When Ireland Starved Episode 2 The Irish Holocaust (Part 3 of 3)

The Great Famine was a period of great starvation, disease and emigration in Ireland between 1845 and 1852 during which the islands population dropped by 20-25 percent. Approximately one million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland. The proximate cause of famine was a potato disease commonly known as potato blight. Although blight ravaged potato crops throughout Europe during the 1840s the impact and human cost in Ireland where a third of the population was entirely dependent on the potato for food was exacerbated by a host of political, social, and economic factors which remain the subject of historical debate. The famine was a watershed in the history of Ireland. Its effects permanently changed the islands demographic, political and cultural landscape. For both the native Irish and those in the resulting diaspora, the famine entered folk memory and became a rallying point for various nationalist movements.

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[magiclard]

This is only the tip of the iceburg-this was ethnic cleansing in action and it disgusts me to the core. These are my people. There should be an act of contrition made by the British Government without delay. It has to be said that were it not for the actions of a few kind British people some areas would have been entirely bereft of people. Come n Mr Cameron you did the right thing by Bloody Sunday, please do something about this. Pens at the ready.

[kika421]

Queen Victoria was a heartless witch.! :(

The British empire was made rich on the slave trade,, thievery,due to imperialism,opium and deceitful elites!

The English gentry stole or pushed the Irish from their more fertile lands. :(

[reigninblood123]

Wow. That's pretty macabre at the end, Shows that signs of the famine are still around though.

[pookijman]

@LaSerpentaCanta Apparently she donated £5

[compost234]

@beinmytrailer Fairly certain this was worse than the current situation in the U.S., I'm sure these people didn't have access to fast-food at every street corner.

[PoirotAddict]

OMG

monstrous. I didn't know it was this bad.

[beinmytrailer]

plenty of hunger and homelessness here in the usa for pretty much the same reasons. just waiting for that disaster to hit.

[texpeare]

Please, please someone tell me that the rock mound shown at the end of this video is not still standing on the shore of County Mayo. This is among the saddest things I have ever seen.

[HardikG121]

@LaSerpentaCanta wow, and to think of all the monuments dedicated to her

[LaSerpentaCanta]

OMG they have the bones lying around in the beach till this day? And what was Victoria's involvement in all this? I know that she gave a contribution but then made the king of somewhere else give less than what he intended because it would surpass her donation, The Famine Queen she was called I think.