Queen Victoria was best known and called in Ireland "the famine queen" her government asked the Turkish sultan not to send the 3 ships full of food but to send a donation less than the 10,000 pounds given by the famine queen. The turks decided to send the ships but the British blockaded the ships sent from Turkey but one of the Turkish ships got through into Dundalk and as result dundalk football club use the cresent moon as their club symbol. If you go to many parts of rural Ireland you can see the green famine roads still there today and many mass graves are in every community of western Ireland. The British wonder why the Irish fought so hard to gain independence from British but in reality it was the English we fought. A short history of the Irish war of independence in Ireland will show the vicious war against the English and more of the reason why the Irish despised the absent English landlords system.
Great video!
Queen Victoria was best known and called in Ireland "the famine queen" her government asked the Turkish sultan not to send the 3 ships full of food but to send a donation less than the 10,000 pounds given by the famine queen.
The turks decided to send the ships but the British blockaded the ships sent from Turkey but one of the Turkish ships got through into Dundalk and as result dundalk football club use the cresent moon as their club symbol.
If you go to many parts of rural Ireland you can see the green famine roads still there today and many mass graves are in every community of western Ireland.
The British wonder why the Irish fought so hard to gain independence from British but in reality it was the English we fought.
A short history of the Irish war of independence in Ireland will show the vicious war against the English and more of the reason why the Irish despised the absent English landlords system.
There should be more famine documentaries
One of the Trevelyan's descendants is none other than Laura Trevelyan, who was previously the BBC's UN correspondent.
This is an gruesome story😮