This is a brilliant piece of work on Irish history

More people should watch this.

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 so much for this documentary

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!!!

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.

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.

Our self àlone forget😢

Poor people today are treated nearly as bad .

Can anyone tell me ‘exactly’ where this building remains are in skibbereen at 14mins in video, I would be grateful?

@skibbereenheritagecentre8706

2 жыл бұрын

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 kzread.info/dash/bejne/oISmlK-CdqapgcY.html

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.

@davepowell7168

2 жыл бұрын

Britain's Hidden History channel

@johnfrancis2215

Жыл бұрын

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

@Hands2HealNow

Жыл бұрын

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.

@freebeerfordworkers

3 ай бұрын

Did you not listen to the commentary where she says the landlord got just three shillings of the 40 shillings every peasant paid for his plot? Just 7.5% of the rent went to the landlord the rest went to mostly Catholic middle men. Nevertheless the landlord got just 7.5% of the rent but 100% of the blame.

And even now, the bastards still haven’t left Ireland entirely

😢those work houses were nothing other than jailes.

@user-gl2eq2ly4g

Жыл бұрын

And centers for the spread of disease

WHERE WAS THE VATICAN DURING THIS CATASTROPHE

@elvenkind6072

Жыл бұрын

Busy ignoring it all...

@freebeerfordworkers

3 ай бұрын

The pope donated £1000 to famine relief which was offset by £1000 donation from more prosperous Catholics towards rebuilding the Vatican Although he probably wasn't aware of this

@freebeerfordworkers

Ай бұрын

The pope donated £1000 but it was offset by a £1000 donation from the Irish church for building work at the Vatican. The people of Britain contributed more than anyone google British relief association for the Irish famine

Why are there no reports of opportunities to fish and hunt along the land?

Revenge for Skibbereen.

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. 💔

Considering the story it seems the deaths from starvation and disease had to be far more.

19:15 the story of Chactaw Indians sending money and grain to the Irish is telling of the natural truth of human nature.

@MichaelEnright-gk6yc

5 ай бұрын

The Chactow Indian's knew what it was like to be enslaved by the conquering colonialist's Poor houses were concentration camps

@freebeerfordworkers

3 ай бұрын

Credit to the Choctaw tribe but they don't tell you that the people of Britain from convicts up to the queen donated more to famine relief than anyone. British railway and steamship companies also carried famine relief free of charge. Google British Relief Association for the Great Irish famine The Queen sponsored two major appeals beginning with £2000 of her own money and her family donated similar amounts. Nevertheless on a fundraising tour of the United States in the 1880's Parnell told the Americans she only donated £5 adding it was the same amount she had donated to a dog's home. This was and in some cases still is widely believed in Ireland. Someone wants to spray paint Parnell's statue in O'Connell St with the following words "lying ****"

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?

@aston0708

Жыл бұрын

actually they did,,,,but the the english blocked the relief,,, i wonder why?

@johnfrancis2215

Жыл бұрын

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

@freebeerfordworkers

3 ай бұрын

No they didn't the story of three ships smuggling food into Drogheda was a complete fabrication by Parnell in the 1880s. The President of Ireland was embarrassed when she thanked the Turks for this on an official visit adding that to commemorate the event the Turkish crescent had been added to the town crest. It had actually been part of the crest awarded by England's King John in the 12th century. You can check this out with the Millmount Museum in Drogheda if you wish and reports of the president's embarrassment can be read online@@aston0708

Interesting that the landlord got just three shillings of the 40 shillings the poorest tenant paid. All the rest went to middleman most if not all of whom would have been Irish Catholics.