The Great Irish Famine: Remember Skibbereen
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- The Great Irish Famine of the 1840s was nineteenth century Europe's worst humanitarian crisis. At least one million people died while a further 1.25 million emigrated. Some regions of Ireland were disproportionally affected, among them Skibbereen, which lost over a third of its people to disease, starvation and emigration.
This documentary is Skibbereen's account and also, in the broader context, Ireland's story.
Includes interviews with Dr Larry Geary of UCC, Professor Joe Lee, Professor Mark McGowan, Gary White Deer and Terri Kearney and Philip O'Regan of Skibbereen Heritage Centre.
All images and text © Skibbereen Heritage Centre
More people should watch this.
This is a brilliant piece of work on Irish history
Thanks so much....
This a fantastic piece of work that needs to be more widely watched. Really excellent.
Thanks Martin, the film-maker, Pat Collins of Harvest Films made the recent award-winning film 'That they may face' which is also well worth watching if you've not already seen....
Wonderful Thank you ❤️🙏❤️
Thank you so much for this documentary
It resonates because it shows somebody recognized the problem and cared at a human level and out of generosity tried to do what they could to help.
Thank you for this film. I dream of my unknown Cork and Kerry ancestors sometimes.
‘Those who could least afford to pay ended up paying the most’ isn’t this still the way it is?
Thank you for making this and other video's available to us to view. I am also good part Irish. I always whanted to know more about our history.
Why is there never any mention of the OVERLORDS NEVER BEING HELD TO ACCOUNT FOR STOPPING ANY FISHING AND OTHER FARMING for people to feed and care for themselves!!!
Poor people today are treated nearly as bad .
Reply to Hands to Heal; I asked that of a college professor in a Culture awareness study program. Most of our work focused on Black, Jewish, and American Indian. I learned the Irish didn’t talk about the injustices done to them. There has never been any talk of Reparations!
We had a workhouse in my town .... We were always afraid to go near it because, as kids, we thought there was still disease in it.
Thank you.
My Grandparents and my Great Grandparents came to Canada. I'm not sure what year. I am not even sure what circumstances brought them here. They came from the North of Ireland. County Tyrone.
Shocking reminder of how English (not British!) aristocratic landowners treated Wales, Ireland and Scotland. Ireland fought back, as did Scotland. Wales didn't, but the Welsh still have no love for the English. Ireland's independence was always hampered by religious domination, yet there could never have been any excuse for the English landowners' inhuman attitude. Sadly, despite lip-service by English politicians, our Celtic nations are still considered to be inferior, if not dispensible.
Britain's Hidden History channel
By the same token they treated English people exactly the same, look up the Petersfield massacre, and in my opinion the same thugs are still in Whitehall and Buckingham Palace, the corrupt establishment
The lack of care for the people is undeniable. The fact that food was sold for profit at the expense of people dieing and doing the work.
Calling soup kitchens a blessing when education and dignified reapect to the people whose land and communities that were cleared for profits of the already sick with arrogance.
My Ggandmother born in 1861 told me as a child that immigrants always wrote back that America was awful because those left in Ireland wanted their families in America $ to pay for their passage over.
19:15 the story of Chactaw Indians sending money and grain to the Irish is telling of the natural truth of human nature.
The Chactow Indian's knew what it was like to be enslaved by the conquering colonialist's
Poor houses were concentration camps
Can anyone tell me ‘exactly’ where this building remains are in skibbereen at 14mins in video, I would be grateful?
This site is on private land to the east of Schull village and not accessible to the public ... we made another video about it which you can watch here too ua-cam.com/video/nPr2MIFCCQc/v-deo.html
WHERE WAS THE VATICAN DURING THIS CATASTROPHE
Busy ignoring it all...
😢those work houses were nothing other than jailes.
And centers for the spread of disease
In der Schule haben wir von dem Wort „Famine“ nichts gehört, ich kenne es aus dem Lied „The Fields of Athenry“. Ebenso nie etwas gehört von „Holodomor“. Kennst du das Wort? Schau nach Holodomor.
We didn't hear anything about the word "Famine" at school (at the time in GDR), I know it from the song "The Fields of Athenry." Also, never heard of "Holodomor". Do you know the word? Look for Holodomor.
Beides sind Genocide mit über 5 Million Menschen, die verhungerten. Both are genocide with over 5 million people who starved to death. 💔
Why are there no reports of opportunities to fish and hunt along the land?
And even now, the bastards still haven’t left Ireland entirely
Denying of reality!
The people were beaten down physically and mentally. They were desperate souls indeed.
Our self àlone forget😢
The Ottoman Empire of Turkey were well off and known for generosity, they didn't even try to extend some help to alleviate the Irish famine?
actually they did,,,,but the the english blocked the relief,,, i wonder why?
I think it a shame that the richest empire in the world at that time did virtually nothing but look how we treated our own English citizens in those times, I remember my father telling me a true account of an Indian Maharaja who when he visited London was astounded at the children running around the streets in rags and bare feet
They did send help, some was blocked some made it through
Revenge for Skibbereen.
Considering the story it seems the deaths from starvation and disease had to be far more.