How did the Irish Potato Famine Happen?

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  • @CatholicWeeb
    @CatholicWeeb 2 роки тому +831

    Fun Fact: During the 2020 Pandemic, The Irish were sending donations to the Indian Americans (Choctaw Tribe) who were struggling during the pandemic to thank them for the support they sent to help the Irish ($5,000 in today's money) during the famine.

    • @gamincaimin9954
      @gamincaimin9954 2 роки тому +63

      The Irish got their buddies backs!

    • @hexa-gone3
      @hexa-gone3 2 роки тому +27

      Native American*

    • @seankavanagh7625
      @seankavanagh7625 2 роки тому +35

      It wasn't actually the Choctaw who we sent the money to. It was the Navajo and Hopi tribes. The Choctaw were the motivation though.

    • @Ceiteach.O.Duibhir
      @Ceiteach.O.Duibhir 2 роки тому +32

      It was the turks 🇹🇷 who helped us during the famine or genocide

    • @seankavanagh7625
      @seankavanagh7625 2 роки тому +51

      @@Ceiteach.O.Duibhir The Choctaw also helped. The Ottoman Empire had a f*cktonne of money at the time and the Sultan wanted to give us more than Victoria but was told not to. The Choctaw people had literally nothing but scraped up 170 dollars, which was a lot at the time, to send to a people they had never met or probably even heard of before it happened. Dunno how many lives they saved but as a gesture of goodwill from strangers it meant a lot more than the money it was worth.

  • @abdullahabu6439
    @abdullahabu6439 2 роки тому +84

    Glad you brought justice by mentioning the other nations and how they helped especially the Ottomans.

  • @colinsmith1288
    @colinsmith1288 2 роки тому +105

    We English were never taught about these horrors in history lessons of the suffering by of our neighbour Ireland. The british establishment truly were barbaric.

    • @patienceobongo
      @patienceobongo 2 роки тому +3

      It was Nassau Senior if you're good at pattern recognition.

    • @markrock442
      @markrock442 2 роки тому +8

      During the famine, about one million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%
      >>>>Laws that restricted the rights of Irish Catholics

    • @colinsmith1288
      @colinsmith1288 2 роки тому +7

      @@markrock442 Truly awful behaviour. So many victims,but no justice! Sad,very sad indeed!

    • @nadinenadine9739
      @nadinenadine9739 Рік тому +2

      @@colinsmith1288 ıt GENOCIDE lıke Holocaust!
      The Brıtısh Empıre kılled 3 mıllıon Bangladesh also by HUNGER!

    • @HellStr82
      @HellStr82 Рік тому +6

      Still is

  • @amg863
    @amg863 2 роки тому +64

    The Irish are staunch supporters of the Palestinian cause and they sent them money to rebuild what Israel has destroyed in the last conflict. Their politicians also spoke up for us on many occasions
    I love the Irish and I'm grateful for their support

    • @aranmcdonagh255
      @aranmcdonagh255 2 роки тому +5

      ❤❤

    • @amg863
      @amg863 2 роки тому +3

      @Lily Wood thank you. I appreciate you too

    • @buddymacbuddington
      @buddymacbuddington Рік тому +4

      Your not forgotten in Ireland we see the evil you endure and are we are sickened by it 🇵🇸🤝🇮🇪

  • @ciarandempsey2184
    @ciarandempsey2184 2 роки тому +69

    The ottoman crescent moon and star is still on the Drogheda city crest

    • @harryf1ashman
      @harryf1ashman 2 роки тому

      The Turks presided over starvation persecution and genocide during the ottoman colonial period. Hardly a history deserving of recognition.

    • @zeamoz
      @zeamoz 2 роки тому

      the crescent moon on the Drogheda crest predates the famine.

    • @ciarandempsey2184
      @ciarandempsey2184 2 роки тому +1

      @@harryf1ashman every bit of history is deserving of recognition skipping over the good bits to only recognise the bad or vies versa is historical revisionism which is dangerous

    • @ciarandempsey2184
      @ciarandempsey2184 2 роки тому

      @@zeamoz to when ?

    • @hermanngoulhorn581
      @hermanngoulhorn581 2 роки тому

      @@ciarandempsey2184 to the days of king John, brother of king Richard.
      He presented the charter of drogheda and the crescent was linked to that.

  • @pendlera2959
    @pendlera2959 2 роки тому +148

    Fun fact: King George III (the "tyrant", according to Americans) actually prevented the famine from starting sooner by limiting the exports of food from Ireland to England. The Irish were on the verge of starvation long before the potato blight because of abusive landlords.
    A factor this video doesn't touch on is the conflict between Catholics and Protestants in Britain, which is the basis for why the Irish were being abused. Like most monarchies, the British royalty and nobility used religion as justification for their right to rule. For most of Christianity's history, the Pope was considered God's representative, and if a king didn't comply with what the Pope said, the Pope could basically strip that king of his legitimacy. However, when King Henry VIII converted to Protestantism, he basically said that the Pope's authority was invalid and it was the king who was God's representative and had absolute right to rule. However, people who remained Catholic were loyal to the Pope. Thus, they were considered enemies of the state, since if they didn't believe in the legitimacy of the King, how could they be trusted to follow his laws? How could they be trusted not to overthrow the Protestant king and replace him with a Catholic king? This was the basis of the English Civil War and many other religious conflicts in Europe.
    One of the ways the Protestants managed this issue was to forbid Catholics from participating in politics so they couldn't influence the law. However, since part of the way that people got the right to participate in politics was by owning land or other significant property, they didn't just bar Catholics from holding political office, they also forbad them from owning any amount of property that would grant them any political influence. They also didn't want Catholics to be involved in enforcing the law by becoming lawyers or judges.
    In short, the Catholics were stripped of any ability to defend themselves from abuse, and Protestants removed all the social safeguards that normally mitigate abuse. The social and economic position Catholics were put in was very similar to the one Black people were put in after the abolishment of slavery in the US. So, of course, there was a LOT of abuse.
    Ireland didn't convert to Protestantism as easily as England, Scotland, and Wales, in part because the English had been mistreating the Irish before the Protestant Revolution, and the Irish weren't keen on converting to their oppressor's religion. In fact, there was a failed attempt at Irish independence during King Henry VIII's rule. The Irish have basically been fighting to be treated better ever since.
    Ireland was and is an extremely fertile country. All through the "famine" they were growing PLENTY of food, but all the food was being exported instead of being made available to the Irish people. In 1847, one of the worst years of the "famine", 822,681 gallons of butter were exported to England, along with 9,992 calves, over 4,000 horses and ponies, 336,220 gallons of grain-derived alcohol, and other crops and livestock such as peas, beans, onions, rabbits, salmon, oysters, herring, ham, bacon, lard, honey and even potatoes(!). The reason the potato blight was a problem wasn't because potatoes were the only crop that could grow in Ireland; it was because potatoes were the only crop that produced enough calories to sustain Irish tenant farmers on the tiny bits of land they were permitted to use for themselves. When the potato crops failed, the English and Protestant Irish landlords fought tooth and nail to prevent any of their cash crops from being used to feed the farmers who were growing them.
    The Irish Potato Famine is a misnomer - it was religiously justified genocide centuries in the making. This is proved by the fact that King George III stepped in and forced landlords to offer other food to the Irish during bad harvests long before the potato blight showed up.
    (If any of this is wrong, please feel free to correct me. I'm just a history nerd with some Irish ancestry and an interest in 18th century British history.)

    • @ZYXPQI
      @ZYXPQI 2 роки тому +1

      TBF irish landlords today are also complete twats

    • @PaulEcosse
      @PaulEcosse 2 роки тому +6

      Mad King George, as he was better known to everyone else.

    • @FredFurburguer
      @FredFurburguer 2 роки тому +19

      This is one of the most reasonable comments I've read here.
      But y'all missing a crucial point. Irish population had increased massively the decades before the famine, sustained mostly by those potatoes. If you average the increase of population and later decrease, situation was normal on a Malthusian way.
      Could have been prevented if the land was better managed, but it was mainly owned by greedy locals, who have been also forgotten in the fantastic tale that was created to fuel hatred towards the brits and push for Irish nationalism.
      Not sure if a commie gov would have done better, seen how they managed famines during the XXth century.

    • @novostranger
      @novostranger 2 роки тому +2

      Stalin just got inspired

    • @dudeman0811
      @dudeman0811 2 роки тому +1

      Ive heard some gruesome tales about the religious battles in ireland. There was a video on youtube detailing how neighbors would just beat the shit out of each other with pitchforks, leave each other to freeze and drown in the mud. I dont remember all the details but it sounded like a bunch of Amish people going completely nuts and butchering each other in the worst ways. I can only imagine what it would look like on film... Ill never forget that video when blacks just say shit like "white people only care about white people" LOL like yeah dude right.

  • @smoothbeak
    @smoothbeak 2 роки тому +55

    Wow, I had never heard the Ottoman Empire part to the story, very fascinating.

    • @geovanniali6060
      @geovanniali6060 2 роки тому +8

      Even more fascinating was that during the Trail of Tears the charokee/Navajo nation's sent 167 dollars for the starved Irish(when being displaced from their lands)
      We Paid this back when COVID struck , donations from Ireland exceeded 2million euro. Tog go bog e cara 🕊️

    • @kirpdeb
      @kirpdeb 2 роки тому +1

      No wonder I have always liked the Irish more than the English. The English nobility and their elite ruling classes have always arseholes. Just the fact that they tried to prevent other groups from providing assistance to save people dying of starvation because it made England look like the greedy bastards that they were is reason to hate them. The fact that they thought the famine was Devine punishment of the Irish ~ shows how morally twisted they were. They wonder why they are one of the least liked countries in the world? Just look at world history. This was a genocide.

    • @SallySturman
      @SallySturman 2 роки тому

      @@kirpdeb Queen Elizabeth II is a descendant of Brian Boru the Irish King who invaded, enslaved and colonised Britain long before Ireland, under a Scottish King, was colonised. She is also a descendent of James the Scottish King, not to mention many English have Irish ancestors, so your hatred for the English and love for the Irish is illogical or just tedious racism.

    • @SallySturman
      @SallySturman 2 роки тому

      @@kirpdeb So you're hating today's English for what the 'English' nobility did. Nice. I don't like you either, whichever rock you crawled out of.

    • @nadinenadine9739
      @nadinenadine9739 Рік тому +1

      @@geovanniali6060 the brıtısh empıre they changed the language of the Irısh also !

  • @tella117
    @tella117 2 роки тому +73

    Thank you Turks and the Choctaw nation

  • @kenster8270
    @kenster8270 2 роки тому +136

    The Irish Holodomor! :'(
    Interestingly, the Choctaw Nation (which itself had recently been coerced off its ancestral lands in the American South under tremendous hardships, including starvation) even sent aid to Ireland because quite a few Irishmen had been adopted into the tribe by marrying Choctaw women and swearing an oath of allegiance.

    • @af8828
      @af8828 2 роки тому +26

      The Irish Potato "famine" wasn't a famine - it was a genocide conducted by the english on their imperial subjects (something they did multiple times afterwards i.e., in bengal, and continue to do to this day).
      The holodomor in contrast was the result of a genuine inability to manage food production for an unprecedented population boom. Following the overwhelming success of the bolshevik revolution, the peasants of the former russian empire were turned from backwater subsistence farmers into industrious citizens. Life expectancy was raised at a rate never before witnessed in human history (nearly doubled) within a couple decades. The ussr didn't have 500 years of slavery and a hemisphere's worth of fertile land like the imperial core. That, in combination with such rapid successful industrialization, was the actual cause of the holodomor.

    • @chad2522
      @chad2522 2 роки тому

      @@af8828 How can a mold noone control be a genocide? sure the actions they took is awfull. But the holodomor killed millions. Thats a genocide

    • @Bern_il_Cinq
      @Bern_il_Cinq 2 роки тому +2

      The Holodomor was a famine caused by government mismanagement. The Irish famine was caused by disease and impaired by government mismanagement. Millions died because government arbitration failed and stifled the acts of charity by others. Stop sucking off the Soviets so hard. They were inept autocrats just like the imperialists that came before them, except that they didn’t allow any personal or economic freedom under the heels of their boots. Communism was the greatest evil of the 20th century, with Mao and Stalin directly responsible for the deaths of more people than the fascists and colonial powers combined.

    • @ruairi4901
      @ruairi4901 2 роки тому +4

      *Don't you know you can't mention the Holodomor, that would make the Soviet Union look bad*

    • @sethbartley2212
      @sethbartley2212 2 роки тому +9

      @@af8828 you need to look up the definition of the word holodomor (genocide is literally IN the name)

  • @dave3gan
    @dave3gan 2 роки тому +193

    Not just about potatoes. When people have to pay most of what they produce as rent to landlords the smallest wobble results in hardships. In the decades that followed this pattern was repeated in other colonies such as India

    • @raysargent4055
      @raysargent4055 2 роки тому +8

      Irish landlords .

    • @Adaman368
      @Adaman368 2 роки тому +15

      @@raysargent4055 By the mid 1800s 97% of all land in Ireland was owned by mainly British landowners. Most Irish people were tenants at will and could be thrown off their tiny plots of land without notice.

    • @raysargent4055
      @raysargent4055 2 роки тому +4

      Still happens in India nothing to do with colonisation

    • @raysargent4055
      @raysargent4055 2 роки тому +6

      @@Adaman368 the only Irish landlord that did anything to help was an ulster man.

    • @raysargent4055
      @raysargent4055 2 роки тому +4

      By Indian land lords.

  • @dedeoglu1923
    @dedeoglu1923 2 роки тому +49

    Hey Knowledgia! Thanks a lot for this very objective and correct explanation of history free from any political influence. The Ottoman Empire indeed tried to help the Irish people. Thank you.

    • @milos.pavlovic
      @milos.pavlovic 2 роки тому +5

      On the other side of the world conquered christians suffered under the Ottoman rule. The extra taxes on non-muslim population filled the treasury if the Ottomans.

    • @thanhhoangnguyen4754
      @thanhhoangnguyen4754 2 роки тому

      @@milos.pavlovic So does the Muslim and the Caucasusian, Jews or other minor ethnicity under the Russian Empire even basic equal right they don't have one , compare to the Authoritarian rule by the Tsar.
      Nice jobs both of you. Multi ethnic Empire a hyperactive of each other mirrors. Busying chasing glory of each other only.

    • @rumipraetorian9716
      @rumipraetorian9716 Рік тому

      @@milos.pavlovic Someone is butthurt by turks. If they would suffer probably there would be many uprisings, there are few but not many. Muslims were paying heavy taxes as well, there was no discrimination. Ottomans were like angels compared to russian and european atrocities

    • @kasadam85
      @kasadam85 Рік тому +7

      @@milos.pavlovic Extra taxation on Christians is nothing compared to what the British did to the Irish. All people suffer under and against empires but what makes this such a remarkable and beautiful act is how it wasn't done to seek any benefits whatsoever. Completely heartfelt humanitarian help against all odds which is the rising British empire. Not to mention the Ottomans weren't in a good condition themselves…

  • @noeldoyle4501
    @noeldoyle4501 2 роки тому +11

    Why did the Famine kill so many Irish people? Because the occupying English had robbed them of 90% of their farmland and completely prevented them from having an independent source of food.

    • @nurunnahar2964
      @nurunnahar2964 7 місяців тому

      Just think ___ If the white Christian England can do to white Christian Ireland, what level of cruelty it could do to non Christian non white colonies! One will shudder if one imagine about it. This is the past of the saviour of humanity. Ha ha ha.

  • @markpower9914
    @markpower9914 2 роки тому +229

    It wasn't a Famine. It was a Massacre
    Also as an Irishman, I've seen many people today still hold strong grudges against the British for what happened.

    • @lindajames7083
      @lindajames7083 2 роки тому +26

      Please don’t blame me for history. As long as we hold on to grudges we cannot heal. My ancestors fled to Scotland from Ireland only to be pushed South to Manchester. I was born in England but I have Irish and Scottish blood.

    • @mabeSc
      @mabeSc 2 роки тому +7

      Rightfully so.

    • @andrewglynn1982
      @andrewglynn1982 2 роки тому +15

      @@lindajames7083 I don't think he means we would hold grudges against individual people for history. I think its more of an emotional "f***in brits" after watching a video like that. Thankfully relations have improved drastically both between our governments and people

    • @ftroop2000
      @ftroop2000 2 роки тому +18

      That's like me being angry at Italians, Swedes and Danes of today🤷🏻‍♂️

    • @AltaiAustro-Hungarian
      @AltaiAustro-Hungarian 2 роки тому

      @@lindajames7083 nah they blame you because they ignorant and everyone need a scapegoat

  • @JustinHEMI05
    @JustinHEMI05 Рік тому +11

    Thank you so much for this video. We've traced our Irish ancestors as to having come to America during the famine. This helped me understand that move much better.

  • @nicholasdoddrell50
    @nicholasdoddrell50 2 роки тому +65

    Great video! It's worth pointing out though that it wasn't caused by a fungus. Potato blight is an oomycete from the Phytophthora genus (which you do mention - water mould is an alternative name to oomycete).
    Fungi and oomycetes are often conflated. Due to convergent evolution they look very similar, but oomycetes have large spore filled egg sacks, hence the "oo" part of their name meaning egg. From an evolutionary standpoint, oomycetes are heterokonts, meaning their cells have two different flagella, while fungi are opisthosporidia, which means they have only one flagella (the same as human sperm). This difference means they diverged millions of years ago even though they look very similar!

    • @JoDo777
      @JoDo777 2 роки тому +4

      Thanks for sharing that!!

    • @Meeko58
      @Meeko58 Рік тому

      Thank you

  • @drpk6514
    @drpk6514 2 роки тому +54

    So Muslims decided to help the Irish Catholics considering it their religious duty.
    Meanwhile the Christian British considered it God's punishment and not only didn't help but tried to stop the Muslim's help.
    That says a lot!

    • @Melih_R_Calikoglu
      @Melih_R_Calikoglu Рік тому

      Generally Cousins in faith (sects) are the worst enemies a man can ever see.

    • @pecadodeorgullo5963
      @pecadodeorgullo5963 Рік тому +3

      That belief was limited to certain British statesman in influential places like the treasury. I'd suggest reading up on the different administrations during the famine.

    • @drpk6514
      @drpk6514 Рік тому +2

      @@pecadodeorgullo5963
      LOL
      Even the people of Britain didnt do much. And they didnt convince their government to help.
      Even the audacity of such a statement speaks volumes about their culture and belief.

    • @pecadodeorgullo5963
      @pecadodeorgullo5963 Рік тому +3

      @@drpk6514 you would know this how? Did you study the famine and how it was dealt with by certain individuals? Do you know about the two government administrations during the famine? Do you know what class was affected by the famine? Do you know that both protestants and Catholics left during the famine? Do you know who the likes of Charles Trevelyan or Robert Peel are?

    • @drpk6514
      @drpk6514 Рік тому

      @@pecadodeorgullo5963 What a load of nonsense.
      Do you know the result of famine and the actions of different countries?
      You take small scales and blow them up while ignoring the real facts and outcomes.

  • @feasogachsionnach1872
    @feasogachsionnach1872 2 роки тому +78

    This was not the only famine to occur in this general period, a famine in the 1700s was statistically worse in Ireland but doesn't get covered as much as the so called Great Famine.
    Along with that, local accounts in my area talked about how frequent Church Bells rang to mark funerals for the dead, those who could afford a funeral that is. "Never heard so many bells in one day all my life" as one account put it. An appalling state of affairs, made worse by the economic monopoly maintained by London across Ireland.

    • @patrickorourke7859
      @patrickorourke7859 2 роки тому

      Many were buried in mass graves as was the case in the town of Cloone in County Leitrim. Some 12,000 were interred in these mass graves which led to it being pro IRA until today. The Great Famine is one thing but the “go to Hell” attitude of the English was another.

    • @marcos14223
      @marcos14223 2 роки тому +3

      in that situation i think i would rob the ports full of ready to export grain... hunger is imo one of the few excuses i would say "ok" for stealing... and if u take food, not a tv...

    • @sandraleiva1633
      @sandraleiva1633 2 роки тому

      The Irish famine was provoked by the Anglo Protestants to rid the island of the Irish Catholics. Big difference.

    • @Finderskeepers.
      @Finderskeepers. 2 роки тому +3

      Except there was no famine in Ireland, it continued to be a net exporter of food during the blight period. Its a good example of spin

    • @Adaman368
      @Adaman368 2 роки тому +9

      @@Finderskeepers. And despite a million people dying as a result of starvation- that food was exported by the British administration under armed guard to England and elsewhere. Great bunch of lads.

  • @wcg19891
    @wcg19891 2 роки тому +22

    What he is not covering is that Ireland was full of food during the famine. But owned by the large landlords and exported for profit.

    • @emcc8598
      @emcc8598 2 роки тому

      Yup by the mid 1800s some 97% of all land in Ireland was owned by British Landowners many who were absente landlords whonlivdd elsewhere.

    • @patienceobongo
      @patienceobongo 2 роки тому +1

      It was bought by Ephrasi who worked for Rothschild. The food of Europe was being bought up for the 1848 Revolutions

    • @markrock442
      @markrock442 2 роки тому

      During the famine, about one million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%
      >>>>Laws that restricted the rights of Irish Catholics

    • @pecadodeorgullo5963
      @pecadodeorgullo5963 Рік тому +1

      @@markrock442 yeah, if I remember correctly, a lot of that maize was imported during the Peel administration as a way to keep the food price stable in ireland so the pay from the public works would be enough to keep the irish fed. However, the Russel administration didn't do this which led to inflation of prices and led to the incomes from the public works to below what was needed for survival. This is also why one historian (I forgot his name) said that even if britain banned the irish landlords and big irish farmers from exporting food, the cottier class of irish still would've starved due to them being too poor to afford them. It should also be noted that the famine crippled the landlord class since many were dependent on their tenants to grow their cash crops so when they either left (it was better being landless because you could receive aid) or died, they either went bankrupt or came close to it.

    • @smallfeet4581
      @smallfeet4581 26 днів тому

      ​@@pecadodeorgullo5963 the west coast was poor soil I read , also the ones in the west and there parts were told to grow other roos besides potato , the population had grown immensely by millions by this time , the famine also affected Europe and Scotland although in lesser degree , it's not as if the ottomans or Spain or the Mongols etc had never starved people and in USA with the natives it was the Americans not the British , the british lost in the war of independence , aided by spain and france , the french having their own wars with the natives ,while british Canada took in natives from USA due to the Americans , Britain had its own troubles too with Europe and Rome ,

  • @johnhanselman6371
    @johnhanselman6371 2 роки тому +32

    The Irish that arrived in the USA made a better life for themselves and others. That tragic event had many blessings.

    • @colinb8103
      @colinb8103 2 роки тому +7

      Not for the Choctaws or Navajos

    • @settingsons1979
      @settingsons1979 2 роки тому

      @@colinb8103 nor the nativists / bill the butcher Poole /

    • @kirpdeb
      @kirpdeb 2 роки тому

      And they made the United States a better place. They were the embodiment of the huddled masses, yearning to be free.

    • @markrock442
      @markrock442 2 роки тому +1

      During the famine, about one million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%
      >>>>Laws that restricted the rights of Irish Catholics

    • @hermanngoulhorn581
      @hermanngoulhorn581 2 роки тому

      @@colinb8103 The choctaw were displaced of their lands and waved off on the trail of tears by 'scots-Irish", hillbillies to you - not Irish .

  • @JabbarTV1
    @JabbarTV1 2 роки тому +251

    The Ottoman Caliph was more concerned about the Irish than the British Queen HAHA

    • @user-op8fg3ny3j
      @user-op8fg3ny3j 2 роки тому +29

      He was a very charitable Caliph

    • @chad2522
      @chad2522 2 роки тому +17

      Sultan*

    • @somewhere6
      @somewhere6 2 роки тому +20

      The English establishment at the time had a very dim view of the Irish. More than a few were happy to see the Irish population severely reduced.

    • @altunaze6127
      @altunaze6127 2 роки тому +17

      @@chad2522 Sultan and Caliph. Çok Yaşa Devleti Ali Osman!

    • @altunaze6127
      @altunaze6127 2 роки тому +1

      Modern tarihte İngiltere'nin en büyük baş belası olan IRA'nın kuruluşunda Türklerin de etkisi var.
      Türklerin İrlandalılarla olan ilişkisi Sultan Abdülmecid zamanına kadar gidiyor.
      19. yüzyılın başlarında İrlandalılar İngilizler'e karşı mücadele içindeydi. Katolik İrlandalılar, kabul etmedikleri Anglikan Kilisesi'ne vergi vermeyi hazmedemiyorlardı. İngilizlerden din ve dil ekseninde ayrılıyorlardı.
      Ancak 1840'lı yıllarda İrlanda büyük bir kıtlık başgösterdi. Yoksulların temel yiyeceği patates üretimi durma noktasına geldi. 800 bin kişi öldü, İrlandalıların hak mücadelesi zayıfladı.
      İngilizler bu zayıflık durumundan faydalanırken 1847 yılında padişah Abdülmecid'in emriyle üç gemi dolusu patates yardımı İrlanda'ya Kraliçe Victoria'nın tüm engellemelerine rağmen ulaştı.
      Geminin Dublin Limanı'na yanaşmasını İngilizler engelleyince gemi yüklerini Drogheda Limanı'na boşalttı.

  • @FenixintheDark
    @FenixintheDark 2 роки тому +47

    I am still not comfortable with calling it a "famine". It was *only* a "famine" in as much as the Irish were not allowed to keep any of the crops they grew, *other* than the potato.
    This was a holocaust. Not a famine.

    • @memyselfandi8544
      @memyselfandi8544 2 роки тому

      The royals are devil worshippers. Freemasons. Wokeism comes from the royals. Famine is Satan’s agenda. So are our current conflicts and disasters.

    • @markws5952
      @markws5952 2 роки тому

      They could of gone fishing.

    • @Adaman368
      @Adaman368 2 роки тому +3

      @@markws5952 Well no in a country of 8 million people, many who lived many days walk from the ocean and who were literally starving couldn't have just "gone fishing". Rivers ditto where the fishing rights were owned by mainly British landowners. But yes in those areas where people had access to the sea - they did do somewhat better than those who hadn't such access. Not that the British administration gave a feq eitherway.

    • @markws5952
      @markws5952 2 роки тому +1

      @@Adaman368 should of shown a bit of gumption and caught more fish
      Stop blaming your woes on the big meany Brits.
      Do you honestly thing the lower classes in England weren't being fucked over at the same time 🤔

    • @Adaman368
      @Adaman368 2 роки тому

      @@markws5952 Gumption? 🤣. Twat! The English were suffering were they? Would that because of all the food exported to England during the famine from Ireland. Did the English have a administration orchrastrate a genocide on them after they had been brutally invaded, colonised over a period of some 700 years?
      Did a million English people die because food which would have fed them was being shipped out of their country? Did they have ra cist cnuts like Charles Trevelyan who said of the famine in Scotland "that the people must not be left starve" but that the Irish should?
      Btw your rac ist comment just got shaddowbanned ;) Funny that.

  • @nbenefiel
    @nbenefiel Рік тому +8

    Before the starvation 8 million people lived in Ireland. After the famine 3 million were still there. Today there are close to 5 million. It was said in Parliament that the famine would not kill enough Irish to make a difference. Enough food left Ireland every week to feed the country twice over. The Protestant churches opened soup kitchens but demanded that any receiver desert Catholicism and convert yo Protestantism. Most Irish Catholics would rather starve. This was not a famine. It was genocide.

    • @pbohearn
      @pbohearn 6 місяців тому

      😮 they had to “take the soup.”

  • @suleimanhussien1559
    @suleimanhussien1559 2 роки тому +45

    Love Ireland from Palestine ☝🏼🇨🇮🇵🇸

    • @geovanniali6060
      @geovanniali6060 2 роки тому +13

      Ireland stand's with Palestine against rasicm and Apartheid 🇮🇪🇵🇸 TAL
      We love you too ❤️
      Go raibh maith agut cara/ Thank you friend 🍉

    • @buddymacbuddington
      @buddymacbuddington Рік тому +4

      ❤🇮🇪🤝🇵🇸

    • @chrishilton3626
      @chrishilton3626 Рік тому

      Screw Palestine long live Israel

  • @patriciapalmer4215
    @patriciapalmer4215 2 роки тому +20

    The grief and anger is still palpable in many Irish American hearts. My grandparents, great uncles, aunts, cousins and my parents to name a few.

    • @markws5952
      @markws5952 2 роки тому +15

      Maybe time to move on

    • @patriciapalmer4215
      @patriciapalmer4215 2 роки тому +4

      @@markws5952Oh hell no, we love histrionics, we're Irish for God's sake !! If we're not fighting, we're makin' love or stealin' horses.

    • @markws5952
      @markws5952 2 роки тому +1

      @@patriciapalmer4215 or blowing up inocent children.

    • @patriciapalmer4215
      @patriciapalmer4215 2 роки тому +3

      @@markws5952 I beg your pardon ? What are you referring to ? And if you're in the dominant demographic of viewers, that explains your comment.

    • @markws5952
      @markws5952 2 роки тому +6

      @@patriciapalmer4215 being in the dominant demographic changes facts ?

  • @Tek.Tabanca.
    @Tek.Tabanca. 10 місяців тому +3

    Love Irish from Türkiye

  • @n00bsalsa42
    @n00bsalsa42 2 роки тому +37

    The blight killed the potatoes the British caused the famine

  • @irishmike519
    @irishmike519 2 роки тому +13

    I just found out my great grandfather left County Kerry in 1885. This was during a mini famine that started in 1879.

    • @IslandGirlKelly
      @IslandGirlKelly 2 роки тому +5

      Kerry is absolutely gorgeous, Mike. Hopefully you get to visit and see it for yourself one day. ☘

  • @willpatchett1419
    @willpatchett1419 Рік тому +5

    Sharing Irish, English, and Scottish blood it still sickens me what the elites did to the poor. The British parliament and the Queen failed to act sooner, at lest be honest they didn’t really care until the world condemn them.
    My ancestors found a new home in Australia and how thankful I am of that!

    • @lordjazoijua94
      @lordjazoijua94 Рік тому

      All the British are to blame rich and poor.

    • @HAROINOIR2077
      @HAROINOIR2077 Рік тому

      queen did not failed, she just was omissive and didn't care about poor people

  • @fatihk1194
    @fatihk1194 2 роки тому +13

    Ottomans show mercy and good intentions while English ignore people dying of famine and say they deserved this. Another reason to be proud of my ancestors🇹🇷😍

    • @3DHDcat
      @3DHDcat Рік тому

      Ottomans were and always will be known as barbarians scum and bootlickers for British empire. Those ships that landed were already sent out before the U turn ,Britain was helping Ottomans against Russians in Crimea. Ottomans the sick man of Europe were weak and needed any help they can get

  • @johnmcdonald1293
    @johnmcdonald1293 2 роки тому +37

    The Turkish are good people I love the way they just push through the bulshit to help a great work to India and the American native population to from Australia THANKS for sharing.

    • @bxe6560
      @bxe6560 Рік тому

      Not Turkish but Muslims

    • @HariKrishna-ix2in
      @HariKrishna-ix2in Рік тому +6

      Turk's also did Armenian genocide, Assyrian & Greek genocide.

    • @kasadam85
      @kasadam85 Рік тому

      @@bxe6560 All Muslims were Turks and all Turks were Muslims at those times

    • @kasadam85
      @kasadam85 Рік тому

      @@HariKrishna-ix2in Massacres*

    • @turkishnationalist565
      @turkishnationalist565 Рік тому +6

      @@HariKrishna-ix2in Armenians and Greeks were the first to commit massacres. If you make an impact, you will see the reaction.

  • @anitachopping
    @anitachopping 2 роки тому +34

    That was very interesting. I've read the history of the Ottoman empire and I'm amazed at that kind gesture as it was a very cruel regime. Nice to know.

    • @anitachopping
      @anitachopping 2 роки тому +3

      Thanks, history is full of man's inhumanity to man it's good to see some decency.

    • @Msaglamm
      @Msaglamm Рік тому

      Western propaganda from a westerner. It is normal for someone who read history books written by 'modern' westerners who killed tens of millions of muslims during history.

    • @nadinenadine9739
      @nadinenadine9739 Рік тому +1

      @@anitachopping British empire killed also in Bangladesh 3 - 3,5 million people -> by HUNGER ! It calls VICTORIAN HOLOCAUST 1857 -1947 !

    • @anitachopping
      @anitachopping Рік тому +2

      Yes if study that Empire it's terrible. So good on him for getting the better of Queen Victoria

    • @keerthi3086
      @keerthi3086 Рік тому +5

      Not any less cruel than the European empires. That's why we don't have them anymore.

  • @beargillesgaming
    @beargillesgaming 2 роки тому +12

    Very unfortunate times but it’s nice to see such hospitality from far away groups/nations. Shows we’re all human in the end.

  • @malcommountie4326
    @malcommountie4326 2 роки тому +5

    There was no scarcity of food in Ireland at the time of the potato blight ,hence no famine . The rich refused to share the abundance of food in Ireland so as to maintain profit levels . Thus over one million endured painful horrible deaths . Over a million emigrated . Murder on the grand scale ,motivated by greed. People are suffering and dying today in the British Isles and around the world because of the blight of unbridled greed .

  • @rogermoore27
    @rogermoore27 2 роки тому +42

    I visited Ireland 3 years ago and I felt honoured to be in such an amazing company

    • @diegoborlini6840
      @diegoborlini6840 2 роки тому

      If you are British you should be ashamed

    • @rogermoore27
      @rogermoore27 2 роки тому

      @@diegoborlini6840 you mean becsuse of how the British treated them in the 19th century?

    • @OSTARAEB4
      @OSTARAEB4 2 роки тому

      @@rogermoore27 19th?

  • @lerneanlion
    @lerneanlion 2 роки тому +33

    I am surprised that the Irish people did not adopt the old Dutch slogan "Rather Turkish than Papist" but with the modification that make it sounds "Rather Turkish than British", and then leave for the Ottoman Empire's territories instead. Just imagine this immigration! Who knows, the Ottoman Empire might benefit from this Irish immigration just like when they welcomed the Jews and Muslims who were kicked out of Spain after the Conquest of Granada and finally catch up with the other Great Powers with the new ideas brought to the Sublime Porte.

    • @elseggs6504
      @elseggs6504 2 роки тому +11

      They wouldnt benefit from the Irish. At that point they were long past their peak and still trying to get their various peoples to assimilate. The Greeks and Serbs already launched successful uprisings. Chances are the Irish would get mad over shit like higher taxation for Christians and help the Bulgarians or something

    • @lerneanlion
      @lerneanlion 2 роки тому +7

      @@elseggs6504 Didn't the Tanzimat Reformation abolish that? To be exact, abolishing the jizya decreased the Sublime Porte's revenue if you asked me.

    • @elseggs6504
      @elseggs6504 2 роки тому +5

      @@lerneanlion after the famine happened. And they simply replaced it with a new tax system whose alternative would be to conscript you. So yeah, the Americas would still be more attractive for a multitude of reasons

    • @lerneanlion
      @lerneanlion 2 роки тому +9

      @@elseggs6504 And this is why I think the jizya is still the better idea even to this day. If you pay, you don't have to go and fight.

    • @FredFurburguer
      @FredFurburguer 2 роки тому +1

      The ottomans were ruthless, and had been massacring hundreds of thousands of Christians for the same reason the brits had just banned Catholics from public affairs.
      What a lame statement yours.

  • @catmom1322
    @catmom1322 2 роки тому +6

    The English hated the Irish & the Irish demise was not a concern for them. Even Churchill referred to "the Irish problem."

    • @terrynpiper7667
      @terrynpiper7667 2 роки тому

      Churchill didn't like the Irish because they were pretending to be neutral in WW2 but still refuelled German U Boats which then sank allied shipping. After the war they blacklisted anyone who had fought for the allies and made it impossible for them to find work. Those people then emigrated which the Irish government thought was great because they already had too many people. All the while bleating on about how they are the victims of oppression. Yewn. Same old. I'm with Churchill.

    • @emcc8598
      @emcc8598 2 роки тому

      @@terrynpiper7667 No they didn't refuel U boats. Thats NI loyalist bedtime stories. Look it up.
      Nor did the Irish "pretend to be neutral". Not only did the cooperate with the allies. They Irish provided weather forecast and intelligence which helped the allies win the war. The most famous of which was the advance weather reports with allied the D Day landings to go ahead. Downed and allied personal were released unlike German pow who were interned for the duration of the War. Flight corridors for allied airplanes were also allowed. Amazing you see these type of hairy stories repeated by the same people.

    • @jericho9653
      @jericho9653 Рік тому +1

      @@terrynpiper7667 why in the name of god would they fight for churchill. Did you not just watch this video. Would england fight for a country which 50 yeats before wiped out half of there population?? Are you mad. I dont blame the irish one bit for wanting to be free from britain. They have the south i hope they get the north back too.

  • @jasoncox7257
    @jasoncox7257 2 роки тому +44

    It was much worse than that. The potatoes were failing in England too. So they sent British troops over to steal whatever food was left. There is a chap who has researched where British regiments where at the time, have a guess.

    • @allon33
      @allon33 2 роки тому

      We should all unsub from this fool.

    • @jasoncox7257
      @jasoncox7257 2 роки тому

      @@allon33 Not necessarily, it's not very well-known info, even now.

    • @feasogachsionnach1872
      @feasogachsionnach1872 2 роки тому +1

      Yup, if I recall correctly, half the British Army and Navy was stationed in Ireland at that period.

    • @mrtaoroo
      @mrtaoroo 2 роки тому +4

      They escorted the goods all the way out of the country by armed guards.

  • @do61761
    @do61761 2 роки тому +21

    Greetings from Turkey. 26+6=1 🇹🇷🇮🇪

    • @Tatarov_265
      @Tatarov_265 8 місяців тому +1

      “26+6=1” ne anlamı?

    • @do61761
      @do61761 8 місяців тому +1

      @@Tatarov_265 İrlanda cumhuriyetin de 26 il var. Kuzey İrlanda da 6 il var. İkisinin bir gün birleşip tek bir ülke olacağını belirten bir slogan.

    • @Tatarov_265
      @Tatarov_265 8 місяців тому +2

      @@do61761 Ah tamam anladım. Şu enformasyon için teşekkür ederim.

    • @do61761
      @do61761 8 місяців тому +1

      @@Tatarov_265 rica ederim hocam.

  • @daveroche6522
    @daveroche6522 2 роки тому +53

    I remember reading years ago that there have been 20+ famines in Ireland; the first one being @792A.D., being caused by a) a really dreadful winter & 2) an invasion by the Scots! Just rememberin'.

    • @garyhynes6574
      @garyhynes6574 2 роки тому +9

      Britain had way more famines ...in the 1600s millions from the north of England died ..in fact that is why the Protestant people of the north made their way north to northern Ireland...

    • @rossdunning7018
      @rossdunning7018 2 роки тому +1

      West

    • @sandraleiva1633
      @sandraleiva1633 2 роки тому +3

      Yeah potatoes arrived with the Spanish Catholics for the Irish Catholics after 1492. Because potatoes are an American plant.

    • @MiloManning05
      @MiloManning05 2 роки тому +8

      @@garyhynes6574 nice fairytale

    • @hotmechanic222
      @hotmechanic222 2 роки тому +1

      @@sandraleiva1633 LOL

  • @Cory_LaRose
    @Cory_LaRose 2 роки тому +10

    I'm glad you said indigenous community's. I am descended of those who helped. We still have irish culture and DNA from when they came here to Canada

  • @melliemel32
    @melliemel32 Рік тому +4

    Wow! Go Ottoman Empire! That’s horrible that the British tried to stop the help. That is sick! I know along with political and religious differences between them and Britain, no wonder there has been such contentious relations.

  • @jeffnaslund
    @jeffnaslund 2 роки тому +4

    My maternal grandparents came over during that time, from county Cork

  • @pebear
    @pebear Рік тому +1

    1900 my Grandmother (who was a toddler) and her family moved to Hartford, CT. The same time my Father's Grandfather moved here from Romania and Moldavia. So my Jewish Dad Married my Irish mom and I'm here.....

  • @cudanmang_theog
    @cudanmang_theog 2 роки тому +7

    For centuries, indigenous Celtic peoples of Great Britain have been suffering endless racism discrimination from Germanic Anglo Saxon settler colonists

    • @noahtylerpritchett2682
      @noahtylerpritchett2682 2 роки тому +1

      Yet most Celts I've met can name that 1 English grandparent or great grandparent by at least 8 generations. So there was also mixing.
      My own existence is half Celtic half English. Like millions of others. How would you judge us in that demographic who don't neatly fit in your Celt vs Anglo-Saxon dichotomy when some families such as mine with this miscegenation exist.
      Many Celts adopted English culture. Some English immigrants in a Celtic country Celticizes.
      Even king Cerdic first king of Wessex was a Briton who betrayed his kin to form the Wessex kingdom.

    • @noahtylerpritchett2682
      @noahtylerpritchett2682 2 роки тому

      @@SallySturman tell me about it.
      I'm hated more than you because I'm English and American.
      Ok you may ask why am I more hated than you? Because I have 3 baggages.
      The English one
      The colonist one.
      Whatever baggage being white American gives you.
      Oh but my last name is Welsh.
      Like do people remember the English, or Anglo-Saxon if you prefer, stop oppressing Celtic culture, and infact some Englishman have Celticized revival themselves?
      Oh but hears the fun part, done Highlanders immerse themselves in Norse culture incase their from a clan that has Viking Norse roots.
      Many Englishman has Celticized.
      Many Celts have Anglicized.
      People who hate English forgot the centuries of mixing individuals go through.
      Arthurian myths? Literally a Celtic legend popular in England.
      No one is showing Beowulf into Wales.

    • @noahtylerpritchett2682
      @noahtylerpritchett2682 2 роки тому +1

      @@SallySturman wait how are English victims of colonization? Do you mean the Normans?
      I guess but I mean, I'm part Norman.
      But also Anglo-Saxon, and Briton.
      and if you meant the Anglo-Saxons, don't abandon your Germanic heritage for a Celtic one, at least have some ancestral self respect.

    • @noahtylerpritchett2682
      @noahtylerpritchett2682 2 роки тому

      @@SallySturman if I had to guess, Dononi and Dobunnii are my ancestors. Maybe? Possibly?
      Whatever Celtic tribe existed in the west Midlands.
      Well I found in my 1000 people family tree some Breton and Cornish as well.

    • @noahtylerpritchett2682
      @noahtylerpritchett2682 2 роки тому

      @@SallySturman not victims, perpetrators. We should be proud to descend from these Grrmamic populations that took over the island.
      We are a Germanic race.
      Deal with it with pride you little ancestor guilt shithead.
      Your no kin of mine.
      Talking about the Germanic invaders like it's a bad thing to feel about.
      All Britons do is complain about the Teutonic inhabitants of Britain including dumb English individuals who prefer their Celtic over Germanic ancestry.
      The Normans were actually descendants of Danish not Norwegian Vikings try and actually read medieval sources. Norman didn't signify Norwegian it just means Northman.
      Plus they mix with Franks who were Germanic anyway albeit with extra Gallic Celtic blood.
      I don't consider anyone kin or "Angelcynn" if they look at their Germanic ancestry negatively with this leftist "colonization bad" bs.
      Our ancestors won the island by the strength of God and the punishment of the Britons for their sins (as recorded by Gildas) and our Christianization indigenized us as recorded by Bede as England became Canaan to us and Hengist is our Moses while the Welsh are analogous to as Canaanite heathens punished by God as the tribes of Hebrews (Habiru) swormed into Canaan from Egypt.
      England lives through the blood of colonization and we shouldn't cry about it.

  • @billnotice9957
    @billnotice9957 2 роки тому +3

    What is really frightening is American corn that use have 13 different variants now only has 2. If some fungus or bacteria would ever find the right formula to destroy it. We would be in big trouble.

  • @MrLantean
    @MrLantean 2 роки тому +15

    Ireland grew many varieties of potatoes but it is estimated that 2/3 or 3/4 of the potatoes grown was the Irish Lumper. The lumper originated in Scotland and was introduced by returning Irish workers from Scotland during the early 1800s. The lumper was able to thrive on poor quality soil and grew into huge size hence the name lumper. It was originally grown as food for livestock but it prevalence demonstrated the increasing poverty among Irish rural communities. Other varieties were susceptible to the blight but the lumper was the worst hit. Ireland did have other food source like wheat, rye, barley and other grains but they were exported to Britain or its oversea colonies and the Irish got nothing. The Irish were treated as second class citizens in their own country and British policies did very little to aid them or prevent the famine. The famine was avoidable but it was British policies that resulted the famine. Potato blight was the cataclysm rather than the true cause for the famine.

    • @maginot2u
      @maginot2u 2 роки тому

      Let's call it what it really was... GENOCIDE. The English hated the Irish for many reasons and decided to get rid of the Irish once and for all!!

    • @joprocter4573
      @joprocter4573 2 роки тому +2

      Mr lantean... What about their roman Catholic Church with purses lined in gold and demands for prayers said paid for..

    • @maginot2u
      @maginot2u 2 роки тому

      @@joprocter4573 The Roman Catholic Church was no way near as rich as the Church of England whose Popes were the pompous English Monarchs with their gold thread underwear!! The members of this Chuch of England included the Anglican English land owners who starved almost one million Irishmen. Who is the new head of the Church of England? Could it be a life long adulterer who destroyed a beautiful young girl and damaged his family for his own selfish pleasure! Charles III as Head of the Church of England is a twisted, sick joke.

    • @Adaman368
      @Adaman368 2 роки тому +1

      @@joprocter4573 The state religion in Ireland at the time was Protestant under the auspicious of the Anglican Church of Ireland. As a result everyone in Ireland regardless of their religion had to pay tithes to the COI. On the other hand the Catholic religion had been prohibited for most of the previous 200 years under the Penal Laws enacted against the native Irish. But yes the clergy of both religions did help and saved many people from death and starvation. But no their were no "gold filled purses" or whatever fcukery you're going on about. Those who were in charge were the British government. And those who they left die as the result of starvation were 'british ' subjects' Imagine that your government, one ic the richest in the world at that time allowing a million of its own citizens to die at the side of the road and elsewhere.

    • @SallySturman
      @SallySturman 2 роки тому

      @@maginot2u The Irish King, Brian Boru who invaded and colonised Britiain years before the famine is an ancestor of the British royals too.

  • @jamesalvarez8733
    @jamesalvarez8733 2 місяці тому +1

    Reference to the Irish famine during the Mexican American war 1846:
    The inconsistency of our invasion of Mexico with the Christian faith has been brought into a stronger contrast, from the fact, that at the very moment we were loading down a vessel of war to the very edge with bread-stuffs for the famishing Irish, and despatching them on this mission of mercy, we were sending bomb-ships, laden with the most destructive implements of war, to lay waste the cities of Mexico, and bury men, women, and children in the ruins of their dwellings and churches. It is a serious inquiry for every Christian, whether, while we have thus been aiming fatal blows at the physical life of a sister republic, we may not have placed ourselves in the way of receiving the fruits of spiritual death in ourselves.
    -The War with Mexico Reviewed, Abiel Livermore American Peace Society 1850

  • @MrStoneyburke
    @MrStoneyburke 2 роки тому +4

    This was an act of Genocide by deliberate starvation by the English of Irish men women and children.

  • @gerardstephens58
    @gerardstephens58 2 роки тому +8

    The British upper crust has always inflicted versions and degrees of this on anyone unlucky enough to live under their heel. Just look at how Britain treats its own people in 2022, ffs.

  • @snickrologen
    @snickrologen 2 роки тому +14

    History Repeats itself now with the Dutch Farmers!

    • @jasoncox7257
      @jasoncox7257 2 роки тому +1

      Being done in by the globalist nutters.

    • @SallySturman
      @SallySturman 2 роки тому +4

      @snickrologen - You're not blaming the English for that, I hope?! Farmers everywhere are being targetted and told to reduce their cattle by 30% or something under the banner of the 'climate crisis' because 'cow's fart too much', it's ridiculous, especially during a time when food is already in short supply. The largest fruit and vegetable producer on the Island of Jersey recently closed and they provided food for 80% of the islanders who are now relying on exports from the UK where the department of agriculture/government are already making life extremely difficult for the farmers here. There won't be enough food by a long shot and many people will die around the world and THAT'S how 'much' the governments care about the people. Meanwhile, Kill Bill Gates now owns the most farmland in the USA (known as the breadbasket of the world) so he can grow his Frankenstein GMO foods for his fake meat. No doubt he wants to own the most farmland in Europe too and he'll probably get it when the world's financially crippled farmers have to sell up. The war in Ukraine, a country known as the bread basket of Europe (I'd say Netherlands too), means little food is being grown there now, the huge gas and electricity price increases which obviously affects farmers as well as everyone else, bird flu, the neverending Covid saga with its new variants and the after effects of 'stay home, save granny don't be selfish' locking down the world for the best part of 2 years thinking that won't have a huge detrimental effect, not just economically, but mentally too and the imminent end of Fiat currency ready for the 'Great Reset' which is really a kind of Chinese Credit Score whereby they have full control of what you can and can't spend your hard earned money on and if you say anything the governments don't like, you'll be denied access to what is, or should be, rightfully yours. It's the 'perfect storm' and it's all been planned for a long time. In the words of Klaus Schwab from the World Economic Forum, 'You will own nothing and you will be happy', except people will be far from happy.

    • @snickrologen
      @snickrologen 2 роки тому +1

      @@SallySturman I’m assuming that you’ll agree that it’s extremely unfit of those ultra rich people gathering in Davos each year, flying in there in their private jets and then telling us to cut down on emissions, what we’re going to eat and so on! In fact denying us what they demand for themselves!

    • @SallySturman
      @SallySturman 2 роки тому +2

      @@snickrologen I agree 100%! Hypocrites.

  • @maginot2u
    @maginot2u 2 роки тому +4

    The Anglican English had a long and deeply ingrained hatred of the Catholic Irish. The Anglican English with their pompous Monarch/Popes had conducted two earlier genocides against the Irish, the first during the reign of the Protestant Elizabeth I and the second carried out by Oliver Cromwell about a half century later. The Great Irish Potato blight was a product of nature but the neglect and policies put in place by the British Governmant ensured that hundreds of thousands of Irish would die. And this was during the time when Ireland was an integral part of the United Kingdom. Do you wonder why Nicola Sturgeon of Scotland sometimes mentions Ireland in her speeches? Two British historians recently wrote books about the Irish Famine and both came to about the same conclusion: the mass starvation of Irish could have been avoided at a reasonable cost by purchase of American/Canadian food and by blocking export of food from Ireland that was produced on the estates owned by Anglican English in Ireland. It's shocking to think that the economic interests of the Anglican English land owners and their desire for profits from Irish food exports overrode the life and death issues facing the poor starving Irish. Enough food was being produded in Ireland to feed the entire island, and Britain was at the height of its power and wealth yet chose not to intervene in a way that would have prevented thousands of Irish deaths. I really believe the English were using the famine as a weapon. Their intent was to completely annihilate and crush the Irish nation. And they came so close to achieving just this! Thousands of Irishmen dead. Millions of Irish had to flee the country. Ireland in a state of cultural and economic collapse. In thier own way the British were so much more successful that tne Germans.

  • @shinola228
    @shinola228 2 роки тому +9

    The Queen found out the Ottomans we're donating 5000 pounds so she asked that they change that to 1000. The ottoman didn't agree. My question is how was this all being communicated given the distance?

    • @alessandrogini5283
      @alessandrogini5283 2 роки тому +1

      They are alrealdy telegraph?

    • @sl_721
      @sl_721 Рік тому +5

      The Ottomites sent three ships of food, water and other supplies to Ireland, but the British intercepted them, with only one making it to Ireland

  • @1800mexicano
    @1800mexicano Рік тому +6

    "...how do you have a famine, you have a ground everywhere." -Cory Delaminguez, 2022

  • @emirkokturk1599
    @emirkokturk1599 2 роки тому +7

    Hello İrish friend from Ottoman Empire i hope you get the north ireland soon.

    • @SallySturman
      @SallySturman 2 роки тому +1

      The Ottoman Empire, like the British Empire, ended long ago. I'm English with Irish grandparents and many English people have Irish ancestry. Perhaps you could also hope that the European colonisers of England leave and we descendants of the ancient Brits get our country and our Brittonic language back.

    • @emirkokturk1599
      @emirkokturk1599 2 роки тому +2

      @@SallySturman i just know thst english kings made cruel things to scotland people and ireland people and they have no right to rule north ireland

    • @SallySturman
      @SallySturman 2 роки тому +1

      @@emirkokturk1599 The British royal family have Scottish and Germanic blood and there were Scottish Kings and Queens of England as well as English Kings and Queens of England and they were cruel to all of us... English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish.

    • @LFCMattNOI
      @LFCMattNOI 2 роки тому +3

      @@SallySturman so when did a million English starve to death then ??

    • @SallySturman
      @SallySturman 2 роки тому

      @@LFCMattNOI Millions of English people have been murdered one way or another because of the stinking rulers.

  • @andreichivu7653
    @andreichivu7653 2 роки тому +2

    Irish genocide began with King Henry II-nd, gone through Cromwell, the "Black and Tans" brutes and accomplished by Queen Victoria the Famine Queen...

  • @cascarrabias397
    @cascarrabias397 2 роки тому +11

    I WILL visit Ireland soon, my heart is with you guys.

  • @sandraleiva1633
    @sandraleiva1633 2 роки тому +16

    You fail to mention the potatoes are an American plant. 🥔 The Catholic Spanish introduced it for the Catholic Irish. If it wasn't Columbus the Native Americans potatoes wouldn't have fed Europe for all these centuries since 1492.

    • @MeLodiCarAma
      @MeLodiCarAma 2 роки тому +5

      The British Empire strategic plan to seize the agricultural land of the Irish by bringing parasitic fungus from Central America. Many documentary on this too omitted the history of the Ottoman empire helping by sending food and financial relief to the people of Ireland. And what about the soup council helping the Irish on condition that the Irish converted to Protestant and leave their Catholic belief.

    • @thequietman760
      @thequietman760 2 роки тому +3

      Sit down Sandra

    • @sandraleiva1633
      @sandraleiva1633 2 роки тому +5

      @@thequietman760 The truth hurts doesn't it? 🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @thequietman760
      @thequietman760 2 роки тому +1

      The spuds caused the blight, the English caused the famine/ attempted genocide. 🖕🏼🤣 There was plenty of food on the island to feed the population 3 times over.

    • @jknm1777
      @jknm1777 2 роки тому +1

      This story is not about potato. It's about the death of millions caused by the British government.

  • @theawesomeman9821
    @theawesomeman9821 2 роки тому +25

    Now you know why so many Americans are of Irish descent.

    • @EVNotts
      @EVNotts 2 роки тому

      English as well mate

    • @mrkilo-g8794
      @mrkilo-g8794 2 роки тому

      Yep Irish Americans, I even saw them go to Latin America over this, they told us about the terrible stuff and how bad the UK handled it

  • @imastaycool
    @imastaycool 2 роки тому +6

    STOP USING THE TERM "BRITISH ISLES" FOR IRELAND!
    The term British Isles is part and parcel of antiquated notions of the British empire which are long gone.
    The Brits use this term for Ireland to cause conflict as it's a political term.
    Even UK law uses the term British Islands to refer to the UK, Channel Islands, and Isle of Man as a single collective entity, but does not include Ireland.
    The manufactured term was introduced as the British Isles in the 16th/17th centuries by English and Welsh writers for both propaganda and political reasons.
    The term itself was always controversial to the Irish, but became more so after the breakup of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1922.
    The term is rejected by the Irish government, the Department of Foreign Affairs and the Irish people.
    The term was formally disavowed in September 2005 by the Irish Government when Foreign Minister Dermot Ahern famously stated:
    "The British Isles is not an officially recognised term in any legal or inter-governmental sense. It is without any official status. The Government, including the Department of Foreign Affairs, does not use this term."
    We reject it. It's just another manufactured British term to establish some sort of false dominance over another nation of people on a different island…

  • @jamesjackovich5886
    @jamesjackovich5886 2 роки тому +2

    Ireland was occupied for over 700 years they couldn't speak their own language, worship their own religion, own their own land, run for political office, hold a government job, have a professional job, doctor, lawyer, they had to farm the land as serfs to British landlords

  • @rubencanizalez7431
    @rubencanizalez7431 2 роки тому +11

    Very interesting! I visited Ireland and loved the country … very friendly people and love to drink!! My respect to people of ireland!!!

  • @jonathanvillanueva9206
    @jonathanvillanueva9206 Рік тому +4

    And now Ireland is a leader in food aid

  • @dhrubaintisher8169
    @dhrubaintisher8169 2 роки тому +2

    Best video on this topic, hands down.

  • @ivogianfranco1633
    @ivogianfranco1633 2 роки тому +14

    Good video. As some comments already mentioned, this wasn't just about food. It was also about religion and race. The historical Roman Catholic (Irish) vs. Protestant (English) Church conflict is well known. However, the 19th century was primarily about nationalism and the rise of racial theories. It's a well documented fact that there were several English authors who openly claimed in their studies and books that Irish people (= the original Celtic inhabitants of British Isles before the Anglo-Saxon invasion) were racially inferior. There were many caricatures published in English newspapers, depicting Irish people as ugly, degenerated, stupid, lazy and drunk monkeys. It was a method very similar to what German Nazis used in the 20th century: if you dehumanize a certain social or racial group(s), it is easier for the rest of the society to see these "not-anymore-humans" vanish and die...

    • @joprocter4573
      @joprocter4573 2 роки тому +1

      Ivo disease and famine knows no barriers. Protestants also suffered famine a fact Ireland pretends wasn't possible.. People also forgot it was full UK and Europe famine.. Read and link those books.. It is no different to rulers today and its very true Irish have woven so much propaganda dissecting that to balanced history never happened. You must remember that Irish.. Scots. Welsh. English were all british people of a origin. also they starved but generally their families were limited to 2-4kids equals less mouths to feed.. Also read Scottish history they ATE watery flour porridge.. No one could afford to emigrate if so poor but many emigrated.. Count Europe starvation. Don't permit wallow in victomhood out of proportion.. Famine not good for Europe UK or Ireland then. THEN AS NOW BEST SURVIOURS WERE RICHER. NO ONE WORKS ON CLOSING POVERTY GAP.
      SEE AFRICA CHILD BIRTHS CONTINUED THROUGHOUT FAMINE. LACKS RESPONSIBILITY..

    • @Adaman368
      @Adaman368 2 роки тому

      @@joprocter4573 "Ivo disease"? I really don't doubt it. Seems like a serious case of rampant_denial and pro-british origin myth mythology. Hitler tried something similar in Europe afaik.

    • @patienceobongo
      @patienceobongo 2 роки тому

      The main culprit was Nassau Senior.

    • @robert6106
      @robert6106 2 роки тому +1

      The original Celtic inhabitants of British Isles were not the native population on the British isles.

    • @Adaman368
      @Adaman368 2 роки тому

      @@robert6106 Not talking about the " British isles". The video is specifically about Ireland. The term "celtic" refers to a culture and not a defined group of people. The Irish are described as gaels and not "celts". The gaelic peoples were descendants of the different waves of people to first inhabit Ireland who much later adopted a celtic language and culture. So yes they the gaels are a defacto native population of Ireland.

  • @gayhendrie84
    @gayhendrie84 2 роки тому +2

    True fact shiploads of food were sent from us but English would not allow them to unload They wanted the Irish to starve

  • @Pau-tc9wj
    @Pau-tc9wj 2 роки тому +4

    Title is a bit misleading........it was The Irish FAMINE. all foods went to England and the Irish were just left with rotting potatoes.

  • @OweEyeSea
    @OweEyeSea Рік тому +2

    There's a reason the English language has the word bastard. It describes how the English elite were to 2/3 of the world population over the years. To let the people working the land you stole from them starve, while there was plenty of food available, is horrific.

    • @HAROINOIR2077
      @HAROINOIR2077 Рік тому

      yeah, english elite over exploited the whole world and committed genocides through the history

  • @canahmetdarama354
    @canahmetdarama354 11 місяців тому +3

    8:10 "But the Turks were determined"

  • @mp190893
    @mp190893 2 роки тому +2

    I wonder, in any such tragedies, whenever the British are mentioned, unless they are suffering something, they are always piling more misery, and also, not letting others help. Something, NOT to learn from them.

  • @thewholls7176
    @thewholls7176 2 роки тому +6

    I read an article that said the population at the time in Ireland was 8 million people and after the famine it was reduced by half to 4,000,000 due to immigration and death and even today in 2022 population has never recovered
    I’m not sure if it’s true but there’s references for that on Google

    • @alb7568
      @alb7568 2 роки тому

      Now they are 7 milion i think

    • @comradekenobi6908
      @comradekenobi6908 2 роки тому +1

      @@alb7568 never fully recovered
      If the famine didn't happen there would be 10+ million by now

    • @joprocter4573
      @joprocter4573 2 роки тому +1

      The
      whollis..... Who would want a poor woman to be pregnant full time up to 16 kids.. Terrible

    • @emcc8598
      @emcc8598 2 роки тому

      @@joprocter4573 Yes the British should not have had all the children during Victorian times. Charles Dickens very vividly describes the awful conditions and large families in Britain and the destitute children roaming the streets. Terrible.

    • @SallySturman
      @SallySturman 2 роки тому

      @@emcc8598 What is it you want to achieve exactly? Do you want all English people dead?

  • @robdrummond6028
    @robdrummond6028 9 місяців тому +2

    A couple of mpoints mate:
    1) The IRISH were actually BRITISH at the time you are referring to, in the same way as there are even today ''Irish British'' - ''Scottish British'' - ''Welsh British'' and ''English British''. You keep referring to ''British Authorities'' - which show you may not be aware the Irish themselves were also Brits. I do realise many Irish people have distanced themselves from their being British - but they were.
    2) There was no UNITED KINGDOM as your video suggests, the name of the country at that time was ''Great Britian & Ireland''
    so, there you go.
    The United Kingdom came about in the 1920's

  • @geovanniali6060
    @geovanniali6060 2 роки тому +8

    One of many genocides in Ireland and through out the world caused by the British empire.
    Loud and high we'll raise the cry.

    • @SallySturman
      @SallySturman 2 роки тому

      Yes, damn the Roman Empire for invading ancient Britain, without which the Germanic invaders and their royals would never have come here.

    • @geovanniali6060
      @geovanniali6060 2 роки тому

      @@SallySturman ?

    • @SallySturman
      @SallySturman 2 роки тому

      @@geovanniali6060 The Germanic invaders of Britain = The British Empire.

    • @emcc8598
      @emcc8598 2 роки тому

      @Lily Wood eh which black pope is that 🤔

    • @emcc8598
      @emcc8598 2 роки тому

      @@lilywood6206 Wut? Btw as stated I'm not Catholic!

  • @peterdoyle1591
    @peterdoyle1591 2 роки тому +2

    That was a great video. But you must remember that the penal laws of the 18th century forced the poorest of the poor to depend on the potato. It was the only crop that was quite happy to grow halfway up a mountain. And an acre if tended with care could feed a family for a year. God brought the potato blight. But the English brought the famine. The definition of famine is a general scarcity of food. In Ireland, there was no scarcity of food. But the British laws made the Irish so poor that they could not afford to buy the produce of their own country and so it was exported to better markets.

  • @Angelotvkool
    @Angelotvkool 2 роки тому +3

    The real beast in this story is England. No offense to the English in 2022, but why did the English treated the Irish like sh.t...

    • @robzsarmy5471
      @robzsarmy5471 2 роки тому +1

      Its not only English actually almost half of the british soldiers who genocided were Scottish

  • @kevinvanharen1740
    @kevinvanharen1740 Рік тому +2

    Genuine question. Why didn't the Irish just flee to other European countries? The trip would be way closer and less dangerous.

    • @stiofain88
      @stiofain88 Рік тому +1

      They didn't speak the language and the ships were mostly going to the US. Not like you could tell a ship owner could you please drop me down to Monaco?

  • @papazataklaattiranimam
    @papazataklaattiranimam 2 роки тому +8

    Patato > Everything

  • @terrygelinas4593
    @terrygelinas4593 2 роки тому +22

    It makes sense for the entire island of Ireland to be a separate sovereign country.

    • @comradekenobi6908
      @comradekenobi6908 2 роки тому +3

      When I was a kid I wondered why Ireland isn't part of UK fully since they already have N Ireland
      Now when I grow older I realised why and just wanted a united Ireland

    • @RUBBER_BULLET
      @RUBBER_BULLET 2 роки тому

      Irexit?

    • @comradekenobi6908
      @comradekenobi6908 2 роки тому +1

      @@RUBBER_BULLET no, Unification of Ireland

    • @CKW10001
      @CKW10001 2 роки тому +1

      Don't mind that 🤡 talking about a Irexit, unlike them fool's in England, we don't cut off our nose to spite our face.
      Thank you. I hope very soon that after 100 odd years Ireland will be finally United.

    • @comradekenobi6908
      @comradekenobi6908 2 роки тому +2

      @@CKW10001 I don't like how it's called Irexit. I mean Ireland exit? Ireland exited out of what exactly?
      Irish unification seems more fitting

  • @namenloser7026
    @namenloser7026 2 роки тому +16

    The ottoman helpt them a lot in this crisis although the ottoman had at that time their own crisis haha

  • @briank10101
    @briank10101 Рік тому

    It's hard to even imagine the pain and suffering these souls went through.

  • @jenniferreihana5155
    @jenniferreihana5155 2 роки тому +3

    This was shocking to watch. I'm part Irish and my ancestors lived through that thanks (not) again to the greed of the english. Shocking!!

  • @thetrollslayer3716
    @thetrollslayer3716 Рік тому +1

    Potatoes were a staple and a life saver during winter. What did the diabetics eat?

  • @johndoeiii9767
    @johndoeiii9767 2 роки тому +7

    The Ottomans helped the Irish, when others wouldn't.

    • @thanhhoangnguyen4754
      @thanhhoangnguyen4754 2 роки тому

      especially when they also have problems of their own.

    • @ByaheroPH25
      @ByaheroPH25 2 роки тому

      Britain £525,000
      USA £170,000
      Indian Ocean £50,000
      France £26,000
      Canada £22,000
      West Indies £17,000
      Italy £13,000
      Australia £9,000
      The Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark £5,000
      Germany and Switzerland £4,500
      South Africa £4,000
      Latin America £3,500
      Russia £2,500
      The Ottoman Empire £2,000
      Other British Dependencies £2,000
      Spain and Portugal £1,000

    • @thanhhoangnguyen4754
      @thanhhoangnguyen4754 2 роки тому

      @@ByaheroPH25 Hold it right there my friend. There is no Germany only german states not a nation.Same case for Italy
      Also the indies are part of the British domain.
      Also the British administration keep the money don't donate much (Even though they don't need to donate just stop exporting food from Ireland, i mean come on why keep import other fron Ireland when they could be used to feed the people)

    • @ByaheroPH25
      @ByaheroPH25 2 роки тому

      @@thanhhoangnguyen4754 well i cant tell what specific German states that time can you? its Germany whatever it is

    • @ByaheroPH25
      @ByaheroPH25 2 роки тому

      @@thanhhoangnguyen4754 also italy i cant tell naples donated $$$ Rome donated i don't need to do that it just common sense its still italy whatever it is

  • @onurshenol
    @onurshenol Рік тому +1

    .. and this is why/how the Drogheda port town and their Football Club had a moon and a crescent symbol on their emblem

  • @Frenchylikeshikes
    @Frenchylikeshikes 2 роки тому +13

    For some reason, I have a feeling that if that famine had been happening near London, the response would have been quite different.

  • @crimony3054
    @crimony3054 2 роки тому +2

    John Lennon famously said, "I'm a musician. You give me a tuber, I'll get you something out of it."

  • @m.u.a.4382
    @m.u.a.4382 2 роки тому +30

    A young girl was walking along a beach upon which thousands of starfish had been washed up during a terrible storm. When she came to each starfish, she would pick it up, and throw it back into the ocean. People watched her with amusement.
    She had been doing this for some time when a man approached her and said, “Little girl, why are you doing this? Look at this beach! You can’t save all these starfish. You can’t begin to make a difference!”
    The girl seemed crushed, suddenly deflated. But after a few moments, she bent down, picked up another starfish, and hurled it as far as she could into the ocean. Then she looked up at the man and replied,
    “Well, I made a difference for that one!”
    Maybe those delivered money and ships were not enough to save all Irish people, but some of them saved.
    £10.000 of 1845 equals to £1.437.017 of 2022.

  • @SadaqatAli-ei5rd
    @SadaqatAli-ei5rd Рік тому +1

    Ottomans showed great humanitarian effort at the time when they were also struggling with politics and economy 👏

  • @Grand_turco1453
    @Grand_turco1453 2 роки тому +15

    Ottoman,İreland and potato🇹🇷❤🇮🇪

    • @ZYXPQI
      @ZYXPQI 2 роки тому +10

      Armenian genocide happened

    • @bolubeyi8959
      @bolubeyi8959 2 роки тому +5

      ​@@ZYXPQI Did you want to say armenian rebels killed innocent Turkish people with French support and after that Ottomans gave them justice happened?

    • @kennywong489
      @kennywong489 2 роки тому +4

      Ottoman.... Barbary pirates...

    • @Grand_turco1453
      @Grand_turco1453 2 роки тому +3

      @@ZYXPQI number of armenians living:900.000
      number of deaths :1.000.000-1.500.000

    • @ZYXPQI
      @ZYXPQI 2 роки тому

      @@Grand_turco1453 yay? 🤷‍♂️

  • @fredrichenning1367
    @fredrichenning1367 2 роки тому +1

    Most of the death toll can be attributed to the cold indifference and downright criminal neglect of the ruling English, not to mention carrying out acts that made it even worse. The Irish have not forgotten these facts.

  • @papazataklaattiranimam
    @papazataklaattiranimam 2 роки тому +24

    Turco-Celtic friendship lmao😅

    • @comradekenobi6908
      @comradekenobi6908 2 роки тому +6

      Funny how a sultan who shared no religion no race with the Irish cared more about them than queen Victoria lol

    • @futboltime12
      @futboltime12 2 роки тому +1

      Olum heryerdesin laaan bir araştırma yapıyom seni görünce o yazdığın troll yorumlar geliyor aklıma

    • @TURUKKİTURAN
      @TURUKKİTURAN Рік тому

      ​@@futboltime12niye trol oluyor

  • @papazataklaattiranimam
    @papazataklaattiranimam 2 роки тому +21

    Wow, Behavior of the Ottomans was so based :)

    • @shivanshsinghiitbombay8407
      @shivanshsinghiitbombay8407 2 роки тому +3

      Yes it was but ottomons suck my feet

    • @kennywong489
      @kennywong489 2 роки тому +5

      Not the ottomans lol. Only the sultan. They didn't collectively vote to reach decisions.

    • @user-op8fg3ny3j
      @user-op8fg3ny3j 2 роки тому

      @@kennywong489 he was a religious sultan

    • @shivanshsinghiitbombay8407
      @shivanshsinghiitbombay8407 2 роки тому +2

      @Yakut58 lmao 💀

    • @FredFurburguer
      @FredFurburguer 2 роки тому +1

      Yeah. A decade earlier they were killing million of greeks and Armenians, and they would keep doing it.
      Id rather call it cynical

  • @jamespetrie8488
    @jamespetrie8488 Рік тому +2

    Manifest destiny was a horrific disaster for the Native Americans too. Maybe you could do a video on that!

  • @amyrichard3203
    @amyrichard3203 2 роки тому +4

    Bad Karma has finally caught up with England, it seems.

  • @AndrewB221
    @AndrewB221 2 роки тому +3

    For your information? I worked in an Irish Bar, Lanigans before it closed and the owner was Italian and that’s here in New Castle, PA and it’s closed

  • @SchvennMeister
    @SchvennMeister 2 роки тому +1

    Prior to the famine, Ireland had 8.5 million people, 5 million left, 2 million died, leaving roughly 3.5 million, less than half the population. Today, in 2022, their population is only5 million. So much for the great English empire, which pretty much actively tried to kill off the Irish in the process, rather than help.

  • @luigi7720
    @luigi7720 2 роки тому +7

    Thank god Irland is now independent

  • @JoDo777
    @JoDo777 2 роки тому +2

    Long Live IRELAND! A magical and special land!!

  • @derrydoire1864
    @derrydoire1864 2 роки тому +4

    GENOCIDE not FAMINE 🇮🇪🇮🇪☘️☘️

  • @oblivionrapture1469
    @oblivionrapture1469 2 роки тому +2

    Crazy that ottomans had to SMUGGLE FOOD IN during a famine….

  • @daveroche6522
    @daveroche6522 2 роки тому +17

    Thankfully some lessons from history are actually learnt - just look at the caring, empathic, sharing government of England at the moment. Oh, wait.......

    • @smoker6683
      @smoker6683 2 роки тому +3

      Yeah they’re still just a bunch of sociopaths - An Englishman