The Great Irish Famine - An Example of Passive Genocide

This is a film created by one of my students in the 2nd semester of 08/09.
Between 1845 and 1850, more than a million Irish people
starved to death while massive quantities of food were being exported from their country. A half million were evicted from their homes during the potato blight, and a million and a half emigrated to America, Britain and Australia, often on-board rotting, overcrowded "coffin ships". The New York-based Irish Famine/Genocide Committee, that concluded "Clearly, during the years 1845 to 1850, the British government pursued a policy of mass starvation in Ireland with intent to destroy in substantial part the national, ethnic and racial group commonly known as the Irish People.... Therefore, during the years 1845 to 1850 the British government knowingly pursued a policy of mass starvation in Ireland that constituted acts of genocide against the Irish people within the meaning of Article II (c) of the 1948 [Hague] Genocide Convention." On the strength of this report, the U.S. state of New Jersey included the famine in the "Holocaust and Genocide Curriculum" at the secondary tier.

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• cromwell
• Darfur

[DecencyPOLICE]

very good documentary!

[pokejom]

@RichardElden ur racist........well to the irish just one question how is the famine a good thing

[pokejom]

the england did not give a damn about us irish did they even know how we were suffering but america stepped in to save the day but england just might feel guilty now wont they

[pokejom]

@seanyroche would u wanna talk about it like starving dying racisim is was terrible

[jwgeezer]

@rugbymom75 Crap. That's just classic republican propaganda. When are the Irish going to lose their victim culture? Even Thierry Henry was on the end of it! We are Irish, we're always the victims - we are Irish, we're always the victims. Time to move on eh?

[jwgeezer]

@BeyondDogmaTV There was poverty in England aswell, it's just that in England there was no potato blight. It's bullshit to suggest this was genocide - bullshit. Unfortunately, the Irish will continue to perpetuate their victim culture. It is bit boring now though don't you think?

[BeyondDogmaTV]

The Queen of England spent more on her dog's home than on the Irish people in the same year. Women were forced to eat seaweed on beaches due to their starvation. Babies were dying in the arms of their mothers. At the height of the famine, huge ships were coming in not containing food supplies...but completely empty as slaveships for the Irish... Unbelievable that these demonic criminals still sit on their thrones. What these criminals have done to the human race...

[rugbymom75]

They did do something. They came over and stole all the food and livestock. England suffered from the blight too yet they didn't starve. They sent soldiers over to Ireland to steal all that was edible.

[seanyroche]

why do people here in ireland not want to talk about what happenen? its like china and what happened in tiananmen square, the people are not allowed to talk about it.....

[ShamrocksGetYouHigh]

they also deported the food we had. so it wasnt completely passive. but we're not allowed to talk about it for some reason, its 'deluded propaganda' or romanticism apparently. very sad. and not that long ago either, in the scheme of things.