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  • I blame capitalism.

  • Such a fantastic song, Frank. I have to come by here occasionally for the great performance and history lesson, one that everyone should know the real story.

  • @bigbeninjax Thanks cuz

  • All of us remember, some of us will never forget.

    My ancestors will be avenged.

  • Saint Patrick's Day...when everyone is Irish. There was a time when it wasn't the most enviable group to belong to. Let's remember the hardship while we celebrate the day

  • A great song about great people who will never be forgotten.

  • @HailTheNight Thanks Frank I love your channel!!! Us Franks gotta stick together

  • Thank you so much for this fine song, I do recall reading that after Cromwell 1 in every 3 persons in Ireland was murdered by the Cromweliians and food was in abundance in the hungry years.

  • Great Video! 5*

    Many thanks for posting

  • @StopUnumNow Thanks for your support Frank

  • Never was there a more horrific and unjust period in our Irish history. It was well plotted out by the British Empire, and all their claims of "helping" and "doing all they could do" were merely lies to cover their passive genocide of the Irish peoples. Their people feasted upon Irish produce and livestock, while our people wandered homeless , starving and dying on the roads of Eire.

  • @1THISTLEDOWNE You are so right, the Irish were so wronged in 1845 and the song relives the pain and terrible hardship they endured.

  • GREAT SONG

  • Never forget that potato blight was not the cause of the famine. People dont die for lack of potatoes, not when ships laden with fod are being exported to England at gunpoint whilst the population is dying.

    An Gorta Mor was genocide, plain and simple.

  • It's a sad fact that your post is true. Thank you for posting

    Frank

  • @Cathain78 Great comment.You are so right.The British government ministers have a lot to answer for.I wonder what they will say to their god at the day of reckoning,Or maybe they dont have a conscience! God bless Ireland and her children.

  • @PURPLEBEATTIE1

    There is a special place in Hell reserved for such people.

  • @Cathain78 Sad indictment on society but so true

  • Thank you for posting this video.

  • Thanks so much Frank & Terry, My Family were of Strokestown, County Rosscommon.Now, Australia.Daniel O'Neill,Bless the dead

  • The Celts brought "it" to the dark Woods of

    Germany...thx for it..

    hail & love

  • Thank you for your comment Daniel. Are you related to utefreak88? My father had O'Neill relatives. Who knows?

  • Ireland, Scotland, & the Isle of Mann, the children of the Gael. God save the Celts!!!

  • Respect to all the victims of that dreadful holocaust that was the Irish Famine.

  • Gle mhaith

  • I was in Dublin on 9th Aug, on hol, and took photos of these poor sad depictions off that terrible time in 1845 - 1851.

    I felt privileged to pay respects to them.

  • Ååhhhh - Many Thanks!

  • The sadness in this depiction of the Irish people during that holocaust is palpable and makes your soul cry out for the injustice perpetrated by civil servant Trevelyan, whos indifference was disgraceful, at a time when he could have helped and didn't !

    Heartbreaking stuff, but tells a story that we should all respect !

    Norfolk UK

    Female 59

  • Long live the Celtic Gaels.Irish,Scottish,or Manx! Long live all the Celts!

  • Alba, Eire agus Mannan seol nan Gael.

    Scotland, Ireland and Manx the seed of the Gael!

  • seonidh. gaels? not all scots are decended from Gaels and im not including recent imigrants either.

  • The same then can be said for ireland and anyother part of these ioslands. However gaelic and its culture are Scottish and people should embrace it if they come to call here home.

  • gaelic is Scottish, that is undeniable, equally so is the variation of the Northumbrian dialect called Scots which lowlanders speak more or less whos ancestry is just as Scottish as any highlander. Im for the promotion of Gaelic but not the imposition to the detriment to our lowland heritage. Embrace? no chance. I would rather learn Welsh, spoken in my part of the country long before the Scotti arrived from Ulster.

  • It is debatable if Scots is a dialect of Northumbrian it may have the same root in the saxon tongues but has words not found south of the border. Also Scots was never the language of the royal court from the 9th century. It was at best a fringe border language till the 15th century and never had the status gaelic has.

    Welsh...why? Surly brythonic Pictsh or northern cumbric are better choices. You'd be the only one as its been extinct for 1100 years. A better choice would be Galloway gaelic.

  • Gaelic...NO THANKS.

  • I see by your profile your a moslem or a convert to that faith so I would have to say Arabic....NO THANKS. Id rather speak a native language of gaelic.

  • seon..A muslem LOL, your not the only one to fall for that, the arabic means 'I shall NOT submit' a very western and non muslem concept in my opinion. What muslem ever comments on these type of vids? LOL

  • The title of my song was chosen from the inscription on the monument at Grosse Isle Quebec dedicated to the victims in Black 47. I realize that it applies not only to the Irish, but I claim poetic license. You may now continue the arguement

  • The Gaels came to Ireland from Spain and Portugal and where the last large group to invade the Island (excluding the English of course).

  • good comment jmccoo some say they came from northern europe as oppossed to iberia, never the less they are not indigeonous as most would want us to beleive.

  • WOW!!! I`m in tears right now! That video was so moving! I`ve seen the Famine Memorial in Boston ( I work down the street from it @ the JFK ), very powerfull stuff. My family came here from Co. Limerick during the famine. Thanks for the great vid!

  • I grew up hearing the stories of how my family came to America in order to survive- forced from their homeland. I had the opportunity last year to visit Ireland and walk the paths that my ancestors once had. I wonder if there is a family there who wonders what happened to the relatives that I call my family- if they made it and if they survived. Someday, I want to go back and find that family. I want to tell them that, yes, we survived but we never forgot those left behind. Thanks for the song.

  • thanks for the post....Just when i think that the baby boomers(like myself) would be the last generation to honor their Irish heritage, I get new hope from people like you!!!

  • I'm glad I gave you hope! I can't remember a time when I didn't know that my mother's family originally came from Ireland (Gilan, Murphy, Hayes, etc.). I've noticed that more and more of my generation is reaching out to find out where they came from and not just those of us of Irish decent.

  • that's a fascinating story. i plan on taking my family back to our homeland. back to westmeath, Leinster. let my little girl touch the stones erected by her ancient ancestors; look over the green fields once occupied by the children of the Gael......

  • That must have felt wonderful for you. I had an Irish Grandfather, and my Dad was called Paddy !

    My ambition is to visit Ireland when I can.

    This video is a sad but wonderful depiction of that dark terrible time.

    Norfolk UK

    female 59

  • Can't even imagine the horror of it all. Most likely similar to what is going on in Africa right now. Seems some things never change...just names and faces.

    Song is heartbreaking to hear...what must it have been like to live through that sad time in history.

  • Thanks for reply Helen, yes it was a tragedy and a holocaust, unimaginable horror, and deserves the greatest respect.

    Norfolk UK

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  • Apologys ( Not heard of ot it)That sounded a little rude. It was just that he spoke little of his experience. I gather he focused on the future. as we do.

  • ,We lived to tell the tale and we will keep the Candle burning.Thank you for that Vid, Aussie

  • I love it when people actually listen to the words and get what I'm trying to say. Thanks mate

  • Long story mate. Great Grandad  1819-1882. Grandad 1843- 1918 both born in Strokestown. My DAd was born here1918 and still kicking (Ta lord). Then there is me 1955. Thank you for your work. and god bless the dead.

  • you're a 1955 model as well !!!! They don't make em like us anymore. My grandparents on both sides came over around the turn of the century. Mom's folks from Kilkenny. Dad's from Monaghan and Sligo

  • My gandpa was born in Strokestown also, Charlie Gannon his name. Emigrated to the states shortly after the biscuit factory was blown up in Dublin Town. My ma was the first in her family born here. God bless the Irish!

  • I came along in 1948. We visited Strokestown in 1994. One of the pubs on the four corners in Strokestown was "Gannon's Bar". God bless everyone in this place!

  • great!

  • Im very very proud to one of the scattered children of the Gaels,be they Irish,Scottish,or Manx!Watch for me Eire,Im coming back to you one day.

  • Great song and video.

    Well done frank!

  • Very nice.

  • Thank you for this video. My ancestors came to Nova Scotia, some to Boston at the time of the Famine. So here I am. The Irish were persecuted because they did not accept Henry the Eighth, the glutton, debachaucher and wife killer as their saviour and Lord, I rest my case. I hope to visit the land of my courageous ancestors, whether they left or remained in Ireland, God love them all!

  • i am an american. LONG LIVE THE IRISH, THE CELTS AND THE DRUIDS. I LONG FOR THE COUNTRY I CAME FROM! I LOVE YOU IRELAND!

  • never forget an gorta mor. Ireland's genocide by starvation. great song

  • thanks Mike,I agree

  • I sent you a video of an Irish song which sums up the diaspora and where so many settled abroad in the hard times. The words are available too on the video hope you enjoy

  • Thanks for sending me the song. It seems to be a better response to "Piece of Ireland". It's based on one of my

    Grandfather's story of coming to America. Listen to it and see if you agree.

  • Love the statues the Irish have been in a position to erect. Though the whole episode breaks my heart in two.

    My country is still at the mercy of English social engineering, so most Scots don´t know about our own recent genocide around this time.

    So, so sad........All of it.

  • Saor Alba a nis......

    Thanks for the post.....

  • Alba agus Erin gu bragh clann nan Gaeidhl!

  • Faraoir, a bhuachaill, taid caite le fada anois... Feach are 2.b. irish-criminology dot com and eist leis an dTaoiseach deireannach, Domhnall O'Neill and cloistear an glor is bibibi do lucht na nGael.. feictear duit ceard a rinne an Papa to lucht na bpagantachta...slan beo, a bhuachaill!

  • & 2 think that even tho we wer dyin.d english stil expoerted our food..2 england!!Twas our food..dat god gave us..planted by Irish hands,in Irish soil,for Irish mouths!!..& even our own wer in on it..those bug farmers up in Kildare!!..bu its tru .. nature might av caused da blight..bu da english caused da famine!!

    Tíocfaidh Ar Lá !!

  • I love folk songs..they tell it all.

    Thank you for enlightening me.

  • Yes the Highland Clearances in Scotland!

  • Yes the English have been good at suppressing the Gael be they Scottish or Irish. So sad as we are a culturally rich people. I wonder what they would say if the Scottish and Irish parlements asked for an appology!

    We call the Highland clearences "Fuadaich nan Gàidheal" the expulsion of the Gael.

  • The Highland clearances were Scots persecuting Scots. The landowners who cleared the Highlands were all Scottish (Ross, MacLeod etc.). Just as the army that fought against Bonnie Prince Charlie was overwhelmingly composed of Lowland Scots, *not* English.

  • As a Gael from Scotland I have to say the British Empire was a cruel heartless beast. The Highlands of Scotland had a famine in 1845 too and EVENTUALLY when the grain ships arrived they made Gaels build roads for their supplies. Working us like cattle.

  • Great point seonidh. Thanks for posting!!There was no famine. Just a refusal of food to those who needed it.

  • Cheers fran. 2 million Irish and 1.7 million Scottish Gaels left as there was nothing to eat. While they held the grain ships then made us work an 8 hour day just to justify the food they sent. Cruel!

  • Fortunately Scotland did not follow the Holy Roman slavery line as the Irish did. Consequently, Scotland has had some of the best social and scientific thinkers in Europe. Some say they actually made the modern world... the Irish have priests, priests and priests... all of whom think EXACTLY the same...

  • I've been waiting for someone to chime in on the opposite side of the issue.....unfortunately that's not you. I don't have an axe to grind with anyone. The fact is, there was plenty of food in Ireland at the time of the blight. It just wasn't for the Irish. That is genocide which I'm sure even the great thinkers of Scotland can wrap their heads around.

    I'd like to see how you would have fared on one of the coffin ships. Perhaps your hatred would have kept you going!!!

  • Of course, you correct... but what happen in mid nineteenth century already happen a thousand times. See 2.b. irish-criminology dot com, where Domhnal O' Neill call Scotland 'Lesser Scotia"; but Scotland break in a different way than Ireland.. Why Ireland no forgive English is because they actually break with Papacy.....

  • Stopped by for a visit, Frank. I see you met my old friend, Seamus, whom I've had many "lively" discussions with. LOL

    Once again, great song and vid. You've done Ireland proud.

  • I couldn't figure out who you meant, but then I went over my posts and it clicked. HE'S A LUNATIC !!! I don't think English is his first language.

  • LOL....Yeah, when pressed on certain topics concerning Irish/British relationships and the Church, ghibberish becomes his first language.

  • Tiocfaidh Ar La! Our Day Will Come! pronounced chucky awr la!

  • My Dad was born in Kerry in 1864. He was one ofthe moonlighters (precursor of the IRA). He was caused, by circumstance, to leave Ireland

    in 1879. I heard many stories of the cruel and

    inhuman treatment by the Brits. Beautiful and

    truthful song. Great video. Tiochfaiddh ar la.

  • I heard one story of a young Irish woman,cradeling the body of her baby who had been for three days begging on the side of the road for money to bury her dead child!

  • That's just awful, so sad and painful/

    The dead deserve all the respect we can give !

    Norfolk UK

    Female 59. Grandfather was Irish.

  • Its Pog Mo Thoin! In Irish Gaelic means Kiss My Ass!

  • Brits, pogue mahone!!!!

  • Remember the 2 million Irish who died during the Great Famine and the other 3 million who left and the other half miliion or more who went into slavery all thanks to Great Britain and her Empire!

  • The Gaels! The Irish,Scottish and Manx! A great Celtic people!

  • Absolutely incredible!!!

  • Great singer! I love the song and the recording too.

  • Proud of my Irish heritage. They left Ireland after being beat by an enlishman who owned the land he worked on and he turned around and beat the englishman to death and fled to America.

  • im so proud to be irish. And im rpoud ye americans are so proud of yere roots. Im so proud i feel my heart about to burst.

  • Good Vid.Nice song.I have a fiew of the same pics in my vid as well.lol.But thats ok,its bound to happen.lol.

    Thats right, "Out of great sorrow,a great people come." Your vid is good.The Irish went through much and still are in some parts of Ireland.God Bless Ireland.

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