Well I was born in Britain; emigrated to Canada but lived in England for a yr. in 1977 & I recall how I couldn't go over to Ireland for a holiday as the War was still going on.....since reading a great deal in regard to this famine I feel terrible how the Brits treated the Irish....I have always thought the Brits were arrogant & have gone sticking their noses in all over this World.....really sorry for what the Irish went thru.
... and nowadays how is it to immigrate from third world to The First one ????
... This time is coming back to Europe and the only way to leave is COMMUNIST REVOLUTION ... and we must not trust any longer to social-democracy !!! That means social-betrayal ...
Good on the Quakers, and also In 1847, midway through the so called Irish famine, a group of Choctaw Indians collected $710 and sent it to help starving Irish men, women and children too.
@thevster1603 ha well it was financial reasons his other family moved to the US for the same reasons,i suppose it was the way he was brought up and learnt from others
I understand that politics played a part in the disaster, in that - surprisingly- a Tory Government was starting to put meaningful aid into place, and a huge work programme, so the heads of families could earn money, then a Whig - aristocratic - administration came in, with the view that the famine was an act of God, and why challenge the will of God...? It was a class generated holocaust. I speak as an Englishman. It was the all time low point of the British Empire.
One point Presbyterians were also restricted by laws and like the Catholics also perished, as they were also very poor.. The protestants refers to the ascendancy many English who held office in Ireland and were Anglican Protestant :)
Ohh Dear Lord !!! We have typical english gobsheen.....When will you ever learn that your Arrogance leads to your Ignorance.... You tried but in the end the IRISH prevailed and are loved all over the world today, your race has always been known to be a race of arrogance, insolence, agression, and above all ignorant,
hmm on a point of Ignorance....Shance Mcgowan is Irish fact enjoy :)
Famine my arse it was a Holocaust and the fucking English let it happen i know i lost my great grandmother in it so what is new about the English i hope you rot in hell
In addition, Catholics (Irish) could not vote, hold an office, purchase land, join the army, or engage in commerce. Simply put, the British turned the Irish into nothing better than slaves, subsisting on their small rented farms
The Penal Laws, first passed in 1695. were strictly enforced. These laws made it illegal for Catholics (Irish) to own land, and required the transfer of property from Catholics to Protestants; to have access to an education, and eliminated Gaelic as a language while preventing the development of an educated class; to enter professions, forcing the Irish to remain as sharecropping farmers; or to practice their religion.
i think its funny when english people tell us to stop playing the victim or to "bring our thinking into the 21st century" or to stop living in the past .... i bet they used that same line 50 years after the mass murder that is known as the potato famine only to go on and commit countless other atrocities against the people of ireland.... a country that punishes the native people of another country by penalty of death for speaking their native language is nothing more than pure evil...
proper order english bastards they try to be so good what they have done to our people in ireland and all over the world they are hated everywhere pricks
@99cormac "proper order english bastards they try to be so good what they have done to our people in ireland and all over the world they are hated everywhere pricks"
the brits are now lowering their corporation tax- they want the food off our plate again northern ireland wll be allowed to lower its corporation tax more than anywhere in the UK in order to take from the ROI.... we should always have our tax rates lower than NI- to keep capital flows favourable. tell your local politician!
@bellybroom How is it that when Eire introduced low corporate tax, it was seen as shrewd and progressive..but if Brits do it, it's an attempt to steal your food?? That's ludicrous. I think it's about time you stopped playing the downtrodden victim and bring your thinking into the 21st century.
We've just handed you £7 billion, hardly the behaviour of a thief now is it?
@comanchio1976 u didnt hand me 7 billion- u gave it to 2 try to protect british bad investments in irish banks, so the financial markets wont consider you lot involved in a banking crisis and raise rates on this years UK borrowing of something like 750billion. so actually u lot are just saving yourself money and trying to portray that ur saving the world.....
There was no Famine--there was plenty of food for everyone. Only the Irish Catholics were allowed to eat potatoes and all other foods were sent to England. If you were willing to convert to Protestantism--the English would feed you in soup kitchens.
The real culprit to the Irish famine was that the English only brought back one type of potato from North America whereas their was 1000s of different types of potatos that the American "Red" Indians cultivated.
The Irish Holocaust.. Historians call it a Famine ?? Yeahh Right.. As has been written there was in fact plenty of food in Ireland other than rotten potatoes and the British Government of that time did nothing to stop the starvation based on sheer poverty.. So much for a British Empire of Riches. The Irish natives were deliberately starved to kill as many as possible as was part of the then British Government policy..
@NSW2101 yep Thats what the brit forget to tell everyone! there was food bein shipped in an effort to help the Irish but of course the british landowners rode up with their centries and raided the boats taking the food for themselves. Did you know that some Irishland lords ceased to charge rent during the famine, But the british did not even lower the rent! Just for the record, NOT ONE British person in ireland during this time died of hunger or hunger related desease!
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this tradgy was ignored by the world,the british were happy to starve the irish out,so they could settle the land with scotish settlers.the irish did not ignore the famine in africa,it was bob golbof who got the world to help.
god all the cool irish people most have stayed there, i've liked every one i've met from ireland, but i fucking hate irish americans. there is no ethnic american group more annoying than the fucking irish, and that's the italian americans. there's nothing wrong with an inteest in your ancestry, but when ethnic pride reaches the ranks of pure arragnats... well just retarded!
...and realize this, "most real irish people don't even like you"!!
@samuiblue1 perhaps have a little respect for those who died in the famine. it shouldnt be "over" as you suggest in our heads or hearts. respect for our past and those who died does not make us fenians.
you know whats funny? in all this, during a great song by any standards.. so many choose to fight online about things that make up the great HISTORY of a people.. my ancestors came out of this period, came to canada... i am proud of my heritage, but i can find better things to hate on, or hate about than something that happened so long ago when we have so many new trials and tribulations today! for gods sake people... wake up... enjoy it for what it is... music!
@laughingwarrior Get your facts right wanker. The poor ate potatoes and the rest of the crops and animals were exported by the ruling English. Ignorant twat.
1.The Irish famine was caused by a virus. 2. It was one of 160 recorded famines in that decade, and one of the smaller ones. 3. There have been over 1000 recorded famines in the last 400 years, the Irish fmaine was small in scale and handled slightly better than most. Now quit the Anglophobia and grow up.
@tinmccool Anglophobe. No the famine was one of many in that decade all caused by Oomycete's not any country. Your hatred of the British ,which is supported by the BBC, is why you say these things. Not reality.
Potato blight caused the famine, primarily. That is a disease that affects the spuds
Famines were common place, albeit on a smaller scale, in England up till the 19th Century. Granted the British Gov't didnt do enough to alleviate the worst affects, but this debacle has been used primarily as a way to stir up Anglophobia, not remember thos who lost their lives. Irish culture does not predate English by 1000 years. Explain your reasoning?
@barrowafcfan I did not mean to imply that the 'blight' (Mosaic) was created by man, but it is hard to deny that Westminster and Trevellyn handled it badly due to a misguided adherence to free market dogma. I'll explain my reasoning regarding Irish Culture when I can construct a cogent argument... i.e. not 2 in the morning
@warriorprince1010 most of the famines you speak of happend in 3rd world countrys,not in the country of the second city of the most powerfull empire(at the time) in the world,was their a famine in scotland or wales or england in the decade,i think not,the truth is their is no diffrence in the irish famine and the famine the soviets inflicted on ukrane in the 1930s,they were man made
@waynedaly100 Finland, France are not 3rd world countries. Anglophobia will get you so far [a job at the BBC or EU] but none of it is based on any reality we are aware of.
@warriorprince1010 no sorry you are wrong no famine in france and finland in the same decade,their was famine in france at the time of the revolution,this was allso man made
@waynedaly100 No the famines in France and Finland, which happen every few decades were caused by the same virus that caused the Irish famine. I am glad you accept the Irish famine was not man made, anyway.
@warriorprince1010 See below, and I'm far from being An Anglophobe, do like a debate though. One of the many laudable attributes prevalent all over these islands
@tinmccool No it was not the citizens of Athens. Democracy in Athens was only for the rich few, not everyone. So you were not being pedantic you were just being wrong.
@warriorprince1010 British democracy was of course for everyone, except women, the landless, catholics, or prods, (depending on monarch du jour) and has now progressed happily to the 40 odd % of people who can be arsed voting. The word Democracy does not stem from the Greek 'Demos'. who were admittedly some what selective regarding their eligible demographic (that word again). Must be great being right all the time, please don't reply as stupid personal jibes are not my cup of tea.
@warriorprince1010 I did say 'citizens', a distinction clearly lost on you mate, and although I asked you not to reply, I feel I must, the tribes of Ireland elected their Chieftains by the general agreement of the warriors of the clan. The hereditary principle was unheard of. So if not Athens please tell me where. Answers on a parchment please. Unlike the British army where one could buy a senior commission until just after the Crimea.
@tinmccool Just like the IRA who thought killing a pregnant women was two for the price of one. The Catholic priests were never elected by the people and the children wanted to be cared for not abused. As for Athens the citizens did NOT get a vote halfwit. The monarchy of the UK has no power to make decisions. The UK had the glorious revolution. Irish nobility DID have sons who succeeded them. Just like British royalty. I disagree with both.
@warriorprince1010 Think you have the wrong idea about me, I hate the fucking provos, probably with better reason than you, the 'citizens' of Athens did vote, just very few of the population were 'citizens', and prior to the Norman invasion c1210, 'Strongbow' et all, there was not even a concept of nobility. Again no need to call me a halfwit, it just demeans the debate...
@warriorprince1010 Furthermore I presume that you are referring to Omagh, that wasn't the IRA, (inop. since early 60's) nor was it the PIRA, it was the even more barbaric 'Real IRA'. Nonetheless all murdering scumbags whatever acronym they cower behind
@MrTotallyenglish Your entitled to your opinion.... but we are having the last laugh watching you english cunts come home in boxes every week from Afghanistan and Iraq. ;o) lol
@tigerspuds That comment is a disgrace, regardless of the many Irish Ulster Scots men that have served with pride and distinction in the services, I am not going to insult you because there is no point talking to anyone who can laugh at the death of a soldier. Wherever he fights.
This video make me cry. I feel very sorry for those starving people.
The more we read about the history of our nations, of our world, we become more sad and puzzled. Why do rich people are so selfish and collect money in their bank instead of investing in farms and animal breeding to creat jobs and feed the hungry world? Money and goldsticks won't grow food in the bank just laziness!
Painful to read some posts! How many Irish people realise that the vile comments of 1690scoot are typical of, say, a million Glasgow Rangers supporters?
One thing to bear in mind - the soldiers who served in the kilted "Highland" regiments since the 1820s were not native Gaelic-speaking Highlanders as a result of the Highland Clearances. Instead, they were mainly Irishmen and to a lesser extent Englishmen followed by their sons, grandsons, etc.
This is one of the reasons I am soo very proud to stay Im Irish!! No matter how many times our backs have been broken for one reason or another we still find the strength to stand up again and each time wee do we are bigger and stronger than before! God I love this country, our way of life, no one will ever break the Irish spirit amongst us here in Ireland and our families else were! Its so true that u can the person out of Ireland but u cant take Ireland out of the person!! Eire! x
Les vieilles chansons te font-elles marrer ? continuent elles à te faire pleurer? sèche tes larmes, nous ne partirons jamais assez loin - là ou nous pourrions oublier nos noms... S. Mc Gowann
I am reading "Year of the French" can someone suggest a GOOD book on the history of Ireland--one that would mention the great poets and writers By the way SHAME ON YEATS for what he said about Casement!!
@vivascargill For a sound overview there was a book to accompaniy the bbc series a few years back, gives a succint chapter by chapter history from iron age onwards. (Can't remember he author). 'Modern Ireland -1600-1972' is excellent but not a page turner. A regards literature etc 'The Tain bo Cuailagne' is a must, 'Early Irish Myths and Sagas' 'Aceltic Miscellenany' (All penguin I think). Andomans 'Life of columba'. Ellemann on Joyce, Wilde, O Casey, Seamus Heany. Plus Any Thing By Peter Taylor
go to Ireland and see if you can speak Gaeilge to anyone. Try to live a day speaking only Gaeilge. You will be disappointed. Maybe in the future, with all these younger people now being enthusiastic about the language, it will come back and its speakers will have the same rights and opportunities...but that will be long in coming.
it wasn't just a million. that's the white washed history version. gaelic speakers didn't count as they never do now, so their voices and weight are ignored
Not only do I object to the word "Peasant ", I object to the word "Famine". There was NO famine in Ireland in the mid 18th century. It was genocide! The country was full of food. English greed starved one million and rid the country of up to another three million by emigration. They are still trying to shit on us. We wernt beaten then and we never will be beaten.
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'
Wrong, it was Irish green and aggression that caused a war with England(see Tristan and isolde) but when you were defeated you expected us to be kind to you? are you having a laugh? after years of Irish raiders killing civilians and stealing English babies.
@tigerspuds TheEnglish did send aide over, just not enough. Also, the people of Ireland REFUSED aide. William O'Brien said that he hoped "No Irish man would degrade himself by asking for the aide of the English." Those poor, heartless Brits sent money and food over. They didn't do enough, and they didn't do it fast enough. Now, I'm not trying to imply that England never did anything to harm the Irish. That's absurd. In this situation, however, you have a food shortage and capitalism to blame.
@tigerspuds . Roger that mate, I have seen invoices from Cork and Dublin and Belfast that like look like an Admirals feast. It was state sponsored genocide driven by bigotry and the deluded dogma of free markets. Have a look at Trevellyn's 'How I cured the Irish potato famine' published in 1847, just before 2 million starved and 4 million fucked off West. (Figures may not be accurate)
@tigerspuds shut up...just shut up...If we're still trying to shit on you how come we just bailed you out when the rest of europe wanted to watch you choke on your own bankers greed.
@TheWubbleyou Just getting back what you stole off us over the last 800 years! Really softens the blow when you brits are paying for our greedy bankers and shit government! ;o) mwwwaaahhhhhh lol
@tigerspuds The Irish spirit prevails. My ancesters and a lot of my family are from Ireland. It's not something you can "overcome". We're Irish, we're proud and we will never let go of our land. <3
@tigerspuds I think I'll pass on that thanks...little girl. Cricket and rugby bore the shit out of me. Now go and learn how to play guitar, and turn out a decent Irish band for a change.
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.
A Holocaust of tragic proportions and deserves our utmost respect to the poor little babies and the desperate plight of the parents, who could not feed them. Awful time.
The roman's conquered England - you don't hear people saying... damn those romans for creating road networks etc... this is all part of history and so many people suffered in days long past - to come no more. Yes the Irish suffered terribly throughout the famine era, prior to the famine era and have suffered thereafter, but so have lots of other cultures. At least the Irish still maintain the language an Gaeilge - Black people taken from Africa don't even have their own names - we resisted
@OrTheThirdPerson Yes the tragic plight of the poor victims is enough to turn the stomach of anyone with pity for the poor poor victims, who had to die from starvation, and no proper help from the govt of Britain !
I object to the word peasant to describe our people, otherwise good video, but at least you should refer to the fact that this was a very deliberate attempt by the british at ethnic cleansing....
Peasant - a member of the class constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, and labourers on the land where they form the main labour force in agriculture.
OK sorry, wasn't tryin to dig at ya or anything man, love the video (and the sentiment behind it) . I just felt that as it was our land in the first place and the landlords had no rights to claim it, peasants seems an insulting word to me (Just like when I'm called Mick or Paddy). Obviously others feel differently, so no offence meant....
@worcesterjonny Thank you for this accurate depiction of happened to this Irish during the potato "famine". Hadn't thought of it as ethnic cleaning, but it certainly was. Remember, the same tactics were used after Colloden on the Scots. The English are the faithful allies of the US, now, but it took two world wars to achieve it.
To my ancestors that came to America from Ireland, I'm drinking to you tonight. It's Jack Daniels, to be sure, not Jamesons', but it's whiskey none the less.
@cindydintn "it certainly was ethnic cleansing" was it? Not according to some Irish historians. Oh, and as for "to be sure"..I dont think the Irish have used that phrase for decades.
absolutely true , there was no famine . Ire;and was an abundant food producer and food exporter . It was deliberate genocide , social darwinianism as a Victorian experiment . Something the nazis copied later on .
Though I think a "national question" was in play of course and what was pure racism in the end it was class. The British TUC had demanded withdrawal of ALL British troops in July 1920 at its Scarborough conference (dangerfield p 346) . From the levellers to Sylvia Pankhurst to the brave women I saw in Women against Pit Closure and the NUM there has always been remarkable (I don't claim total) solidarity!
there was a class element sure and class struggle cant be divorced from it but it was primarily a national issue , national sovereignty and britains violation of it , the irish peoples right to national self determination . Still denied by successive British governments, labour and conservative . The issue needs to go to the un and britains occupation of irish territory exposed as illegal under international law
@bknight,,,I think we agree though as I watched Wind the Shakes the Brarly I became aware of both--I dont think we disagree. I do far Ireland will be run from Belgium or wherehever the EU has is headquarters.
And I confess that when I was in Ireland years ago the poverty was terrible. A rich Irish gov. would I confess make a dfference but how much better than the English occupiers? Just a thought. I think we agree pretty much
theres definitely class issues as well , the rich have always sold their country out and collaborated with the occupying force . But primarily the issue is national sovereignty . Patrick Pearse and James Connolly defined national sovereignty - in part- as the ownership of Ireland by the people of Ireland ,including its wealth, national resources and means of production . While national sovereignty is being violated in any form , then the Irish people are being robbed and dispossessed
Beautiful video!!! Scorcese could have used it in Gangs of NY! Love Shane's keen awareness of the Irish-American connection. My folks (Scots) got here early on & the Cornish/Welsh branch later. After the revolution, laws forced Scots to emigrate elsewhere, most went to Canada. Canada has always had more compassion for immigrants, taking in folks we turned away. Famine Irish ending up there makes sense. New Orleans also got the most desperate. The COFFIN SHIPS were just old SLAVE SHIPS!
My ancestors lived in slum housing one family to a room. They worked from childhood down mines and were literally chained to massive looms in huge weaving mills. They slogged their hungry guts out and died of starvation disease and industry . Even though they were starving themselves it is well documented that they sent money over to ireland to help the irish when their crops failed . Im proud of my people the english (yorkshire) . Peace .
so you see it as a them and "us" thing do you ? .they made it hell for the english working class too . and dont threaten me ! il say what i damn well please BECAUSE WHAT I SAID IS TRUE .
As was said previously - it was a class issue - and thank God your ancestors helped in anyway that they could - they would have been suffering terrible conditions and poverty themselves....
was it a class issue for the others, like the other nations in the british empire, for example the indians. gandhi had a first class education but he could'nt even sit in second class seating. what about the soup kitchens set up all around ireland, there were terms and conditions for those who "took the soup". sorry if my grammer isint up to scratch but im sure you can understand it.
I am decended from survivors of the great hunger.... The British government sat aside while my ancestors starved and exported large quantities of other crop thus allowing the famine to occur....Everything was taken from the Irish... but our Gaelic language survives today..... and I am proud to say that I am speaking our old and beautiful language fluently today and passing something to my own children that the oppressors failed to beat out of my forefathers...... an teanga.
Well I was born in Britain; emigrated to Canada but lived in England for a yr. in 1977 & I recall how I couldn't go over to Ireland for a holiday as the War was still going on.....since reading a great deal in regard to this famine I feel terrible how the Brits treated the Irish....I have always thought the Brits were arrogant & have gone sticking their noses in all over this World.....really sorry for what the Irish went thru.
twinflame1000 1 month ago
... and nowadays how is it to immigrate from third world to The First one ????
... This time is coming back to Europe and the only way to leave is COMMUNIST REVOLUTION ... and we must not trust any longer to social-democracy !!! That means social-betrayal ...
yvbillard 2 months ago
Good on the Quakers, and also In 1847, midway through the so called Irish famine, a group of Choctaw Indians collected $710 and sent it to help starving Irish men, women and children too.
ArtetlaMusique87 2 months ago
@thevster1603 ha well it was financial reasons his other family moved to the US for the same reasons,i suppose it was the way he was brought up and learnt from others
afertyus1000 4 months ago
@thevster1603 my dad came to the uk from Eire in the 40s and always hated the english!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
afertyus1000 4 months ago
That was eyeopening great job.
michaelafromBOSSTOWN 6 months ago
potatoes never stoped growing fact ! it was the people who ran us from our homes
teevanjohn 6 months ago
remember where we come from,tell our kid's,move on ,no hate.
paddyboyful 6 months ago
I understand that politics played a part in the disaster, in that - surprisingly- a Tory Government was starting to put meaningful aid into place, and a huge work programme, so the heads of families could earn money, then a Whig - aristocratic - administration came in, with the view that the famine was an act of God, and why challenge the will of God...? It was a class generated holocaust. I speak as an Englishman. It was the all time low point of the British Empire.
farliesbirthday 7 months ago 3
"History is the nightmare from which I'm trying to escape" Joyce
tinmccool 8 months ago
Why didnt they grow carrots?
k0907548 8 months ago
One point Presbyterians were also restricted by laws and like the Catholics also perished, as they were also very poor.. The protestants refers to the ascendancy many English who held office in Ireland and were Anglican Protestant :)
XxxSaraxxX2k8bby 8 months ago
So what did the Irish eat before the potato came to Ireland from The New World?
StolenMonkey 8 months ago
@StolenMonkey Scotsmen
tinmccool 8 months ago
Ohh Dear Lord !!! We have typical english gobsheen.....When will you ever learn that your Arrogance leads to your Ignorance.... You tried but in the end the IRISH prevailed and are loved all over the world today, your race has always been known to be a race of arrogance, insolence, agression, and above all ignorant,
hmm on a point of Ignorance....Shance Mcgowan is Irish fact enjoy :)
patricia1750 9 months ago
@patricia1750 Well said laddd :D You ledge !!!
XxxSaraxxX2k8bby 8 months ago
Famine my arse it was a Holocaust and the fucking English let it happen i know i lost my great grandmother in it so what is new about the English i hope you rot in hell
188charlie 9 months ago
UP THE REPUBLIC!
Taker1116 9 months ago
rotten bunch of scum
tremur1 9 months ago
In addition, Catholics (Irish) could not vote, hold an office, purchase land, join the army, or engage in commerce. Simply put, the British turned the Irish into nothing better than slaves, subsisting on their small rented farms
tremur1 9 months ago 18
@tremur1 they still can vote. They can't read the ballot papers
apincle 9 months ago
The Penal Laws, first passed in 1695. were strictly enforced. These laws made it illegal for Catholics (Irish) to own land, and required the transfer of property from Catholics to Protestants; to have access to an education, and eliminated Gaelic as a language while preventing the development of an educated class; to enter professions, forcing the Irish to remain as sharecropping farmers; or to practice their religion.
tremur1 9 months ago
i think its funny when english people tell us to stop playing the victim or to "bring our thinking into the 21st century" or to stop living in the past .... i bet they used that same line 50 years after the mass murder that is known as the potato famine only to go on and commit countless other atrocities against the people of ireland.... a country that punishes the native people of another country by penalty of death for speaking their native language is nothing more than pure evil...
tremur1 9 months ago
proper order english bastards they try to be so good what they have done to our people in ireland and all over the world they are hated everywhere pricks
99cormac 10 months ago
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@99cormac "proper order english bastards they try to be so good what they have done to our people in ireland and all over the world they are hated everywhere pricks"
PUNCTUATE, YOU ILLITERATE FUCKBAG!
kojjinak 10 months ago
the brits are now lowering their corporation tax- they want the food off our plate again northern ireland wll be allowed to lower its corporation tax more than anywhere in the UK in order to take from the ROI.... we should always have our tax rates lower than NI- to keep capital flows favourable. tell your local politician!
bellybroom 10 months ago
@bellybroom How is it that when Eire introduced low corporate tax, it was seen as shrewd and progressive..but if Brits do it, it's an attempt to steal your food?? That's ludicrous. I think it's about time you stopped playing the downtrodden victim and bring your thinking into the 21st century.
We've just handed you £7 billion, hardly the behaviour of a thief now is it?
comanchio1976 9 months ago
@comanchio1976 u didnt hand me 7 billion- u gave it to 2 try to protect british bad investments in irish banks, so the financial markets wont consider you lot involved in a banking crisis and raise rates on this years UK borrowing of something like 750billion. so actually u lot are just saving yourself money and trying to portray that ur saving the world.....
bellybroom 9 months ago
There was no Famine--there was plenty of food for everyone. Only the Irish Catholics were allowed to eat potatoes and all other foods were sent to England. If you were willing to convert to Protestantism--the English would feed you in soup kitchens.
Jimmibear13 10 months ago
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aalexjohna 11 months ago
i fancy a bag of chips after seeing this
aalexjohna 11 months ago
There was no priests died in the famine!!!!!
portercak 11 months ago
The real culprit to the Irish famine was that the English only brought back one type of potato from North America whereas their was 1000s of different types of potatos that the American "Red" Indians cultivated.
wovokanarchy 1 year ago
The Irish Holocaust.. Historians call it a Famine ?? Yeahh Right.. As has been written there was in fact plenty of food in Ireland other than rotten potatoes and the British Government of that time did nothing to stop the starvation based on sheer poverty.. So much for a British Empire of Riches. The Irish natives were deliberately starved to kill as many as possible as was part of the then British Government policy..
that is a fact..
NSW2101 1 year ago 10
@NSW2101 yep Thats what the brit forget to tell everyone! there was food bein shipped in an effort to help the Irish but of course the british landowners rode up with their centries and raided the boats taking the food for themselves. Did you know that some Irishland lords ceased to charge rent during the famine, But the british did not even lower the rent! Just for the record, NOT ONE British person in ireland during this time died of hunger or hunger related desease!
Jennylovessheba 2 months ago
Holodomor- genocide by starvation.
QueenLane78 1 year ago
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What a way of meeting people and get to see their talent. At first was reluctant being on youtube, but getting to do this has brought me into the houses of some very special people. You are one of them. Life; isn't it wonderful!!! Keep up the good work. Hope You Are Having A Splendid Day!!!!
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erickdircks 1 year ago
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God bless the Irish!
RobertRuhi 1 year ago
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waynedaly100 1 year ago
this tradgy was ignored by the world,the british were happy to starve the irish out,so they could settle the land with scotish settlers.the irish did not ignore the famine in africa,it was bob golbof who got the world to help.
waynedaly100 1 year ago
why didn't the catholic church help the yong boy's?
do'h,silly question.
samuiblue1 1 year ago
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laughingwarrior 1 year ago
god all the cool irish people most have stayed there, i've liked every one i've met from ireland, but i fucking hate irish americans. there is no ethnic american group more annoying than the fucking irish, and that's the italian americans. there's nothing wrong with an inteest in your ancestry, but when ethnic pride reaches the ranks of pure arragnats... well just retarded!
...and realize this, "most real irish people don't even like you"!!
michaelofGB45 1 year ago
Resist the English until they are completely gone from Ireland and have given back the Northern counties
heather89502 1 year ago
@heather89502 you fenian slag,
the famine is over.
samuiblue1 1 year ago
@samuiblue1 perhaps have a little respect for those who died in the famine. it shouldnt be "over" as you suggest in our heads or hearts. respect for our past and those who died does not make us fenians.
nanez1988 1 year ago
you know whats funny? in all this, during a great song by any standards.. so many choose to fight online about things that make up the great HISTORY of a people.. my ancestors came out of this period, came to canada... i am proud of my heritage, but i can find better things to hate on, or hate about than something that happened so long ago when we have so many new trials and tribulations today! for gods sake people... wake up... enjoy it for what it is... music!
pr0methi0us 1 year ago 4
i suppose they didnt, have cows and other animals in Ethiopia or Sudan you should change ur user name to laughingwanker.
mower1272 1 year ago
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laughingwarrior 1 year ago
@laughingwarrior Get your facts right wanker. The poor ate potatoes and the rest of the crops and animals were exported by the ruling English. Ignorant twat.
adamdaly4 1 year ago
1.The Irish famine was caused by a virus. 2. It was one of 160 recorded famines in that decade, and one of the smaller ones. 3. There have been over 1000 recorded famines in the last 400 years, the Irish fmaine was small in scale and handled slightly better than most. Now quit the Anglophobia and grow up.
warriorprince1010 1 year ago
@warriorprince1010 .
! The Irish famine wasn't caused by a virus but by monocultural short sighted idiots
2 Ps'Interferans is not a virus
3Yep, there was definitly worse
like the hunger delivered upon the unfortunates of NE India by similar policies
4 Policies from the British Govt acting on behalf of its citizens
5 When was the las time you were hungry
6 Irish (for me a loose term but you can take it as one) precedes 'English' culture by at least a 1000 years.
7 So there
tinmccool 1 year ago
@tinmccool Anglophobe. No the famine was one of many in that decade all caused by Oomycete's not any country. Your hatred of the British ,which is supported by the BBC, is why you say these things. Not reality.
warriorprince1010 1 year ago
@tinmccool
Potato blight caused the famine, primarily. That is a disease that affects the spuds
Famines were common place, albeit on a smaller scale, in England up till the 19th Century. Granted the British Gov't didnt do enough to alleviate the worst affects, but this debacle has been used primarily as a way to stir up Anglophobia, not remember thos who lost their lives. Irish culture does not predate English by 1000 years. Explain your reasoning?
barrowafcfan 1 year ago
@barrowafcfan I'm an Anglophile mate,
tinmccool 8 months ago
@barrowafcfan I did not mean to imply that the 'blight' (Mosaic) was created by man, but it is hard to deny that Westminster and Trevellyn handled it badly due to a misguided adherence to free market dogma. I'll explain my reasoning regarding Irish Culture when I can construct a cogent argument... i.e. not 2 in the morning
tinmccool 8 months ago
@warriorprince1010 most of the famines you speak of happend in 3rd world countrys,not in the country of the second city of the most powerfull empire(at the time) in the world,was their a famine in scotland or wales or england in the decade,i think not,the truth is their is no diffrence in the irish famine and the famine the soviets inflicted on ukrane in the 1930s,they were man made
waynedaly100 1 year ago
@waynedaly100 Finland, France are not 3rd world countries. Anglophobia will get you so far [a job at the BBC or EU] but none of it is based on any reality we are aware of.
warriorprince1010 1 year ago
@warriorprince1010 no sorry you are wrong no famine in france and finland in the same decade,their was famine in france at the time of the revolution,this was allso man made
waynedaly100 1 year ago
@waynedaly100 No the famines in France and Finland, which happen every few decades were caused by the same virus that caused the Irish famine. I am glad you accept the Irish famine was not man made, anyway.
warriorprince1010 1 year ago
@warriorprince1010 See below, and I'm far from being An Anglophobe, do like a debate though. One of the many laudable attributes prevalent all over these islands
tinmccool 8 months ago
@tinmccool "One of the many laudable attributes prevalent all over these islands"...due to democracy from the British.
warriorprince1010 8 months ago
@warriorprince1010 Well it was the citizens of Athens to be pedantic but your point is well made. Ps I'm from Herefordshire.
tinmccool 8 months ago
@tinmccool No it was not the citizens of Athens. Democracy in Athens was only for the rich few, not everyone. So you were not being pedantic you were just being wrong.
warriorprince1010 8 months ago
@warriorprince1010 British democracy was of course for everyone, except women, the landless, catholics, or prods, (depending on monarch du jour) and has now progressed happily to the 40 odd % of people who can be arsed voting. The word Democracy does not stem from the Greek 'Demos'. who were admittedly some what selective regarding their eligible demographic (that word again). Must be great being right all the time, please don't reply as stupid personal jibes are not my cup of tea.
tinmccool 8 months ago
@warriorprince1010 I did say 'citizens', a distinction clearly lost on you mate, and although I asked you not to reply, I feel I must, the tribes of Ireland elected their Chieftains by the general agreement of the warriors of the clan. The hereditary principle was unheard of. So if not Athens please tell me where. Answers on a parchment please. Unlike the British army where one could buy a senior commission until just after the Crimea.
tinmccool 8 months ago
@tinmccool Just like the IRA who thought killing a pregnant women was two for the price of one. The Catholic priests were never elected by the people and the children wanted to be cared for not abused. As for Athens the citizens did NOT get a vote halfwit. The monarchy of the UK has no power to make decisions. The UK had the glorious revolution. Irish nobility DID have sons who succeeded them. Just like British royalty. I disagree with both.
warriorprince1010 8 months ago
@warriorprince1010 Think you have the wrong idea about me, I hate the fucking provos, probably with better reason than you, the 'citizens' of Athens did vote, just very few of the population were 'citizens', and prior to the Norman invasion c1210, 'Strongbow' et all, there was not even a concept of nobility. Again no need to call me a halfwit, it just demeans the debate...
tinmccool 8 months ago
@warriorprince1010 Furthermore I presume that you are referring to Omagh, that wasn't the IRA, (inop. since early 60's) nor was it the PIRA, it was the even more barbaric 'Real IRA'. Nonetheless all murdering scumbags whatever acronym they cower behind
tinmccool 8 months ago
@tinmccool No, but that was a terrible attack on innocents. Anyone who kills the innocent is the same regardless of their tribe.
warriorprince1010 8 months ago
@tinmccool Here my erudite delusional misguided son, have a look at 'Hitchens, religion', he puts it much more eloquently then me
tinmccool 6 months ago
hahaha thats wot they get dirty bastards shame it didnt kill all the irish
THOMAS551535 1 year ago
@THOMAS551535 you are a muppit
waynedaly100 1 year ago
@waynedaly100 and ur a cunt with no balls
THOMAS551535 1 year ago
@THOMAS551535 pull your head out of your arse,and grow a brain,you little spa
waynedaly100 1 year ago
@THOMAS551535 and rangers suck big balls
waynedaly100 1 year ago
"And in Brendan Behan's footsteps I fell up and down the street", Mc Gowan you legend. What a tune.
TheLargeJesus 1 year ago
Was this called a GREAT potato famine because loads of Paddies died?
MrTotallyenglish 1 year ago
@MrTotallyenglish hey who u calling paddy bet you wudin say it to any irish mans face
anthonybarrett79 1 year ago
@MrTotallyenglish at least we kept a sense of humour, o man of 'Little Britain and Bo Selecta, 'dickhead
tinmccool 1 year ago
@MrTotallyenglish Your entitled to your opinion.... but we are having the last laugh watching you english cunts come home in boxes every week from Afghanistan and Iraq. ;o) lol
tigerspuds 1 year ago
@tigerspuds That comment is a disgrace, regardless of the many Irish Ulster Scots men that have served with pride and distinction in the services, I am not going to insult you because there is no point talking to anyone who can laugh at the death of a soldier. Wherever he fights.
tinmccool 8 months ago
The Irish Holocaust it does offer some solice to think that those landlords are now tormented in hell for their crimes. RIP
papajoe666 1 year ago
Never Happed!!
bribhoy 1 year ago
This is a true picture of the old irish!
nedwhelan72 1 year ago
This video make me cry. I feel very sorry for those starving people.
The more we read about the history of our nations, of our world, we become more sad and puzzled. Why do rich people are so selfish and collect money in their bank instead of investing in farms and animal breeding to creat jobs and feed the hungry world? Money and goldsticks won't grow food in the bank just laziness!
Cronopioslover274 1 year ago
Typical moaning Mick Toss-pots.
Clarky1966 1 year ago
Painful to read some posts! How many Irish people realise that the vile comments of 1690scoot are typical of, say, a million Glasgow Rangers supporters?
One thing to bear in mind - the soldiers who served in the kilted "Highland" regiments since the 1820s were not native Gaelic-speaking Highlanders as a result of the Highland Clearances. Instead, they were mainly Irishmen and to a lesser extent Englishmen followed by their sons, grandsons, etc.
Is that good or bad from an Irish view?
eoghanbeg 1 year ago
im 22 heading to new york for work nest week
il miss ireland
unitedenfree 1 year ago
may they rest in peace and never forgotten.thank god tom barry gave them some of their own medicine.32 counties
The6mick5 1 year ago
English shall have to pay for that !
Heimrik 1 year ago
brilliant.
ranginjal 1 year ago
very moving...a well done tribute
MzMagz84 1 year ago
This is one of the reasons I am soo very proud to stay Im Irish!! No matter how many times our backs have been broken for one reason or another we still find the strength to stand up again and each time wee do we are bigger and stronger than before! God I love this country, our way of life, no one will ever break the Irish spirit amongst us here in Ireland and our families else were! Its so true that u can the person out of Ireland but u cant take Ireland out of the person!! Eire! x
ExplorerBrock 1 year ago 2
Les vieilles chansons te font-elles marrer ? continuent elles à te faire pleurer? sèche tes larmes, nous ne partirons jamais assez loin - là ou nous pourrions oublier nos noms... S. Mc Gowann
kosmovynil 1 year ago
I am reading "Year of the French" can someone suggest a GOOD book on the history of Ireland--one that would mention the great poets and writers By the way SHAME ON YEATS for what he said about Casement!!
vivascargill 1 year ago
@vivascargill For a sound overview there was a book to accompaniy the bbc series a few years back, gives a succint chapter by chapter history from iron age onwards. (Can't remember he author). 'Modern Ireland -1600-1972' is excellent but not a page turner. A regards literature etc 'The Tain bo Cuailagne' is a must, 'Early Irish Myths and Sagas' 'Aceltic Miscellenany' (All penguin I think). Andomans 'Life of columba'. Ellemann on Joyce, Wilde, O Casey, Seamus Heany. Plus Any Thing By Peter Taylor
tinmccool 8 months ago
@tinmccool Avoid anything with the word Druid in the title
tinmccool 8 months ago
niamhdotie,
go to Ireland and see if you can speak Gaeilge to anyone. Try to live a day speaking only Gaeilge. You will be disappointed. Maybe in the future, with all these younger people now being enthusiastic about the language, it will come back and its speakers will have the same rights and opportunities...but that will be long in coming.
manglam23 1 year ago
it wasn't just a million. that's the white washed history version. gaelic speakers didn't count as they never do now, so their voices and weight are ignored
manglam23 1 year ago
Not only do I object to the word "Peasant ", I object to the word "Famine". There was NO famine in Ireland in the mid 18th century. It was genocide! The country was full of food. English greed starved one million and rid the country of up to another three million by emigration. They are still trying to shit on us. We wernt beaten then and we never will be beaten.
tigerspuds 1 year ago 35
@tigerspuds It was the mid 19th Century.
worcesterjonny 1 year ago 9
@worcesterjonny yeah but everything else is right
tinmccool 1 year ago
@tigerspuds aye but ther was still no spuds lol
yojialjimbo 1 year ago
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
IrishHolocaust Website
StSimonOfTrent 1 year ago
@tigerspuds
Wrong, it was Irish green and aggression that caused a war with England(see Tristan and isolde) but when you were defeated you expected us to be kind to you? are you having a laugh? after years of Irish raiders killing civilians and stealing English babies.
get a grip
Shropshireladdie 1 year ago
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tigerspuds 1 year ago
@tigerspuds
i aint twisting the truth! your the people who believe the English are in the wrong!!!!!!
Shropshireladdie 1 year ago
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@Shropshireladdie Typical english, twisting facts and trying to re-write history....
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tigerspuds 1 year ago
@tigerspuds
I agree 100%! The English shipped the beef and other food to England. Potato famine my arse. Long live the Irish!!!
deaglan28 1 year ago
@tigerspuds TheEnglish did send aide over, just not enough. Also, the people of Ireland REFUSED aide. William O'Brien said that he hoped "No Irish man would degrade himself by asking for the aide of the English." Those poor, heartless Brits sent money and food over. They didn't do enough, and they didn't do it fast enough. Now, I'm not trying to imply that England never did anything to harm the Irish. That's absurd. In this situation, however, you have a food shortage and capitalism to blame.
goji2099 1 year ago
@tigerspuds . Roger that mate, I have seen invoices from Cork and Dublin and Belfast that like look like an Admirals feast. It was state sponsored genocide driven by bigotry and the deluded dogma of free markets. Have a look at Trevellyn's 'How I cured the Irish potato famine' published in 1847, just before 2 million starved and 4 million fucked off West. (Figures may not be accurate)
tinmccool 1 year ago
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homenation 1 year ago
@tigerspuds oh really ! what about Bertie & Brian & Mary jabba Harney who have raped this country blind. Get over yerself.
homenation 1 year ago
@tigerspuds you gonna say No tyo the 7bn bailout then IDIOT.
homenation 1 year ago
@tigerspuds Say no to the Uk £7bn bail out are you ?
homenation 1 year ago
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RobertRuhi 1 year ago
@tigerspuds shut up...just shut up...If we're still trying to shit on you how come we just bailed you out when the rest of europe wanted to watch you choke on your own bankers greed.
TheWubbleyou 1 year ago
@TheWubbleyou Just getting back what you stole off us over the last 800 years! Really softens the blow when you brits are paying for our greedy bankers and shit government! ;o) mwwwaaahhhhhh lol
tigerspuds 1 year ago
@tigerspuds The Irish spirit prevails. My ancesters and a lot of my family are from Ireland. It's not something you can "overcome". We're Irish, we're proud and we will never let go of our land. <3
setthecityonfire 11 months ago
@tigerspuds How are the Brits still trying to shit on you?? Talk about a delusional victim complex.
comanchio1976 9 months ago
@comanchio1976 Go away little boy and learn how to play cricket and rugby! lol
tigerspuds 9 months ago
@tigerspuds I think I'll pass on that thanks...little girl. Cricket and rugby bore the shit out of me. Now go and learn how to play guitar, and turn out a decent Irish band for a change.
comanchio1976 9 months ago
@tigerspuds you were beaten when you signed the good friday agreement
btw, the pogues are an English band
apincle 9 months ago
@apincle they're irish actually, get your facts right,
1000AnnaBelle 9 months ago
@1000AnnaBelle nope, born and raised in southern England. Thy just pretend to be irish
apincle 9 months ago
@apincle The lead singer was raised in Tipperary, they sing mostly songs, id say that makes them an irish band to be fair
Liam2621 8 months ago
@Liam2621 they sing mostly songs, ???? eh?
apincle 8 months ago
@Liam2621 these songs that they mostly sing..... remind me what language they sing them in?
apincle 8 months ago
@apincle mostly irish songs*, give over though, just want to enjoy the song
Liam2621 8 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 9 months ago
not a famine but holocaust committed by a few capitalist thieves- armed, supported, financed by ROYALISTS...
sivascorummarasmhp 1 year ago
A Holocaust of tragic proportions and deserves our utmost respect to the poor little babies and the desperate plight of the parents, who could not feed them. Awful time.
josparkes1 1 year ago
The roman's conquered England - you don't hear people saying... damn those romans for creating road networks etc... this is all part of history and so many people suffered in days long past - to come no more. Yes the Irish suffered terribly throughout the famine era, prior to the famine era and have suffered thereafter, but so have lots of other cultures. At least the Irish still maintain the language an Gaeilge - Black people taken from Africa don't even have their own names - we resisted
niamhdotie 1 year ago
its not a competition
conormc90 1 year ago
@conormc90
I know its not a competition... its history.
niamhdotie 1 year ago
its not a competition
conormc90 1 year ago
This Irishman has no problem with the word "peasant" in this context. It's a matter of explanation, not a judgement.
RunyonFan 1 year ago 3
turns the stomach.
OrTheThirdPerson 1 year ago
@OrTheThirdPerson Yes the tragic plight of the poor victims is enough to turn the stomach of anyone with pity for the poor poor victims, who had to die from starvation, and no proper help from the govt of Britain !
josparkes1 1 year ago
I object to the word peasant to describe our people, otherwise good video, but at least you should refer to the fact that this was a very deliberate attempt by the british at ethnic cleansing....
johnbmcdonald 1 year ago 8
Peasant - a member of the class constituted by small farmers and tenants, sharecroppers, and labourers on the land where they form the main labour force in agriculture.
worcesterjonny 1 year ago
OK sorry, wasn't tryin to dig at ya or anything man, love the video (and the sentiment behind it) . I just felt that as it was our land in the first place and the landlords had no rights to claim it, peasants seems an insulting word to me (Just like when I'm called Mick or Paddy). Obviously others feel differently, so no offence meant....
johnbmcdonald 1 year ago 2
No problem!
worcesterjonny 1 year ago
@worcesterjonny Thank you for this accurate depiction of happened to this Irish during the potato "famine". Hadn't thought of it as ethnic cleaning, but it certainly was. Remember, the same tactics were used after Colloden on the Scots. The English are the faithful allies of the US, now, but it took two world wars to achieve it.
To my ancestors that came to America from Ireland, I'm drinking to you tonight. It's Jack Daniels, to be sure, not Jamesons', but it's whiskey none the less.
cindydintn 1 year ago
@cindydintn "it certainly was ethnic cleansing" was it? Not according to some Irish historians. Oh, and as for "to be sure"..I dont think the Irish have used that phrase for decades.
comanchio1976 9 months ago
I totally agree. The English have always been sword swallowing pillow biters. Irish are decent and they are shite!! Shame on you bastards!!!
Tangychips 1 year ago
@johnbmcdonald That 'ethnic cleansing' charge is far from clear cut and is areal bone of contention for historians.
There's even an Irish historian who's of the opinion that it wasnt genocide.
comanchio1976 9 months ago
A genoside not a famine.
peri525 1 year ago
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whitep1960 1 year ago
absolutely true , there was no famine . Ire;and was an abundant food producer and food exporter . It was deliberate genocide , social darwinianism as a Victorian experiment . Something the nazis copied later on .
kbcmighty 1 year ago 3
@kb well said!
vivascargill 1 year ago
Though I think a "national question" was in play of course and what was pure racism in the end it was class. The British TUC had demanded withdrawal of ALL British troops in July 1920 at its Scarborough conference (dangerfield p 346) . From the levellers to Sylvia Pankhurst to the brave women I saw in Women against Pit Closure and the NUM there has always been remarkable (I don't claim total) solidarity!
vivascargill 1 year ago 2
there was a class element sure and class struggle cant be divorced from it but it was primarily a national issue , national sovereignty and britains violation of it , the irish peoples right to national self determination . Still denied by successive British governments, labour and conservative . The issue needs to go to the un and britains occupation of irish territory exposed as illegal under international law
kbcmighty 1 year ago
@bknight,,,I think we agree though as I watched Wind the Shakes the Brarly I became aware of both--I dont think we disagree. I do far Ireland will be run from Belgium or wherehever the EU has is headquarters.
And I confess that when I was in Ireland years ago the poverty was terrible. A rich Irish gov. would I confess make a dfference but how much better than the English occupiers? Just a thought. I think we agree pretty much
vivascargill 1 year ago
theres definitely class issues as well , the rich have always sold their country out and collaborated with the occupying force . But primarily the issue is national sovereignty . Patrick Pearse and James Connolly defined national sovereignty - in part- as the ownership of Ireland by the people of Ireland ,including its wealth, national resources and means of production . While national sovereignty is being violated in any form , then the Irish people are being robbed and dispossessed
kbcmighty 1 year ago
@kb I really think we have no disagreements good fortune!
vivascargill 1 year ago
Beautiful video!!! Scorcese could have used it in Gangs of NY! Love Shane's keen awareness of the Irish-American connection. My folks (Scots) got here early on & the Cornish/Welsh branch later. After the revolution, laws forced Scots to emigrate elsewhere, most went to Canada. Canada has always had more compassion for immigrants, taking in folks we turned away. Famine Irish ending up there makes sense. New Orleans also got the most desperate. The COFFIN SHIPS were just old SLAVE SHIPS!
OutlawMinniePearl 1 year ago
the pogues rule all.macgowan for president.
hangsambo12 2 years ago
I believes many of the comments in the video are incorrect, your video infers all of the irish are peasants! good song stupid video and facts
briangmckee1980 2 years ago
the vast majority of the irish population were landless peasants
kbcmighty 1 year ago
Ahhh what a load of shite
007bondspy 2 years ago
my ancestors survived and im happy we are still here
ThomasIRL95 2 years ago
My ancestors lived in slum housing one family to a room. They worked from childhood down mines and were literally chained to massive looms in huge weaving mills. They slogged their hungry guts out and died of starvation disease and industry . Even though they were starving themselves it is well documented that they sent money over to ireland to help the irish when their crops failed . Im proud of my people the english (yorkshire) . Peace .
sarahkleen 2 years ago 2
how can you say that , the english landlords made it hell on earth for the irish juring the famine, dont you dare try and relate to us
adrianc73 2 years ago 2
so you see it as a them and "us" thing do you ? .they made it hell for the english working class too . and dont threaten me ! il say what i damn well please BECAUSE WHAT I SAID IS TRUE .
sarahkleen 2 years ago 2
It is true. Irish 1916 rebel leader James Connolly, said it was not an Engiand-Ireland issue but a ruling class v working class one.
murp0121 2 years ago 4
no he didnt , he said both were the same thing . thats very different .
kbcmighty 1 year ago
What are you actually trying to say? It doesn't make any sense.... and its during not juring
niamhdotie 2 years ago
they made it hell fpr their own people too . all people who are treated like shit are related .
kbcmighty 1 year ago
As was said previously - it was a class issue - and thank God your ancestors helped in anyway that they could - they would have been suffering terrible conditions and poverty themselves....
niamhdotie 2 years ago
was it a class issue for the others, like the other nations in the british empire, for example the indians. gandhi had a first class education but he could'nt even sit in second class seating. what about the soup kitchens set up all around ireland, there were terms and conditions for those who "took the soup". sorry if my grammer isint up to scratch but im sure you can understand it.
adrianc73 2 years ago
it was also a war between england and ireland
kbcmighty 1 year ago
I am decended from survivors of the great hunger.... The British government sat aside while my ancestors starved and exported large quantities of other crop thus allowing the famine to occur....Everything was taken from the Irish... but our Gaelic language survives today..... and I am proud to say that I am speaking our old and beautiful language fluently today and passing something to my own children that the oppressors failed to beat out of my forefathers...... an teanga.
rakkkimo 2 years ago 3