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2 of my 4 great grandparents were Irish, dockers from Canning Town, I’m more than proud of my east London English Irish heritage, never took a penny out the state ( total grafters ) no one has contributed more in building all the great British cites than the Irish , 🏴🇮🇪
All my dad's family were east end Irish descended. My great great grandparents seemed to run a sort of Irish immigrant receiving house in Whitechapel, they lived at the same address over three census records (1841-61) and were head of house, the house always had several other young Irish people listed as residents there besides their family. The fact that they lived at the same address for at least twenty years is i think unusual. It was mentioned in the video about the girls with black hair, my father and his mother and her mother all had jet black hair. My grandmother, who was born in 1883, liked a drink and was well known about the whitechapel pubs evidently! It's all very fascinating to me, thanks for another great video 👍
As a LONDONER 🇬🇧 The term A ROOKERY... I think was about the noise, and a lot of Crows are known as a MURDER OF CROW'S....⚖️🆘😓 Irish built an awful lot of railways, canales, big powerful men. Not ONLY here but across the pond 💪🙏🇬🇧 We should be helping them at this point in time 🆘😓 History 🥇 or HIS-STORY 🥇 GREAT STUFF 💪 THANK YOU.
Land Grab and near extinction of the Irish population in certain areas of the Island was callously implemented by the British Government. During the Great Famine, both livestock and grain were exported to England. There was minimal help offered to the poor and starving. The Famine was, in fact little more than ethnic cleansing!
Amén to that. Queen Victoria gave 10,000 pounds to help, others wanted to give more but were not allowed, nobody was allowed to give more than the monarch. This to feed all Ireland. What a bloody joke.
That’s a little bit unfair, many people and charities from Britain gave money or foodstuffs to the Irish during the famine,not enough overall maybe but it wasn’t just callous indifference.
Fact feast please consider doing a video on the Irish immigration to America and Appalachia and their kinship with the native Americans it's a fascinating history and you may like it..also part of the irish story and their kinship with the native Americans has alot of roots in the famine choctaws and other native groups but mostly the choctaws sent $$ and a potato variant that would withstand the potato blight..its a good story and I can see why we have such a kinship..also please consider a story on the united irishmen party it started in the late 1700s and mid 1800s and it was inspired by the American revolutionaries but if im not mistaken it was a precursor to the IRA but not as we know it..it was a patriotic group and accepted catholics and Protestants..it was more about breaking free from britain but how the colonials did..i can see why the irish willingly fought with the us against the brits lol .as usual great video and love ya fact feast one of my favorite channels..you sound like a old radio program
Just remember the lack of support from the British government during the genocide in the 1800s and the evictions and land grab that happened as a result of it maybe that would be worth a video on its own
The Irish were forced to send all their food to England and then the potato crop failed, so that's all they had to eat. It was the English who caused the famine by taking all their fruit & meat & vegetables, leaving them to live on potatoes. This is a common mistake. They had food before there were potatoes but the English took it all.
The famine was a natural occurrence,a blight on potatoes that still exists today,the Irish poor were largely existing on that one staple as it was so good,they didn’t grow much else and when the spuds went bad there was little else to eat.
Erin go braugh from Tx usa a good chunk of my kin are irish and I'm proud of my kin who fled the famine and previous indentured servitude to end up proud moonshiners and farmers in Appalachia..i wouldn't be here but for some brave irish and cherokees..❤
Thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary channel. As always iam gathering information about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s in 19 th century 1865 1, 000 inhabitants Jennings buildings 800 were either Irish migrants or their children, made up part of 100, 000 Irish migrants of London mainland Britian . Late 1840s number had massively increased. Majority of new migrants were driven by hunger . In 1845 Irish potato crops staple food . Most of eight milion inhabitants was destroyed by blight . Mass starvation ensued . British government expected Ireland, already poor country to support own starving population, but was possible task . Between 1846and 1850 estimated one milion Irish people died of starvation. Furthermore Irish landowners took opportunity to evict small tenant farmers from their land in order to grew more efficient crops . In one area Ireland alone 4, 000 were evicted in few months . Small wonder , in 1866 - 51 two million Irish emigrated to North America , but very large number to Britain mainland.male Irish migrants of Jennings’s buildings found work in Kensington helping to construct housing for rapidly expanding area of middle class London . They worked as Fruit pickers in surrounding orchards . Many women worked as laundresses, cleaning clothes of their wealthy neighboring , they had depended upon local government poor relief . Despite their hardwork and their contributions to resign on economy, including pay high rents for their slums . Generally was believed not to share respectable British values as Catholical and Protestant country . They drank or found recreation streets, it’s widely moral failing of Irish migrants rather than result of their having no room in their homes to seek relaxation, or arrest for more vulnerable to arrest for public in order offense proof they shared criminal culture .
Years before the famine of the 1840s the good productive land was taken from the Irish by the English; the Irish were driven west to poorer land and each family given a small patch of stony poor land to rent. They worked these small plots with seaweed etc to make it productive, the best crop to feed their family on these small plots was the potato so when the blight came it destroyed their livelihood and they starved or got on a coffin ship to somewhere else. Plenty of food was being produced on the island of Ireland at the time oats, barley, wheat, beef, mutton etc, but was exported under guard by the English landlords to England.
Last part of my research in 1873 local medical officer reported slum lack of lavatories was actually advantage , regarded being medical examiner was simply echoing widely new . Irish poor in general were underage of help , in other word their misery believed to be brought on by their own fall rather than any material misfortune that might have befallen then . Presence of Jennings buildings with population of Irish immigrants and their descendants was viewed by many to pose threat of bringing diseases, disorder, criminal activity to respectable tensions . In year 1873 wealthy individual Albert grant Irish migrant , but banker , friend of royalty bought building from highly respectable local owners grant bought buildings , in order to demolish them . Make way for construction of Kensington house , which was on complete , most expensive house in London . Former residents moved in other London slums and ten years later Albert grant went bankrupt and died in relative poverty Kensington house . As I read Irish migrants were paying high rents for slums , after starvation in their home land many of citizens moved to North America but majority in England , they worked there . Thank you for giving us chance to read and learn new information. Best wishes for you your dearest ones .
Very interesting the link between the Irish potato famine resulting in Irish “ immigration “ to London England, during the Irish potato famine the Irish were part of the United Kingdom, probably the most reluctant members of of that country for sure, so how can you be an immigrant if you move within United Kingdom ? the Irish simply moved from one part of the UK to another they weren’t immigrants as stated, in today’s world there’s a stigma rightly or wrongly towards immigrants, this stigma seems to be a lot of times back-dated nearly 200 years towards the Irish, not in this well presented documentary I may say, apart from “immigrants “
The famine was not caused by potato failure - the famine was caused by Britain not letting Irish people keep any other crops. Food production in Ireland actually increased during the family , it was just all exported to Britain
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Ireland is a part of the British Isles, though most of it not part of Britain. Remember, they were named long ago by the ancient Greeks when the islands consisted of many entities and the majority inhabitants were Celtic tribespeople called Britons.
The ancient Greeks also thought lambs grew from trees. A nation completely independent from Britain shouldn't logically be included in the term 'British Isles'. Try Atlantic Archipelago, which is far more accurate.
I have come across people before who cite the fact that the Greeks or Romans refered to Britain and Ireland as one place, as a reason for Britain to rule Ireland. This is nothing short of ridiculous. What the Greeks or Romans knew about Ireland you could write on a postage stamp. Over the 1st Millennium, due to a series of invasions, Britain changed significantly in terms of ethnicity and identity, since then we've never been one and the same as the long history of conflict between us illustrates.I once read that ' British Isles ' was first used by Henry Vlll, to try and get The Irish to accept English conquest and domination. Irish people don't accept the term even when talking geographically.
@factfeast, I've been extremely curious if you have any accounts of the hard lives that the homosexual communities would have faced in the 19th century? I watched Gentleman Jack but she was a noble person and was treated as such, but what about the poor? Tipping the velvet and fingersmith had very little information about the poor lives and horrible treatment that the gays faced. I know that the lesbians were called "Jacks" and the gay men were called "Molly's". I'd appreciate hearing any true accounts for what it was really like for them.
Wrong ,Irish never forget ever..moved on and improved their lives yes . Privilege? 800years of it in their own country and transported throughout the empire has free labour ,treated even worse away from European eyes..population litterly halved. Only gaining independence 100 years ago..not forgetting afterwards with the troubles ,less than 30 years ago,if that is privilege than so be it.
Elephant in the room ..hello 800years , colonised, enslaved and stavered .. always skipoed over,makijg it seem like Irish were incapabke if looking after themselves when it was opposite
Mo such thing as the potato famine, this was made up to cover how the English stole all the food and sent it to England off the Irish. So get the facts straight.
For 2 years there was a potato blight in Ireland which started the Famine. The British did not help the Irish and still imported into the UK. A mixture of bad luck and greed. I’m Irish so I can attest to this.
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2 of my 4 great grandparents were Irish, dockers from Canning Town, I’m more than proud of my east London English Irish heritage, never took a penny out the state ( total grafters ) no one has contributed more in building all the great British cites than the Irish , 🏴🇮🇪
Exactly....and me xxx
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All my dad's family were east end Irish descended. My great great grandparents seemed to run a sort of Irish immigrant receiving house in Whitechapel, they lived at the same address over three census records (1841-61) and were head of house, the house always had several other young Irish people listed as residents there besides their family. The fact that they lived at the same address for at least twenty years is i think unusual. It was mentioned in the video about the girls with black hair, my father and his mother and her mother all had jet black hair. My grandmother, who was born in 1883, liked a drink and was well known about the whitechapel pubs evidently! It's all very fascinating to me, thanks for another great video 👍
My grandpa grew up in hell's kitchen which is the same story irish slums just in NY instead of London
Love history. This is great history told very well.
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My gran came from County Kilkenny on her own to Kilburn to work in service in 1917.
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As a LONDONER 🇬🇧 The term
A ROOKERY... I think was about the noise, and a lot of Crows are known as a MURDER OF CROW'S....⚖️🆘😓
Irish built an awful lot of railways, canales, big powerful men. Not ONLY here but across the pond 💪🙏🇬🇧
We should be helping them at this point in time 🆘😓
History 🥇 or HIS-STORY 🥇
GREAT STUFF 💪 THANK YOU.
Thank you .,
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Victorian Era 1837-1901.
Edwardian Era 1901-1910.
Land Grab and near extinction of the Irish population in certain areas of the Island was callously implemented by the British Government. During the Great Famine, both livestock and grain were exported to England. There was minimal help offered to the poor and starving. The Famine was, in fact little more than ethnic cleansing!
Amén to that. Queen Victoria gave 10,000 pounds to help, others wanted to give more but were not allowed, nobody was allowed to give more than the monarch. This to feed all Ireland. What a bloody joke.
The food went to the British military. The majority of the British infantry were Irish.
That’s a little bit unfair, many people and charities from Britain gave money or foodstuffs to the Irish during the famine,not enough overall maybe but it wasn’t just callous indifference.
Great work once again 🤌
Thank you! Cheers!
Fact feast please consider doing a video on the Irish immigration to America and Appalachia and their kinship with the native Americans it's a fascinating history and you may like it..also part of the irish story and their kinship with the native Americans has alot of roots in the famine choctaws and other native groups but mostly the choctaws sent $$ and a potato variant that would withstand the potato blight..its a good story and I can see why we have such a kinship..also please consider a story on the united irishmen party it started in the late 1700s and mid 1800s and it was inspired by the American revolutionaries but if im not mistaken it was a precursor to the IRA but not as we know it..it was a patriotic group and accepted catholics and Protestants..it was more about breaking free from britain but how the colonials did..i can see why the irish willingly fought with the us against the brits lol .as usual great video and love ya fact feast one of my favorite channels..you sound like a old radio program
Just remember the lack of support from the British government during the genocide in the 1800s and the evictions and land grab that happened as a result of it maybe that would be worth a video on its own
What genocide?
The Irish were forced to send all their food to England and then the potato crop failed, so that's all they had to eat. It was the English who caused the famine by taking all their fruit & meat & vegetables, leaving them to live on potatoes. This is a common mistake. They had food before there were potatoes but the English took it all.
The famine was a natural occurrence,a blight on potatoes that still exists today,the Irish poor were largely existing on that one staple as it was so good,they didn’t grow much else and when the spuds went bad there was little else to eat.
@@bazzathebluethey grew plenty else, but those crops were forcibly exported by the British
So very interesting! Thank you.
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Fantastic woodblock prints. Can you cite the sources for these please? I learned a lot from this documentary. Thank you
My Irish grandmother was bought to Wolverhampton she married a Welsh man ❤
Erin go braugh from Tx usa a good chunk of my kin are irish and I'm proud of my kin who fled the famine and previous indentured servitude to end up proud moonshiners and farmers in Appalachia..i wouldn't be here but for some brave irish and cherokees..❤
Interesting ☘️💚
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you for your wonderful cultural documentary channel. As always iam gathering information about topics you mentioned briefly here it’s in 19 th century 1865 1, 000 inhabitants Jennings buildings 800 were either Irish migrants or their children, made up part of 100, 000 Irish migrants of London mainland Britian . Late 1840s number had massively increased. Majority of new migrants were driven by hunger . In 1845 Irish potato crops staple food . Most of eight milion inhabitants was destroyed by blight . Mass starvation ensued . British government expected Ireland, already poor country to support own starving population, but was possible task . Between 1846and 1850 estimated one milion Irish people died of starvation. Furthermore Irish landowners took opportunity to evict small tenant farmers from their land in order to grew more efficient crops . In one area Ireland alone 4, 000 were evicted in few months . Small wonder , in 1866 - 51 two million Irish emigrated to North America , but very large number to Britain mainland.male Irish migrants of Jennings’s buildings found work in Kensington helping to construct housing for rapidly expanding area of middle class London . They worked as Fruit pickers in surrounding orchards . Many women worked as laundresses, cleaning clothes of their wealthy neighboring , they had depended upon local government poor relief . Despite their hardwork and their contributions to resign on economy, including pay high rents for their slums . Generally was believed not to share respectable British values as Catholical and Protestant country . They drank or found recreation streets, it’s widely moral failing of Irish migrants rather than result of their having no room in their homes to seek relaxation, or arrest for more vulnerable to arrest for public in order offense proof they shared criminal culture .
The Victorians lived hard lives
We're heading in that direction fast
Nothings really changed much in reality has it.
Yes.
Those were very hard times.
Really Difficult & also Tricky.
Not the nobility. hahaha
Years before the famine of the 1840s the good productive land was taken from the Irish by the English; the Irish were driven west to poorer land and each family given a small patch of stony poor land to rent. They worked these small plots with seaweed etc to make it productive, the best crop to feed their family on these small plots was the potato so when the blight came it destroyed their livelihood and they starved or got on a coffin ship to somewhere else. Plenty of food was being produced on the island of Ireland at the time oats, barley, wheat, beef, mutton etc, but was exported under guard by the English landlords to England.
Last part of my research in 1873 local medical officer reported slum lack of lavatories was actually advantage , regarded being medical examiner was simply echoing widely new . Irish poor in general were underage of help , in other word their misery believed to be brought on by their own fall rather than any material misfortune that might have befallen then . Presence of Jennings buildings with population of Irish immigrants and their descendants was viewed by many to pose threat of bringing diseases, disorder, criminal activity to respectable tensions . In year 1873 wealthy individual Albert grant Irish migrant , but banker , friend of royalty bought building from highly respectable local owners grant bought buildings , in order to demolish them . Make way for construction of Kensington house , which was on complete , most expensive house in London . Former residents moved in other London slums and ten years later Albert grant went bankrupt and died in relative poverty Kensington house . As I read Irish migrants were paying high rents for slums , after starvation in their home land many of citizens moved to North America but majority in England , they worked there . Thank you for giving us chance to read and learn new information. Best wishes for you your dearest ones .
I thought this was “who do you think you are?” With Micky Flanagan 😂
No sign of any Irish there now, you’re more likely to find them living in Mayfair.
Bravo my friend
Thanks firecracker!
Very interesting the link between the Irish potato famine resulting in Irish “ immigration “ to London England, during the Irish potato famine the Irish were part of the United Kingdom, probably the most reluctant members of of that country for sure, so how can you be an immigrant if you move within United Kingdom ? the Irish simply moved from one part of the UK to another they weren’t immigrants as stated, in today’s world there’s a stigma rightly or wrongly towards immigrants, this stigma seems to be a lot of times back-dated nearly 200 years towards the Irish, not in this well presented documentary I may say, apart from “immigrants “
Hmm. This could hit close to home. Time to find out...
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The famine was not caused by potato failure - the famine was caused by Britain not letting Irish people keep any other crops. Food production in Ireland actually increased during the family , it was just all exported to Britain
Love your channel. Great "optics" and many quoted primary scources, read in an interresting, human, voice which pronounces 95% of the words competently, which is a high score in this day and age. Bravo. And, until this broadcast, No Wokeness. 😊 Yay!!
Please don't join the current trend of rewriting history l so it doesn't make some modern day emotional cripple take offense or 'feel bad', whatever tgar means. There was a bit of something at the begging of this one that got under my skin a little. Don't do that! Please😮
15:00 Sounds like my brother and myself.
Interesting
Thank you! Glad you found it worthwhile.
I generally like your videos but the famine was caused by England
What about my life or many others before and after us
Ireland is a part of the British Isles, though most of it not part of Britain. Remember, they were named long ago by the ancient Greeks when the islands consisted of many entities and the majority inhabitants were Celtic tribespeople called Britons.
It’s associated with empire and colonialism, so Irish will take offence considering the brutal history of the British in Ireland
The ancient Greeks also thought lambs grew from trees. A nation completely independent from Britain shouldn't logically be included in the term 'British Isles'. Try Atlantic Archipelago, which is far more accurate.
British Isles is archaic imperialist term that should be left in the past.
I have come across people before who cite the fact that the Greeks or Romans refered to Britain and Ireland as one place, as a reason for Britain to rule Ireland. This is nothing short of ridiculous. What the Greeks or Romans knew about Ireland you could write on a postage stamp. Over the 1st Millennium, due to a series of invasions, Britain changed significantly in terms of ethnicity and identity, since then we've never been one and the same as the long history of conflict between us illustrates.I once read that ' British Isles ' was first used by Henry Vlll, to try and get The Irish to accept English conquest and domination. Irish people don't accept the term even when talking geographically.
More Irish in liverpool
Must have been rotten times truly rotten
I must have Irish blood,, I LOVE POTATOES 😅
You must have Peruvian blood, that’s where potatoes come from. Hee Hee Ha Ha.
@factfeast, I've been extremely curious if you have any accounts of the hard lives that the homosexual communities would have faced in the 19th century? I watched Gentleman Jack but she was a noble person and was treated as such, but what about the poor? Tipping the velvet and fingersmith had very little information about the poor lives and horrible treatment that the gays faced. I know that the lesbians were called "Jacks" and the gay men were called "Molly's". I'd appreciate hearing any true accounts for what it was really like for them.
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Much appreciated!
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Everything said and thought of blacks were originally said about and thought against the Irish until they forget their own history for privileges
Wrong ,Irish never forget ever..moved on and improved their lives yes . Privilege? 800years of it in their own country and transported throughout the empire has free labour ,treated even worse away from European eyes..population litterly halved. Only gaining independence 100 years ago..not forgetting afterwards with the troubles ,less than 30 years ago,if that is privilege than so be it.
Elephant in the room ..hello 800years , colonised, enslaved and stavered .. always skipoed over,makijg it seem like Irish were incapabke if looking after themselves when it was opposite
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Mo such thing as the potato famine, this was made up to cover how the English stole all the food and sent it to England off the Irish. So get the facts straight.
Citation please.
That's one of its commonly known names. You can argue about the response to it, but it doesn't change that.
@@civillady13 Read any book on the subject, they all agree.
For 2 years there was a potato blight in Ireland which started the Famine. The British did not help the Irish and still imported into the UK.
A mixture of bad luck and greed.
I’m Irish so I can attest to this.
This is the truth.
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