The entire blame for this famine was down to the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, it was well within the capabilities to reverse the effects of the famine, but they didn’t, Ireland was then a British country, the government should have acted with speed, but didn’t, a total disgrace.
Ireland was planted, colonized, pogromed and subjugated over the centuries, but was never willingly a British country. The native population had no say in the act of union, they were beaten down at the time. What would Ireland be today without our dear British friends? Well there would be over 20 million of us, rather than the 6M currently. We would have kept our own language, culture, education, and not have been consigned to the fields. Breaks my heart to think of all that wasted potential. Thank you so much for your intervention GB.
@@hitime2405 Struggling in a desolate wasteland until around WW1, then getting rid of the parasitic British from 26 counties (working on the other 6), then struggling with low self-esteem and further waves of emigration, then stabilizing, now prospering.
@@davidh6543 In the last 100 years GB has fought in 2 world wars and numerous other wars, yet our population boomed, in that time there was no interference in basic Irish life, I’m of Irish Catholic descent on my mother’s side, she was one of seven children, I’m one of four, my brother has seven children, there is no reason why the population of Ireland has not increased in those 100 years, or at least anything to do with GB
@@hitime2405 GB lost 380K in WW1, 400K 20 years later in WW2 out of a population of about 40M at the time. Ireland lost at least 25% of it's population of 8M between starvation and exile. wave after wave of emigration followed the Famine because the country was devastated. There was no industry in the South to speak of, All the young people left. Ireland had it's first population increase since 1851 in...... 2016. But nothing to do with GB, we just needed Viagra or something huh?
@@davidh6543 880.000 in WW1, 6% of the male population, but no, in the last 100 years GB has had no effect on the normal Irish way of life, but you blame GB, it doesn’t wash, I agree however that little industry and poor prospects played a big part in people wanting to move elsewhere, incidentally, did you know an Irish person can live and work in any part of the U.K. and a U.K. person can live and work in any part of the ROI?
people say this isn't a genocide and i don't know how you could not consider it one this was an intentional starvation many times opportunities came to fix the famine and the English rejected them. the population still hasn't prolly wont recover
No Famine just a great Genocide, when you remove all food sources and life stock under the arm escort of 250,000 soldiers. Works houses adjacent to me had the worst death counts. Then became TB hospitals. So the burred the TB dead on top of the famine dead. The NHS carried out a soil investigation into one field to create a new car park for staff. 150M * 150M Gr 2M deep of fill of clay the 1M deep of other over grave spots. 20,000 was the recorded for this one grave site.
@@MarvinofMars 250,000 soldiers?, the British army in 1850 numbered 150,000 soldiers, and they were not all in Ireland, there was a large empire to man, where did you get your figures from?
@@MarvinofMars and your attempt to explain why there is no real evidence of mass graves from the famine is transparent, tell us where is the link to the particular 20,000 grave site found by NHS that you mentioned………..
@@MarvinofMarsin 2022 in Fleet Marston in Bucketnhampsire they found 425 Roman skeletons, now they date from around two thousand years ago, yet the “millions of Irish famine victims” were are their graves?
None of us people who have Irishmen in our family tree history are going to be hanging onto intergenerational resentment, anger and/or hatred. Most of all for us who had an Irishman in our family who escaped that great famine when getting to work overseas instead. Guess what. By the way you cannot spot a North American Irishman among any other kind of racial/cultural family background just by looking at him.
The entire blame for this famine was down to the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, it was well within the capabilities to reverse the effects of the famine, but they didn’t, Ireland was then a British country, the government should have acted with speed, but didn’t, a total disgrace.
Ireland was planted, colonized, pogromed and subjugated over the centuries, but was never willingly a British country. The native population had no say in the act of union, they were beaten down at the time. What would Ireland be today without our dear British friends? Well there would be over 20 million of us, rather than the 6M currently. We would have kept our own language, culture, education, and not have been consigned to the fields. Breaks my heart to think of all that wasted potential. Thank you so much for your intervention GB.
@@davidh6543 you have 20 million Irish descendants living in England, the Famine lasted for 7 years, what has the Irish people been doing since then?
@@hitime2405 Struggling in a desolate wasteland until around WW1, then getting rid of the parasitic British from 26 counties (working on the other 6), then struggling with low self-esteem and further waves of emigration, then stabilizing, now prospering.
@@davidh6543 In the last 100 years GB has fought in 2 world wars and numerous other wars, yet our population boomed, in that time there was no interference in basic Irish life, I’m of Irish Catholic descent on my mother’s side, she was one of seven children, I’m one of four, my brother has seven children, there is no reason why the population of Ireland has not increased in those 100 years, or at least anything to do with GB
@@hitime2405 GB lost 380K in WW1, 400K 20 years later in WW2 out of a population of about 40M at the time.
Ireland lost at least 25% of it's population of 8M between starvation and exile. wave after wave of emigration followed the Famine because the country was devastated. There was no industry in the South to speak of, All the young people left. Ireland had it's first population increase since 1851 in...... 2016. But nothing to do with GB, we just needed Viagra or something huh?
@@davidh6543 880.000 in WW1, 6% of the male population, but no, in the last 100 years GB has had no effect on the normal Irish way of life, but you blame GB, it doesn’t wash, I agree however that little industry and poor prospects played a big part in people wanting to move elsewhere, incidentally, did you know an Irish person can live and work in any part of the U.K. and a U.K. person can live and work in any part of the ROI?
This should be mandatory teaching in UK schools.
Yet it's not!
SICKENING TO THE CORE ❤🇮🇹
Yes the British also tried to kill off the English 5 million died in the workhouse of malnutrition and related illnesses.
It was not neglect but deliberate. 8m farmers feeding 15m factory workers didn't suit the nobility
What does that mean? Explain, please.
We will never forget or forgive this genocide!
Shocking
Whats up with the bouncy subtitles?
I thought it’s the better kind. What do you think?
people say this isn't a genocide and i don't know how you could not consider it one this was an intentional starvation many times opportunities came to fix the famine and the English rejected them. the population still hasn't prolly wont recover
No Famine just a great Genocide, when you remove all food sources and life stock under the arm escort of 250,000 soldiers. Works houses adjacent to me had the worst death counts.
Then became TB hospitals. So the burred the TB dead on top of the famine dead. The NHS carried out a soil investigation into one field to create a new car park for staff. 150M * 150M Gr 2M deep of fill of clay the 1M deep of other over grave spots. 20,000 was the recorded for this one grave site.
@@MarvinofMars 250,000 soldiers?, the British army in 1850 numbered 150,000 soldiers, and they were not all in Ireland, there was a large empire to man, where did you get your figures from?
@@hitime2405 add on the Armed militias, RIC, baliffs,
@@MarvinofMars even then you are talking of a fraction of what you are claiming
@@MarvinofMars and your attempt to explain why there is no real evidence of mass graves from the famine is transparent, tell us where is the link to the particular 20,000 grave site found by NHS that you mentioned………..
@@MarvinofMarsin 2022 in Fleet Marston in Bucketnhampsire they found 425 Roman skeletons, now they date from around two thousand years ago, yet the “millions of Irish famine victims” were are their graves?
Britain…Wouw…What a disgrace.
British have no shame.
You can alot by someone on how they threat their neighbours
I'm descended from these people on my Mother's side
The U.S.A had a great hand in it . Bad seed potatoes
You left out the word "DELIBERATE"
None of us people who have Irishmen in our family tree history are going to be hanging onto intergenerational resentment, anger and/or hatred. Most of all for us who had an Irishman in our family who escaped that great famine when getting to work overseas instead. Guess what. By the way you cannot spot a North American Irishman among any other kind of racial/cultural family background just by looking at him.
Horrible soundtrack