Ireland is the most beautiful country in the world! And its magnificent place to live!Ireland and the Irish are the most welcomed nationality all over the World. But we do have to get our act together before we have no county left. "He who doesn´t know his own history will have to re-live it" We have to work the land,bogs and build up again. Its up to us to work and educate! Remember the Irish have been there for everyone and everyone wants to say they are related to the Irish or they are Irish.
So interesting...wow 1905 film ? Some of the older ppl on this vid would of seen the terrible famine in 1845 . Shame.....We're so lucky to be alive nowadays .I only know my family left Ireland in the famine and lol my great gran used to go on about how her gran hated black n tans n king billies .
Nobody who makes a comment here was there at the time. (what an uninformed comment) As far as "knowing what happened" that is a different story. History, (maybe you should look into it) tells the tale of what really happened from the people that were THERE and ALIVE at the time! My life is a DIRECT result of these atrocities and I have DIRECT ties to the events through my family. Unless you contribute to the facts, instead of blathering personal perceptions of someone u don't know, Dun do chlab!
the second scene, showing the donkey cart being loaded up at the foot of a hill, with a stone gateway at the top of the hill, was shot in An Spidéal, Co. Galway. The road leads northwards up to Baile Ard. The scene shows premises just across the road from Tí Hughes. There's another scene, later, which could be Ros an Mhíl, c.10miles west of An Spidéal.
my gradfather came to ameria during this time and married into an established family....ignorant as he was...he worked and showed himself to his dauthers and grandchildren.
-The Ottoman Sultan had wanted to sent 10,000 pounds to Irish farmers, which could have made a huge difference, but the British didn't allow him to, so he sent 1,000 pounds, and 3 ships filled with food in secret, which the British tried to halt, unsuccessfully.
They also blockaded a shipment of crops from the Navajo Indians. Queen Victoria also forbid any country sending more aid than the measly sum she gave for example the Ottoman Turks were initially going to give twice as much as she had done. Then theres the matter of British selling the Irish cheap barely edible crop subsititute. Not to mention the Social Darwinist philosophies the Victorian English had with the Irish "race" at the bottom along with the Blacks.
Stalins Holodomor against the Ukrainians & Cossacks is recognised as a genocide. 5 million Ukrainians & Cossacks died as a result of forced crop exporting. Stalin wanted to suppress Ukrainian Nationalism. Irish Nationalism was a thorn in the side of the British Empire & forced starvation through crop exports and neglect was a convenient & cowardly way of suppressing it. Whats the difference between the Holodomor & this?
@gunninlinguist yeah holodomor and holocaust ........apparently holo-caust means a sacrifice or later an " all" sacrifice or destruction .....holo-domor is " all" hunger ..or famine ....the holo part of the word seems to be a common route for "all" or "widespread. ( widespread hunger , and widespread death )
@Taiginator THIS BULLSHITTER CLAIMS IRELAND HELPED GERMANY TO BOMB GLASGOW AND MANCHESTER DURING WW2 !!!! NO PROOF MIND JUST FUCKING LIES :---) ITS ALL THEY HAVE LEFT
Same thing was done in the Jewish ghettos during the Holocaust. It was very interesting to see the use of the people to justify the genocide aimed at them. There is such a need to lie when the transgressions are enormous. This is an interesting aspect of human nature. The need is to attack the victim to justify the ongoing crimes.
The Irish man is transporting his wealth to pay interest to the IMF. The potatoes will be sold to pay off the bondholders, so that the bondholders can then come in and buy up Irish resources for pennies on the dollar. This is the new Empire of the bankers.
@elctronicmusic 1906 was the last Irish famine. There were 12 between 1820 and 1906. Did a quarter of the Ethopian population die of starvation in the space of two years? No didnt think so.
@scientific1982 your totally missing my point the film asks what was ireland like in the mid 19th century then it shows us a film of 1905 none of the people in the film are starving it dose not show the real horror of the great famine we all seen the images of people in Ethiopia just skin and bone thats what many irish would of resembled PS 1/8 of the irish population died not 1/4
@bushtucker13 YEH AM FROM LIVERPOOL FAGAN ME SURNAME ENGLAND SHOULD JUST GIVE IT BACK THEY TRIED SCOTLAND AND LOST AN AM GLAD THEY DID IRELAND THRU N THRU
There was no famine. There was plenty of food. All surplus food was sent to the satanic majesties kingdom (egland) and the Irish were left to starve of emigrate. It was ethnic cleansing, period. The corrupt british throne was the beggining of tyrany throughout the world. They attacked Scotland, France and Ireland in the middle ages, they tried to get U.S. but we threw them off...so they colonized the rest of the world. They've had their dirty little mitts on China, India, Africa, They suck.
@bheadh They suck? This is a simplistic view. I'm a big fan of the U.S. but do you really think that the U.S.has never colonised or interfered? The Irish situation was much more complex than you infer but, yes, it should be a united and free Ireland. Don't forget that many in British colonial armies were Irish - some of my ancestors were good old catholic Irish fighting in India and the Crimea in the British army.
@terrybriody Yes. I do think that the U.S. is responsible for alot of whats gone on in the world for the negative. (Vietnam, Iraq, etc) But the Irish famine was completely reversible. The British Govt. Stood by and did nothing or next to nothing and allowed a million people to starve and forced another million to emigrate. Since Tudor times the English had been looking for a way to get rid of the Irish, first, by taking ALL their land, (the so-called "plantation") then by starvation.
@bheadh Remember that the Irish used to invade "England" And finally remember that St. Patrick was actually an Englishman (Romano) who had been captured taken back to Ireland and made into a slave by the invading "Irish" Celts.
When you say "all the foreigners that live there now" look at history - ever it was thus - and as as it is with the USA -
@terrybriody The Amerindians have for the large part been "paid back" by giving them casinos and allowing them their own "territories". (by the way, it was the British who started "scalping") America's "foreigners" are Christian, for the most part, and aren't hated by the rest of society. (race riots in England last year in Asian and Caribbean neighborhoods) Look friend, you can love the Brits all you want, you have to. Thanks for the history lesson.We were talking about 19th cent. not the 5th.
@bheadh ""Casinos? and "territories" "Giving" and "Allowing" Says it all. You make my point for me. That was the language of the British in Ireland. And the Indian massacres were not that long again, friend, - lots of em after the Irish famine.. Yes the 'Brits" and other Colonials were ruthless - were vile, including the Irish.. War sucks History sucks. I'm intrigued by your inherited or acquired hatred of the English why do you hate them so much? The riots weren't racial. Love America.
@terrybriody cont...That enslave their own for land, money or other such shallow and unloving reasons. At least America did SOMETHING for the Amerindians. Ireland was among the first countries that England colonized, it's the last one (nation) that they refuse to take their bloody mitts off of. (at least you admit it needs to be returned to the IRISH.) I admire your position, I just don't agree wholeheartedly with your perspective. History is violent and hindsight is 20/20 of course. Slan.
@bheadh Yes, we are not really that far apart. Most individual English would like to see Ireland rejoined and free of the UK but how to do it with the Unionists? Anyhow, I wish you well.
@bheadh I don't get your point on the "Christian" nature of America's "foreigners". Christianity and religious difference are at the heart of most conflicts. Or are foreigners OK if they are Christian? The English/Brits that you hate for the Irish famine were supposedly devout Christians. I'm atheist myself so don't understandtwisted religious fervour of any sort. Have you been to Dublin recently ? - immigration is massive. -Christian and Other - You probably would not like it.
@terrybriody Yes, I'm aware of the onslaught of foreigners in Baile Atha Cliath and elsewhere in Eire. (perhaps because of the E.U.?) The Irish were persecuted because they didn't want to leave their faith because of selfish monarchs... and were made prisoners in their own country, the same goes for the "Old English" in Eire @ the time ( the Fitzgeralds, the Burkes, etc) I don't hate the people just the government that promotes barbarity. Same goes for any govt (including the US) that enslaves
@terrybriody It was part of British POLICY to control Ireland and it's people, who NEVER wanted them there in the first place. At every turn they did what they could to crush The Irish, their culture and language by whatever means necessary. It took the British govt. 40+ years to apologize for "bloody Sunday". They never apologized for the famine. I love all people, but the tyranny of the British crown is comming back to haunt them with all the foreigners that live there now. Simplistic? Really?
@bheadh A large quota of my ancestors arrived in England as a result of the famines so I would not dispute that deliberate British POLICY was causal - no more than I would deny that the Native Americans were largely wiped out by deliberate starvation and annihalation policies of the Colonials and the USA government. Much of that was deliberate and reversible too. Has there ever been an apology or a true reinstatment of territory? No. My point was you targeting of the mythical "English
@bheadh 2/ My point was you targeting of the mythical "English. The territory known as England is historically one of the most colonised geographical areas in the world -so much so that no one can define who the "English" are - the original inhabitants have long been subsumed into the invading cultures. When you say English do you mean the Britons, Romano Britons, the Cornish or decendents of Angles, Saxons and Jutes or the mix of Danes and Normans that colonised the geographical area?
@bheadh My point is that history is complex and bloody and vile. Remember that the so called "Irish" were in fact invading Celts. The original Irish were subsumed into the conquoring Celtic culture. Remember too that the Celtic irish were the people who invaded and marauded as much as anyone else - the Scots are the Irish who invaded the territory now known as Scotland and dominated and wiped out the Picts.
@bheadh Another point re. the language . The biggest cause of the decline of Irish Gaelic was the deliberate policy of the Catholic Church - Catholic schools forbade its use and punished those who dared to speak it. The priests in the pulpit also promoted its steep decline. Deliberate POLICY.
Come on people get a grip. some of the sectarian nonsense is just that. i'm proud to be born in england - it is my home. Equally, I am proud of my Irish family background and knowing the struggles they came here to Teesside (Middlesbrough exact) for work and to live.
Ireland gave me my family and England has giving me my home. I love Ireland and England.
Ireland Starved because its food, from 40 to 70 shiploads per day, was Removed At Gunpoint by 12,000 British constables reinforced by the British militia, battleships, excise vessels, Coast Guard and by 200,000 British soldiers
Britain seized from Ireland's producers tens of millions of head of livestock; tens of millions of tons of flour, grains, meat, poultry & dairy products; enough to sustain 18 million persons.'
5 Million of Catholics Genocided by Zionist England.
@nate9rr Quit worrying about your crotch and make sure you stack up enough potatoes in your house. The second Irish famine is coming soon. Oh wait, it's already started :-) Cheers!
@whatajoke76 Mayb u shud study it... & d Irish did work well together. They built meaningless roads and walls that went up mountains all because the English tout they would become LAZY is they did not work for food. Meanwhile the Irish were starving and weak. If you think they didnt work well together then look at d old roads of Ireland (Most of which are still there). & any1 with any sense shud c that these roads would not still be here only for the Irish worked so well together.
and why do britain get to own our fucking northern land????
why did the british just sit on their asses, chugged on tea and made the famine days more feared??? god bless america!! bless their souls! they saves our asses during the famine.
look if the fucking british had have giving us irish our country bac we still wud have had a potato shortage but we cud have ate orther things.........the irish were poor as fuck nd staverd because off those cunts
@buloo1234 I would agree with what you said but for the fact that All the Oats. Barley and Corn grown in Ireland was shipped to England to feed the English. There was no food in Ireland that the Irish were aloud to buy even if they could afford to buy it
I am English. I can't change that and can't apologise for history.
The travesty is that the then British Parliament did almost nothing of substance to alleviate this situation. The attitude seemed to be: "The way to deal with poverty is to ignore it; then it'll go away!" That was almost true in this instance, and it's a notion that is embraced by some Western administrations even today.
It is a piece of British history that is regularly omitted from English school text books. I wonder why?!!!
FAMINE at this time referred to a plague that affected sheep and draft animals and made it impossible for the people to work. Many rented their land. A proposal might have banned the sale of grain for whiskey and diverted it
to Ireland. The Hitler in this case was Terabian.
You could say much about the movie, but it's not hide the truth about this dark history, when England took everything from the Irish people, so they had nothing else to eat, but potatoes, and England was therefore responsible for around one million of the Irish people, who died of starvation and diseuses.
I don't know why the " What is this man doing" or "Why is this woman wearing this" graphics were added but it completely ruined , patronised and demeaned the whole video.
The message as to what the film was being conveyed was ample enough...simplicity hits hard, shame it was completey under-whelmed by the garbage and knuckle-dragging messages.
Every country makes a mistake, Germany had Hitler, Japan had Hirohito, America had Bush and England committed this genocide. It's history and we have all learnt from our mistakes. No need to spread hatred now we have some sort of peace.
@bfmv580 well said , every country has some part of their history which they are not proud of , if we spend all our time dwelling on the past ,we cant move foreward.
Britain should have helped us no doubt about it, im sure every irish person who has some sort of ancestors whether u no about them or not yet do not forget that we are in our hour of need in 2010 and although Britain is under serious financial strain and pressure she is giving us 7 Billion Sterling to help us..People need to educate themselves and not just jump on the bandwagon of hating Britain. We wanted our freedom and we fought hard to get it,i know my countrys roots but i thank briatain now
there was no famine, it was a blight brought about by an attack on the crop, then the social engineering of ireland took place, migration to yje new world where we became a blight on the american indians, this is the work of rome, through england, now theyre in the middle east, robbing the arabs. you have to work out who the enemy really is before you take a shot at it...
.......this video is pure english propaganda..........there was no famine, only orchestrated genocide. Ask yourself the question...if you never ate another bag of potato chips., would you starve?
There was ample amounts of food to eat, turnips,cabbage,wheat,rabbits,foul,game....you name it, we could have lived on fish alone.we are surrounded by water,lakes,rivers and seas.
The truth is that the english exported the food from Ireland at gun point by no less than 200,000 english troops.
@adsrules344 uhmmm...no it was a scotsman who founded the s.a.s look it up dickhead...but the english took over but yeh your rite 85% of the s.a.s are scottish =]
so next time i say two things try and answer them but anyways dont make yourself look a bit silly next time :D
@fatben5 So I suppose you'd watch a film about the Roman conquest and promote hatred to modern Italians, holocaust modern Germans, Napoleon modern French, etc etc. Fortunately your bigotted views are not representative of your country. I've been sea fishing off Westport many times and never encountered any hostility whatsoever form local people
What happened to the Irish during the famine was a holocaust. It was a crime for which we are only now calling what it really was. Time has given new retrospect. I agree however with murph0121, it was more complex than just England v Ireland is all. It involved Scotland as well. No ones hands are clean of this whole terrible part of history.
actually you fail to realise that scotland had its own famine at the same time, the highland potato famine where 1.7 million scotsemigrated. The ones that stayed had to build destitution roads to nowhere to justify grain or charrity aid. Scotland was not a part of the Irish famine it had a famine of its own as well, and also saw irish people flock to scotland and still took them in. The scottish famine was lessened due to the ethnic cleansing of the clearences. she has no blood on her hands.
@seonidh I am aware of Scottish History of famine and the clearances. It sent many Protestant Scots to Ireland. There they became Ulster Scots and the ones who stayed with their newly acquired crown wealth became what is known as Plantation Irish. We were given land taken away from Irish Catholics by England. So look deeper and you will see the blood. Learning what happen and taking responsiblility for the part your people played in history are important. I had to. Peace.
@Rossdhu16 lol my people or the majority of my people arnt even european and never went to ireland to take anyones land. I have some gaelic irish and scots in me so im not going to feel guilt for my own ancestors land being taken off them either. In fact the plantation was 150 years before the highland famine and that wasnt the reason for scots to emigrate. I think you'll find the anglo-norman conquests of ireland were far worse. oh and many irish were taken in by scotland so the books ballance.
@seonidh I am happy your family did as you say they did. Mine however were given land by the Crown. So they did take the land, many left eventually for the colonies. We were about to fight another set of battles. Keeping each occurence in history in context helps one teach others, which I do. Ironically, my family is part of the Norman conquest as a direct descendant by two lines to Charlemagne himself.
@twiggo66 Did daddy also tell you what the word Taig means? --it truely ain't no insult so i truely don't know why you throw it about like its hurtin folk
they took the roofs off the houses cause they couldn't pay the tases is what i was told. absolutely horrible. this is my anscestors if i were as strong as them. them that came on the bad condition of the ships heading to the usa. went because they had to not because wanted to leave. just survival. its a bad past. can be a much brighter futrue tho. have to put the past behind you sometimes, learn from it and move on. its the only way to keep going and have a better life.just my thoughts.
Irish holocaust. England took Ireland's food, animals and crops and other produce by military force, Irish were made slaves and made feel unwelcome in there own country
@woohoo53750 And that's how they became rich and could afford to make weapons, ships, with the money and cheap labore from poor slaves and other countries people. The royal families were having all their needs coveres while other people were hopeless, no foods, shelter, animals not even ships to try to fish. Lazy and heartless people must realize we are all the same and have the same neeeds as them. The history shows that even a queen or king do not live more than 80 good healthy years.!
The english empire ruled Ireland for almost 800 years. They caused nothing but pain ,suffering ,and death. they are the ons weither they like it or not but were the cause of the famine.the caused a major population decreese which will never recover.while all this was going on did the queen of england do ??absoulty nothing.
Ireland defeated the fucking wankers of the british and less than a hundred years of freedom look how far we have come. makes me proud to be Irish..
@captaincomputa BTW. I have nothing against the English. My best friend is English and I have English family members. I was just trying to wind up another dickhead who said some really foul shit.
@swiftubag10001 HUMANKIND has perpetrated endless cruelties against each other for eons. Some more recent examples: German Nazis murdered millions of Jews & Russians. . .Ottoman Turks murdered millions of Armenians . .Russian "Neo Nazis" are maiming and murdering immigrants probably even now as I am writing this post. . .a beheading of a man was actually posted. . . so there is nothing to be ashamed about in having English roots. . . just be ashamed of belonging to the human race.
@twiggo66 The English are just about the most evil, selfish,bulliying ,robbing pillagers,on the face of this earth,they always were,and always will be.
Its a pity its ruined with the banshee wailing away in the background.I really doubt that this 1905.Pathe news archives are frequently mistaken on a lot of detail.I would think by the quality fo the image that this could be a little later.The west of Ireland suffered localised famine and extreme want right through the early decades of this century.
its a disgrace what the english elite did..............4-5 million probly died from the numbers lost in absolute terms after taking emigration into account
From the 15th through the 19th centuries, successive English monarchies and governments enacted laws designed to suppress and destroy Irish manufacturing and trade. These repressive Acts, coupled with the Penal Laws, reduced the Irish people to "nakedness and beggary" in a very direct and purposeful way. The destitute Irish then stood at the very brink of the bottomless pit. When the potato blight struck in 1845, it was but time for the final push.
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karezza6 12 hours ago
there where around 8 million people in ireland before the famine.
ps. that was a bolox song btw
switzercraftbullet 2 days ago
Ireland is the most beautiful country in the world! And its magnificent place to live!Ireland and the Irish are the most welcomed nationality all over the World. But we do have to get our act together before we have no county left. "He who doesn´t know his own history will have to re-live it" We have to work the land,bogs and build up again. Its up to us to work and educate! Remember the Irish have been there for everyone and everyone wants to say they are related to the Irish or they are Irish.
nicksy15 6 days ago
So interesting...wow 1905 film ? Some of the older ppl on this vid would of seen the terrible famine in 1845 . Shame.....We're so lucky to be alive nowadays .I only know my family left Ireland in the famine and lol my great gran used to go on about how her gran hated black n tans n king billies .
XxpauldadudexX 1 week ago
Thank God that my ancestors left Ireland in 1841 to establish a life in Australia. How lucky I am to be a 5th generation Aussie !!
TheSmwright 2 weeks ago
this is shit.
garethella 2 weeks ago
Nobody who makes a comment here was there at the time. (what an uninformed comment) As far as "knowing what happened" that is a different story. History, (maybe you should look into it) tells the tale of what really happened from the people that were THERE and ALIVE at the time! My life is a DIRECT result of these atrocities and I have DIRECT ties to the events through my family. Unless you contribute to the facts, instead of blathering personal perceptions of someone u don't know, Dun do chlab!
bheadh 2 weeks ago
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How many potato's does it take to kill an irish man, NONE!
xPlantpoTx 3 weeks ago
most English parishes collected and sent aid over to help in the original famine.
wiltshireripper 1 month ago
Potato.
karezza6 2 months ago
the second scene, showing the donkey cart being loaded up at the foot of a hill, with a stone gateway at the top of the hill, was shot in An Spidéal, Co. Galway. The road leads northwards up to Baile Ard. The scene shows premises just across the road from Tí Hughes. There's another scene, later, which could be Ros an Mhíl, c.10miles west of An Spidéal.
aranmexican 2 months ago
My great-great-great grandparents came from Galway & Limerick by ship.
xxleandraxx1 2 months ago
my gradfather came to ameria during this time and married into an established family....ignorant as he was...he worked and showed himself to his dauthers and grandchildren.
bweber2k 2 months ago
CORK in 1848 was the LARGEST exporter of BUTTER in Europe .
olliephelan 3 months ago
-The Ottoman Sultan had wanted to sent 10,000 pounds to Irish farmers, which could have made a huge difference, but the British didn't allow him to, so he sent 1,000 pounds, and 3 ships filled with food in secret, which the British tried to halt, unsuccessfully.
88dragons88 3 months ago
They also blockaded a shipment of crops from the Navajo Indians. Queen Victoria also forbid any country sending more aid than the measly sum she gave for example the Ottoman Turks were initially going to give twice as much as she had done. Then theres the matter of British selling the Irish cheap barely edible crop subsititute. Not to mention the Social Darwinist philosophies the Victorian English had with the Irish "race" at the bottom along with the Blacks.
gunninlinguist 3 months ago
Stalins Holodomor against the Ukrainians & Cossacks is recognised as a genocide. 5 million Ukrainians & Cossacks died as a result of forced crop exporting. Stalin wanted to suppress Ukrainian Nationalism. Irish Nationalism was a thorn in the side of the British Empire & forced starvation through crop exports and neglect was a convenient & cowardly way of suppressing it. Whats the difference between the Holodomor & this?
gunninlinguist 3 months ago
@gunninlinguist Is "HOLODOMOR " a ukrainian word for HOLOCAUST ?
olliephelan 3 months ago
@olliephelan
Ukrainian-"killing by hunger."
gunninlinguist 3 months ago
@gunninlinguist I wonder do the two words have the same "root" ?.....must check the "etymology dictionary"....very handly
olliephelan 3 months ago
@olliephelan
What do you mean? "Holodomor" & "famine?"
gunninlinguist 3 months ago
@gunninlinguist ??? as in when I said " very handy" ?
I was referring to the online etymology dictionary .......NOT genocide....LOL
olliephelan 3 months ago
@olliephelan
No. You asked if 2 words have the same root. What were you asking about.
gunninlinguist 3 months ago
@gunninlinguist yeah holodomor and holocaust ........apparently holo-caust means a sacrifice or later an " all" sacrifice or destruction .....holo-domor is " all" hunger ..or famine ....the holo part of the word seems to be a common route for "all" or "widespread. ( widespread hunger , and widespread death )
olliephelan 3 months ago
why u cant join together.., am curious
ALANLEEY 4 months ago
@Taiginator THIS BULLSHITTER CLAIMS IRELAND HELPED GERMANY TO BOMB GLASGOW AND MANCHESTER DURING WW2 !!!! NO PROOF MIND JUST FUCKING LIES :---) ITS ALL THEY HAVE LEFT
Che870 5 months ago
Same thing was done in the Jewish ghettos during the Holocaust. It was very interesting to see the use of the people to justify the genocide aimed at them. There is such a need to lie when the transgressions are enormous. This is an interesting aspect of human nature. The need is to attack the victim to justify the ongoing crimes.
gcpropertymanagement 7 months ago
1.5mil -2mil died. Another 1.5mil-2mil emigrated
keveydaking 7 months ago
Whats the song called?
LordTalonProductions 8 months ago
The Irish man is transporting his wealth to pay interest to the IMF. The potatoes will be sold to pay off the bondholders, so that the bondholders can then come in and buy up Irish resources for pennies on the dollar. This is the new Empire of the bankers.
sproutingman 8 months ago 7
this film was made in 1905 famine was in 1845/47 if you want to know what the famine was really like think Ethiopia 1984 then think white skin!
elctronicmusic 8 months ago
@elctronicmusic 1906 was the last Irish famine. There were 12 between 1820 and 1906. Did a quarter of the Ethopian population die of starvation in the space of two years? No didnt think so.
scientific1982 7 months ago
@scientific1982 your totally missing my point the film asks what was ireland like in the mid 19th century then it shows us a film of 1905 none of the people in the film are starving it dose not show the real horror of the great famine we all seen the images of people in Ethiopia just skin and bone thats what many irish would of resembled PS 1/8 of the irish population died not 1/4
elctronicmusic 7 months ago
@elctronicmusic A pre famine population of 8 million and a 1911 census of only 4.4 million. More than a million died mate. Its closer to 2 million.
scientific1982 7 months ago
6 million English people claim to have Irish parents and grandparents so please give up this racist shit it breeds hate and ignorance
bushtucker13 9 months ago
@bushtucker13 YEH AM FROM LIVERPOOL FAGAN ME SURNAME ENGLAND SHOULD JUST GIVE IT BACK THEY TRIED SCOTLAND AND LOST AN AM GLAD THEY DID IRELAND THRU N THRU
magic54904 8 months ago
-- grain and cattle that would have fed 8 million people was taken out of the country by the brits at gunpoint ( irish holocaust - free ebook )
beghavd 9 months ago 3
-- queen victoria,s economist : ""but this way only about one million irish will die...that will scarcely be enough to do much good "" (page 5)
irish holocaust
beghavd 9 months ago
There was no famine. There was plenty of food. All surplus food was sent to the satanic majesties kingdom (egland) and the Irish were left to starve of emigrate. It was ethnic cleansing, period. The corrupt british throne was the beggining of tyrany throughout the world. They attacked Scotland, France and Ireland in the middle ages, they tried to get U.S. but we threw them off...so they colonized the rest of the world. They've had their dirty little mitts on China, India, Africa, They suck.
bheadh 9 months ago 28
ur full of shit....dont know history.cant speak it either.x.
tebigcheese 1 month ago
@bheadh They suck? This is a simplistic view. I'm a big fan of the U.S. but do you really think that the U.S.has never colonised or interfered? The Irish situation was much more complex than you infer but, yes, it should be a united and free Ireland. Don't forget that many in British colonial armies were Irish - some of my ancestors were good old catholic Irish fighting in India and the Crimea in the British army.
terrybriody 1 month ago
@terrybriody Yes. I do think that the U.S. is responsible for alot of whats gone on in the world for the negative. (Vietnam, Iraq, etc) But the Irish famine was completely reversible. The British Govt. Stood by and did nothing or next to nothing and allowed a million people to starve and forced another million to emigrate. Since Tudor times the English had been looking for a way to get rid of the Irish, first, by taking ALL their land, (the so-called "plantation") then by starvation.
bheadh 1 month ago
@bheadh Remember that the Irish used to invade "England" And finally remember that St. Patrick was actually an Englishman (Romano) who had been captured taken back to Ireland and made into a slave by the invading "Irish" Celts.
When you say "all the foreigners that live there now" look at history - ever it was thus - and as as it is with the USA -
terrybriody 1 month ago
@terrybriody The Amerindians have for the large part been "paid back" by giving them casinos and allowing them their own "territories". (by the way, it was the British who started "scalping") America's "foreigners" are Christian, for the most part, and aren't hated by the rest of society. (race riots in England last year in Asian and Caribbean neighborhoods) Look friend, you can love the Brits all you want, you have to. Thanks for the history lesson.We were talking about 19th cent. not the 5th.
bheadh 1 month ago
@bheadh ""Casinos? and "territories" "Giving" and "Allowing" Says it all. You make my point for me. That was the language of the British in Ireland. And the Indian massacres were not that long again, friend, - lots of em after the Irish famine.. Yes the 'Brits" and other Colonials were ruthless - were vile, including the Irish.. War sucks History sucks. I'm intrigued by your inherited or acquired hatred of the English why do you hate them so much? The riots weren't racial. Love America.
terrybriody 1 month ago
@terrybriody cont...That enslave their own for land, money or other such shallow and unloving reasons. At least America did SOMETHING for the Amerindians. Ireland was among the first countries that England colonized, it's the last one (nation) that they refuse to take their bloody mitts off of. (at least you admit it needs to be returned to the IRISH.) I admire your position, I just don't agree wholeheartedly with your perspective. History is violent and hindsight is 20/20 of course. Slan.
bheadh 1 month ago
@bheadh Yes, we are not really that far apart. Most individual English would like to see Ireland rejoined and free of the UK but how to do it with the Unionists? Anyhow, I wish you well.
terrybriody 1 month ago
@bheadh I don't get your point on the "Christian" nature of America's "foreigners". Christianity and religious difference are at the heart of most conflicts. Or are foreigners OK if they are Christian? The English/Brits that you hate for the Irish famine were supposedly devout Christians. I'm atheist myself so don't understandtwisted religious fervour of any sort. Have you been to Dublin recently ? - immigration is massive. -Christian and Other - You probably would not like it.
terrybriody 1 month ago
@terrybriody Yes, I'm aware of the onslaught of foreigners in Baile Atha Cliath and elsewhere in Eire. (perhaps because of the E.U.?) The Irish were persecuted because they didn't want to leave their faith because of selfish monarchs... and were made prisoners in their own country, the same goes for the "Old English" in Eire @ the time ( the Fitzgeralds, the Burkes, etc) I don't hate the people just the government that promotes barbarity. Same goes for any govt (including the US) that enslaves
bheadh 1 month ago
@terrybriody It was part of British POLICY to control Ireland and it's people, who NEVER wanted them there in the first place. At every turn they did what they could to crush The Irish, their culture and language by whatever means necessary. It took the British govt. 40+ years to apologize for "bloody Sunday". They never apologized for the famine. I love all people, but the tyranny of the British crown is comming back to haunt them with all the foreigners that live there now. Simplistic? Really?
bheadh 1 month ago
@bheadh A large quota of my ancestors arrived in England as a result of the famines so I would not dispute that deliberate British POLICY was causal - no more than I would deny that the Native Americans were largely wiped out by deliberate starvation and annihalation policies of the Colonials and the USA government. Much of that was deliberate and reversible too. Has there ever been an apology or a true reinstatment of territory? No. My point was you targeting of the mythical "English
terrybriody 1 month ago
@bheadh 2/ My point was you targeting of the mythical "English. The territory known as England is historically one of the most colonised geographical areas in the world -so much so that no one can define who the "English" are - the original inhabitants have long been subsumed into the invading cultures. When you say English do you mean the Britons, Romano Britons, the Cornish or decendents of Angles, Saxons and Jutes or the mix of Danes and Normans that colonised the geographical area?
terrybriody 1 month ago
@bheadh My point is that history is complex and bloody and vile. Remember that the so called "Irish" were in fact invading Celts. The original Irish were subsumed into the conquoring Celtic culture. Remember too that the Celtic irish were the people who invaded and marauded as much as anyone else - the Scots are the Irish who invaded the territory now known as Scotland and dominated and wiped out the Picts.
terrybriody 1 month ago
@bheadh Another point re. the language . The biggest cause of the decline of Irish Gaelic was the deliberate policy of the Catholic Church - Catholic schools forbade its use and punished those who dared to speak it. The priests in the pulpit also promoted its steep decline. Deliberate POLICY.
terrybriody 1 month ago 2
More Irish sold as slaves to the US colonies & plantations from 1651 to 1660 than the total existing free population of the Americas!
1641-1652, 550,000 Irish were killed by the English & 300,000 were sold as Slaves, Irish population of Ireland fell from 1,466,000 to 616,000.
1649 Cromwell landed in Ireland,slaughtering 30,000 Irish. 25,000 were sold to planters in St. Kitt
100,000 Irish children, 10-14 years old, taken from parents & sold as slaves in the West Indies, Va & N. England.
StSimonMartyr 2 weeks ago
@StSimonMartyr shocking to read that. I never knew Irish people were sold as slaves. Thanks for posting it
manicbassa 4 days ago
@bheadh You weren't there. You don't know what happened. Stop acting like you know everything. Goshh.
danielle3917 2 weeks ago
1.34 bull mccabe!
eoghan120 9 months ago
irish - green
british - yellow
godoflustandenvy 9 months ago
Come on people get a grip. some of the sectarian nonsense is just that. i'm proud to be born in england - it is my home. Equally, I am proud of my Irish family background and knowing the struggles they came here to Teesside (Middlesbrough exact) for work and to live.
Ireland gave me my family and England has giving me my home. I love Ireland and England.
RawJobber 10 months ago 2
@RawJobber Nicely put (:
sum1calledClaraMc 10 months ago
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Ireland Starved because its food, from 40 to 70 shiploads per day, was Removed At Gunpoint by 12,000 British constables reinforced by the British militia, battleships, excise vessels, Coast Guard and by 200,000 British soldiers
Britain seized from Ireland's producers tens of millions of head of livestock; tens of millions of tons of flour, grains, meat, poultry & dairy products; enough to sustain 18 million persons.'
5 Million of Catholics Genocided by Zionist England.
StSimonMartyr 10 months ago
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sum1calledClaraMc 10 months ago
Irish = European Niggers
Imrankniazi 10 months ago
@Imrankniazi cocksucker....
ronanmad 10 months ago
@Imrankniazi niazi = little dick fagot ... stop looking at my crotch.
nate9rr 9 months ago
@nate9rr Quit worrying about your crotch and make sure you stack up enough potatoes in your house. The second Irish famine is coming soon. Oh wait, it's already started :-) Cheers!
Imrankniazi 9 months ago
The Union Jack is the Devils Apron.
DrumzzKool 10 months ago
Got to love the English - the real alpha people!
Imrankniazi 10 months ago
Haha...Irish people dying is so funny!
Imrankniazi 10 months ago
@Imrankniazi You are a retarded FUCK! Get a fucking life!
123kilty 10 months ago
@123kilty Hahaha...Did you lose some Irish Nigger relatives in the famine too? Lol, this is getting funnier!
Imrankniazi 10 months ago
why is there no bloody summary to these questions!
johnariffic 11 months ago
I still don't get why the famine was such a disaster. They should have just worked better together and not drank so much booze.
whatajoke76 11 months ago
@whatajoke76 What a great grasp of history and sociology you have there - NOT!
conjoly 11 months ago
@whatajoke76 u really are an idiot............
please dont have chlidren..........
malcolmkav76 10 months ago
@whatajoke76 Mayb u shud study it... & d Irish did work well together. They built meaningless roads and walls that went up mountains all because the English tout they would become LAZY is they did not work for food. Meanwhile the Irish were starving and weak. If you think they didnt work well together then look at d old roads of Ireland (Most of which are still there). & any1 with any sense shud c that these roads would not still be here only for the Irish worked so well together.
sum1calledClaraMc 10 months ago
and why do britain get to own our fucking northern land????
why did the british just sit on their asses, chugged on tea and made the famine days more feared??? god bless america!! bless their souls! they saves our asses during the famine.
SuperMarioBoy9 11 months ago
look if the fucking british had have giving us irish our country bac we still wud have had a potato shortage but we cud have ate orther things.........the irish were poor as fuck nd staverd because off those cunts
buloo1234 11 months ago 4
@buloo1234 british=english,scottish,irish+welsh..thats how the empire was made.(-:
tebigcheese 1 month ago
@buloo1234 I would agree with what you said but for the fact that All the Oats. Barley and Corn grown in Ireland was shipped to England to feed the English. There was no food in Ireland that the Irish were aloud to buy even if they could afford to buy it
WyzDat 1 month ago
@WyzDat its soo sooo sad
buloo1234 1 month ago
so what it was how money that gave you the crops in the first place no surrender
kingwillam1 11 months ago
People, Lets not forget GOVERNMENTS were involved,,, not the ordinary people such as myself,,,
orbitpowder 11 months ago
what is the name of this song?
imscaredofmytoaster 11 months ago
@imscaredofmytoaster The name of the song is.. EBUDÆ, from the album Paint the Sky With Stars: The Best of Enya
countryman1951 11 months ago
I am English. I can't change that and can't apologise for history.
The travesty is that the then British Parliament did almost nothing of substance to alleviate this situation. The attitude seemed to be: "The way to deal with poverty is to ignore it; then it'll go away!" That was almost true in this instance, and it's a notion that is embraced by some Western administrations even today.
It is a piece of British history that is regularly omitted from English school text books. I wonder why?!!!
nolicnotrut 11 months ago
@nolicnotrut yup the same way they treated poor familes in england
timpatjoe 11 months ago
@timpatjoe They, whoever 'they' are. still do - and not just in England.
Poverty is a global phenomenon!
nolicnotrut 11 months ago
irish...british...same thing~
godoflustandenvy 11 months ago
@godoflustandenvy
Pog mo thoin yank asshole
irishrover4313 11 months ago
@irishrover4313 Err... what?
nolicnotrut 11 months ago
@godoflustandenvy Oh, how I wish that was true!
Geographically, it is. Culturally - nearly so. Politically and historically? Let's wait and see!
nolicnotrut 11 months ago
@godoflustandenvy get a life....or just go away and die
ronanmad 10 months ago
FAMINE at this time referred to a plague that affected sheep and draft animals and made it impossible for the people to work. Many rented their land. A proposal might have banned the sale of grain for whiskey and diverted it
to Ireland. The Hitler in this case was Terabian.
DadsBlueAngel 11 months ago
So true...the Famine IS A LIE. British did it,
binkydonnaful 1 year ago
You could say much about the movie, but it's not hide the truth about this dark history, when England took everything from the Irish people, so they had nothing else to eat, but potatoes, and England was therefore responsible for around one million of the Irish people, who died of starvation and diseuses.
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carlingfordberg 1 year ago
I don't know why the " What is this man doing" or "Why is this woman wearing this" graphics were added but it completely ruined , patronised and demeaned the whole video.
The message as to what the film was being conveyed was ample enough...simplicity hits hard, shame it was completey under-whelmed by the garbage and knuckle-dragging messages.
cogsinister 1 year ago
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carlingfordberg 1 year ago
Every country makes a mistake, Germany had Hitler, Japan had Hirohito, America had Bush and England committed this genocide. It's history and we have all learnt from our mistakes. No need to spread hatred now we have some sort of peace.
bfmv580 1 year ago
@bfmv580 well said , every country has some part of their history which they are not proud of , if we spend all our time dwelling on the past ,we cant move foreward.
maplebanks 1 year ago
1.30 its the bull mcCabe himself.
elsewho 1 year ago
Britain should have helped us no doubt about it, im sure every irish person who has some sort of ancestors whether u no about them or not yet do not forget that we are in our hour of need in 2010 and although Britain is under serious financial strain and pressure she is giving us 7 Billion Sterling to help us..People need to educate themselves and not just jump on the bandwagon of hating Britain. We wanted our freedom and we fought hard to get it,i know my countrys roots but i thank briatain now
Niallersz 1 year ago 2
well the brits want to help Ireland now lol funny old world retro famine.
joebstarsurfer 1 year ago
Did You Know there were more people in Mayo than County Dublin just before the Famine !
Maguirearch 1 year ago
What is the name of the first song and is it also sung by Enya?
pdsavage 1 year ago
@pdsavage The song, Ebudae, is also by Enya. It's on her Shepherd Moons CD.
sheilared 1 year ago
@sheilared Thank you
pdsavage 1 year ago
there was no famine, it was a blight brought about by an attack on the crop, then the social engineering of ireland took place, migration to yje new world where we became a blight on the american indians, this is the work of rome, through england, now theyre in the middle east, robbing the arabs. you have to work out who the enemy really is before you take a shot at it...
finnbarrhagan 1 year ago
just a question.. if i were hungry i would say " Im famished " is there a link???
fairhillnorrie 1 year ago
@fairhillnorrie Your an ass.
AngryBroomHandler 2 months ago
@twiggo66 you should be, im Irish and proud too.. we are all europeans now...
fairhillnorrie 1 year ago
superb vid for so long ago... awful times.. and we think we are bad now....
fairhillnorrie 1 year ago
God save Ireland and God DAM the English
FireMan1240 1 year ago
.......this video is pure english propaganda..........there was no famine, only orchestrated genocide. Ask yourself the question...if you never ate another bag of potato chips., would you starve?
There was ample amounts of food to eat, turnips,cabbage,wheat,rabbits,foul,game....you name it, we could have lived on fish alone.we are surrounded by water,lakes,rivers and seas.
The truth is that the english exported the food from Ireland at gun point by no less than 200,000 english troops.
sovereignirish 1 year ago 9
@sovereignirish my god, thats awful... didnt know... but thats history now thank god..
fairhillnorrie 1 year ago
whats the song at the beginning?
Air420 1 year ago
The Irish land owners treated their poor even worse than the British ones. The famine was caused by a virus not the British.
warriorprince1010 1 year ago
scotland + ireland = destroy england
ranbrent 1 year ago
@ranbrent
More like
Scotland + Ireland = Piss poor nations :D
adsrules344 1 year ago
@adsrules344 scotland has the most oil in britain thats were england get their money and would a very poor nation have nukes or nuclear summariness?
or for that matter an army
btw if scotland become independent the s.a.s will become scottish and england will be fucked <3
ranbrent 1 year ago
@ranbrent I love it how people see one sas video and see a scotish member of the SAS and then think they are all scottish
Major fail....
adsrules344 1 year ago
@adsrules344 uhmmm...no it was a scotsman who founded the s.a.s look it up dickhead...but the english took over but yeh your rite 85% of the s.a.s are scottish =]
so next time i say two things try and answer them but anyways dont make yourself look a bit silly next time :D
ranbrent 1 year ago
@ranbrent Bullshit
adsrules344 1 year ago
@adsrules344 you believe what you want to believe
but im just saying the truth is coming from me :D
btw was there too many big words for you in there so you just decided to put something really pathetic?
ranbrent 1 year ago
@ranbrent A Brit who set up the SAS.
warriorprince1010 1 year ago
@warriorprince1010 A Scot mate,He's scottish....But lived in britain :)
ranbrent 1 year ago
This why every country hate England
fatben5 1 year ago 34
@fatben5 but that was history.. good comment though..
fairhillnorrie 1 year ago
yippers no wonder Indian have a strong connection with Irish people fuck the English Cunt
chetansingh2006 1 year ago
@fatben5 So I suppose you'd watch a film about the Roman conquest and promote hatred to modern Italians, holocaust modern Germans, Napoleon modern French, etc etc. Fortunately your bigotted views are not representative of your country. I've been sea fishing off Westport many times and never encountered any hostility whatsoever form local people
MrMoel1 1 year ago
@fatben5
LOL retard.
mwillis1000 7 months ago
@fatben5 I,m an Irishman and I dont hate England and nor do any of my friends. Thats a childish and racist statement.
scientific1982 7 months ago
Why is the Video interrupted with so many pointless questions?
OscarLimaMike 1 year ago 12
@OscarLimaMike probably for school kids prior to an exam on irish history?? i dont know..
fairhillnorrie 1 year ago 2
What happened to the Irish during the famine was a holocaust. It was a crime for which we are only now calling what it really was. Time has given new retrospect. I agree however with murph0121, it was more complex than just England v Ireland is all. It involved Scotland as well. No ones hands are clean of this whole terrible part of history.
Rossdhu16 1 year ago 3
actually you fail to realise that scotland had its own famine at the same time, the highland potato famine where 1.7 million scotsemigrated. The ones that stayed had to build destitution roads to nowhere to justify grain or charrity aid. Scotland was not a part of the Irish famine it had a famine of its own as well, and also saw irish people flock to scotland and still took them in. The scottish famine was lessened due to the ethnic cleansing of the clearences. she has no blood on her hands.
seonidh 1 year ago
@seonidh I am aware of Scottish History of famine and the clearances. It sent many Protestant Scots to Ireland. There they became Ulster Scots and the ones who stayed with their newly acquired crown wealth became what is known as Plantation Irish. We were given land taken away from Irish Catholics by England. So look deeper and you will see the blood. Learning what happen and taking responsiblility for the part your people played in history are important. I had to. Peace.
Rossdhu16 1 year ago
@Rossdhu16 lol my people or the majority of my people arnt even european and never went to ireland to take anyones land. I have some gaelic irish and scots in me so im not going to feel guilt for my own ancestors land being taken off them either. In fact the plantation was 150 years before the highland famine and that wasnt the reason for scots to emigrate. I think you'll find the anglo-norman conquests of ireland were far worse. oh and many irish were taken in by scotland so the books ballance.
seonidh 1 year ago
@seonidh I am happy your family did as you say they did. Mine however were given land by the Crown. So they did take the land, many left eventually for the colonies. We were about to fight another set of battles. Keeping each occurence in history in context helps one teach others, which I do. Ironically, my family is part of the Norman conquest as a direct descendant by two lines to Charlemagne himself.
Rossdhu16 1 year ago
nature created the potato crop failure
the english created the famine
40supple 1 year ago
fuck the english
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Dioluin 1 year ago
@twiggo66 Did daddy also tell you what the word Taig means? --it truely ain't no insult so i truely don't know why you throw it about like its hurtin folk
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hotlips296 1 year ago
they took the roofs off the houses cause they couldn't pay the tases is what i was told. absolutely horrible. this is my anscestors if i were as strong as them. them that came on the bad condition of the ships heading to the usa. went because they had to not because wanted to leave. just survival. its a bad past. can be a much brighter futrue tho. have to put the past behind you sometimes, learn from it and move on. its the only way to keep going and have a better life.just my thoughts.
missjessicaC 1 year ago
The subtitles on this film are pathetic
Gooddogfilms 1 year ago 2
Irish holocaust. England took Ireland's food, animals and crops and other produce by military force, Irish were made slaves and made feel unwelcome in there own country
woohoo53750 1 year ago 3
@woohoo53750 And that's how they became rich and could afford to make weapons, ships, with the money and cheap labore from poor slaves and other countries people. The royal families were having all their needs coveres while other people were hopeless, no foods, shelter, animals not even ships to try to fish. Lazy and heartless people must realize we are all the same and have the same neeeds as them. The history shows that even a queen or king do not live more than 80 good healthy years.!
Cronopioslover274 1 year ago
wheres all da fuckin spuds bejaaazzzzus
lrishRepubliCunt 1 year ago
The english empire ruled Ireland for almost 800 years. They caused nothing but pain ,suffering ,and death. they are the ons weither they like it or not but were the cause of the famine.the caused a major population decreese which will never recover.while all this was going on did the queen of england do ??absoulty nothing.
Ireland defeated the fucking wankers of the british and less than a hundred years of freedom look how far we have come. makes me proud to be Irish..
westie303 1 year ago 4
Some Brits should get their heads out of their arses and face up to what happened. I'm English and this disgusts me.
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Freshhhhh1982 1 year ago
@Freshhhhh1982 And you think ireland won't be
captaincomputa 1 year ago
@captaincomputa No. We've had invaders before. It didnt work out well.
Freshhhhh1982 1 year ago
@captaincomputa BTW. I have nothing against the English. My best friend is English and I have English family members. I was just trying to wind up another dickhead who said some really foul shit.
Freshhhhh1982 1 year ago
Im so ashamed of my English roots..i can understand why republicans cheer the death of brit soldiers by the Taliban..
swiftubag10001 1 year ago 2
@swiftubag10001 HUMANKIND has perpetrated endless cruelties against each other for eons. Some more recent examples: German Nazis murdered millions of Jews & Russians. . .Ottoman Turks murdered millions of Armenians . .Russian "Neo Nazis" are maiming and murdering immigrants probably even now as I am writing this post. . .a beheading of a man was actually posted. . . so there is nothing to be ashamed about in having English roots. . . just be ashamed of belonging to the human race.
loralieisa 1 year ago
@twiggo66 The English are just about the most evil, selfish,bulliying ,robbing pillagers,on the face of this earth,they always were,and always will be.
barneyboscoe 1 year ago 3
Its a pity its ruined with the banshee wailing away in the background.I really doubt that this 1905.Pathe news archives are frequently mistaken on a lot of detail.I would think by the quality fo the image that this could be a little later.The west of Ireland suffered localised famine and extreme want right through the early decades of this century.
hartsty 1 year ago
its a disgrace what the english elite did..............4-5 million probly died from the numbers lost in absolute terms after taking emigration into account
3tangle3 1 year ago
From the 15th through the 19th centuries, successive English monarchies and governments enacted laws designed to suppress and destroy Irish manufacturing and trade. These repressive Acts, coupled with the Penal Laws, reduced the Irish people to "nakedness and beggary" in a very direct and purposeful way. The destitute Irish then stood at the very brink of the bottomless pit. When the potato blight struck in 1845, it was but time for the final push.
redasho1 1 year ago
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