Potato Famine Movie

This movie is designed to give students background information about the potato famine in Ireland so that they can then participate in a classroom drama.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Ireland
• Irish
• Potato
• famine

[carl77777]

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.

[phucoff1]

Ireland, an island surrounded by water, did no-one think of going fishing?

[salice26]

omg

[peipotatoguy]

@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!

[afertyus1000]

@elamite66 for some reason there is an error when i try to post but google wolfe tones official site com famine

[afertyus1000]

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]

@elamite66

[elamite66]

@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

[MrMinutemen]

what a crap! lies and deceit!!! the Irish had many different crops unlike the english who came and stole the food! slaughtered entire families.

[afertyus1000]

@elamite66 Oh sorry i should have explained it is the other YT members post below ours

[elamite66]

@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]

@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