Julie Walters Uncovers Dark Irish Family History | Who Do You Think You Are

[@michaeldukes4108]

John Kennedy once said something along the lines of, “To be Irish is to know at some point, the world will break your heart.”

[@itsme-sn5gi]

What does that mean?

[@ImNotaRussianBot]

Same as Russian. Why do you think we're drinkers?

[@beinspired1487]

I think "to live is to know at some point, things and people will break your heart"

[@OSTARAEB4]

It’s an old Irish ☘️ proverb that says, “Live long enough and the world will break your heart”.

[@proinseasokiellig4388]

@@itsme-sn5gi Lots of hardship

[@petermolloy992]

The reason for all those stone walls you see in Mayo and the rest of the west of Ireland is, the stones and rocks were pulled from the ground so that enough soil would be freed up to grow some potatoes. Every time you see one of those long, stone walls remember the reason it's there is, the land was so poor, all these stones were removed by hand, so that something could grow in that field. The Irish were forced west so that the fertile lands on the east coast and midlands could be used to grow foods to supply the British army and they built their empire. During the Irish famine when millions of Irish died of starvation, the british kept feeding their troops from the fertile fields on the east side of the country, while the Irish peasants starved on those rocky little patches of land in the west of Ireland. This part of british history was never thought to anyone in british schools. They just think we were a bunch of ignorant peasants. "What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul?"

[@niallmcdonagh1093]

And then the Irish joined the Empire forces and did the exact same thing to the locals...we're no saints.

[@whitetroutchannel]

chlorea did for more people during the same period, even at that time only like 2% of irish people where 100% dependant on potatoes

[@duibheasaoreilly167]

@@niallmcdonagh1093: You'd have opted to starve, would you?

[@theinfernomaster8826]

@@niallmcdonagh1093 so this is justification in your eyes....if you are irish shame on you Niall

[@niallmcdonagh1093]

@@theinfernomaster8826 Thank you for confirming that only one view of Irish history is woke acceptable.

[@Vesnicie]

A dark Irish family history. So in other words, an Irish family history.

[@_liam.Bradley]

Lol true

[@jessicasarahliddell8883]

😂

[@ahopefor]

Yep

[@MartinBradyRallyCoDriver]

“Tanned” you might say.

[@steveterrell7533]

🤣🤣🤣💯

[@11anna7]

It's sad to see poor Julie Walters' whole mood change. She so excited and happy but becomes somber quickly!

[@honey-feeney9800]

I learned much about my irish heritage from my grandparents and great aunts and uncles. I recall the songs they sung, especially if their was an event, like a wedding or wake, when drinking alcohol . I loved their Irish spirit and the generous nature in their hearts , their passion for a hopeful future , their love for their children whom they hoped would have stable , secure lives . The Irish are “salt of the earth “ people who suffered much, too much , pain and heartache. And what came out of that pain and heartache are fabulous writers , musicians , and actors who can relate to the dangerous plight of humans beings . My parents and ancestors blessed me with my irish heritage , for which I’m eternally grateful .

[@roberthayes6708]

And the Irish pride. And no matter what the situation or time of day, they could break out in song and/or dance, with or without music. My mom was Irish and I remember her breaking out in song many times. Her favorite song was Tura Lura Laura

[@themaskedman221]

Please. Let's move beyond the "inside" granny histories and onto a more nuanced narrative of the past.

[@lenagreen4031]

@@themaskedman221 please let's not. Don't like the truth change to another channel the Irish people suffered immensely under the English rule, but unlike some nations they don't harp on about it and pull on people's heart strings of how hard done by their ancestors had it. They just got on with my their lives instead of bleating constantly about their plight., And holding this particular country to ransom, like be their own people were blameless in it all.

[@themaskedman221]

@@lenagreen4031 Actually this entire comment section is an illustration of what the historian Liam Kennedy described as the "MOPE" syndrome -the mythical belief that the Irish were uniquely victimized throughout history. MOPE stands for "Most Oppressed People Ever." Sorry, but this is not "the truth", but a twisting of the historical record so as to exaggerate Irish suffering. It's propaganda, not history.

[@cynthiasilvera4656]

Everything the Brits did to their Colonies they first tried out on the Catholic Irish

[@rachaeldiviney712]

I have census records saying my family lived in a cave a the time of the famine, so the harrowing example the genealogist gave isn't even the worst of it

[@ricwhite612]

im irish living in the south of spain, people still live in caves here its quite normal

[@nicolad8822]

Not many census records survive?

[@rebeccagreggforeman4936]

When I visited Westport, County Mayo in 2016 I was absolutely staggered by the beauty. On the whole west coast of Ireland there were reminders everywhere of the famine.

[@pennychurchward1481]

I was also there that yr. my mother was born there and her cousins still live there. I love it. I’m from Australia and my mother died when I was 4 so could not find out any family history until I started going there in 2014. It was wonderful.

[@bbcseriesfan]

I’m Belgian and always had been rather enthusiastic about the English History, monarchy and culture. Then, I lived in Ireland for a year. And learned a LOT. Suffice to say, I’m not such a fan of English History anymore.....

[@corcaighogormghus4618]

You can still enjoy English history, yes awful things happened but the everyday English people would have nothing to do with it. To have interest in England history of culture, etc etc is fine.

[@chriswilliams6568]

Yes lots of bad things happened, and in history all nations did nasty things, some are still doing them. I think we just have to appreciate that most countries have learned from mistakes made, and have rectified their behaviour.

[@CARLIN4737]

or irish history by the sound of it?

[@markettechniques]

Well in reality the same exact 'terrible' things that the 'english' (actually recently conquerors of england I.e the french) did to the Irish... are the same things that the vikings and Norman's did to the native Britons. Can't pick and choose history to make one side seem bad.

[@dunneincrewgear]

@@markettechniques Not a great comparison at all. Better to compare what the Irish did to a race/country they conquered. I think you might just see the problem...

[@coopsevy5664]

How lucky and what a blessing to see where your ancestors lived.

[@andreawindrim8235]

Now I know where she gets her great sense of humour and kindness from her Irish grandmother.

[@Roz-y2d]

🤮

[@VioletWillowTree]

The British say “seizing land” in Ireland we would say “stealing land” :(

[@OSTARAEB4]

Truer words were never said! Beyond evil what they did! My family had seven castles in Tipperary and the Kilnamanagh Mountains region and resettled to An Clar during of course, Oliver Cromwell may he eternally burn in Hell.

[@ralphraffles1394]

Bjorn Goumundsen There again Cromwell came to Ireland in response to what the Pope proclaimed the worst atrocities anywhere in Europe by Catholics against Protestants. Not in his name declared the POPE..

[@shampoo-supernova]

@@OSTARAEB4 It was wrong, the aristocracy of the time were to blame and still are now.

[@TheClitteratidublin]

@Bjorn Goumundsen Harsh

[@kaleahcollins4567]

Like they stole African lands Australia lands etc.exactly

[@janefriel6895]

Our beautiful country was cut up and taken.☘️

[@agentlemanofhermajesty7051]

Irish pagan tribes pledged their allegiance to King Alfred The Greay. Therefore it wasn't your lans to being with 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@janefriel6895]

@@agentlemanofhermajesty7051 I'm not sure where you are from, however,the education system must be pretty useless.🇨🇮

[@janefriel6895]

Your BRF are showing their true colours, aren't they?

[@agentlemanofhermajesty7051]

@@janefriel6895 I'm actually half Irish. You'll be surprised the crimes of our people. And now Ireland is a nation that is reliant of bail outs and protection from the UK.

[@agentlemanofhermajesty7051]

@@janefriel6895 You can even tell irish people are caring less about their national. Theres more Irish (Not including Ulster Irish) nationals in the British Army Regulars and Reserves than there are in the actual IDF

[@johnburman966]

Ireland has a sad dark feeling.....It's everything, the climate, the low sombre clouded skies, the history. The people in contrast try to be cheerful, you can see why.

[@mjade1673]

Strictly speaking of nature tho not all clouded skies feel gloomy.

[@EK-ev3pt]

Ireland is beautiful though.

[@h.d.5194]

It rains a lot but in the summer it can be beautiful especially in the west

[@christopherwilson6572]

Genocide of the Irish by the British was never a famine.

[@ericseventeen17]

@Heloise O'Byrne Famine means there’s no food. There was plenty enough food, it was just being shipped off to Britain under armed guard

[@ericseventeen17]

@Heloise O'Byrne the definition of a famine is “a scarcity of food” by that metric alone it fails as a famine as Ireland didn’t have a scarcity of food it actually produced plenty, whether it was crops like oats, barley, wheat or the likes of fish, ham, pork, beans, peas etc.. while political or economic reasons led to many other so called famines across the globe, such as in Africa or across Asia, in many of those cases it led to there being literally nothing to eat. Unlike in Ireland where there actually was food but it was seized and sent to Britain. So it wasn’t a case of England “not sharing theirs” it was more them taking from Ireland and causing them to starve. Let’s not forget the British navy also blockaded aid from other countries reaching Ireland, and when you take away someone’s food and prevent food from getting to them, it’s pretty obvious what happens next!

[@kazbaz2011]

Visited a workhouse museum in Portumna last year - heartbreaking how our people were treated by greedy landowners.

[@ChairmanRingo]

Irish definitely had it worse (the famine was far worse over there, religious persecution etc) but remember the lot of the working class in Britain wasn't much better. Workhouses existed all over the UK too.

[@smallfeet4581]

@@ChairmanRingo my mum from Scotland told me how kids had no shoes . She had photos of them . Another relative was born in a poor house .

[@noon4545]

The one is portumna is excellent. So eerie

[@noon4545]

@@smallfeet4581 the no shoes isn’t just a famine thing. A lot of older people I know walked miles to school and some in bare feet. People played in bare feet too and kept shoes for important things like walking as well. This is in rural areas

[@smallfeet4581]

@@noon4545 yes I know people as kids preferred wearing no shoes in summer but had plenty shoes , that was 70s , poorer people did have shoes , dress\suit and a coat they kept good for Sunday's or occasions , what I was talking about was not rural but just poor in 30s depression era where you could get shoes from the parish which had a hole punched at the back so you couldn't sell them on , now kids want trainers at 100 quid lol, many men's suits were pawned for a few weeks and the man didn't know , you could go to the cinema with an empty jeely jar , tough but happy times and you wasted nothing

[@GordonGarvey]

The state if the lives of the irish and the contrast between how they lived compared to their landlords was similar to the slaves in America, but it doesn't quite get recognised as the same generally.

[@miakeogh6844]

My sentiment exactly

[@mjade1673]

The Gaslighting of colonialism remains the legacy of it victims

[@finny_bux]

We were treated like savages yes but we were not bought and sold like cattle the suffering of my people was barbaric but please refrain from equating our situation to slavery we were barely seen as people yes but we at least didn't have to suffer the indignity of sold in chains at the market!

[@GordonGarvey]

@Kai Cee shut up

[@uptoolate2793]

@@finny_bux Oh bull. You know little of history. There were thousands of Irish children who would have happily chosen the cotton fields over the dangerous mechanical woolen mills with hot vats of carcinogenic dyes and the ridiculous company town wage system associated with them.

[@sueroberts6193]

My paternal ancestors were tenant farmers. They moved from Somerset to Cambridgeshire to live and work. When working men got the vote, my ancestor voted Labour. His rich landlord was informed, was furious and threw them out. They were allowed to take a horse and cart to put what belongings they could fit on it with six children. After going to Birmingham to seek work and a home, they were told to go to Cardiff where a steel works was opening. There they found work and a house in the Splot area near the Cardiff docks. This story is simply told, but hides the anguish, discomfort and fear of all the family so badly treated. 🤔😢🏡

[@752brickie]

She is an amazing actress !! Love the British and Irish actors and actresses ! They have CLASS ! Unlike ours over here in the States !

[@stellaclarke341]

Don't forget, speaking the Irish Language was outlawed, savage penalty for doing so was lynching.

[@nancyreece969]

Stella clarke Really ❗️...never knew or heard anything about that. Life too hard for tenants.😞

[@keithkeegan9776]

@@nancyreece969 yes speaking your native tongue.

[@lynnchotoocho9713]

When the New England missionaries came to Hawaii, they forbid the Hawaiians to speak their language or dance their Hula. And they figured out a way to take their lands as well.The Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani was imprisoned in her Iolani Palace for 9 months while a new & corrupt government was established. And some people wonder why some Hawaiians are indignant ! Still they are a good-natured race .Mark Twain thought they were God's sweetest work. I agree.

[@billlyspencer3118]

Now the Irish language is prevented by the Ulster Scots {DUP} who were given the land of the native Irish by the English invaders!

[@ravirumplestiltskin598]

LC: The missionaries arrive in the land and they hand out bibles and tell the population to kneel down, close their eyes and pray. When the population finishes praying, open their eyes and stand up they find that they still have their bibles but have lost their land.

[@gillianmcmullan6945]

So sad Irish history not allowed in protestant schools SHAMEFUL. I am a protestant but i wanted to know my Irish history !

[@billlyspencer3118]

Check out 1798?

[@TheAyla2004]

Several project Irish figure were protestant

[@billlyspencer3118]

check 1798?

[@dukadarodear2176]

Many of Ireland's greatest advocates for freedom were Protestant. Dean Jonathan Swift was a tireless campaigner for justice in Ireland. Notable Protestant advocates for justice and independence such as Wolf Tone and Henry Joy McCrackin paid with their lives. The first President of the Irish Free State was the Protestant Gaelic Scholar Douglas Hyde. The Penal Laws were introduced after the success of the Williamites over their own family members The Jacobites to deprive the Catholic Irish of every single human right including the right to own property in their own country. They were enforced rigorously until the mid 1700s leading to frequent famine, death and immigration. But freedom won out in the end and many Protestants joined in the long drawn out effort.

[@solinvictus1982]

seriously? What history is studied?

[@aimeef.9111]

As a person born and living in ireland, I can’t wait to see the full episode. Looks very interesting

[@Lite_Fare]

Imagine, Irish families - IN THEIR OWN COUNTRY - pleading for the mercy of a foreigner.

[@sallieceelee5660]

That's the English for you

[@travisinthetrunk]

The same could be said for many peoples.

[@cyan1616]

In the US, it's called Eminent Domain. They legally take homes ans land away from poor people, and give it to 'job creators'.

[@fayrahman95]

Says every colonized country ever! :")

[@33479Leigh]

I’d say england is pleading for mercy in their own country now

[@gabe-po9yi]

The thought of being born and raised in a country, as were generations of your ancestors, and then one day you no longer own your land or home. Your homeland now belongs to a foreigner and to add insult to injury, you are indebted to him for your very survival.

[@uptoolate2793]

If we're not careful, this will happen in the United States and Canada. Don't believe me? Notice how far in debt people go and who holds the debt.

[@kevingouldrup9265]

I am a U.S. citizen who's family came over from Mayo. Thank God for the U.S. We have prospered here and are very happy. Still have fond feelings about Ireland and it's people.

[@Lafemmefutile]

The US itself is another stolen land. Instead of learning to share we just report the theft and oppression to the next land/person.

[@pennychurchward1481]

4 Horkan brothers went to US in the 1840s from Mayo. A few of my Brennan family also left in the 1870s from Dublin. Can follow all of them in the Census. General Horkan is a relative of mine.

[@printolive5512]

my great grandfather went through the same exact thing and left Ireland in 1858 for America with a pregnant wife and 3 small children. They settled in Missouri and the rest is history.

[@peggymaynard9193]

My Pop told us we were Scottish-Irish, English, German,Cherokee. They move from many places on the east coast to Missouri the southwest

[@fishinwidow35]

@@peggymaynard9193 Scots-Irish were Scots who had been removed to Ireland then moved on to the Americas.

[@peggymaynard9193]

Yes I know now as a child my dad told us that we are Scottish-Irish. In my 50's I did research & learned that. But wouldn't they become Irish? Dad also told us we were Cherokee. 3 of us kids have no Cherokee, maybe our 2 siblings that didn't get dna have it. My oldest brother has French ,N. Italian & S. Italian. I have eastern Europe & Russian. And almost all of Africa. That was a surprise.

[@fishinwidow35]

@@peggymaynard9193 Scots-Irish just reflects that their immigration papers showed they left via Ireland. They never gave up their Scottish heritage. The group was only there for about 70 years. Even now, after 300 years they don't give up the history just by calling themselves Scots-Irish, it's largely been forgotten where the description came from.

[@jmillar71110]

In the UK, Scots-Irish folks are called Ulster Scots and still live in Northern Ireland.

[@ralphraffles1394]

When Prince Albert married Victoria he was appalled at the lack of support shown by the rich to the poor. There had been no revolution unlike the US and France.

[@adiscourse9489]

Ralph Raffles - And now with homelessness on the rise, all the rich in America can say is: Get them (the homeless) away from my house - I feel unsafe. Nothing has changed.

[@Kitiwake]

The was a revolution in Ireland in 1798...a big one. Another two smaller rebellions in Ireland in 1803 and 1848.

[@susannaude8514]

Whenever I read about the injustices done to the Irish people, my blood starts boiling.

[@chriswilliams6568]

Yes, sad as it all was, terrible things happened to all nations at one time or another.

[@chriswilliams6568]

Spiritoflugh8 obviously, so. I just made a comment. stop being so aggressive.

[@thomasgrice8864]

@@chriswilliams6568 Easy to know your Breeding.

[@bealtainecottage]

A reminder of the terrible struggle my people faced!

[@dawnadriennetaylor970]

Every people, Colette, when a) you look at the collective world - and still now the continued starvation and destruction e.g. the Uyghur suppression in China to name only one - and b) know what the Crown is. It's not the Queen as most people think. Look also at The Dustbowl in America, the Industrial Revolution in Britain which was also designed to force people off the land, Africa which we were told 50 years ago would be restored by re-irrigation, still hasn't happened, Native Americans and so many more. Until people unite as inhabitants of Earth and not divided by counrty/nationality and the false history, change will remain painfully slow. I have Irish ancestors on both parental sides but feel for all sentient beings without borders.

[@StraitKnopfler]

Also a reminder that many British people are ancestrally closer to the Irish people who suffered than to the British elites who committed those terrible acts.

[@thenextshenanigantownandth4393]

@@dawnadriennetaylor970 Right because people in England and America died and fled by the millions, and that's why the Irish went to England and the u.s because it was just as bad as there...

[@CaliWeHo]

😥

[@LorenaCabreraVera]

You think permaculture could have helped through the famine?

[@laurenirwin1938]

Hearing stories like these make my heart hurt. I’m a Catholic Irish-American and I grew up hearing stories like these. It is almost identical to the stories of so many Native American families and tribes who experienced a forceful eviction from their own land. It’s absolutely heartbreaking to think that the same think possibly happened to my own family too.

[@whitetroutchannel]

could you imagine if your forefathers didnt invite the english into ireland how different it would have been, you would still be in the dump like the rest of us

[@Roz-y2d]

Grow up.🤮

[@judithhand4987]

Such a time in Irish history! I have many Irish ancestors (I'm American) and treasure that fact. The first time I knew of Julie Walter was when I saw the movie "Educating Rita". Just fell in love with it and her dynamic, sweet relationship with Michael Caine. In fact, I need to make a point of finding it again. Of course she was a treat in "Mamma Mia". I'll now look at the clip I see of her activism.

[@judithhand4987]

I'm looking at my comment of a month ago and see that I didn't spell Julie's last name correctly...WALTERS! Sorry, Julie! I'm a fan; maybe it was a typo? Anyway, there 'tis.

[@Lite_Fare]

BTW, "Educating Rita" was shot in Dublin.

[@maryshaffer8474]

The most beautiful land in the world with terrible deeds done.

[@ondineclaudel]

So unfairly treated by the British, one day they will have their comeuppance

[@brianburke886]

Unfortunately so did our politicians in Ireland too, so we're also going to suffer yet again after being through an 800 year plantation

[@eclipsegfxable]

@@ondineclaudel Nahh we won't.

[@TheVeek192]

Like everywhere.

[@whitequeen96]

They died of "green mouth disease;" their mouths were green because all they had to eat was grass. Tragic!

[@bernadettemurray8260]

Whoa that shocked me!

[@Lafemmefutile]

Oh dear, never heard of this and it sounds terrifying.

[@whitequeen96]

@@Lafemmefutile It wasn't an actual disease you got from grass. It was a sarcastic way to say that the person had been so hungry that they had been eating grass for a while. Their mouths were stained from the chlorophyll. Hence, green mouths were a sign of terrible suffering and starvation and there were many, many corpses found with them.

[@catbeara]

"Came into possession", nice way of putting it. 😅

[@Lee-cz8dh]

Its amazing the amount of famous people that actually have Irish roots!

[@rockeee]

The photo from the house in Dublin is Kenure House, Rush, Co. Dublin which is where I live and my hometown. The house was demolished in the late 1970s with the exception of the front portico pillars which stand to this day.

[@Doorito_]

For the amount of controversy and actual history i'm surprised i never got taught about the Ireland and uk relationship.

[@davidwootton683]

I grew up in Ireland during the Troubles. And seeing now what is happening with the border and Brexit. It beggars belief that they allowed this vote in the first place. This decision is as bad as the original separation of Ireland in the first place.

[@ondineclaudel]

Perhaps oldman is too old to realise that the young will change the face of Ireland and Brexit will decide of its future , hopefully a due reunification , northern ireland is like a cancer and it's so out of place in the 21st century.

[@MySpartapictures]

This is how it still is! You own? No. Nothing us owned. It can all be taken away. I lived it in America.

[@rovingroller4190]

You can cry for these people

[@janedoe133]

This woman is a national treasure.

[@TheresaPowers]

SHES ONLY AN ACTRESS.

[@losullivan2001]

The Irish famine should be part of the English school syllabus

[@nicoladavies3391]

Liam O Sullivan It is included in various themes, but there is choice in what topics History teachers choose to cover.

[@nigelmurphy6761]

absolutely and i would also add that Irish history in general should be taught in English schools.

[@maxmullen6337]

Nigel Murphy. Including when Irish Catholics slaughtered thousands of Protestants in 1641. When they even cut the babies out of the stomachs of pregnant women. And the evil history of Catholics everywhere. Tens of thousands of French Huguenots fled to England after the massacre of thousands of their kind by Catholics. The Catholic Queen Mary (Bloody Mary) who had hundreds executed, many by burning at the stake. And the attempt by Catholics to stamp-out the renascence by executing those who wished to provide rational explanations for natural events. Even Galileo was threatened with torture and kept under house arrest for the rest of his life for repeating the notion that the Earth orbits the sun, not the other way around. (That’s why leadership of the world moved to non-Catholic Northern Europe and to this day Catholic ruled countries tend to be poor and only recently democracies.) And the Catholic Church only accepted that the Earth really did orbit the Earth in the mid nineteenth century!! No wonder the English lacked respect for Catholics Irish or otherwise. And just to say, the potato famine affected northern England and Scotland as well. But they were able to deal with it. And it was only after the Irish failed to do what the English and the Scots had done did a newly elected government decide to end or reduce help. It was a bad decision taken on the advice of a famed philanthropist famous for good works. He thought too much help made the Irish irresponsible. History is complicated.

[@amw112]

More like Irish genocide

[@maxmullen6337]

A W. its a pity it didn’t work.

[@CazPea]

It was the British government and aristocracy that caused the Irish people’s hardships, not the British people. Believe it or not, the average working British person were also tenants to these controlling land owners. We were and continue to be controlled by them in charge

[@paullooney8960]

I agree with you compleatly,some of my ancestors were English on my grandmothers side,they had enough of the empire and being used as cannon fodder in their wars,as soilders,they turned in to Irish nationalists,sadly we are all now under attack from Globalists,we can not let them win.

[@Driver2616]

Well observed. You are one of the few that understand the truth of it all…

[@Minime163]

I fully agree the government thought that poverty was peoples own fault and treated English poor just as badly as Irish poor if you couldn't pay your way you went to the workhouse where you either died or were sent to Australia to work on the big farms or buildings their and if you were a woman as a wife for the big property owners so while we Irish have plenty of reason to grieve at our past treatment by past British governments so do working class English people.

[@billybyrne523]

You are right yo a certain extent but show me where the population of Britain was reduced by 25% in the space of 5 years. So no, they were not treated the same

[@heartlocket91]

Ireland went through a famine. They were not treated the same. The fact Irish history isn’t taught in schools in Britain says it all.

[@piayugamer7105]

The historian is fabulous.

[@marianneleng3606]

the rich living off the backs of the poor, nowts changed then has it everywhere.

[@nancyreece969]

Marianne Leng ...No, money means power and most didn’t use their power for good.😔

[@ravirumplestiltskin598]

ML: Correct, it has only gotten worse. There are the ''makers and bakers'' and the ''rakers and takers''. The takers now are the Bankers and their politician gang members.

[@marianneleng3606]

@@ravirumplestiltskin598 for sure

[@hetrodoxly1203]

The same as in England and every country in Europe, the way the rich treat the poor the world over.

[@hetrodoxly1203]

The price to pay is human nature and greed, most of those on the bottom of the pile would be doing what those on the top do if they could, during that period you talk of inflation was running at 25%, no electricity and a bankrupt labour government going cap in hand to the MFI to beg for money.

[@Reclusive_gardener]

" if you can't pay will take it away"

[@joemacdonnagh6750]

Palmers not landowners , but land thieves , you can't own that which you steal.

[@gardensofthegods]

A lot of people don't understand why the failed potato crop caused so much starvation among the poor Irish . It was a cash crop : no potatoes = NO MONEY .

[@gardensofthegods]

@Margaret Gust right, a lot of people don't understand everything that was going on here . My great-grandfather left County Mayo when he was about 10 years old.. he came to America and when he got off the ship he was an orphan... he may have been an orphan when he got on the ship ...we don't know . Terrible thing that happened ... starvation is a terrible way to go

[@frolicwitme]

No!!! The land that they had they grew potatoes on it for themselves, a small plot of land you could grow a lot of potatoes. The rest of the land they had was used to grow corn etc that was the cash drop that was used to pay the landlord. When the blight struck we were faced with a dilemma eat the corn and don't pay the rent or pay the rent and starve.

[@Zombehnation1001]

It was a staple crop, not a cash crop. They depended on it for their food, that's why it was so devastating.

[@thenextshenanigantownandth4393]

Funny how so many of the English are trying to either justify it in the comments or do revisionism and claim they had it just as bad.

[@deniseg-hill1730]

No not all the English you can't judge a whole race by the actions of some. That is just ridiculous There was terrible poverty malnutrition and disease in England. The situation was the same in England, Rich Landowners exploiting the poor. The Land enclosure Acts, the rich stealing common land from the people. Stately homes with all that land was given by the King/Queen to people who did their dirty work. Nothing has changed still have the few who own much of the land in the UK. My late Grandmother on my Fathers side was Irish from Dublin born in 1893. I and my sisters are trying to look into her family ancestry.

[@dabdella1460]

@@deniseg-hill1730 judge a whole race you write . English is a nationality Origin of birth. Dd

[@deniseg-hill1730]

@@dabdella1460 English Scottish Irish Welsh are nationalities. British you can be a British Citizen after 5 years residence it doesn't make you English, Welsh Scottish or Irish. The English are an ethnic group same as the others. British is anybody who has a British passport.

[@dabdella1460]

@@deniseg-hill1730 I am from a family of all thee above mentioned but we are all only from the one race of human Dd

[@deniseg-hill1730]

@@dabdella1460 Obviously but It annoys me when these days the English are blamed for everything.

[@PaulMuzik]

The English eating nice food with big houses while the Irish starved to death

[@bernadettemurray8260]

Appalling so sad!

[@hetrodoxly1203]

You mean the rich, like the world over, are you that thick you think there wasn't any poor English.

[@PaulMuzik]

@@hetrodoxly1203 England had no right to make any country starve while they ate... Hence why the Irish don't like or trust the English.... Then again not many country's do

[@hetrodoxly1203]

How did the Scottish, English and Welsh cause the potato famine? I've travelled the world and have nothing but friendship shown to me so that's a load of BS, what country are you from?

[@brendanCominsky]

hetrodoxly 1 it was a potato blight that destroyed all potato crops which was the staple diet of Irish tenants. All other foods were exported to England or taken by the Planted English/Scottish landlords. That’s why they caused it.

[@katiemart7]

My Paternal Great Grandfather left his parents home in 1845 in Tipperary, traveling by 🛳 ship to Wisconsin via Canada and Vermont. I am sure it was due to the potato blight in Ireland. I’m not sure if there were any of his family left behind in Ireland. I hope not.

[@margueriteheale7829]

Thus the stoicism of these wonderful people our Irish grand and great grand parents. They had little in their lives but Godin their hearts. The potato famine killed or destroyed so much land and people’s. So very sad.xx

[@ArchangelAva]

Marguerite Heale genocide. Not a famine, pure genocide.

[@freedomatlast8756]

It was NOT famine but genocide.

[@KINNARAMONEY]

Ireland has never had a fimine,while these people starved to death the English were still exporting food from Ireland. Also at this time such requests for reduced rents could result in imprisonment.

[@miriamhavard7621]

Forty acres....... An interesting resonance to an American like me.......

[@miakeogh6844]

Not the failed potato crop but the English deliberate genocide of the Irish population they knew exactly what they were doing.

[@GeekRex]

Makes me glad that my Irish family left in the early 1700s. F-ing British (I am 15% Irish, 80% English--so I am at constant odds with myself).

[@TheVeek192]

It's all in the past. There's no changing it, and all who did it are long dead. You are YOU, not them and not their actions. Move on.

[@honeybee3317]

When will financial reparations be made to the Irish for the stealing of their land, then the genocide in the mid 1800s, and further theft of land , by the English Parliament?

[@EggGames]

United Kingdom was formed late 1800s Ireland will never get financial reparations. No one can be accountable for what people did in technically a different country

[@ccahill2322]

@@EggGames , could you refrain from writing garbage. "United Kingdom was formed in late 1800's". Idiot trying to sound knowledgeable. "No one can be accountable for what people did in technically a "different" country." What a useless and completely meaningless sentence. Go back to reading your comics.

[@finn4012]

When the rest of the world gets reparations from the UK. If the UK was to repay every country they wronged then they’d be in major debt

[@murpho999]

@@EggGamesJust shocking you think this. Act of union forcing Ireland into a union with Britain creating the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was passed in 1801 , so hardly late 19th century. Ireland suffered greatly under British rule, was not treated as an equal part of a union and was more like a colony. Famine of 1845 -52 was largely a British creation due to land policies as shown in this video and was exacerbated by poor British government response that devastated Ireland and still has repercussion today as Ireland is the only country in the world with a lower population today than the mid 19th century.

[@adelaidemorningstar1870]

They were not poor,they were subjected people by the dominant force at the time,,,the obsessive dominant English

[@elizabethlackey9563]

I'm Scot Irish and Welch.. I'd love to travel back there and track my family roots. I have other dna too but would love to go there

[@tboutros1]

same thing happened to my ancestors in Lebanon from 1600's to WW1. Labanese catholics ruled by Ottoman turks.

[@susanthacker3286]

My ancestors came from Galway, Ireland. George Athey came into Maryland in the middle of the 1600s.

[@Coughlan1916]

Fantastic show, teaches English celebs how hard their Irish ancestors had it and who was to blame. Eye opener for sure

[@maryscott9430]

That grass is sooo bright green!❤

[@bernlin2000]

Really must make Julie appreciate what she has 💖

[@AMJLBCA773]

Every physical empath smiled when she wanted to touch the walls

[@geraldwalsh6489]

A really caring lady and a brilliant actress. The only non Irish person to truly nail a realistic Irish accent! (See the movie Brooklyn,where Julie played an Irish landlady)

[@yellowbox2258]

Just like in India British policy was active in creating the starvation of millions of people

[@johnquinn6351]

Then there was the land grabbers my family were evicted he refused to pay the rent in solidarity with the people but our land was taken

[@chrisfeistner8294]

I see the comments on the Irish famine. At this time it did not just effect Ireland. The potato famine effected all of Europe and brought on a mass depression economically. Many of my ancestors came from Norway. From family accounts it sometimes took several families going together just to book 1-2 people to get them out, as they were so poor.

[@thomasgrice8864]

It disproportionately impacted the Irish and as they were occupied by a foreign power who continued exporting the other Irish food sources, it is considered Genocide.

[@smallbeginning2]

huh. legend has it that my great grandparents were Irish and got pushed to Scotland because of the famine. also named clarke. wonder if it's the same.

[@katparks4631]

I am British and American and I have Irish Ancestry.

[@buzzuser5950]

shes my cousin

[@johnnykay7411]

Every land has its Karma few know anything about, just as the monarchy as a whole in every country on the planet. Knowing this, is it any wonder the UK is experiencing such incredible change in a relatively short period of history? There's so much more to come in just the next few years, that the next decade will be unrecognizable for those stuck about what is truly right and proper. Some things never were, and they won't be soon enough, either. They'll simply cease to exist and the arguments for their rightness or wrongness will be as dead as the past we thought would always be with us. Be well. Live like you mean it.

[@cordelia81]

Is the camera filtering the colors into this greenish supergreen? Or ..is it that green there?

[@cecilegreer8122]

That's the green there. I went on holiday, and the color green is unlike any other place on earth!

[@davidpryle3935]

That’s why it’s called the Emerald Isle.

[@damienhugh]

And it's all happening again

[@francismadden8561]

they never talk about the first great Anglo banking crisis after slavery was abolished. 1 million dead in Ireland was not enough for the bankers and economists. 1840s was a brutal time to have lived. they eventually got 1.5 million + plus all who managed to escape to different countries. 1840s 1st crisis, 2nd 1930s and coming up fast is 2020, every 90 yrs and now it's all about to revisit . The Horror .

[@Adam-qu5uk]

Normally granchildren or Julie's Mother will inherit the land I wonder what happened

[@noortjelief1987]

probably sold it

[@brazilianbhoy]

Pay attention,they didn't own the land.

[@noortjelief1987]

@@brazilianbhoy he could have meant the original owner, the ones from england.

[@TheRiordanlad]

@@noortjelief1987 They were sent packing in 1921...all lands taken back into the hands of the New Irish State and redistributed to the rightful owners

[@noortjelief1987]

@@TheRiordanlad yeah, i guess i did not remember the comment clearly or misread it bc he is specifically talking about the family not the landowner 🙈 so just ignore my stupid comment 😂

[@apcoulthard]

This sad period of Irish history is part of Susan Howatch's novel "Cashelmara". It is well worth reading.

[@pameladawson4081]

I am still trying to find information on my great-great grandfather from Northern Ireland. I think it was during the great famine that he came to America. On Ancestry, one section I found says he came over alone during his early teens then met his future wife. Another said he was already married to Ruth Hall. Both could not read or write. I really wish I could find pictures also. Have to do more digging. I want to know.

[@pameladawson4081]

@@randomvidios09 Thank you so much for that information, it will help. I do so want to know more. Thanks again. Be safe...

[@pameladawson4081]

@@randomvidios09 You are so right. Northern Ireland had not been established. The uprising I have read about did not even occur until 1916(?), and the split occurred later. Of course! I feel like such a dummy. Time to read again the history.

[@patriciajrs46]

That had to have been harsh. One doesn't know what one would do, until one is faced with such desparation.

[@adiscourse9489]

This reality is why so many just left Ireland.

[@aidan2204]

this isnt a dark irish history its just normal irish history

[@CARLIN4737]

which is dark?

[@danielmota1095]

the Spanish practice the same thing in the Americas

[@Linlateal1990]

I’ll just have a feel of the walls. Lovely

[@robinsalario4372]

i love julie walters.

[@annemchurchwell]

I'm aware of how big 40 acres are my grandparents had that, I walked it every weekend growing up.

[@roycroftki5358]

The bastards were robbing the land from the people.

[@bobbrown5951]

This is my family history too on my mother's side. Left County Mayo for Scotland.

[@carolynandrade2648]

Clarke - Catholic Clark- Protestant

[@mjade1673]

We so often forget the elite throughout history and today claim any area they like and are very often not original to any of their territories. We have such prides and roots and loyalties that they do not. Their loyalties remain to their estates. We often forget these things as it is to us such a foriegn way of life. As they have means they lived longer. The original estates remain to the elder members of family the young went off to conquer and prove their value to the estate. Family = Estate (wealth, holdings and the management thereof). This has happened in African countries as well where it still happens today. It used to happen in the far east and Mongolia. Perhaps its still happening in the far east. (There are of course more examples even, these are the ones I've made). As long as we allow and value their system of money and borders it will plague 'the people' the commoners, and ensure corruption. And each time a nation falls they either stay to continue the succubus cycle under new titles, if there's anything to be had, or pack up the jewels and move on. And yet here we are being continually prodded to have nationalistic pride never fully comprehending we are fighting their wars and actually just singing labor songs

[@niallmartin9063]

In an alternative Universe, the potato crop fails yet again in 1847 and Westminster muster’s it’s considerable resources to save it’s “citizens”. The abundance of food produced in Ireland is kept within Ireland to stave off calamity until the tide is turned. A grateful Ireland is forever loyal to the United Kingdom, a benevolent homeland for all the inhabitants of the Islands. Ireland’s population is probably 17 Million with large communities on the island of Britain as well. But we live in this Universe.

[@petesacco3255]

The rich keep getting richer while the rest of us just keep getting old

[@averyream1196]

Loved her acting in Harry Potter

[@Hurricaneintheroom]

I wonder if her ancestors were sent to Canada? During this time because it was so hard to live through this, some of the churches sent families to Canada, America, etc. At least you would have a chance.

[@blinkinyourarea244]

this is basically my entire family history :(

[@v.britton4445]

Stolen land. Poverty. The Cruelty.

[@PaulBrennan.]

The English can NEVER be forgiven for that they did to the Irish people, land & property.

[@anthonyinger7591]

Scotland is up to it's knees in Irelands problems, not just England.

[@Kitiwake]

Yes they can

[@hht6676]

Well then i shouldn't even open the can of worms. India was the worst affected

[@lesleymcshanemitchell9651]

not everyone read about the Cotton Mills or Lancashire/Yorkshire

[@68iansutton]

So, let’s blame the modern English for something the historic English did? Even though most of the modern English have some Irish in them? Sounds fair……

[@itseamuscallan7004]

ah the glory of the British Empire

[@patsig7632]

You mean the gory!

[@lindapesnell5723]

❤️ Thank You ❤️

[@mariansmith7694]

Beautiful land.

[@ritamary72]

My grandmother Mary Burns Sanford was the daughter of immigrants from County Mayo. Unfortunately I don't know anything about her or her parents.

[@JohnJStanton]

I have family from the border of Galway and Mayo. Just knowing how to understand some items on the 1880 census as helpful. I bet they were tenants and not owners as I thought. I have a great grandfather who was executed for fishing in the "King's River". At least that is what my father was told. My grandmother was not from Ireland but from the "Irish Free State".

[@kerrylad1093]

You can trace your ancestry now. Check ‘net

[@Koalatronic]

Oh, that took a dark turn very quickly indeed 😔

[@normanseagull4027]

Would be useful if you caught the beginning.

[@marinazagrai1623]

When these shows started out, about celebrities, I thought "how come they're considered more important than the regular people?", but then, all of us could get their DNA tested - and even though my family is from Eastern Europe, I never knew we had family from my dad's side (distant cousins who fled,with their parents, a long time ago). Love to hear about Julie's ancestors, as I've heard about some other actresses. With the name "Walters", maybe she has some German in her...her ancestors had their land stolen and all families were forced to work for a man whocould summon the mighty British Army if there was any whiff of discontent, and not trying to be political, they (British) wonder why the Irish started to rebel and wanted independence? That's what caused the British to lose the American colonies...that was some loss! I know I went off...