklyn NY.. my parents were born n raised in Brooklyn... One grandfather was a NYC firefighter, the other a NYC police officer... Our heritage has always been very important to my family on both sides n I'm very proud of my parents n ancestors... I'm very proud to call myself an Irish-American💚☘️🇮🇪🇺🇸

[@bca-2257]

My mum is from Belmullet! My dad is from Malaysia :) I'm going on a visit to Belmullet again in a month, I can't wait! I am currently living in Switzerland, and while it's beautiful, the air is nowhere near as fresh and vital as the air from Belmullet. I have missed it so much in my absence

[@kateh.2327]

@@bca-2257 I have wanted to go to Ireland my entire adult life...was planning a trip for next spring or fall... unfortunately my heath took a bad turn n I'm not sure it will happen...I have 5 brothers n a few have been multiple times... apparently we still have relatives there...one of my brothers tracked down some cousins while visiting.....hoping for a miracle so that I may go 💚

[@davidnyc487]

@@GodisALLandOnlyLove That was a fictional movie, did you think it was real. 😮

[@davidnyc487]

I am from Belmullet, and I live in the Bronx.

[@kateh.2327]

@Michael-bf1dt thanks so much...I pray I get there one day! 🇮🇪🇺🇲💚

[@IRHBOYS04]

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?

[@mrnevermore4934]

My great grandfather was a child when this happened and was the reason we came here. He used to tell me stories of what he remembered. It was a horrible experience

[@vaidasmat6859]

then how old are you

[@mrnevermore4934]

@@vaidasmat6859 sorry and thank you for pointing it out. I am 82 years old and I meant to type my great grandfather. I use my sons KZbin to watch videos like this and I'm not to good with working these things. But he was a teenager during black 47 and I couldn't imagine living through something like this. He was a hundred and nine when he passed away and was one of the greatest men I ever met.

[@paulduffy4585]

@@mrnevermore4934 that's incredible.

[@timmolloy7574]

It was genocide not famine. Never forget

[@iakhimsh375]

My deepest respect to you, people of Ireland, all the way from Georgia 🇬🇪.

[@helenrogers1400]

👍🙏☘️💚🇺🇲🇮🇪

[@georgschmidt5281]

One side of my family came from Ireland and the other side from Germany and ended up in North Carolina.

[@joanmcdermott6798]

Well thank you very much! I am Irish American myself.

[@SaoirsenahÉireann1]

♥️♥️♥️🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪 thank you

[@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

[@capecodder04]

My grandmother, Mary Lyons AKA Molly Lyons who was one of 12 brothers and sisters from Inagh Maurices Mills, County Claire Ireland, was one of the many Irish that came here to America from Ireland but she arrived in 1929 at the age of 19 and at the beginning of the Great Depression. My Grandmother passed away in 2008 at the ripe old age of 98 (just shy of 99). and about 2-3 years before my Grandmother died she had told me the story about how she came to making the decision to come to America. Around that time I had recently met a woman who also had a grandmother named “Molly Lyons” and I wondered if there was any relation to my grandmother as I vaguely remembered that every once in a while my grandmother was called “Molly” by any one of her 6 children who were my aunts, uncles and mother. My grandmothers real name was Mary Lyons until she married an American named Vincent Phinney and she became Mary Lyons Phinney AKA Molly Lyons to her siblings and children. When I questioned my grandmother as to where she got the nickname “Molly Lyons” I discovered that she apparently didn't like the nickname because, as she explained to me: “The reason that I chose to come to America was that I was getting very tired of milking the family cow and the neighbors cow as well. My Parents would have me sometimes go over to the Barry’s house every once in a while too because they were elderly and needed some assistance from time to time. One day the family cow took a swipe at my (grandmother's) head while I was sitting on a stool milking her and she knocked me (my grandmother) right off the stool and I landed on my butt on the ground. I was pulling on the cow’s utters a little too hard and our cow didn’t like it. It was after this incident that I swore that I was going to get out of Ireland and go to America so that I would never have to milk another cow ever again. When the day came that I was finally leaving, I was standing on the dock waiting to board the ship that was going to take me to Ellis Island in New York(she eventually settled in Boston, Massachusetts). My brothers and sisters that were seeing me off came up with the nickname ‘Molly’ before I left, which was the name of our family cow and that's what they were calling me as I was leaving and the nickname stuck. " I couldn’t stop laughing after she told me this story. My wonderful loving Grandmother, who is terribly missed by everyone in our family, had 6 children, 12 grandchildren and 22+ great grandchildren at the time she passed away in 2008 and the numbers are still growing to now great grandchildren and we have Molly the family cow to thank for this.

[@davidnyc487]

That’s a great story 😂

[@tab9773]

This is an interesting and delightful story. Thank you for sharing it.

[@cherylmcreynolds3160]

Great story. Well done wee Molly. My Mummy is called Molly too.

[@patriciaoconnell488]

😮

[@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!

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@rekster11]

Great documentary. It helps to show us how fragile we truly are. Let’s hope humanity doesn’t make these dire mistakes again. It’s 2021 and there are early signs of high unemployment and hunger growing around the world...

[@garyneilson3075]

You're a perceptive person. Yes. Very rough times to come.

[@robertarnold6811]

Isn't it amazing that you never hear Irish folk whining and complaining about their plight and how badly they've been treated and demanding reparations? I really respect that about them they're very talented and interesting people

[@Cbd_7ohm]

@@robertarnold6811 Irish people weren't enslaved or jim crowed or redlined etc. I wouldn't expect you to ACTUALLY know history though.

[@hermanngoulhorn581]

@@Cbd_7ohm you need to read up on the Irish penal laws , as for enslavement, Barbary pirates / corsairs had abducted and enslaved whites in their thousands, while Africans were still enslaving one another.

[@khappy1286]

Oh, sadly it's coming. They've planned it for years. Sad.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@wk1810]

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

[@Mīmāmsā96]

Well it's time for you to go back then

[@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.

[@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.

[@JI7NKJ]

@@margaretohara7250 God bless them all.

[@margaretohara7250]

@@JI7NKJ 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

[@missredumbrella]

My great great granny was Irish and a tough old cookie, she lived til 98. She once got knocked off her bike , jumped back up and attacked the car that hit her .

[@josephsassone3753]

My maternal great-great-great-grandparents left Ireland in 1850 towards the end of the Great Hunger. If not for the potato famine I wouldn't exist today as I am one of their descendants. They settled in Burlington, New Jersey along the Delaware River. I'm fiercely proud of my Irish heritage. I have Scottish and Scandinavian blood as well but my Irish heritage speaks to me the loudest.

[@ianreynolds8552]

My father was Irish and he settled in Leicester ,uk in the 1950s ! Whether close relatives or not this is something to be remembered ! Hopefully this terrible tragedy will never happen again . Remember also that the British government turned its back on the Irish, not the British people! The British people were neglected by the British government at that time also ! Hunger was common in British along with dyer poverty !

[@marymclarnon759]

@@ianreynolds8552 Indeed. The British had the Grain Laws and refused to help The Starving Irish ☘️...

[@threadbear7609]

Shame. This us America's greatest weakness: people identifying with countries their long-ago ancestors left behind.

[@ballinamonaboy2089]

my dad and mam are irish i live in ireland and i toot an ancestry test and it was irish the whole way back

[@josephsassone3753]

@@ballinamonaboy2089 Very good.

[@oceanrock733]

My Irish Ancestors went to Canada, near Ottawa, where there was a large Irish community.

[@DeirdreEmm]

Many children were orphaned in the crossing on the coffin ships or in the fever sheds on Grosse Ile, and were adopted by French Canadian families. That's why it's not uncommon to see some Irish-looking faces with surnames like Kelly, Coneelly, McManus and Mullen in regions around Quebec who are culturally Acadian.

[@secallen]

@@DeirdreEmm God forbid they should have been adopted by English-speaking people. But what were the French doing in north America if they were a lovely non-colonialist people?

[@DeirdreEmm]

@@secallen I guess the English speaking people didn't want them.

[@KatMcKiv]

@@DeirdreEmm I don't think Mullen is Irish?

[@DeirdreEmm]

LOL maybe it's from somewhere else?

[@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.

[@Melody-st4df]

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

[@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

[@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

[@Briganteman]

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

[@ohoto3896]

Shocking this was produced by A&E. Stark contrast to 10 hour blocks of court cam and other sundry gargage. Would love to have a collection of doc from the 80s-90s from both them, History and Discovery of those days.

[@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!!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@elizanovoa]

This event was absolutely criminal.

[@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!

[@leomarkaable1]

My ancestors from Scotland were from the Highlands and were forced to labor as children in coal mines in Nova Scotia under the ocean floor. The clearances in the 1740's finished off the highlanders.

[@kitfrew9983]

Unfortunately the Clans Chieftains had as much to do with the Highland Clearances along with the gentry, they betrayed their own people

[@timmolloy7574]

It was a genocide carried out against the Scottish and Irish people, the English tried to wipe us out and replace us with their settlers.

[@TheTubeTube2]

You can say the same of most collaborators @@kitfrew9983

[@kitfrew9983]

@@TheTubeTube2 wholeheartedly agree, the Cheiften of the Clans had as much to do with the Highland Clearances along with the English Gentry, they certainly sold their people down the sane.

[@kitfrew9983]

Swanee

[@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!!!

[@Nedkelly-k6y]

My Irish ancestors came to New Zealand in late 1800s with their 12 children, + started a farm, still in the family.

[@jimwalsh8520]

Allowed to by the British Empire.

[@hermanngoulhorn581]

@@jimwalsh8520 Because they were citizens of the United Kingdom you absolute clown.

[@jimwalsh8520]

@@hermanngoulhorn581 You seem free and easy with the insults, the last enclave of a small mind

[@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.

[@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.

[@TeresaDonoghue]

Never forget. I am married to a Spanishman and live in Spain. my lads names are Ryan and Kerry. The later lives in Ireland very happily. I visit often. If anything , God forbid happens to my beloved hubbie , I will return to live in Ireland. My elder lad is in the Spanish military. We want nothing to do with England. I am very well versed in Ireland "s history. Never forget. The Irish were and are an incredible people. Most liked by other countries in the western world. What they endured for so long still brings me to tears. BUT, LOOK WHERE THEY ARE NOW. BLESS THEM. GOD SAVE IRELAND AND THE IRISH. THEY SO DESERVE . XXXXXXX

[@margaretohara7250]

Proves how people survived despite such hardship. We are celebrating ireland all over the United States this weekend - yes, rather early in parts of USA. USA recognizes the contribution of Irish people to this country. Slainte and blessings for St. Patrick's.

[@georgehetty7857]

Spains historical past is of course beyond any reproach, but you don’t seem to mind that! Also Ireland is at present experiencing mass diversity brought on by its own government!

[@yvonnecamblin8837]

This is so sad , my great grandmother was from Ireland...I think that she made it to Denmark before the famine.

[@yvonnecamblin8837]

@Emori100 we can't go by Norway. They are a different type of socialism they are quite a bit capitalism and then they pay a lot into their government. And they are quite happy with that. We are much bigger country I don't know how that would work for us

[@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.

[@ceciliaamirati4470]

When history discovered all the circumstances involved, not just the loss of diseased potato crops, it really was a genocidal nightmare.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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

[@giggiddy]

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

[@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.

[@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 🖕

[@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

@@darrenayres3146 You know I'm genuinely shocked you people don't know the first thing about the Irish potato famine of 1847/8 Almost like sinister forces are pulling your strings, either that or you're wicked :/

[@audreydempsey7269]

@@darrenayres3146 well said Darren

[@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.

[@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.

[@rubystaging237]

Looking from the outside as an outsider , Ireland look so green, rich and beautiful

[@emmabenedek646]

You not outsider.You are disociated.UK past 35 yrs has legacy 30.000 avoid deaths thats why we are getting UK Police attacks prompted by HM Religion.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.

[@lemostjoyousrenegade]

I agree. It's GORGEOUS!

[@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!!

[@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.

[@eliasbatista2807]

Shameful. We must remember that there are still people in many parts of the world who are starving to death and in dire need of help.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

*Until the post WW2 world, most of Europe* *suffered from periodic food shortages for* *various reasons.* (It could happen again) Regarding those areas of the world where famine still occurs --- If you keep feeding them and giving them modern medicine without insisting on birth-control; the population will "explode" .... Actually, that has already happened. Introduction of the potato allowed people on marginal land (that couldn't grow cereal crops) to eat, live and reporduce; and their children to live and reproduce. This took at least a couple of centuries, probably longer to occur as opposed to the post-1950 years of UN and US-AID supplementation (70 years) I think that the English government could have mitigated the suffering by feeding them and re-structuring the system; as well as forcing those on the poorest (or no) land to go to Australia (paid for by the British government

[@adorothyinkansas4392]

And what is heartwrenching is that there is no need for it in this day and age. None what so ever. God bless them that suffered and died; and those that still carry those burdens today. May God bless us all. ✌❤

[@boysofwexford]

@@here_we_go_again2571 force them to go to Australia... But pay for it....?? You do realise the English forced the Irish from their lands at knife point and the only reason the Irish couldn't grow enough food was because the English had stolen the land right??

[@here_we_go_again2571]

@@boysofwexford It is true that food-stuffs grown in Ireland were not distributed in Ireland because the Crown had a vested interest in preventing famine in British cities. That is why the UK should have continued to buy American grain for famine relief -- But it did not do so. The above said, the population of Europe, including Ireland had grown. Even if Ireland had not been Britain's larder, a large portion of Ireland's population would not have had their own necessary amount of arable land to survive without the potato. Large areas of Ireland, even in this era are not suitible for growing cereal grains. Germany and the Scandinavian countries (after the initial emergency measures, such as buying American grain) made arrangements to move those marginal farmers to areas where land was available. --- In UK, there had already been the English land clearances, as well as both the Lowland and Highland clearances. Those people had gone to British colonies and the USA. The Germans even bought land and sent clergy, as well as school teachers for the people that it relocated. That is why there are so many people in the USA's Midwest that were descended from Germans and Scandinavians -- That is where the farmland was cheap ... even before the American Civil War. The core problem of that era (not only in Ireland) was that the population of the countries had grown to the point that many had been reduced to a marginal existance. The introduction of the potato and other root vegetables had allowed these people to survive for almost 2 centuries -- Until the potato blight. In the early to mid-1800's the UK was the industrial power of Europe (Germany was becoming industrialized) but the rest of Europe lagged behind

[@here_we_go_again2571]

@TheSophiaChristosEcstacyParty Most of that money is spent on administrative costs ... Same is true of UN monies. There are also greedy people who pad their own pockets. The PTB of every country have their own families on the payrolls .... Unless one is connected; one does not get the jobs for the distribution.***. The same occurs with aid within any country. Most of it is eaten up by the cost of administering the programs. ***That is why USAID specifies that American companies ship the aid -- No point in paying someone to ship the aid who won't pay US taxes.

[@welshgreg21]

The British Empire was an ENGLISH Empire in everything but name. I'm a proud Welshman and we, too, suffered at the hands of the English (though not, obviously, to the extent of our Irish cousins). They did everything they could to eradicate our language and culture where children were actually beaten for speaking Welsh in school (despite it being their first language - Lookup up "Welsh Not"). If it weren't for the slate mines in the north and the coal mines in the south (almost all English-owned, by the way) offering employment, I'm sure that we too would have emigrated in much larger numbers. Blame the English for the wrongs committed in the name of the Empire...not necessarily the British!!

[@theeggtimertictic1136]

Don't blame the ordinary English people though they had nothing to do with it and we're trying to eek out their own existence .

[@kierandrake2296]

The Scots punched above their weight in the Empire, go and read some books.

[@patriciaburgess6940]

Its silly to blame 'the British people' - ordinary english people were hardly to blame. It was their ruling class, their government who were responsible. We need to move away from nationality - it is class that divides and oppresses people, not nationality. The ruling class had all the power...Still do, but not as much...

[@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.