Famine to Freedom: The Great Irish Journey

During Ireland's potato famine in the 19th century, over a million people died of starvation and disease. Another 1.5 million emigrated to other countries. An excavation of one village reveals the lives of Irish farmers during these tragic times.

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[bobfari]

Thank you for posting this... From a Irish person!.

[Dioluin]

@bobfari Thanks a chara.



[newsupermariologan1]

my great grandfather is still alive and he told me that the famine was caused by not watering the plants and im irish and his 153 years old

[fructmals]

My great grandfather was protestant, not catholic, and he was forced to travel to America during the potato famine. The famine happened to everyone.

[Neil7026]

Good insight into the hardships of the Irish . The Irish did sneak into the USA but unlike the mexicans they came to work . The Irish did not sneak over the border with rubber swallowed full of cocaine zammerjammer

[josch1234100]

The film is very good, I'm actually doing a powerpoint about it

[zammmerjammer]

@shanleydm My contribution consisted of making many 500-calorie meals for rich people too inept to cook for themselves.

I've been doing a lot of research on the potato famine and the ensuing diaspora, in addition I've been to Grosse Ile, Québec which was a quarantine station set up to deal with the thousands of sick arrivals and where hundreds of Irish lie in nameless graves. The vast majority arrived first in Canada since as another Commonwealth nation they couldn't refuse to take them.

[shanleydm]

@zammmerjammer What sources did you used to determine the video is a fairy tale, and what led you to conclude nearly all Irish immigrants arrived in Canada? I would agree that many did, and, because of this, and because of the many that also immigrated to the US, both Countries are much better off. I'm Irish/American, and proud to be a fellow citizen to the millions of Mexican/America citizens that significantly contribute to this Country daily. What did u contributed to your country today?

[zammmerjammer]

Um, this fairy tale is nice, but it's quite an omission not to mention that the US didn't want the Irish. Nearly all arrived in Canada and those who didn't die had to sneak across the border to the States.

So anyone with Irish heritage had better not get too snitty about Mexicans coming to the US "illegally."

[Staisenighairneir]

ah g'raibh míle :) it's a good thing to keep the memory of the famine alive.

[haynaku2007]

I'm from the Philippines, but I must say that I love the story of how Irish defied oligarchical system of the British.