@phucoff1the professional fisherman and those who had money to buy food did fine evidently fishing was not a solitary avocation that most peasants were acquainted with
@ phucoff1-you are brilliant! Were you only there at this terrible time you could have saved millions with that great tip! Honestly, if you know nothing about the subject keep your mouth shut and try to learn something! The British controlled EVERYTHING. Fishing inland lakes and waters would be considered poaching. You'd be shipped off to a far-off penal colony for such an offense! Even if fish were available, the peasant class could not afford to buy such a luxury.
The exact same thing is going on today on a grand scale.The resources available to the poor are dwindeling,the population of the poor is exploding,The world bank and IMF are just as greedy and incapable of helping as the british government was then.But now there is no contenant to run to.The number of people on starvation diets today exceeds the whole of mankind in1845.It takes only 50 days now for one million to starve.
@phucoff1 -your channel is not active which means you re a troll,but ironically and sadly asking a question that many Irish people near the coast may have asked themeselves-do some research and find out yourself.
The ptoatoes werent sold-they were the sole dietary item.for many people. A pig or cow was to sell, you couldnt afford to eat it. By the height of the famine, crop seed was being eaten so there was nothing to grow next season on blighted land. The big famine was the 4th occasion in 10 yrs that blight had occurred in Ireland. Huge rents were still collected and even shopkeepers starved-Indian Maize- 'Trevalyans corn' and low protein soup caused more harm than good-cramps & dysentery.
I made the video as a basis for helping my students participate in a classroom drama based on the Potato Famine. I never expected it to become the subject of so much interest. I do appreciate everyone who has taken the time to watch the video and to comment.
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 (100,000 at any given moment) Thus, 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.
@ccrino07 Yes Trevelyan was a leading light in treating the Irish like dirt and actually thought that not enough of them died to make any appreciable difference !
If this for education then my comments are-my dads family were starved out of Donegal in 1848,and moved to Conset, Co Durham and worked in the steel works and pits.
My wife is a university grad (I am think as pig shit) and she was studying population movements and demographic changes in the British Isles.
She picked my family at random to follow-I met her by chance two years later-small world
@toonmag50 I think that's great, that you met someone who was interested in finding out the history of these terrible years of suffering. Hats off to her and yourself !
I'm a brit and it's sick what the British Conservative government did to the peaple of Ireland. The Conservatives have always been sick fucks.Theres little we can do now to pay for what the government did. I don't really know what else to say it's to much suffering to comprehend.
Ireland starved because its food, 40-70 shiploads per day, was removed at gunpoint by 12,000 British constables reinforced by the British militia, battleships, excise vessels, Coast Guard & 200,000 British soldiers.
Thus, 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'
@carl77777 You are correct that the Conservative government in power when the famine began did not do anywhere near enough to relieve the suffering however when the Liberal government formed a government their record on this score was even worse At this time in Europe governments were wont to interfere in the "market economy" and famines occured regularly especially in eastern Europe and the Russian Empire as well as the far better known potato famine in Ireland
@elamite66 Cormac O’Grada documents that in 1845, a famine year in Ireland, 3,251,907 quarters (8 bushels = 1 quarter) of corn were exported from Ireland to Britain. That same year, 257,257 sheep were exported to Britain. In 1846, another famine year, 480,827 swine, and 186,483 oxen were exported to Britain but you are not entirely correct as england took food from them
@afertyus1000 I'm sure your facts are correct and yes there was food available but he Irish peasant farmer was like a share cropper and when the potato crop failed they had not money to buy food Westminster should have provided relief even if there was on food in Ireland being exported My only point was famines were not uncommon in parts of Europe and governments did not want to interfere with the market economy But regardless it was a tragedy that should and could have been avoided
@afertyus1000 This was not Westminster but the Capitalist free market system which most western countries were wont to interfere Their public and private relief programs were obviously sorely lacking and I am not saying that Ireland was treated fairly in Westminster but it was the landowners and well off farmers who sold their produce wherever it would get the highest price There was no shortage of food in Ireland but a shortage of money as the subsistence peasants depended largely on the potato
but there was a SURPLUS of food in ireland at the time in 1841 5% of land was in native irish hands the rest absentee landlords [probably english]who probably got it through theft and fraud, the english gov collaborated with them and at gunpoint took the food to feed their armies abroad
@carl77777 The Liberal government that followed the conservative didn't do any better actually worse if anything They did not want to interfere with the market economy evidently they were both short on humanity
u forgot to mention the reason the Irish ate the potato since the English had stolen our land the Irish had farms of only a few acres so the potato was the only viable option.
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karezza6 1 week ago
omg
salice26 1 month ago
@phucoff1 fish would not ward off scurvey. There was still food, grain - cattle, but the british sent it back to britain and let the irish starve!
peipotatoguy 3 months ago
what a crap! lies and deceit!!! the Irish had many different crops unlike the english who came and stole the food! slaughtered entire families.
MrMinutemen 5 months ago
@phucoff1the professional fisherman and those who had money to buy food did fine evidently fishing was not a solitary avocation that most peasants were acquainted with
elamite66 6 months ago
Tell all the Tims you know,
That potatoes in Ireland now grow,
Take your priests and your nuns,
Your bombs and your guns,
The famine is over NOW GO!
Stu3100 7 months ago
I'm learning about ireland in history this video really helped :)
SuperMerryhappy 8 months ago
What a vid thanx insight was great into my irish celtic background lots of us irish heritage became scousers not horrible english
magic54904 9 months ago
really helped
NoPuIzey 9 months ago
can you makes a video for the hole fourth year history exam....pllease :D
Seonaidlove 9 months ago
Dude thanks for making this it helped with my report a lot.
ninjarlo 1 year ago
what is the music it tastes like potatos
doughnutmuffun12 1 year ago
@ phucoff1-you are brilliant! Were you only there at this terrible time you could have saved millions with that great tip! Honestly, if you know nothing about the subject keep your mouth shut and try to learn something! The British controlled EVERYTHING. Fishing inland lakes and waters would be considered poaching. You'd be shipped off to a far-off penal colony for such an offense! Even if fish were available, the peasant class could not afford to buy such a luxury.
bbbmckeon 1 year ago
@phucoff1 Darn good question.
Chad01234 1 year ago
The exact same thing is going on today on a grand scale.The resources available to the poor are dwindeling,the population of the poor is exploding,The world bank and IMF are just as greedy and incapable of helping as the british government was then.But now there is no contenant to run to.The number of people on starvation diets today exceeds the whole of mankind in1845.It takes only 50 days now for one million to starve.
brianmoran1973 1 year ago
@phucoff1 -your channel is not active which means you re a troll,but ironically and sadly asking a question that many Irish people near the coast may have asked themeselves-do some research and find out yourself.
toonmag50 1 year ago
The ptoatoes werent sold-they were the sole dietary item.for many people. A pig or cow was to sell, you couldnt afford to eat it. By the height of the famine, crop seed was being eaten so there was nothing to grow next season on blighted land. The big famine was the 4th occasion in 10 yrs that blight had occurred in Ireland. Huge rents were still collected and even shopkeepers starved-Indian Maize- 'Trevalyans corn' and low protein soup caused more harm than good-cramps & dysentery.
magiclard 1 year ago
wow, every one is so interested with this video
XGhiyathX 2 years ago
I made the video as a basis for helping my students participate in a classroom drama based on the Potato Famine. I never expected it to become the subject of so much interest. I do appreciate everyone who has taken the time to watch the video and to comment.
CarolynOsborne 2 years ago 2
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 (100,000 at any given moment) Thus, 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.
ccrino07 2 years ago 2
@ccrino07 Yes Trevelyan was a leading light in treating the Irish like dirt and actually thought that not enough of them died to make any appreciable difference !
josparkes1 2 years ago
If this for education then my comments are-my dads family were starved out of Donegal in 1848,and moved to Conset, Co Durham and worked in the steel works and pits.
My wife is a university grad (I am think as pig shit) and she was studying population movements and demographic changes in the British Isles.
She picked my family at random to follow-I met her by chance two years later-small world
toonmag50 2 years ago
@toonmag50 I think that's great, that you met someone who was interested in finding out the history of these terrible years of suffering. Hats off to her and yourself !
josparkes1 2 years ago
Go and rub yer shite on yer walls ya taig cunt.
NO SURRENDER>
no1platoon 2 years ago
well bobby sands wasnt the first lol
advancedwindows 2 years ago
@advancedwindows
not funny if you had family who died due to this famine
sean20220 1 year ago
I'm a brit and it's sick what the British Conservative government did to the peaple of Ireland. The Conservatives have always been sick fucks.Theres little we can do now to pay for what the government did. I don't really know what else to say it's to much suffering to comprehend.
carl77777 3 years ago 9
@carl77777 Well said and I entirely agree with you !
josparkes1 2 years ago
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Ireland starved because its food, 40-70 shiploads per day, was removed at gunpoint by 12,000 British constables reinforced by the British militia, battleships, excise vessels, Coast Guard & 200,000 British soldiers.
Thus, 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'
Millions of Catholics Genocided by England
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StSimonOfTrent 1 year ago
@carl77777 You are correct that the Conservative government in power when the famine began did not do anywhere near enough to relieve the suffering however when the Liberal government formed a government their record on this score was even worse At this time in Europe governments were wont to interfere in the "market economy" and famines occured regularly especially in eastern Europe and the Russian Empire as well as the far better known potato famine in Ireland
elamite66 1 year ago
@elamite66 Cormac O’Grada documents that in 1845, a famine year in Ireland, 3,251,907 quarters (8 bushels = 1 quarter) of corn were exported from Ireland to Britain. That same year, 257,257 sheep were exported to Britain. In 1846, another famine year, 480,827 swine, and 186,483 oxen were exported to Britain but you are not entirely correct as england took food from them
afertyus1000 6 months ago
@afertyus1000 I'm sure your facts are correct and yes there was food available but he Irish peasant farmer was like a share cropper and when the potato crop failed they had not money to buy food Westminster should have provided relief even if there was on food in Ireland being exported My only point was famines were not uncommon in parts of Europe and governments did not want to interfere with the market economy But regardless it was a tragedy that should and could have been avoided
elamite66 6 months ago
@elamite66 yes i refer you to quentin00000000
afertyus1000 6 months ago
@afertyus1000 I have to admit my complete ignorance of quentin00000000?
elamite66 6 months ago
@elamite66 Oh sorry i should have explained it is the other YT members post below ours
afertyus1000 6 months ago
@afertyus1000 This was not Westminster but the Capitalist free market system which most western countries were wont to interfere Their public and private relief programs were obviously sorely lacking and I am not saying that Ireland was treated fairly in Westminster but it was the landowners and well off farmers who sold their produce wherever it would get the highest price There was no shortage of food in Ireland but a shortage of money as the subsistence peasants depended largely on the potato
elamite66 5 months ago
@elamite66
afertyus1000 5 months ago
but there was a SURPLUS of food in ireland at the time in 1841 5% of land was in native irish hands the rest absentee landlords [probably english]who probably got it through theft and fraud, the english gov collaborated with them and at gunpoint took the food to feed their armies abroad
afertyus1000 5 months ago
@elamite66 for some reason there is an error when i try to post but google wolfe tones official site com famine
afertyus1000 5 months ago
@carl77777 The Liberal government that followed the conservative didn't do any better actually worse if anything They did not want to interfere with the market economy evidently they were both short on humanity
elamite66 6 months ago
@carl77777
wanker
karezza6 1 week ago
u forgot to mention the reason the Irish ate the potato since the English had stolen our land the Irish had farms of only a few acres so the potato was the only viable option.
Quentin0000000000 3 years ago
Surrounded by water ya thick tarrier cunt.
It's not only a friday you can eat fish.
no1platoon 3 years ago
ya u banned hunting and fishing read a book on a subject before you comment on one.
Quentin0000000000 3 years ago