I saw a image on FB about the Choctaw Nation sending aid to Ireland during the famine and wanted to do more research, which lead me here. Thank you Choctaw and Ireland for spreading the love and compassion for mankind.
The indigenous people of the americas know too exactly what it’s like to be the victims of genocidal neglect and persecution at the hands of the British.
@kakka carrotcake supersandlegend I'm surprised that you would have any salt to taste, after throwing in on the lands and wounds of others. Than again, maybe you will receive some back, in return, now that your empire crumbles.
The choctaw, the native american people. Sent money over to help. Despite having very little themselves they did that for us. Theres a beautiful monument to the choctaw in Middleton, cork.
And recently Irish from all over Ireland raised $3,000,000 US dollars for the Choctaw who are struggling with no aid from the American government for Covid-19, which is ravaging their tribe. The American government is fine with letting all of us die, but Native Americans are suffering so much worse. Thank you for being there for them, Ireland. ❤
My Grandfather, an Irish person, said "it's true you know. that the sun never set on the British Empire, because ya couldn't trust a feckin' Englishman in the dark!"
I recently went to Dublin (I"m an American). All we ever were taught was that the Irish had no food during the famine. This is why my Mother's family emigrated to the US. Thanks to a phenomenal guide at Kilmainham Gaol, I learned the real truth...that Ireland had an abundance of crops that were exported to England. The word for this is....genocide. Never has the phrase "History is written by the winners" been more appropo.
Near the beginning, you say that the irish adopted the potato, mainly because of the improved taste of the genetically modified strain developed over time. The bigger reason was a combination of two factors. One, which you reference later in the video, was that the British and Anglo-Irish landlords were pushing tenants off their farms and onto smaller and less fertile plots of land, largely in the western portion of Ireland. The second factor is that potatoes are able to produce a very high amount of nutrition value in a very small land area. So, if the Irish small farmers tried to grow a variety of crops other than potatoes, they would not be able to grow enough food to stay alive. Thus, they were forced to rely on potatoes as their main, and almost only local food crop.
Jack Horan Yes! Your comments are spot on! My husband is descended from Margaret Devlin, an Irish Potato Famine Orphan (technically her mother was still alive but a kind official pulled some strings to help save her and her sister Sarah) who was sent to Australia in 1848. The story is remarkably tragic.
I saw church windows etched by Tennant's about to be transported in,18th century seems odd how natives have been dispossessed of their lands by one ruse or another.
Similarly, the British literally “created” the Bengal famine in India, (now Bangladesh and parts of Eastern India) . It never recovered and it’s after effects are still seen in Bangladesh even today. Most of the freedom fighters were from prosperous Bengal and Churchill brutally took away the food from farmers and sent it to soldiers in world war, the colonised Indians were in no way connected to the war being fought in Europe. Till today British have given no apology regarding it!
Britain has 2nd most populous Indians living there since 50 years and the Indian population is growing more there. Ask all of these Indians to leave British lands, then Britain's would happily accept the apology. Are you okay with that?
George Harrison did a huge concert for Bangladesh. All the proceeds from the concert, the album of the concert, and any merchandise attached went to their relief. He was very vocal about their plight. He helped in any way he could.
yeah india and ireland were devistaded by britain and i think its safe to say that britain was 100% responsable for the famine ireland aswel, absolutely demoralizing i swear
@@SewnInT the English were completely to blame for the Irish famine. It was horrific. England penalized those who would not join the union of Britain by starving and torturing and even murdering them in cold blood. They weren’t even allowed to speak their own language. If they did, they’d be killed. It was brutal. Part of the brutality was shipping most of Ireland’s food back to England. Which left many to starve to death and those that lived, many had horrible diseases. It was truly barbaric. I always wonder why it doesn’t get more attention.
That sign "No Irish Need Apply" was still in use into the 1900s. My grandfather emegrated to this country with a sick wife after the British backed black and tans burned the city of cork. My grandfather's citizenship papers are from 1927 but he had been here since 1920 working for the NY Railroad as a "fireman". That title meant he shoveled coal for steam engines up to 16 hr's a day. He worked till he was ready to drop but after a dozen years he was able scrape together enough money to open his own pub. It had formally been an Italian restaurant and that sign hung in the front window of the establishment. That exact sign hangs in my brothers home over his fireplace. The great American dream!
I feel for you I'm not Irish myself but my wife is though, fourth generation horrible what the English did and to many others around the world makes my blood boil
@@bx8garageman I personally have no beef with the english, no english man or woman has ever hurt me or been nasty to me, well, ive maybe had a few grumbled "fuck off paddy" when im in england but i ignore that. i try to live by my own rule of do no harm, ya know?
It's what makes us who we are. The stereotype is drunken storytellers and to be fair, I'm related to a few, lol. If that's true and we own it then we also own the stereotypes of being solid men and women. We work hard, we play hard. We have long marriages, we do right by our children, We never back down from a fight and we're loyal to a fault to our country, our home, our family and friends. I plead guilty as charged to all of it!
@@SonyaFlynn , I'm the same way. I don't carry my grandfather's or even my father's grudges. It's just too much to go through life dragging behind you like like a chain of pain. It's not like anyone you complain to could change anything anyway. I have more important things going on right here in the country I was born in. My job was to prepare the children I brought into this world to be successful and happy human beings. It's pretty much a full time job. As I get older, it's clear I'm running out of time and I'm not finished.
A statue in Ireland commemorates the 1847 donation by the Native American Choctaw People to Irish famine relief during the Great Hunger, despite the Choctaw themselves living in hardship and poverty and having recently endured the Trail of Tears
Thank you my Quaker friends for helping the Irish people. Though you are Non Catholic, you are still magnanimous enough in helping thousands of mainly Catholic Irish from certain death
Why the religious distinction? Why thank people you never knew for their assistance to other people you never knew, then sanctimoniously declare "even though you're not catholics".... What a thoroughly small minded, mean spirited, blinkered idiot you are.
@@MsGilly1967 chill dude that's a bit much to call someone. He didn't mean anything by it. What separates the two peoples culturally and physically 8is their major religion. Typically protestants at those times wouldn't have cared for Catholics at all, and vice versa, so he's not wrong.
Proof positive that being a good, moral person really has nothing to do with what religion you follow or even if you follow a religion at all. Doing the right thing and helping those in trouble is just... moral. Period. Doesn't matter if you're Quaker, Christian, Catholic, Muslim, Jewish, Sikh, Agnostic, Atheist, any belief system. Helping people in trouble is just the right thing to do. :)
And yet during 'The Great Hunger' Ireland was actually a food exporter thanks to the British holdings in Ireland. Ireland really had ample food but the British wouldn't share it to relieve the suffering.
Thank you for making this comment. While the Irish peasants starved millions of pounds of butter, oats, and beef were exported. Then there was the scheme to feed the peasants "Indian Corn" which is virtually indigestable without being heavilly milled down and takes a long time to cook. Thousands, in already weakened conditions, died eating this corn. Most people dont know the entire story and how it snowballed from absolute greed and apathy for the poor of Ireland.
i remember my grandfather telling me a story that his father had told him. once my great grandfather was driving down the road in his wagon to get to church, (along the way it was not uncommon to see people eating grass for sustenance). once he had gotten to church he even saw the corners of his own priests mouth were stained green from the grass, this was when he knew that it was not the wrath of god, but something else.
Tiny mod It’s not there were many Irish who ate grass, it bro g the only thing left to eat. And they died with green mouths. I’ve been told this by more than 1 Irish person.
I know people who eat grass on purpose. If it’s clean wild grass it’s edible and quite nutritious. So although it’s heartbreaking that they were forced to eat it, it’s not the worst thing
@shaun king self hatred is it,? Face the facts. Your Queen and your government conspired to starve millions of people to death. Just like they did in India. Don't take it so personally,we know it's the Elite,then,as now fucking over and destroying billions of souls all over the world,since the late 16th century.
@@Strawbri3 Scientists are humans, they are not perfect, they are not always right, they do have bias, political motivations, and agendas. No, just because you're a Scientist does not mean you are immune to scrutiny. Josef Mengele was a Scientist after all...
Yes, in a bunch of movies, a group of people warn officials not to have the festival or community event, they ignore the warning, and then the monster shows up at it.
For me the most interesting part was the comments section. I am appalled that even today we are not given true and accurate accounts of history. The Irish potato famine is one example of very many British atrocities carried out globally and never properly recognised. To some the British empire, the monarchy and the establishment is still something to be proud of and respected. Not from this Brit.
It always has seemed kind of funny to me that whenever we discover about an atrocity that was kept secret up until then, we always say: “HiStOrY iS WrItTeN bY wInNeRs” dude if we found about this then how can history be written only by winners?
@@tidefanyankee2428 I watched the recommended video and found it appalling and informative, acknowledging true history we can better understand how best we can move forward as individuals communities and nations. Thanks for posting.
A key point to mention on the severity of the famine, its been 173 years since Black 47. The population still hasn't recovered. Also worth looking up is the recorded food exports that left the country daily, armed soldiers guarded it while people died within sight (literally). The number of mass graves in Ireland from the famine is unfathomable. Orchestrated genocide.
Of course the population hasn't "recovered" purely because of "The Hunger", and not because Ireland was a backwards, priest-ridden shithole from 1922 up until the 90s, causing the Irish to seek a better living abroad.
@@dungtrumpet5490 What is happening in America is like the frog in the tepid water. The heat is being turned up every day to reduce America to a Shithole. That is because of the NW agenda. It has nothing to do with the quality of the people. It is the only option they are leaving for usbecause that is their plan. Georgia Guidestones #1: Maintain the population at 500,000 in perpetuity.
My dad was the first born American in our family in 1945. In 1985, I was the 2nd. My grandfather immigrated from Ireland years after the famine but swore until his death it was the crown who was responsible for the famine.
Vincent Vega I believe it was that bastard Churchill. He started the Boer Wars and I truly believe he started WW2. He said 'WE WILL WAGE WAR ON GERMANY WHETHER THEY WANT IT OR NOT." He bad mouthed Germany throughout the thirties.
@@sparx180 Winston Churchill was born 50 years after the Potato Famine ended. He was a reporter during the early part of the second Boer War and a soldier during the later part. He did not go into politics until after the war and advocated for good treatment of the Boers. Churchill warned of the "appalling social conditions" in Germany after WW1 that contributed to the rise of the Nazi party. And later pointed out the Nazi government was clearly preparing for a war of conquest (as they were). I would like to see a source for that quote you attribute to Churchill I couldn't find it. I think, by any reasonable standard, that Winston Churchill was a great man and a credit to our species (And that is coming from someone who dislikes the English more than a little).
K j I wish more thought like you here in uk , people have been brainwashed for years and year’s, I don’t fit in because I have strong views over what we have to put up with. I’m afraid we are still controlled by the aristocracy and the general public don’t see it.
A1 this is what happens when good PR, marketing combine with patriotism. Do you really think that people will stop visiting England once the royalty is ended? If that were true English should be wiping the floor with French and German tourism industry. Also you don’t realise what royalty entails. You allow someone to be able to travel in personal jets around the world to attend parties with their Guccis and Pradas merely because they were born of a special family. Prince Andrew get to screw teens and host palace tours. All of this and what do you get in return. You can wave that flag whenever their convoy passes by you or kiss the hand of royals when they decided you are worthy of it. Great deal I would say.
I felt feelings watching this. To address your description box though, TONS of people try to deny the plight of the Irish. That's the thing that made this so emotional. The denial of Irish persecution isn't far behind Holocaust denial, in my estimation.
And how many people stay silent about the systemic genocide of Nation Americans (and First Nations in Canadian territory)?? Best estimates are 25,000,000 to 40,000,000. This so called "Trail of Tears" killed 4,000 during a *1,000* mile walk. Dragging belongings on a travois, holding babies and toddlers who couldn't walk anymore? Rest stops where they slept with no shelter or in barns. The towns people abuse them whether by throwing items on them. But worse the women were raped no matter what age. Such as 11 years old and stolen as their "brides" and parents too damn tired and faced weapons. Indians (the Cherokee) LAUGH DESRIVELY when whites claim they have "indian" blood and ALWAYS pick Cherokee. BTW those gene kits are bullshit trying to prove how much "Indian" DNA in your blood.
@@marthahanley6650 Why are you screeching this at me, though? What do you think you're accomplishing here? Did I transgress you somehow by not working a reference to the atrocities the North American aboriginal peoples suffered at the hands of European settlers into my thoughts on the persecution the Irish suffered at the hands of their own people? I have empathy for that plight, but **you** are trying my patience. Take a step back, realize I **FUCKING DON'T KNOW YOU**, and ask yourself if you would be tempted to tell me that you weren't going to waste energy empathizing with someone who wouldn't do the same for you if you were in my shoes right now. I do not owe you empathy, and if you think that berating people is going to convert a ton of minds, you've got a few things left to learn about honey and vinegar. Good day, madam.
@@chrisper94 I'm actually impressed that it took this long for someone to make this about black people. It'll take more than that to podium at the oppression Olympics.
I am Indian and this is too depressing and all too familiar to the stories of my people to finish watching ..why were the british made like this? No compassion! What made them think it was ok to do? Even what they did with the Scottish Highlanders calling them savages having to tame them...is the same ideas they bought to India.. how are the British so proud of an empire like this based off of manipulating and starving other humans and then to be treated like 3rd class citizens in your own country.. it had to be immoral to some of them in their time..
The whole world suffered due to British imperialistic greed. Every time I see the Queen and Kate Middleton in their jeweled tiaras, necklaces and earrings, I think about the people who must have slaved their lives away mining those blood diamonds and gems.
Miss. The British are the most compassionate race on earth, I am Irish,worked there for decades as a nurse, Thousands and thousands of my countrymen can attest toI that, what I lived about them was,that they got in with life, two world wars thrust upon them ,llost a whole generation of young men in the first world war, and almost ad bad in the second,yet very very rarely do you hear a Britisher moan,or live in the past, I only wish I could have remained there,but unfortunately family duties called me home.
That's very similar to my great great grandmother. She left Ireland at 14 to come to the U.S all by herself too. I can't even imagine what that was like for them to come to a new country and have to leave their entire family behind.
My great grandfather came to America during the early 1900s. He dropped the O’Kelly and just kept Kelly for his last name. I’m very proud of my Irish heritage. I would love to visit sometime. Thanks for the video.
I had dinner with my boss, another Irish American. We both realized that we wolfed our food down. Then we chatted about how it was passed down among our families that you eat everything on your plate because you never know when you will get your next meal. The famine left scars and we still see the effects today both from a micro and macro viewpoint.
A terrible time for Ireland. Some international relief did come through. A Turkish pasha offered a large donation but was forced to scale it back because it was bigger than Queen Victoria’s. Horrible
@leather Guy It's true the ottoman sultan tried to donate 10,000 but was made reduce this to 1,000 by the British so instead sent 3 ships of food that the British navy tried to block but the ships made it to Ireland and sailed into Drogheda harbour.
It wasn't done out of the goodness of his heart. They wanted aid and guns fighting the Russians with Britain's backing. Subjects of the Ottoman Empire didn't fair much better than us under British rule. It committed some of the worse genocides in history and slavery was rife until 1911.
@Nobby Heads living up the the username I see... have you ever heard of penal laws? That amazing British empire that the irish were 'jealous' of evicted irish people from their own homes, then made it illegal for irish people to own land, farmers therefore worked on land belonging to the british, so consequently had no say in whether the food was sold or not. Classic British ignorance
@Nat Rfc 😂😂 sure the great British army couldn't beat a couple Irish farmers with guns... I'd be embarrassed. Then ye tried to destroy the middle East and they send ye back
@Nat Rfc not jealous, but definitely despise the inhumanity and cruelty that some of these people shown to us Irish.. taken as slaves or sent on prison ships for petty crime.. it's much easier to steal from Farmers and women when you've broken their spirit... But for a bunch of Farmers and country men, we still got most of out country back for good against the almighty empire😂😂 Mup the Irish Republican army! Mup defending your Homeland and not invading others!
I'm always amazed at how history is often so distorted. This video should discuss why the Irish embraced the potato. Never do you mention stolen land, forced labour, pseudo- share cropping where Irish farmers were forced to sell entire crops and livestock to the English in order to avoid eviction. The attempted genocide of the Irish by the English is never mentioned. The Irish were not a simple people who would be placated by a potato. It was a matter of survival. My great-great grandfather was sent to Canada in 1850 as an infant to save his life, and thusly the clan lineage.
@Mr Intel: no we are getting tired of hearing about it. It’s not the whites but the rest of us are getting tired of hearing about it over and over like a broken record. The entire world has suffered slavery and desecration but yet only one race is the victim. We are tired and don’t care anymore so why don’t you all keep your feelings to yourself since you can’t get over a suffering that you did not endure or let me guess you are a white liberal 🙅🏽♀️
Well not the first time that British caused a famine in the Empire. The Bengal Famine and the Great Bengal Famine. The two are two different famines. Though it's more like The Bengal Genocide and The Great Bengal Genocide.
People wonder why the British were so adept at colonizing so many parts of the southern hemisphere. It's because they'd had six hundred years of practice in Ireland.
Because they did it for political reasons. They were getting guns and wanted English help in their fight against the Russian empire. The Muslim ottoman empire also had a huge slave markets ,stole babies from their mother's hands in the blood tax to train them to fight against their own kind. Also subjected millions to starvation themselves with huge taxes. The food they gave to the Irish was a political stunt that no one was blind to.
This is fabulous! I would love to see about the Irish Indentured servants. The how, the why, the how long, the injustices and the prejudices against them while they were indentured and if they actually got out, the acceptance, or lack thereof by others as they tried to build a life in America.
We used to be called white nword( i dont like that word) in newspapers it was totally normal to see "no irish or catholics need apply" and on signs before cafes,hotels or shops you might see "no dogs,no blacks,no irish"
@UCDayTHYFtnVmrikYjXxikHg its not that it offends me, its the sound the word makes when pronounced, its so harsh on the ears. my autism causing certain words to really affect my hearing that way and that is just a nasty sounding word. also my family in the 50s and 60s were called white n's, ive honestly never heard about being called pink ones
I am Part Irish myself but i was born and raised in Britain, my s/o is irish too, to see this is the way my country treated Ireland back then makes me sick, i am so terribly sorry for our past actions and you have no right to forgive us fully, for what we did was inhumane. I love and respect Ireland and all its people, So i am truly sorry for our actions in the past.
Why are you sorry? You didn't do anything. We tend to move forward from the bad things in life if we are wise enough rather than claiming eternal victim status which benefits no-one. So much has happened in our past, yet, we're still here, strong, resilient and never going away🙂 Still, thank you for you're kindness🙏
Yes, and so did the working poor in America. It’s a rumor than queen V didn’t. She did but out of her personal. More needed to come out of the government
Apparently, he was ready to send more than what he did but was told to send less so that he wouldn't make Queen Victoria look bad for sending a fraction of what he was sending.
@@AR-ws1gr And nobody was allowed to donate more than Queen Victoria. I believe she donated 15,000. Another person, a foreigner ( I do not remember who), offered 80k and was turned down because you couldnt upstage Vicki.
@@ourgorlsfavoriteorangechic2711 It was £2,000. That was it. Equivalent to £61,000 in today's currency. The Sultan was prepared to send £10,000, but they stopped him. So, he sent £1,000 and several ships loaded with food.
The Irish starved while grains and other foods were shipped to England. The Irish should have stormed all the farms and ships filled with food. The English were so cruel to them. Watching them starve for years. The Irish were found lying dead with green coming out of their mouths. They tried to eat the grass. Which was the only thing left to eat.
Did you not fucking LISTEN and actually COMPREHEND that the IRISH LANDOWNERS are the ones who sold THEIR own crops to England. So Ireland people are too blame too. ENGLAND COULD HAVE NOT BOUGHT WHAT IRISH LANDOWNERS WAS SO EAGER TO SELL.
@@tatankacleary did you not listen nor research?! THERE WERE MOSTLY IRISH LAND OWNERS THAT EVICTED THEIR OWN PEOPLE OFF THEIR LAND AND HOMES TO BE ABLE TO GROW AND DISTRIBUTE OTHER CROPS TO SELL TO ENGLAND AND EVEN SENT THEM ON COFFIN SHIPS TO AVOID LEGAL BACKLASH. SO YOU NEED TO SHUT YOUR BIG POTATO BLIMP BUILT ASS THE FUCK UP AND DO YOUR RESEARCH OR JUST LISTEN AND ACTUALLY COMPREHEND WHAT YOU HEARD IN THIS VIDEO.
We were taught this in school but for some reason they never mentioned that it only got so bad cuz the British screwed over the Irish and failed to give them proper aid.
@@nycmeltdowndress5924 unfortunate but true. That's why I'm glad the internet exists. It's always interesting to see what other countries learn in history class.
You know they don't teach real stuff in school. I've learned how different history really is after school and by doing my own reading and watching different sources. They almost brainwash you at school
Indeed it was Genocide, no one likes to call it that but that is what it is and an apology is not good enough, my family lost everything, including land and our name and so much more...
@paul gorman you evidently don’t know much about Britain do you kiddo with shitty lines as “your enemies know more about Britain than you do” what I also find funny with your bullshit comment is that you claim I’m an idiot yet you completely dismissed my previous comment with idiotic logic. It’s like you don’t even understand how unions work especially since you said London is in England. Well done you know one city in one country but just because you know the capital of England doesn’t mean your correct you dumb fuckwit
@paul gorman you literally sound petty, literally finding anything to just show your hatred towards England, just because you don’t like England doesn’t mean all things bad are thanks to England, again you don’t understand the meaning of the term union. Scotland and Wales both had their say but hey you just don’t like it when people tell you why your point is wrong and the way your sounding it’s quite hilarious
@paul gorman the closest I got to fights in those countries was being invited to watch boxing, hell I’ve made really good friends who I still talk too from those countries I’ve been to. What also puts your bullshit to the floor is that I’ve got family in Australia and my auntie over there has more Australian friends than English friends
The older I get... The more I learn to dislike and distrust everyone. Yes, we’re all human, but there will never be equality and fairness for all. We just take what we can get, and screw everyone else.
It might be true that there will never be perfect equality or fairness in this world. But there are plenty among us do what we can to push back against injustice. Humanity would never have survived as long as it has without the work of compassionate people. The good in the world just doesn't make the news near as often as the bad.
A feel good story relating to this video: In 1847 the Native American Choctaw people sent $170 to help during the potato famine. A sculpture in Midleton, Cork, named “kindred spirits” commemorates the generosity of the tribe, who had an incredible history of deprivation themselves. When the Najavo nation appealed for covid relief this year, the people of Ireland took the opportunity to help out. so far a gofundme set up by the Irish to aid najavo has raised $3 million dollars :-)
Let’s not forget the British Home Secretary suggested to “threaten Ireland with the prospect of food shortages if leaders did not relent on their demands for Brexit backstop arrangements” during Brexit negotiations.
Most people who died on board ship were buried at sea,the exception might be say a ships captain but one of importance, whose body might be preserved in a drum of brandy as Admiral Nelsons was after he was killed at Trafalgar
My great grandmother died because of her family cruelty, i know how you feel, like wishing you were there to save her. In my case, the anger over the relatives i will never meet.
That's why they were called the coffin ships. Families held wakes for their children or the family members leaving for America as they couldn't be sure they'd survive the journey or the life there. Or if they'd ever hear from them again. But these families gave everything they had on the gamble that the exorbitant financial cost & the devastating emotional anguish would hopefully give at least one family member a chance of living. It was heart wrenching for the families and the emigrating members...
Some time ago I saw the movie "Mr Jones", about a young British reporter going to the Soviet Union under Stalin to understand how the Soviets could fund their new military supplies. He found that Stalin took all the crops from the fertile fields of Ukraine and sold it to other countries in order to be able to import goods he needed. The Ukrainians, meanwhile, were left to die of starvation by the millions. It is almost unthinkable that the British did the same thing to the Irish less than a hundred years before the time of Stalin.
My fathers side of the family moved to South Africa from Ireland. My mother's side is Afrikaans. The English threw boer women and children in concentration camps during the Boer wars, where they perished in the thousands by starvation and disease. They also burnt many crops and salted the earth, creating major food shortages. When world war 1 rolled around, fresh were the scars of our conflict with England that we nearly joined the Germans. I somewhat wish we did. My disdain for English monarchs is high and Englishmen are not welcome in this country
Great round-up of events and characters. The Irish are resilient people, with great warmth and humor. We so enjoyed our visit to the country a few months back.
I'm here to learn of the privilege that was passed down to me from my Irish ancestors now i can see why i need to pay reparations to all the people they oppressed
This is like a horror story. I had no idea that Irish people had suffered this way. Thanks for sharing so more people will learn and be prepared to not make the same mistakes.
No Idea? Well... Irish people where treated badly during history. Long before black slaves came to north america, Irish slaves where pretty much common. Irish and black slaves lived together, both where treated bad, but the Irish where easy to replace cause of their skin colour, which was one of the reason, they where tortured a lot more, unlike the very expensive black slaves. Even after they whrere 'freed' from their slavery and got transported to ireland, they still where not aknowledged as human beings. When it comes to slavery in school and university, the Irish always are getting let out, as if they never existed in the first place. Never you hear, that the irish and the black slaves in the UK, created together the famous step dance, with blacks being the instruments and using both, Irish and african styled music. Irish dance also has it's origin from their slavery.
Yeah, history like this is why I have to laugh whenever I hear someone say that there's never been any bigotry leveled against anyone of European descent. What about the Irish? The Romanian peoples? Countless European Jews for *literal centuries*? If someone claims that there's NEVER been anyone with white or Mediterranean ancestry that has been oppressed, well, they just haven't studied history outside of their own little bubble. Oppression doesn't care about what you look like, it just cares that the person it targets is considered "lesser", subhuman.
I’m a descendant of a family who fled Ireland’s famine and then survived America’s racism, as well. The Bailey family married families who had Native American descendants, and my family was created!
@colin minhinnick The British Isles is a geographical label. Politically, Great Britain or the UK comprises England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland. Ireland is an independent state, a republic. It's located in the British Isles, but not British, not governed, ruled by Britain, nor are we subjects of your monarchy... we are Citizens of The Republic of Ireland. Today's descendants of American slave owners are not owners of the descendants of those saves. Slaves were eventually emancipated, legally freed but still subjects of brutality, torture & murder. Their descendants are not owned by anyone, neither is Ireland. It's a simple enough concept. Like Rhodesia isn't British... or even Rhodesia anymore, do you still claim Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya, India, Pakistan etc are British?
Hello, as a Turkish and Ottoman historian, the truth of the story is this. The period when the Irish people were left to genocide by England. The Ottomans were not interested in this at first. They did not want to confront the British and Ireland was not a Muslim country. Celtic soldiers and officers serving in the Ottoman Empire did not remain silent about this genocide and reported the situation to the sultan. The Sultan had to accept the offer of help. In addition, Celtic people living in Anatolia also supported the aid campaign. It is estimated that the Celtic population living in Anatolia today is 9 million. When the Ottoman Empire ended, the Celts living in Anatolia were not shown as a minority at the Lausanne meeting of the newly established Turkish state because they lived in a Muslim state. When you go to Anatolia, you can see people with red hair and green and blue eyes. Celts living in Turkey are educated, polite and mostly atheist. He is the bright face of Turkey. In my opinion, those who helped you are the Celts living in Anatolia. Thank you.
Attemped? From 8 million to 4.5 million because you want to kick people out and using this famine as a convenience is definitely genocide, the only way it couldve been worse is if Thanos snapped his fingers, that wouldve made it 4 million left
@Reicher Reinhardt Von kesselring really man? At least it doesn't kill you through hunger or concentration camps. And it's kinda ironic hearing something about killings from an American guy.
@Reicher Reinhardt Von kesselring Oh no! The politically correct gestapo are gonna get you! Man you're delusional if you think you're as oppressed as the Irish was back in the 18th century.
@@abdullahchhab2325 hope you and your family are doing well ! Deep respect from an American, ashamed of my own government's behaviour around the globe.
@@AndreaHa Thank you Andrea! They are fortunately safe and doing well. I like the US but I wish it did more to stop the mass murderer Assad before the situation got this bad.
@@Roosk Aye comrade! I love propaganda posters like those in your pic BTW. When I graduate I would be happy if I could find a job in Ireland, because of the language. Supposedly they speak English there though I am yet to hear it 😝
From watching this video I now understand much better the possible causes for the hostility in the early 20th century of the Irish people towards the British and their fight for independence from Britain.
It was worse in America than you described. The discrimination the Irish faced would be a video in itself. And as an Irish Catholic I have faced discrimination.
No words can describe my sadness at such inhumane treatment of human beings. There was food to be had....it just wasn't given.....which means it was murder on massive scale.
@@noleftturnunstoned it is a sad truth. Food is as much as a status symbol as money. The wealthy have an abundance of it and eat till gorged, while the poor have none and starve. However nothing in this world is as simple as it seems. Not all of the wealthy are self centered just as not all of the poor are victims of circumstances. It is a paradox that is humanity. Nothing is simple and yet at same time it is that simple.
We the Iranian people feel the pain and know how hard is famine caused by the British because in 1918 the British did this exactly to us and caused genocide, up to 40% of our population died and was one of the main reason Qajar destiny fall because they were hated very much for their incompetence, today in Iran we call the English foxes because whenever they go they bring distraction by divide and conquer
Every people and every person who has gone to bed with an empty stomach and a lowered head can sympathise with each other. The poor and downtrodden of the world are the same.
2:50 a publics work program is very polite way of saying it. The British considered the Irish lazy, they made them work on roads for food Aid, many died and were just thrown into the ditches. They are called the famine roads today, quite a few near where I live.
Jesus you can tell when a topic genuinely saddens him when he’s taking about it. I’m glad finally someone has an appropriate tone when talking about something so bad
My ancestors came to the United states because of this blight. I cant help but wonder if they were in a coffin ship as well. I was told they saw lady liberty and cried with hope that their suffering would finally end.
They most likely came in a coffin ship. As far as im aware, all Irish emigrated that way because they didn't have any other options. Traveling at all was a blessing, surviving the journey was a miracle.
Didn't the ottoman empire offer to end the famine but the queen refused??? Didn't the ottomans help back then? And an Irish coast town is still thankful until today by having the ottoman flag on their football team jerseys? Or is it that am mistaken??
I think the sultan did send aid, he just wasn’t allowed to send as much as he wanted. Queen Victoria was sending much less and I guess he couldn’t make her “look bad.” Very sad.
@@Anonymous.user.157 thank you Evil Queen she preferred to kill her own people, just to keep her image. Thank you again And yo... channel guys..I don't know how you missed on the part with the ottomans!!!!
I'm proud to say that both sides of my family are Irish. My father's side comes from the West of Ireland, mostly county Mayo as far as we can tell. My great great great (not sure how many 'greats') grandfather emigrated around 1850 or so to Canada and the family eventually ended up in western Massachusetts.
Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid donated is also said to have sent three or five ships full of food. The British administration allegedly attempted to block the ships, but by local tradition the food arrived secretly at Drogheda harbour and was left there by Ottoman sailors. Shipping records relating to the port appear not to have survived. Newspaper reports suggest that ships from Thessaloniki in the Ottoman Empire sailed up the River Boyne in May 1847,although it has also been claimed that the river was dry at the time. In 1995, the Drogheda town hall erected a placard in commemoration. In 2012, plans were announced to produce a film on the subject,starring Colin Farrell and several Turkish stars. Found this in wiki.
Well said. And it wasn't some stupid Potatoes. This lasted HUNDREDS of years. Finally in the later 1800's the British passed the Wyndham act which generously allowed the Irish to buy back THEIR stolen land at 27.5 times the value. GOD F**K the QUEEN!!!!!!!!
They also starved the American Indian population by killing al the 🐃 buffalo they used for food! Evil Kings and queens yet, they’re still in power! Why?
Teacher: can anyone tell me what parasite caused the potato famine? Me in my head: don’t say the British, don’t say the British, your right, but don’t say the British
You dumb idiot blaming the British it was sod all to do with us, the workforce. Blame the so called blue bloods the so called aristocracy we were treated no better than you.
Suri Pene and what do you call someone living in that collection of nations? UKian? UKish? United Kingdomian? United Kingdomnese? Oh that’s right! You call them British! How could I forget (Yes,I know of the Northern Irish, Welsh, Scottish, and English. But when referring to them all what do you call them?)
Same for me. I’ve got Irish grandparents on both sides of my family, some emigrating to America and some like one of my grandads to England. Cecil Woodham Smiths book was a true enlightenment for me as to the real story of the so called “ famine “ ! She told the true story of what really occurred.
Nah That guy claimed to be for the free market, he wasn’t if he was he would have ended Mercantilism in Ireland. Obviously he just wanted to covertly kill off the Irish people without openly doing so.
@Liam C we don't hate British people we just hate British raj now which is extinct. So now there is no need spread hate among peoples in twenty first century. Hate make no sense now.
nabeel admed I know all about the Bengali Famine. That was Churchill's doing, he was a criminal. Responsible for a lot of wars and what not. 400 mill died when their rice was stolen.
@colin minhinnick Yes, Americans in fact did help the natives in the 19th century....many times in fact. Yes, there were some horrible things that happened, that's true and the U.S. Gov't acknowledges it, and has for years. In fact the natives get reparations from the U.S. Gov't. Now....how much has the UK paid to the Irish, or the Indians, or the Kenyans, or the Boers???? You don't have to be exact, just a round figure will do..... I eagerly await the figure......
Some of the British Aristocracy came to ''tour" the famine. As they traveled by coaches through the country side, they saw the dead and dying everywhere. One of the women asked of the dogs roaming the countryside, "Why, do the dogs look so well fed?"
An interesting additional side note to this - the influx of Irish, primarily in the U.S. northern states had an impact on the U.S. Civil War. Many Irish, unable to find good jobs elsewhere, joined the ranks of the U.S. military and their numbers and excellent service were one of the reasons the north defeated the Confederate States. Their service had some part in the broader acceptance of Irish in the U.S., though "fighting for your country" does not always provide acceptance for any race, color or creed.
Hi Don interestingly enough here in Waterford Ireland there is a fine grave with an elaborate monument in Ballybricken Church to an Irish officer killed at Antietam. I can't recall the gentleman's name off hand but you may be able to Google it. If you're interested in the Battle of the little Bighorn, one of Custers officers was Captain Myles Keogh who was from County Carlow Ireland. As far as I know his horse named Comanche was the only thing left alive after the battle. Captain Keoghs body was the only one not mutilated because as a Roman Catholic he was wearing a Scapular devoted to the Virgin Mary and seemingly the native American warriors were too afraid to interfere with his remains. Hope this may interest you. Kind regards.
@@eoindee7007 Thanks for the interesting bit of information. I am not as acquainted with the officer killed at Antietam, but I know well the story of Cpt. Keogh and Comanche. I live in the Kansas City area and the remains of Comanche are on display at the University of Kansas Museum of History. Comanche survived for several years after the Battle of Little Big Horn, but was never ridden again. Upon Comanche's death the 7th Calvary sought to have a taxidermist save the remains. A professor at KU did the task for no fee with the stipulation that the display be kept at the KU museum. It was refurbished a few years back and is still on display now. To your earlier point, the history of the Civil War is filled with heroic acts of Irish soldiers and officers. One additional interesting point; many of those that served so well in the war came home to find that "safe" jobs were not readily available and they continued their service in police and firefighter jobs - beginning a long and continued line of Irish serving and protecting the community.
History needs an extensive re-write......the British Empire was a particularly cruel to many unfortunate enough to be under them. Genocide not famine is the correct word to describe the opportunity the British saw in the Irish potato crop failures and Queen Victoria should be known as the “Famine Queen”
With this kinda shit is it any wonder every single colony under British rule eventually started revolutions and civil disobedience in order to break away and form their own countries?
The Salvation Army is one of the few organizations that are really worth donating to. They don't waste money on over-blown corporate payrolls and mega-millions in advertising. Not spending money on advertising is probably why the MSM mostly ignores their efforts.
Summer Staley if 1 million people immigrated their 200 years ago Imagine how many people they would have Brought to life 200 years later it is multiplied nearly exponentially
Next video should cover the Bengal Famine of 1943, a man-made famine where ~3MN people died. One of the saddest and heart wrenching events under the British empire rarely spoken about in western media.
Difference is the Bengal Famine happened unintentionally and was unable to be attended to due to ongoing WW2 so you can’t really blame the British as much. The Irish famine was quasi intentional and could have being prevented if the British really wanted to.
@@tommyx9309 read history properly...Ur "Hero" Sir Winston Churchill diverted all the reserve food from Bengal to Feed his "Bristish" troops....resulting in my bretheren being dead....mind v r talking 3 million ppl.... Churchil was a natural bastard
Environmental "scientists" have been saying the world is going to end in 10 years for many decades now. Every time the date they put forth passes, they pull another date like 10 years down the line out of their ass and the cycle repeats.
The only 2 benefits of the famine was the spread of Irish culture and people around the globe, as well as the revival of Irish nationalism and sovereignty movements that resulted from this Genocide
this wasn’t the beginning or the end of what england did to ireland. there’s accounts from the famine where english journalists were touring the country and they found people with green stained mouths on the side of the road as they were travelling and later found they were trying to stay alive by eating grass while england were exporting food from ireland, over one million lives could have been saved if the english took control over what was apart of their country at the time. and people ask why there’s still a divide between us and england
We ourselves should have adapted sooner. Ireland wasn't the only European country that the potato crop failed in, we had been warned in 1845 .other countries adapted and grew other root crops, turnio,carrot,swede, parsnip,beans,onions and peas ,peoples mouths stained green from eating grass,what stupidity considering there were numerous other choices nettles,dandelion, hips,sorrel etc not to mention snails and slugsalso the seasat that time were teeming with fish and the coadtline crabs We had the largest families in Europe. No wonder the work houses didnt allow families to stay together. We should take some responsibility for our own welfare.the country was also over run with rabbits.good eating on those ever heard the expression breed like rabbits
@@laurielovett8849 AH here lad if there's 8 million starvin paddys I think the rabbits would be pretty quickly lad and if u were penniless I dunno fuck how you d buy different types of seeds that were extremely demanded by THE 8 MILLION PADDYS shove that comment up your ass them British left us to starve if I look out my window I can see a hill where hundreds were buried in a mass grave with no markings lad
@@Lynxxoid Now I can see you are utterly stupid. First of all I am not a laddie, as you put it. Rabbits were in their thousands,did you never hear the expression " breed like rabbits" you put two rabbits together and you have hundreds at the end of a year .must explain to you ,one must be a boy bunny and the other a girl . You wouldn't go to the garden centre to buy packets of seed with Nice little coloured pictures on them. You saved your own seed. Literslly millions of seed from one carrot, the same from turnips etc you could supply all your friends.in the neighbourhood How do you think the people in the low countries managed. . and nettles were full of vitamins and iron . by tbe way you boiled them,you didnt eat them raw. You went to the sea with a bit of home made net and caught fish likewise crab,without the net. Slugs snails self explanatory. as long as you were quick. No need to starve
@@daintree98 it's not the emergency that a bunch of liberals want to pretend it is. Or they are very bad at making their case. Might try starting with not screaming at people.
Here in St. Louis MO, we have an infamously inhumane prison called "The Work House". (Conditions in the prison are so bad, even Ben & Jerry's has taken up the cause and donates money, product, & labor to promote the closing of the facility). The description of the Irish work houses is both horribly ironic and painfully accurate.
I still don't understand how the majority of "professional historians" blatantly downplay this tragedy and won't recognize this horrific period of time as what it truly was. The genocide of native born Irish population which was so extremely depleted it has yet to even come close to recovering to past levels and it also allowed the occupation of Northern Ireland by the British government.
The story was told in my family that my Great Great Grandfather came over her to America, to begin a new life. He was to send for his family. But...he was never heard from again. Family supposed he was "Shanghaied" from the boat. Those are my Irish roots.
My mother's family was one of the first to go to America (1845), settling in Philadelphia and using the educational system founded by the Catholic Church to better themselves. Your average Mick, unable to find work, ended up on the railroads (considered a death sentence), as servants, in the police forces, or in the Army. The fiction that they are accepted today is just that. Lots of hard line Protestants still look down their noses at the people who pushed the frontier Westward, built the cities, won the day at places like Antietam and Gettysburg, and dragged the country out of its Puritan malaise.
It truly is amazing that in today's era of so-called enlightenment politicians still behave in the same fashion. The only difference is today it's disease not famine.
The Choctaw Nation gave aid to us during the famine and to this day it is not forgotten. Thank you from Ireland 💚.
As well as the Navajo, I understand. Many Irish & Irish decendants raised money for them last year. Thank you all for that beautiful gesture❤
I saw a image on FB about the Choctaw Nation sending aid to Ireland during the famine and wanted to do more research, which lead me here. Thank you Choctaw and Ireland for spreading the love and compassion for mankind.
Yea yea yea. Lol. Y’all forgot.
Bless them. They knew what it was like to be starved in and out of their own land.
The indigenous people of the americas know too exactly what it’s like to be the victims of genocidal neglect and persecution at the hands of the British.
"Unknown Disease" is a weird way to describe the British
Irish and Mexicans share one struggle.
U speak the truth 🤣
@kakka carrotcake supersandlegend I'm surprised that you would have any salt to taste, after throwing in on the lands and wounds of others.
Than again, maybe you will receive some back, in return, now that your empire crumbles.
@colin minhinnick
@colin minhinnick All religions should be outlawed, I've yet to see any war declared in the name of atheism...
The choctaw, the native american people. Sent money over to help. Despite having very little themselves they did that for us. Theres a beautiful monument to the choctaw in Middleton, cork.
And recently Irish from all over Ireland raised $3,000,000 US dollars for the Choctaw who are struggling with no aid from the American government for Covid-19, which is ravaging their tribe. The American government is fine with letting all of us die, but Native Americans are suffering so much worse. Thank you for being there for them, Ireland. ❤
I find so much comfort in knowing that in all times, there are a few that act with honest intent.
Queen Victoria sent £8,000 pounds when she heard but we rarely hear of this.
the famine queen was worth 100 million pounds and she gave Ireland only 8 grand and even then she was quilted into giving the money
@@Theoneandonlyadammurphyryan I love when people judge people from 170 years ago by the same standards we live by today.
Has there ever been a point in human history where the powerful actually helped poor folks instead of taking advantage of their suffering?
All the time apparently, throughout the entirety of recorded human history it's only the British that have ever exploited anybody.
That’s a great point. Maybe we should have less consolidation of power.
@Henryk Gödel - That's a supremely ignorant understanding of my point.
@Henryk Gödel shut up bitch
Yes plenty of moments in history of the wealthy and powerful helping the less fortunate..... UNLESS 👀, Those rich and powerful are White
My Grandfather, an Irish person, said "it's true you know. that the sun never set on the British Empire, because ya couldn't trust a feckin' Englishman in the dark!"
John Lewton can you really trust one during the day either?
I like the the English surname there
As an Englishman I always trust an Irishman. Especially when they knock on the front door unannounced offering to tarmac my drive.
@@terrancedactielle5460 Haha, you're defo not an English man. Sure all of em can take a joke😂😂 o wai......
@shaun king I'll get the Russians after you if you're not careful
I recently went to Dublin (I"m an American). All we ever were taught was that the Irish had no food during the famine. This is why my Mother's family emigrated to the US. Thanks to a phenomenal guide at Kilmainham Gaol, I learned the real truth...that Ireland had an abundance of crops that were exported to England. The word for this is....genocide. Never has the phrase "History is written by the winners" been more appropo.
Agreed
Fair play for taking the time to learn something during your visit. Hope you spent the rest of your time indulging on pints and craic!
My family left for Scotland to escape it which is why I’m pro independence
@@trevscribbles And being taught Irish folk songs at Darkey Kelley's...which got really hard to remember after Guinness #3.
*apropos
Near the beginning, you say that the irish adopted the potato, mainly because of the improved taste of the genetically modified strain developed over time. The bigger reason was a combination of two factors. One, which you reference later in the video, was that the British and Anglo-Irish landlords were pushing tenants off their farms and onto smaller and less fertile plots of land, largely in the western portion of Ireland. The second factor is that potatoes are able to produce a very high amount of nutrition value in a very small land area. So, if the Irish small farmers tried to grow a variety of crops other than potatoes, they would not be able to grow enough food to stay alive. Thus, they were forced to rely on potatoes as their main, and almost only local food crop.
Jack Horan Yes! Your comments are spot on! My husband is descended from Margaret Devlin, an Irish Potato Famine Orphan (technically her mother was still alive but a kind official pulled some strings to help save her and her sister Sarah) who was sent to Australia in 1848. The story is remarkably tragic.
Hard to believe such dickensian mean spirited behavior occurred even today .
I saw church windows etched by Tennant's about to be transported in,18th century seems odd how natives have been dispossessed of their lands by one ruse or another.
This pertains to Scots possibly transported to America.
Well resolved by revolution and dissolution of British empire.
Similarly, the British literally “created” the Bengal famine in India, (now Bangladesh and parts of Eastern India) . It never recovered and it’s after effects are still seen in Bangladesh even today. Most of the freedom fighters were from prosperous Bengal and Churchill brutally took away the food from farmers and sent it to soldiers in world war, the colonised Indians were in no way connected to the war being fought in Europe. Till today British have given no apology regarding it!
Britain has 2nd most populous Indians living there since 50 years and the Indian population is growing more there. Ask all of these Indians to leave British lands, then Britain's would happily accept the apology. Are you okay with that?
@@Robbie_S if you are so eager to send back all the Indians, are you also eager to send back everything you took from India?
George Harrison did a huge concert for Bangladesh. All the proceeds from the concert, the album of the concert, and any merchandise attached went to their relief. He was very vocal about their plight. He helped in any way he could.
yeah india and ireland were devistaded by britain and i think its safe to say that britain was 100% responsable for the famine ireland aswel, absolutely demoralizing i swear
@@SewnInT the English were completely to blame for the Irish famine. It was horrific. England penalized those who would not join the union of Britain by starving and torturing and even murdering them in cold blood. They weren’t even allowed to speak their own language. If they did, they’d be killed. It was brutal. Part of the brutality was shipping most of Ireland’s food back to England. Which left many to starve to death and those that lived, many had horrible diseases. It was truly barbaric. I always wonder why it doesn’t get more attention.
That sign "No Irish Need Apply" was still in use into the 1900s. My grandfather emegrated to this country with a sick wife after the British backed black and tans burned the city of cork. My grandfather's citizenship papers are from 1927 but he had been here since 1920 working for the NY Railroad as a "fireman". That title meant he shoveled coal for steam engines up to 16 hr's a day. He worked till he was ready to drop but after a dozen years he was able scrape together enough money to open his own pub. It had formally been an Italian restaurant and that sign hung in the front window of the establishment. That exact sign hangs in my brothers home over his fireplace. The great American dream!
It was still in some places in england in the 60s
I feel for you I'm not Irish myself but my wife is though, fourth generation
horrible what the English did and to many others around the world makes my blood boil
@@bx8garageman I personally have no beef with the english, no english man or woman has ever hurt me or been nasty to me, well, ive maybe had a few grumbled "fuck off paddy" when im in england but i ignore that. i try to live by my own rule of do no harm, ya know?
It's what makes us who we are. The stereotype is drunken storytellers and to be fair, I'm related to a few, lol. If that's true and we own it then we also own the stereotypes of being solid men and women. We work hard, we play hard. We have long marriages, we do right by our children, We never back down from a fight and we're loyal to a fault to our country, our home, our family and friends. I plead guilty as charged to all of it!
@@SonyaFlynn , I'm the same way. I don't carry my grandfather's or even my father's grudges. It's just too much to go through life dragging behind you like like a chain of pain. It's not like anyone you complain to could change anything anyway. I have more important things going on right here in the country I was born in. My job was to prepare the children I brought into this world to be successful and happy human beings. It's pretty much a full time job. As I get older, it's clear I'm running out of time and I'm not finished.
A statue in Ireland commemorates the 1847 donation by the Native American Choctaw People to Irish famine relief during the Great Hunger, despite the Choctaw themselves living in hardship and poverty and having recently endured the Trail of Tears
Wait, I thought the Trail of Tears was the Cherokee, not Choctaw?
@@MrGksarathy It was "5 Civilized tribes."
Joe O Seminole and which others?
The native tribes involved in the Trail of Tears: Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole and Creek.
I literally wept when I read that.Thankyou from a descendant living in Australia.
Thank you my Quaker friends for helping the Irish people. Though you are Non Catholic, you are still magnanimous enough in helping thousands of mainly Catholic Irish from certain death
Why the religious distinction? Why thank people you never knew for their assistance to other people you never knew, then sanctimoniously declare "even though you're not catholics".... What a thoroughly small minded, mean spirited, blinkered idiot you are.
@@MsGilly1967 chill dude that's a bit much to call someone. He didn't mean anything by it. What separates the two peoples culturally and physically 8is their major religion. Typically protestants at those times wouldn't have cared for Catholics at all, and vice versa, so he's not wrong.
Proof positive that being a good, moral person really has nothing to do with what religion you follow or even if you follow a religion at all. Doing the right thing and helping those in trouble is just... moral. Period. Doesn't matter if you're Quaker, Christian, Catholic, Muslim, Jewish, Sikh, Agnostic, Atheist, any belief system. Helping people in trouble is just the right thing to do. :)
@@MsGilly1967 clearly never heard of the infamous soup kitchens during the famine. For the Quaker to give aid was an act of mercy to fellow man.
Who cares what religion they were at least they tried. The government should hang there head in shame sx
My relatives fled from Ireland to Canada, where their later generations live now including me 😊
So, do you have a Irish, Canadian, American or French canadian accent???
@@crisu1072 im not sure you understand how accents work lol
@@hehehehe3638 😂😂
@@crisu1072 That's like saying why aren't we all black since humans originated from Ethiopia
@@noe5187 I think you spelled that wrong.... there's a p missing
And yet during 'The Great Hunger' Ireland was actually a food exporter thanks to the British holdings in Ireland. Ireland really had ample food but the British wouldn't share it to relieve the suffering.
Thank you for making this comment. While the Irish peasants starved millions of pounds of butter, oats, and beef were exported. Then there was the scheme to feed the peasants "Indian Corn" which is virtually indigestable without being heavilly milled down and takes a long time to cook. Thousands, in already weakened conditions, died eating this corn. Most people dont know the entire story and how it snowballed from absolute greed and apathy for the poor of Ireland.
@Tiny mod Kindly fuck off. You don't know what you're talking about.
@Tiny mod And who precisely do you believe constituted the Irish aristocracy? Guess pedantic is the word of the day.
Tiny mod you do research...only 9 percent of ireland at the time was irish owned...
@Tiny mod First of all you can't even spell, let alone do research if that's what you found 😂
i remember my grandfather telling me a story that his father had told him.
once my great grandfather was driving down the road in his wagon to get to church, (along the way it was not uncommon to see people eating grass for sustenance). once he had gotten to church he even saw the corners of his own priests mouth were stained green from the grass, this was when he knew that it was not the wrath of god, but something else.
Tiny mod It’s not there were many Irish who ate grass, it bro g the only thing left to eat. And they died with green mouths. I’ve been told this by more than 1 Irish person.
I've read many a story about how Guinness saved many Irish lives, always wondered how much truth there is in those statements.
Thanks for sharing that.
I know people who eat grass on purpose. If it’s clean wild grass it’s edible and quite nutritious. So although it’s heartbreaking that they were forced to eat it, it’s not the worst thing
@shaun king self hatred is it,? Face the facts. Your Queen and your government conspired to starve millions of people to death.
Just like they did in India. Don't take it so personally,we know it's the Elite,then,as now fucking over and destroying billions of souls all over the world,since the late 16th century.
"Governments ignored warning from scientists" Hmmm, sounds familiar.
Yea because Scientists are never wrong....@1:48 he literally said the Scientists messed up
Matt right but when a scientist gives you a warning you shouldn’t take it with a grain of salt
@@Strawbri3 Scientists are humans, they are not perfect, they are not always right, they do have bias, political motivations, and agendas. No, just because you're a Scientist does not mean you are immune to scrutiny. Josef Mengele was a Scientist after all...
Matt umm yeah that lovely and all
But warnings from a scientist I don’t take lightly that all I feel the need to say 😀
Yes, in a bunch of movies, a group of people warn officials not to have the festival or community event, they ignore the warning, and then the monster shows up at it.
For me the most interesting part was the comments section. I am appalled that even today we are not given true and accurate accounts of history. The Irish potato famine is one example of very many British atrocities carried out globally and never properly recognised. To some the British empire, the monarchy and the establishment is still something to be proud of and respected. Not from this Brit.
@colin minhinnick silence lad now surrender your knife into that bin over there
@colin minhinnick The truth isn't "propaganda".
@colin minhinnick Go to 9:27 in the video.....if you dare.
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It always has seemed kind of funny to me that whenever we discover about an atrocity that was kept secret up until then, we always say: “HiStOrY iS WrItTeN bY wInNeRs” dude if we found about this then how can history be written only by winners?
@@tidefanyankee2428 I watched the recommended video and found it appalling and informative, acknowledging true history we can better understand how best we can move forward as individuals communities and nations. Thanks for posting.
A key point to mention on the severity of the famine, its been 173 years since Black 47. The population still hasn't recovered. Also worth looking up is the recorded food exports that left the country daily, armed soldiers guarded it while people died within sight (literally). The number of mass graves in Ireland from the famine is unfathomable. Orchestrated genocide.
Irish people should claim for compensation....given that they have not still recovered completely from the loss of human resource...
I hope that you get a chance to read my rather wordy comment elsewhere in the comments. I would like to hear what you think about it.
Of course the population hasn't "recovered" purely because of "The Hunger", and not because Ireland was a backwards, priest-ridden shithole from 1922 up until the 90s, causing the Irish to seek a better living abroad.
@@dungtrumpet5490 What is happening in America is like the frog in the tepid water. The heat is being turned up every day to reduce America to a Shithole. That is because of the NW agenda. It has nothing to do with the quality of the people. It is the only option they are leaving for usbecause that is their plan. Georgia Guidestones #1: Maintain the population at 500,000 in perpetuity.
@@qanommonsense2753 Cluck, cluck, gibber, gibber, my old man's a wheelbarrow.
My dad was the first born American in our family in 1945. In 1985, I was the 2nd.
My grandfather immigrated from Ireland years after the famine but swore until his death it was the crown who was responsible for the famine.
Vincent Vega I believe it was that bastard Churchill. He started the Boer Wars and I truly believe he started WW2. He said 'WE WILL WAGE WAR ON GERMANY WHETHER THEY WANT IT OR NOT." He bad mouthed Germany throughout the thirties.
@@sparx180 Winston Churchill was born 50 years after the Potato Famine ended. He was a reporter during the early part of the second Boer War and a soldier during the later part. He did not go into politics until after the war and advocated for good treatment of the Boers. Churchill warned of the "appalling social conditions" in Germany after WW1 that contributed to the rise of the Nazi party. And later pointed out the Nazi government was clearly preparing for a war of conquest (as they were). I would like to see a source for that quote you attribute to Churchill I couldn't find it. I think, by any reasonable standard, that Winston Churchill was a great man and a credit to our species (And that is coming from someone who dislikes the English more than a little).
K j I wish more thought like you here in uk , people have been brainwashed for years and year’s, I don’t fit in because I have strong views over what we have to put up with. I’m afraid we are still controlled by the aristocracy and the general public don’t see it.
A1 this is what happens when good PR, marketing combine with patriotism. Do you really think that people will stop visiting England once the royalty is ended? If that were true English should be wiping the floor with French and German tourism industry. Also you don’t realise what royalty entails. You allow someone to be able to travel in personal jets around the world to attend parties with their Guccis and Pradas merely because they were born of a special family. Prince Andrew get to screw teens and host palace tours.
All of this and what do you get in return. You can wave that flag whenever their convoy passes by you or kiss the hand of royals when they decided you are worthy of it. Great deal I would say.
I felt feelings watching this. To address your description box though, TONS of people try to deny the plight of the Irish. That's the thing that made this so emotional. The denial of Irish persecution isn't far behind Holocaust denial, in my estimation.
Honestly you're not wrong, after the Jewish, Irishmen are some of the most persecuted people in history.
And how many people stay silent about the systemic genocide of Nation Americans (and First Nations in Canadian territory)?? Best estimates are 25,000,000 to 40,000,000. This so called "Trail of Tears" killed 4,000 during a *1,000* mile walk. Dragging belongings on a travois, holding babies and toddlers who couldn't walk anymore? Rest stops where they slept with no shelter or in barns.
The towns people abuse them whether by throwing items on them. But worse the women were raped no matter what age. Such as 11 years old and stolen as their "brides" and parents too damn tired and faced weapons. Indians (the Cherokee) LAUGH DESRIVELY when whites claim they have "indian" blood and ALWAYS pick Cherokee. BTW those gene kits are bullshit trying to prove how much "Indian" DNA in your blood.
@@marthahanley6650 Why are you screeching this at me, though? What do you think you're accomplishing here? Did I transgress you somehow by not working a reference to the atrocities the North American aboriginal peoples suffered at the hands of European settlers into my thoughts on the persecution the Irish suffered at the hands of their own people?
I have empathy for that plight, but **you** are trying my patience. Take a step back, realize I **FUCKING DON'T KNOW YOU**, and ask yourself if you would be tempted to tell me that you weren't going to waste energy empathizing with someone who wouldn't do the same for you if you were in my shoes right now. I do not owe you empathy, and if you think that berating people is going to convert a ton of minds, you've got a few things left to learn about honey and vinegar.
Good day, madam.
Africans: hold my beer🙄
@@chrisper94 I'm actually impressed that it took this long for someone to make this about black people. It'll take more than that to podium at the oppression Olympics.
I am Indian and this is too depressing and all too familiar to the stories of my people to finish watching ..why were the british made like this? No compassion! What made them think it was ok to do? Even what they did with the Scottish Highlanders calling them savages having to tame them...is the same ideas they bought to India.. how are the British so proud of an empire like this based off of manipulating and starving other humans and then to be treated like 3rd class citizens in your own country.. it had to be immoral to some of them in their time..
India suffered badly too
The whole world suffered due to British imperialistic greed. Every time I see the Queen and Kate Middleton in their jeweled tiaras, necklaces and earrings, I think about the people who must have slaved their lives away mining those blood diamonds and gems.
@@evaabdullahi5240 I could not have put that better I spike in anger when i see that mob No remorse ever
Miss. The British are the most compassionate race on earth, I am Irish,worked there for decades as a nurse, Thousands and thousands of my countrymen can attest toI that, what I lived about them was,that they got in with life, two world wars thrust upon them ,llost a whole generation of young men in the first world war, and almost ad bad in the second,yet very very rarely do you hear a Britisher moan,or live in the past, I only wish I could have remained there,but unfortunately family duties called me home.
I’m proud to be British, but I’m not proud of the horrible past and what we’ve done is despicable and unforgivable.
My great great grandfather fled after the second potato famine in the late 1800’s and came to America at the ripe old age of 12...by himself!!
That's very similar to my great great grandmother. She left Ireland at 14 to come to the U.S all by herself too. I can't even imagine what that was like for them to come to a new country and have to leave their entire family behind.
Carolyn Shepherd - I cant agree more. We definitely live in a different world now.
Damn.
Mike Cahill wow! That’s amazing 😱 Good for him👏👏👏👏
Well he was evil cause I'm sure he oppressed black people when he got here
Ireland had received donations from Apache Natives in the US, who understood the plight of oppression and starvation.
That's really cool! So your telling me bad things happened to people that werent black?..Have a good 1.
There were not Apache, they were Choctaw people helped us we have a memorial county cork in memorie of there kindness ....
@@andykane439so what?...most of em r dead..hahaha!
Va Cool imagine making fun of a tribe that barely survived genocide. bet you’re a boomer
rita nah he’s an edgy zoomer.
My great grandfather came to America during the early 1900s. He dropped the O’Kelly and just kept Kelly for his last name. I’m very proud of my Irish heritage. I would love to visit sometime. Thanks for the video.
We have Kelly's in Australia also
Ger - yeah? I would love to visit Ireland, I hear it’s absolutely beautiful.
I have Irish ancestry from my mother's side of the family. They were from Castledermot in county Kildare, Leinster province. Her last name was Murphy.
How can you be proud of your grandfather for being born in Ireland? Nobody chooses the location they're born in... strange concept to me.
@@Kat-tr2ig Are you searching for them?
I had dinner with my boss, another Irish American. We both realized that we wolfed our food down. Then we chatted about how it was passed down among our families that you eat everything on your plate because you never know when you will get your next meal. The famine left scars and we still see the effects today both from a micro and macro viewpoint.
A terrible time for Ireland. Some international relief did come through. A Turkish pasha offered a large donation but was forced to scale it back because it was bigger than Queen Victoria’s. Horrible
@leather Guy
It's true the ottoman sultan tried to donate 10,000 but was made reduce this to 1,000 by the British so instead sent 3 ships of food that the British navy tried to block but the ships made it to Ireland and sailed into Drogheda harbour.
@leather Guy It's true. Royalty can be very petty sometimes.
@leather Guy Actually its true,The Irish league soccer team Drogheda United FC wear a star and crescent on their shirts.
@@keeganmoonshine7183why England would hang onto an institution of illegitimate governance is confusing.
It wasn't done out of the goodness of his heart. They wanted aid and guns fighting the Russians with Britain's backing. Subjects of the Ottoman Empire didn't fair much better than us under British rule.
It committed some of the worse genocides in history and slavery was rife until 1911.
This was genocide. There was plenty of food in Ireland. The British lords took it to rid themselves of the “Irish problem.”
andrew Burcham you’ll never beat the Irish, when one goes to war we all go to war 🤟
@Nobby Heads living up the the username I see... have you ever heard of penal laws? That amazing British empire that the irish were 'jealous' of evicted irish people from their own homes, then made it illegal for irish people to own land, farmers therefore worked on land belonging to the british, so consequently had no say in whether the food was sold or not. Classic British ignorance
@Nat Rfc 😂😂 sure the great British army couldn't beat a couple Irish farmers with guns... I'd be embarrassed. Then ye tried to destroy the middle East and they send ye back
@Nat Rfc O no. That really hurt😄😄
😂😂 feckin pom!!
@Nat Rfc not jealous, but definitely despise the inhumanity and cruelty that some of these people shown to us Irish.. taken as slaves or sent on prison ships for petty crime.. it's much easier to steal from Farmers and women when you've broken their spirit... But for a bunch of Farmers and country men, we still got most of out country back for good against the almighty empire😂😂 Mup the Irish Republican army! Mup defending your Homeland and not invading others!
I'm always amazed at how history is often so distorted. This video should discuss why the Irish embraced the potato. Never do you mention stolen land, forced labour, pseudo- share cropping where Irish farmers were forced to sell entire crops and livestock to the English in order to avoid eviction. The attempted genocide of the Irish by the English is never mentioned. The Irish were not a simple people who would be placated by a potato. It was a matter of survival. My great-great grandfather was sent to Canada in 1850 as an infant to save his life, and thusly the clan lineage.
Lol. This is how Black people feel trying to explain our history in the US.
@@mikikiki People are tired of this low iq rhetoric. Read a book.
@@unclejesse2506
Suffering from racist phobia?
@Mr Intel: no we are getting tired of hearing about it. It’s not the whites but the rest of us are getting tired of hearing about it over and over like a broken record. The entire world has suffered slavery and desecration but yet only one race is the victim. We are tired and don’t care anymore so why don’t you all keep your feelings to yourself since you can’t get over a suffering that you did not endure or let me guess you are a white liberal 🙅🏽♀️
@Mikikiki: nobody cares anymore, now more than ever. Keep it to yourself no more 🙅🏽♀️
There is a lasting relationship between the Choctaw Nation and Ireland. I am proud to be a member of The Choctaw Nation!
Lets not forget the British abuse didnt end after this and kept up even after Ireland gained it's Independence. From Famine to Bloody Sunday.
Fuck off with that shit
True though
Bono is the biggest
Too true
Well not the first time that British caused a famine in the Empire. The Bengal Famine and the Great Bengal Famine. The two are two different famines. Though it's more like The Bengal Genocide and The Great Bengal Genocide.
People wonder why the British were so adept at colonizing so many parts of the southern hemisphere. It's because they'd had six hundred years of practice in Ireland.
I guess that is why the sun never set on the British Empire...
@@watchman0062 ...cuz God don't trust 'em in the dark. And we Yanks have no room to talk. We've become the Brit capitalist playbook on steroids.
James Sheridan Ok. Well... If you want change you have any ideas for revolutions?
@@watchman0062 Either I'm delusional or it's just possible that one is getting started as we speak.
SilentwarH I hope that’s true, considering we are not in good shape at the moment
Why do they never tell how the muslim nation of the Ottoman helped Irland while the queen tried to stop them?
Or like how solidarity was fostered between Native Americans and the Irish as they were both subjugated people facing famine
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Because they did it for political reasons. They were getting guns and wanted English help in their fight against the Russian empire. The Muslim ottoman empire also had a huge slave markets ,stole babies from their mother's hands in the blood tax to train them to fight against their own kind. Also subjected millions to starvation themselves with huge taxes. The food they gave to the Irish was a political stunt that no one was blind to.
@@simeondunev4890 Why would they help Irish if they wanted English help? England objected any help to Ireland.
@@simeondunev4890 Ottomans had very liberal tax policies even by todays standards, you're reading the history wrong.
That’s so disturbing. I also have Irish ancestors. I suppose many of us do. I’m sorry for all the Irish people went through. What a nightmare! 😔
This is fabulous! I would love to see about the Irish Indentured servants. The how, the why, the how long, the injustices and the prejudices against them while they were indentured and if they actually got out, the acceptance, or lack thereof by others as they tried to build a life in America.
We used to be called white nword( i dont like that word) in newspapers it was totally normal to see "no irish or catholics need apply" and on signs before cafes,hotels or shops you might see "no dogs,no blacks,no irish"
My ancestors on my maternal grandfather's side came to America as Irish indentured servants under Cromwell. It is interesting to read about.
@UCDayTHYFtnVmrikYjXxikHg its not that it offends me, its the sound the word makes when pronounced, its so harsh on the ears. my autism causing certain words to really affect my hearing that way and that is just a nasty sounding word. also my family in the 50s and 60s were called white n's, ive honestly never heard about being called pink ones
Lochness Monsta I never knew that.
RUhere4the TRIGGERING I agree wholeheartedly.
"The moral evil of the selfish" - says the person who condemned millions to die of starvation.
At least he was true to his own line....🤭
And that has certainly spread...
It is very common for the aggressors and oppressors to also be the accusers.
@@silvussol8966 I agree. It's like they're trying to take the spotlight (the blame) off of themselves.
@anonymous anonymous 🙏
Ammmaaazzzing - always wondered the details of the Potato Famine and now want to read more. Thank you for covering this topic
I am Part Irish myself but i was born and raised in Britain, my s/o is irish too, to see this is the way my country treated Ireland back then makes me sick, i am so terribly sorry for our past actions and you have no right to forgive us fully, for what we did was inhumane. I love and respect Ireland and all its people, So i am truly sorry for our actions in the past.
Why are you sorry for something you didn't do?
Why are you sorry? You didn't do anything. We tend to move forward from the bad things in life if we are wise enough rather than claiming eternal victim status which benefits no-one. So much has happened in our past, yet, we're still here, strong, resilient and never going away🙂 Still, thank you for you're kindness🙏
Also, the Ottoman sultan Sultan Abdülmecid, provided aid during Ireland's great famine
Yes, and so did the working poor in America. It’s a rumor than queen V didn’t. She did but out of her personal. More needed to come out of the government
Apparently, he was ready to send more than what he did but was told to send less so that he wouldn't make Queen Victoria look bad for sending a fraction of what he was sending.
@@AR-ws1gr And nobody was allowed to donate more than Queen Victoria. I believe she donated 15,000. Another person, a foreigner ( I do not remember who), offered 80k and was turned down because you couldnt upstage Vicki.
@@AG-mt3xs Dang it! You beat me to it. I made almost the same comment, I saw yours too late!
@@ourgorlsfavoriteorangechic2711 It was £2,000. That was it. Equivalent to £61,000 in today's currency. The Sultan was prepared to send £10,000, but they stopped him. So, he sent £1,000 and several ships loaded with food.
The Irish starved while grains and other foods were shipped to England. The Irish should have stormed all the farms and ships filled with food. The English were so cruel to them. Watching them starve for years. The Irish were found lying dead with green coming out of their mouths. They tried to eat the grass. Which was the only thing left to eat.
Did you not fucking LISTEN and actually COMPREHEND that the IRISH LANDOWNERS are the ones who sold THEIR own crops to England. So Ireland people are too blame too. ENGLAND COULD HAVE NOT BOUGHT WHAT IRISH LANDOWNERS WAS SO EAGER TO SELL.
@@marchindley9856 THANK YOU. Finally some good common sense!!!! 💯💯
Prop Trader yes most “Irish” Iandowners were english give there Land by the crown
Marc Hindley shame on you at least learn your history before you make such a statement.
@@tatankacleary did you not listen nor research?! THERE WERE MOSTLY IRISH LAND OWNERS THAT EVICTED THEIR OWN PEOPLE OFF THEIR LAND AND HOMES TO BE ABLE TO GROW AND DISTRIBUTE OTHER CROPS TO SELL TO ENGLAND AND EVEN SENT THEM ON COFFIN SHIPS TO AVOID LEGAL BACKLASH. SO YOU NEED TO SHUT YOUR BIG POTATO BLIMP BUILT ASS THE FUCK UP AND DO YOUR RESEARCH OR JUST LISTEN AND ACTUALLY COMPREHEND WHAT YOU HEARD IN THIS VIDEO.
My “Irish roots “ go back to 1860 Ireland. That was my last relative born outside of Canada.
I was only asking for this a couple of days ago!😀 thank you thank you!!!
We were taught this in school but for some reason they never mentioned that it only got so bad cuz the British screwed over the Irish and failed to give them proper aid.
They also do not tell you that is was also over religion
Only the " winners " write history books.
@@nycmeltdowndress5924 unfortunate but true. That's why I'm glad the internet exists. It's always interesting to see what other countries learn in history class.
You know they don't teach real stuff in school. I've learned how different history really is after school and by doing my own reading and watching different sources. They almost brainwash you at school
Jegeriufane N history books tend to be subtle propaganda
Looking at this now, I’m reminded of a teacher who mentioned it was a genocide the English got away with and the world forgot.
Indeed it was Genocide, no one likes to call it that but that is what it is and an apology is not good enough, my family lost everything, including land and our name and so much more...
Scotland wanted a union with England therefore Britain was created so don’t be blaming England for the fuck up Scotland made
@paul gorman you evidently don’t know much about Britain do you kiddo with shitty lines as “your enemies know more about Britain than you do” what I also find funny with your bullshit comment is that you claim I’m an idiot yet you completely dismissed my previous comment with idiotic logic. It’s like you don’t even understand how unions work especially since you said London is in England. Well done you know one city in one country but just because you know the capital of England doesn’t mean your correct you dumb fuckwit
@paul gorman you literally sound petty, literally finding anything to just show your hatred towards England, just because you don’t like England doesn’t mean all things bad are thanks to England, again you don’t understand the meaning of the term union. Scotland and Wales both had their say but hey you just don’t like it when people tell you why your point is wrong and the way your sounding it’s quite hilarious
@paul gorman the closest I got to fights in those countries was being invited to watch boxing, hell I’ve made really good friends who I still talk too from those countries I’ve been to. What also puts your bullshit to the floor is that I’ve got family in Australia and my auntie over there has more Australian friends than English friends
The older I get... The more I learn to dislike and distrust everyone. Yes, we’re all human, but there will never be equality and fairness for all. We just take what we can get, and screw everyone else.
The broken sinfulness of humankind...it will never change...
It might be true that there will never be perfect equality or fairness in this world. But there are plenty among us do what we can to push back against injustice. Humanity would never have survived as long as it has without the work of compassionate people. The good in the world just doesn't make the news near as often as the bad.
A feel good story relating to this video: In 1847 the Native American Choctaw people sent $170 to help during the potato famine. A sculpture in Midleton, Cork, named “kindred spirits” commemorates the generosity of the tribe, who had an incredible history of deprivation themselves. When the Najavo nation appealed for covid relief this year, the people of Ireland took the opportunity to help out. so far a gofundme set up by the Irish to aid najavo has raised $3 million dollars :-)
Let’s not forget the British Home Secretary suggested to “threaten Ireland with the prospect of food shortages if leaders did not relent on their demands for Brexit backstop arrangements” during Brexit negotiations.
Don't surprise me!..Shout out from Irish Virginian....Some things never change..God bless The Emerald Isle!.
We did some laughing here in ireland when that was reported.
What scum the british establishment are.
Va Cool an Irish Virginian. So an American
@@user-go3jv8rw7i yep..uh ..yep.
and? the british have always been doing these types of things theyre an awful people really
My great grandmother died on a ship to the U.S. I learned that she was buried at sea. I felt so empty when I found out.
Very sad revelation
Most people who died on board ship were buried at sea,the exception might be say a ships captain but one of importance, whose body might be preserved in a drum of brandy as Admiral Nelsons was after he was killed at Trafalgar
My great grandmother died because of her family cruelty, i know how you feel, like wishing you were there to save her. In my case, the anger over the relatives i will never meet.
That's why they were called the coffin ships. Families held wakes for their children or the family members leaving for America as they couldn't be sure they'd survive the journey or the life there. Or if they'd ever hear from them again. But these families gave everything they had on the gamble that the exorbitant financial cost & the devastating emotional anguish would hopefully give at least one family member a chance of living. It was heart wrenching for the families and the emigrating members...
That is so sad 😞😢
I can't listen to it without feeling pain and outrage. Hamish McKenzie (Scottish)
This channel is always reminding me just how worse things were back then and how good we have it now.
Some time ago I saw the movie "Mr Jones", about a young British reporter going to the Soviet Union under Stalin to understand how the Soviets could fund their new military supplies. He found that Stalin took all the crops from the fertile fields of Ukraine and sold it to other countries in order to be able to import goods he needed. The Ukrainians, meanwhile, were left to die of starvation by the millions. It is almost unthinkable that the British did the same thing to the Irish less than a hundred years before the time of Stalin.
It shows how both extreme capitalism and extreme communism can be disastrous for millions of people.
It was the subjugation of the Kulaks by the Bolsheviks that caused the famine in the Ukraine.
And then British people complain about how bad Stalin was lmao
@@andreaamitrano6403 we don't care about Stalin,just presenting history as it really happened.
My fathers side of the family moved to South Africa from Ireland. My mother's side is Afrikaans. The English threw boer women and children in concentration camps during the Boer wars, where they perished in the thousands by starvation and disease. They also burnt many crops and salted the earth, creating major food shortages. When world war 1 rolled around, fresh were the scars of our conflict with England that we nearly joined the Germans. I somewhat wish we did. My disdain for English monarchs is high and Englishmen are not welcome in this country
My great great grandfather lived through the famine. His brother and the wife and 7 children of his brother all died.
It was genocide not famine.
Great round-up of events and characters. The Irish are resilient people, with great warmth and humor. We so enjoyed our visit to the country a few months back.
I'm here to learn of the privilege that was passed down to me from my Irish ancestors now i can see why i need to pay reparations to all the people they oppressed
Penny's vouchers pls
that's a good one!
I know, right?
This is like a horror story. I had no idea that Irish people had suffered this way. Thanks for sharing so more people will learn and be prepared to not make the same mistakes.
No Idea? Well... Irish people where treated badly during history. Long before black slaves came to north america, Irish slaves where pretty much common. Irish and black slaves lived together, both where treated bad, but the Irish where easy to replace cause of their skin colour, which was one of the reason, they where tortured a lot more, unlike the very expensive black slaves. Even after they whrere 'freed' from their slavery and got transported to ireland, they still where not aknowledged as human beings.
When it comes to slavery in school and university, the Irish always are getting let out, as if they never existed in the first place. Never you hear, that the irish and the black slaves in the UK, created together the famous step dance, with blacks being the instruments and using both, Irish and african styled music. Irish dance also has it's origin from their slavery.
Yeah, history like this is why I have to laugh whenever I hear someone say that there's never been any bigotry leveled against anyone of European descent. What about the Irish? The Romanian peoples? Countless European Jews for *literal centuries*? If someone claims that there's NEVER been anyone with white or Mediterranean ancestry that has been oppressed, well, they just haven't studied history outside of their own little bubble. Oppression doesn't care about what you look like, it just cares that the person it targets is considered "lesser", subhuman.
I’m a descendant of a family who fled Ireland’s famine and then survived America’s racism, as well.
The Bailey family married families who had Native American descendants, and my family was created!
Nice! My family stayed in Ireland
@@lucysolis1435 he doesn't hate his own, British aren't his 'own'. Calling an Irish person British is an insult
@@gerRule Mine too!! Does that make our stock stronger & us survivors?
@colin minhinnick The British Isles is a geographical label. Politically, Great Britain or the UK comprises England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland.
Ireland is an independent state, a republic. It's located in the British Isles, but not British, not governed, ruled by Britain, nor are we subjects of your monarchy... we are Citizens of The Republic of Ireland.
Today's descendants of American slave owners are not owners of the descendants of those saves.
Slaves were eventually emancipated, legally freed but still subjects of brutality, torture & murder. Their descendants are not owned by anyone, neither is Ireland.
It's a simple enough concept. Like Rhodesia isn't British... or even Rhodesia anymore, do you still claim Zimbabwe, Zambia, Kenya, India, Pakistan etc are British?
@@lucysolis1435 you sound like a big fat dumbass.
I’m from Ireland and I find this story very sad:(
Hello, as a Turkish and Ottoman historian, the truth of the story is this. The period when the Irish people were left to genocide by England. The Ottomans were not interested in this at first. They did not want to confront the British and Ireland was not a Muslim country. Celtic soldiers and officers serving in the Ottoman Empire did not remain silent about this genocide and reported the situation to the sultan. The Sultan had to accept the offer of help. In addition, Celtic people living in Anatolia also supported the aid campaign. It is estimated that the Celtic population living in Anatolia today is 9 million. When the Ottoman Empire ended, the Celts living in Anatolia were not shown as a minority at the Lausanne meeting of the newly established Turkish state because they lived in a Muslim state.
When you go to Anatolia, you can see people with red hair and green and blue eyes. Celts living in Turkey are educated, polite and mostly atheist. He is the bright face of Turkey. In my opinion, those who helped you are the Celts living in Anatolia. Thank you.
The Irish of that time said a fog came in from off the Atlantic and when it blew over, everything was dead.
I've never heard that. Delirium from starvation perhaps?
I've never heard that. Delirium from starvation perhaps?
Sure, that fog was the British hatred of the Irish people. Plain and simple.
steve williams That hatred would have had to come in from the Irish Sea, not the Atlantic.
it wasn't a famine, it was an attempted genocide
Yep
God Is In The Details it’s a famine potato 🥔 people stop laying to your self
Attemped? From 8 million to 4.5 million because you want to kick people out and using this famine as a convenience is definitely genocide, the only way it couldve been worse is if Thanos snapped his fingers, that wouldve made it 4 million left
@Reicher Reinhardt Von kesselring really man? At least it doesn't kill you through hunger or concentration camps. And it's kinda ironic hearing something about killings from an American guy.
@Reicher Reinhardt Von kesselring Oh no! The politically correct gestapo are gonna get you! Man you're delusional if you think you're as oppressed as the Irish was back in the 18th century.
My deep respect to the Irish from a Syrian 🇮🇪
@Che Guevara Thank you fellow moral human being! Death to the mass murderer of the Syrian people!
@@abdullahchhab2325 hope you and your family are doing well !
Deep respect from an American, ashamed of my own government's behaviour around the globe.
@@AndreaHa Thank you Andrea! They are fortunately safe and doing well. I like the US but I wish it did more to stop the mass murderer Assad before the situation got this bad.
Here in Ireland we have many Syrian migrants, they’re quite nice people; most of the time.
@@Roosk Aye comrade! I love propaganda posters like those in your pic BTW. When I graduate I would be happy if I could find a job in Ireland, because of the language. Supposedly they speak English there though I am yet to hear it 😝
From watching this video I now understand much better the possible causes for the hostility in the early 20th century of the Irish people towards the British and their fight for independence from Britain.
It was worse in America than you described. The discrimination the Irish faced would be a video in itself. And as an Irish Catholic I have faced discrimination.
No words can describe my sadness at such inhumane treatment of human beings. There was food to be had....it just wasn't given.....which means it was murder on massive scale.
Same thing is literally happening now. Lots of food in the world, just happens to go to those who can afford it rather than those who need it.
@@noleftturnunstoned it is a sad truth. Food is as much as a status symbol as money. The wealthy have an abundance of it and eat till gorged, while the poor have none and starve. However nothing in this world is as simple as it seems. Not all of the wealthy are self centered just as not all of the poor are victims of circumstances. It is a paradox that is humanity. Nothing is simple and yet at same time it is that simple.
We the Iranian people feel the pain and know how hard is famine caused by the British because in 1918 the British did this exactly to us and caused genocide, up to 40% of our population died and was one of the main reason Qajar destiny fall because they were hated very much for their incompetence, today in Iran we call the English foxes because whenever they go they bring distraction by divide and conquer
The Irish and Iranian people will always be united. Much love brother
Indian chiming in. Same sentiment from India. 3mn people died on the Bengal Famine in 1943 caused by British policies.
mohammad zaker So the English brought misery wherever they went. Ireland Iran India etc. the list is very long.
Every people and every person who has gone to bed with an empty stomach and a lowered head can sympathise with each other. The poor and downtrodden of the world are the same.
They did us of a also
2:50 a publics work program is very polite way of saying it. The British considered the Irish lazy, they made them work on roads for food Aid, many died and were just thrown into the ditches. They are called the famine roads today, quite a few near where I live.
Jesus you can tell when a topic genuinely saddens him when he’s taking about it. I’m glad finally someone has an appropriate tone when talking about something so bad
My ancestors came to the United states because of this blight. I cant help but wonder if they were in a coffin ship as well. I was told they saw lady liberty and cried with hope that their suffering would finally end.
Mine went to New York first and got sick of all the racism there so they moved again to Australia. Well that's the story I was told.
They most likely came in a coffin ship. As far as im aware, all Irish emigrated that way because they didn't have any other options. Traveling at all was a blessing, surviving the journey was a miracle.
Coffin ship is just a nickname. Any ship could be called a coffin ship if you wanted to.
Statue of Liberty was given in 1876, about 30 years after the famine...
Didn't the ottoman empire offer to end the famine but the queen refused???
Didn't the ottomans help back then?
And an Irish coast town is still thankful until today by having the ottoman flag on their football team jerseys?
Or is it that am mistaken??
I think the sultan did send aid, he just wasn’t allowed to send as much as he wanted. Queen Victoria was sending much less and I guess he couldn’t make her “look bad.” Very sad.
@@Anonymous.user.157 thank you
Evil Queen she preferred to kill her own people, just to keep her image.
Thank you again
And yo... channel guys..I don't know how you missed on the part with the ottomans!!!!
You're correct Mustafa. They are called Droheda United
I have read that the choctaw nation also helped. But I do not think they were a nation yet? Anyone?
Maggie Mae Yes they did help, and not long after the trail of tears!
Irish are tough people, standing tall still after all these hard times.
If by tall you mean 5’8 then yes we are standing tall.
@creek because it’s true lol we aren’t very tall people
Thank you for shining a light on this subject. Too many don't know the full horror of that famine.
I'm proud to say that both sides of my family are Irish. My father's side comes from the West of Ireland, mostly county Mayo as far as we can tell. My great great great (not sure how many 'greats') grandfather emigrated around 1850 or so to Canada and the family eventually ended up in western Massachusetts.
Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid donated is also said to have sent three or five ships full of food. The British administration allegedly attempted to block the ships, but by local tradition the food arrived secretly at Drogheda harbour and was left there by Ottoman sailors. Shipping records relating to the port appear not to have survived. Newspaper reports suggest that ships from Thessaloniki in the Ottoman Empire sailed up the River Boyne in May 1847,although it has also been claimed that the river was dry at the time. In 1995, the Drogheda town hall erected a placard in commemoration. In 2012, plans were announced to produce a film on the subject,starring Colin Farrell and several Turkish stars.
Found this in wiki.
Fairplay to them💖💖💖xxx
The town emblem of Drogheda is a star and cresent as a mark of respect for what he tried to do for the Irish.
Wiki? Really? Oh well it must be true then. Can you hear my sarcastic tone?
@@cincin4515 though wikipedia is constantly changed by uneducated people; even in higher ranks, this information is true or perhaps you are a racist?
@@cincin4515 it's historically true, tho.
I would love to learn more about the Great Depression of 1929
I am absolutely addicted to this channel
Well irish weren't the only ones the English gentlemen starved to death, they did in india too.
Yes they did
"Gentlemen" my foot...
Well said. And it wasn't some stupid Potatoes. This lasted HUNDREDS of years. Finally in the later 1800's the British passed the Wyndham act which generously allowed the Irish to buy back THEIR stolen land at 27.5 times the value. GOD F**K the QUEEN!!!!!!!!
They also starved the American Indian population by killing al the 🐃 buffalo they used for food! Evil Kings and queens yet, they’re still in power! Why?
@@redrooster667 royalty doesn't have half the power as they did back then
Teacher: can anyone tell me what parasite caused the potato famine?
Me in my head: don’t say the British, don’t say the British, your right, but don’t say the British
You dumb idiot blaming the British it was sod all to do with us, the workforce. Blame the so called blue bloods the so called aristocracy we were treated no better than you.
Tuten Vanman yes, and what nation was the Aristocracy from? Britain...so therefore...British
Britain is not a Nation. It's a collective of Nations, wich begs the question: where are YOU from?
Suri Pene and what do you call someone living in that collection of nations? UKian? UKish? United Kingdomian? United Kingdomnese? Oh that’s right! You call them British! How could I forget
(Yes,I know of the Northern Irish, Welsh, Scottish, and English. But when referring to them all what do you call them?)
@@helpmereach690subscribers3 ...and moving on where are you from?
Cecil Woodham Smith wrote a definitive book on The Great Hunger. I had never understood the whole picture until I read her book.
Same for me. I’ve got Irish grandparents on both sides of my family, some emigrating to America and some like one of my grandads to England. Cecil Woodham Smiths book was a true enlightenment for me as to the real story of the so called “ famine “ ! She told the true story of what really occurred.
"It'll be fine if we don't interfere"
Proceeds to interfere in the worst possible ways and the worst possible time
Nah That guy claimed to be for the free market, he wasn’t if he was he would have ended Mercantilism in Ireland. Obviously he just wanted to covertly kill off the Irish people without openly doing so.
The great famine of Bengal is also happens because of food export to Britain by British Raj during 1940.
*also happened*
@Liam C we don't hate British people we just hate British raj now which is extinct. So now there is no need spread hate among peoples in twenty first century. Hate make no sense now.
@Liam C yes i understand, but this can be same in every country. But what ethical values people of that country has matter I believe.
I didn't know about that. Sad that it happened more than once... Thanks for letting us know.
nabeel admed I know all about the Bengali Famine. That was Churchill's doing, he was a criminal. Responsible for a lot of wars and what not. 400 mill died when their rice was stolen.
Britain back then: lol if ur starving just eat food its not that hard
Britain in 1999: im sowwy :3
lol
Seriously?
@colin minhinnick Yes, Americans in fact did help the natives in the 19th century....many times in fact. Yes, there were some horrible things that happened, that's true and the U.S. Gov't acknowledges it, and has for years. In fact the natives get reparations from the U.S. Gov't. Now....how much has the UK paid to the Irish, or the Indians, or the Kenyans, or the Boers???? You don't have to be exact, just a round figure will do.....
I eagerly await the figure......
@@TheJanvicgwaps bruh
@@CHLOCHLOLP yo lmao
Some of the British Aristocracy came to ''tour" the famine. As they traveled by coaches through the country side, they saw the dead and dying everywhere. One of the women asked of the dogs roaming the countryside, "Why, do the dogs look so well fed?"
Well, this was certainly a depressing eye-opener. It's downright infuriating that the British government wouldn't help those people.
An interesting additional side note to this - the influx of Irish, primarily in the U.S. northern states had an impact on the U.S. Civil War. Many Irish, unable to find good jobs elsewhere, joined the ranks of the U.S. military and their numbers and excellent service were one of the reasons the north defeated the Confederate States. Their service had some part in the broader acceptance of Irish in the U.S., though "fighting for your country" does not always provide acceptance for any race, color or creed.
Hi Don interestingly enough here in Waterford Ireland there is a fine grave with an elaborate monument in Ballybricken Church to an Irish officer killed at Antietam. I can't recall the gentleman's name off hand but you may be able to Google it. If you're interested in the Battle of the little Bighorn, one of Custers officers was Captain Myles Keogh who was from County Carlow Ireland. As far as I know his horse named Comanche was the only thing left alive after the battle. Captain Keoghs body was the only one not mutilated because as a Roman Catholic he was wearing a Scapular devoted to the Virgin Mary and seemingly the native American warriors were too afraid to interfere with his remains. Hope this may interest you. Kind regards.
@@eoindee7007 Thanks for the interesting bit of information. I am not as acquainted with the officer killed at Antietam, but I know well the story of Cpt. Keogh and Comanche. I live in the Kansas City area and the remains of Comanche are on display at the University of Kansas Museum of History. Comanche survived for several years after the Battle of Little Big Horn, but was never ridden again. Upon Comanche's death the 7th Calvary sought to have a taxidermist save the remains. A professor at KU did the task for no fee with the stipulation that the display be kept at the KU museum. It was refurbished a few years back and is still on display now. To your earlier point, the history of the Civil War is filled with heroic acts of Irish soldiers and officers. One additional interesting point; many of those that served so well in the war came home to find that "safe" jobs were not readily available and they continued their service in police and firefighter jobs - beginning a long and continued line of Irish serving and protecting the community.
Really, I didn't know that. Thanks for the history tidbit kind TH-camr!
imagine escaping a famine in your home country just to be killed in a war
Many Irish did indeed fight for the Union Army as a means of allegiance and there were some albeit the minority that fought for the Confederacy.
History needs an extensive re-write......the British Empire was a particularly cruel to many unfortunate enough to be under them. Genocide not famine is the correct word to describe the opportunity the British saw in the Irish potato crop failures and Queen Victoria should be known as the “Famine Queen”
With this kinda shit is it any wonder every single colony under British rule eventually started revolutions and civil disobedience in order to break away and form their own countries?
Sooo laughable how the Nazi are heaaavly demonised by the media.... . But the USA and the British empire did waay worse than the Third Reich
@@wrestlinganime4life288 omg blasphemy
@@wrestlinganime4life288 indians repress tribals n suppress untouchables
CORRECT.
I adore this channel, but why does the music always have to be so loud?
The Salvation Army is one of the few organizations that are really worth donating to. They don't waste money on over-blown corporate payrolls and mega-millions in advertising. Not spending money on advertising is probably why the MSM mostly ignores their efforts.
They are good sorts
and suddenly we have half the population of the U.S.
In one year of recorded immigration
@shaun king fuck you
4.5 million is not half the population of the U.S.
Um, the population of the United States is around 331 million
Summer Staley if 1 million people immigrated their 200 years ago Imagine how many people they would have Brought to life 200 years later it is multiplied nearly exponentially
so glad you're covering this, I was going to request it!
Canada is the second home to the great Irish peoples...we are all imports of hope...
God bless the irish so much pain they had to go through
Love from Albania
Next video should cover the Bengal Famine of 1943, a man-made famine where ~3MN people died. One of the saddest and heart wrenching events under the British empire rarely spoken about in western media.
How about Moa Zheg Dong and his great leap forward
Yes. You get my vote. I wanna know more
Difference is the Bengal Famine happened unintentionally and was unable to be attended to due to ongoing WW2 so you can’t really blame the British as much. The Irish famine was quasi intentional and could have being prevented if the British really wanted to.
@@tommyx9309 read history properly...Ur "Hero" Sir Winston Churchill diverted all the reserve food from Bengal to Feed his "Bristish" troops....resulting in my bretheren being dead....mind v r talking 3 million ppl....
Churchil was a natural bastard
"Scientists issued warning, but they were ignored"
Sounds familiar ? anyone ?
nope
@@MrAntAve you proved his point.
Environmental "scientists" have been saying the world is going to end in 10 years for many decades now. Every time the date they put forth passes, they pull another date like 10 years down the line out of their ass and the cycle repeats.
Tale as old as time...
@Pizza Time last time I checked a glass of water isn't covered in land mass that is covered by snow and ice....but I'll go check agian
The only 2 benefits of the famine was the spread of Irish culture and people around the globe, as well as the revival of Irish nationalism and sovereignty movements that resulted from this Genocide
History has away to repeat itself 2019-2020
this wasn’t the beginning or the end of what england did to ireland. there’s accounts from the famine where english journalists were touring the country and they found people with green stained mouths on the side of the road as they were travelling and later found they were trying to stay alive by eating grass while england were exporting food from ireland, over one million lives could have been saved if the english took control over what was apart of their country at the time. and people ask why there’s still a divide between us and england
Damn God British were ruthless even to their neighbour's and I thought what they did to India was bad
We ourselves should have adapted sooner. Ireland wasn't the only European country that the potato crop failed in, we had been warned in 1845 .other countries adapted and grew other root crops, turnio,carrot,swede, parsnip,beans,onions and peas ,peoples mouths stained green from eating grass,what stupidity considering there were numerous other choices nettles,dandelion, hips,sorrel etc not to mention snails and slugsalso the seasat that time were teeming with fish and the coadtline crabs We had the largest families in Europe. No wonder the work houses didnt allow families to stay together. We should take some responsibility for our own welfare.the country was also over run with rabbits.good eating on those ever heard the expression breed like rabbits
@@laurielovett8849 AH here lad if there's 8 million starvin paddys I think the rabbits would be pretty quickly lad and if u were penniless I dunno fuck how you d buy different types of seeds that were extremely demanded by THE 8 MILLION PADDYS shove that comment up your ass them British left us to starve if I look out my window I can see a hill where hundreds were buried in a mass grave with no markings lad
@@Lynxxoid Now I can see you are utterly stupid. First of all I am not a laddie, as you put it. Rabbits were in their thousands,did you never hear the expression " breed like rabbits" you put two rabbits together and you have hundreds at the end of a year .must explain to you ,one must be a boy bunny and the other a girl . You wouldn't go to the garden centre to buy packets of seed with Nice little coloured pictures on them. You saved your own seed. Literslly millions of seed from one carrot, the same from turnips etc you could supply all your friends.in the neighbourhood How do you think the people in the low countries managed. . and nettles were full of vitamins and iron . by tbe way you boiled them,you didnt eat them raw. You went to the sea with a bit of home made net and caught fish likewise crab,without the net. Slugs snails self explanatory. as long as you were quick. No need to starve
@SilentwarH where did we fight shoulder to shoulder and die in our millions In your dreams Silent warh
It is amazing how much peele and trevalyen sound like our modern politicians
Don't be so stupid.
Yes, modern politicians are all Neoliberals. They think Climate Change is a fairytale.
Some things never change!
@@daintree98 it's not the emergency that a bunch of liberals want to pretend it is.
Or they are very bad at making their case. Might try starting with not screaming at people.
They would have fit right in to the Trump administration. If you don't learn from history you are doomed to repeat it.
Here in St. Louis MO, we have an infamously inhumane prison called "The Work House". (Conditions in the prison are so bad, even Ben & Jerry's has taken up the cause and donates money, product, & labor to promote the closing of the facility). The description of the Irish work houses is both horribly ironic and painfully accurate.
I still don't understand how the majority of "professional historians" blatantly downplay this tragedy and won't recognize this horrific period of time as what it truly was. The genocide of native born Irish population which was so extremely depleted it has yet to even come close to recovering to past levels and it also allowed the occupation of Northern Ireland by the British government.
*Huh So this is why my ancestors headed over to America*
Oh Yeah Yeah 😯
Oh Yeah Yeah
Mine too.
The story was told in my family that my Great Great Grandfather came over her to America, to begin a new life. He was to send for his family. But...he was never heard from again. Family supposed he was "Shanghaied" from the boat. Those are my Irish roots.
My ancestors lived through it and never left. I too was born and bred here
My mother's family was one of the first to go to America (1845), settling in Philadelphia and using the educational system founded by the Catholic Church to better themselves.
Your average Mick, unable to find work, ended up on the railroads (considered a death sentence), as servants, in the police forces, or in the Army.
The fiction that they are accepted today is just that. Lots of hard line Protestants still look down their noses at the people who pushed the frontier Westward, built the cities, won the day at places like Antietam and Gettysburg, and dragged the country out of its Puritan malaise.
They are accepted though. Its just a small not even vocal minority that think that.
It truly is amazing that in today's era of so-called enlightenment politicians still behave in the same fashion.
The only difference is today it's disease not famine.
I’m a American and some of my Irish relatives emigrated to the USA during the Genocide/ Famine They came from Kenmare and Kilkenny in Ireland