Being Irish and knowing the full story, I have one big issue with this otherwise very well made video. It fails to fully explain why we were so dependent on potatoes, when we actually farmed a large variety of food types at the time. Oats, barley, meat and more were all being plentifully produced on the island during the famine - all were forced exports to Great Britain. Cheap spuds were the mainstay of the Irish due to general poverty under British rule and lack of time and resources for homestead farming. This dependency on potatoes was artificial, a result of the demands of colonial rule. Food was continually robbed from the island even as we starved - 'starving in the midst of plenty' is a quote taken from a sympathetic landowner of the time. While this video acknowledges to a degree the British role played in the starvation of the Irish during the 1840s, it actually understates it, and in so doing suggests that it was Irish short-sightedness or, even worse, laziness that led to an over-reliance on a single crop type. The Irish have been master farmers for centuries upon centuries, and although new to the potato as a crop, would have been well aware of the dangers of putting all their eggs in one basket, so to speak. They simply had no choice but to do so.

@samsungphone-fw2hc

Жыл бұрын

Extremely well put young jack not to mention what has happened since, I come from crossmaglen

@lukelyons7255

Жыл бұрын

Exactly the point in my comment also. Well said Jack.

@quintdegourd6342

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, the English landed gentry was in power and saw an opportunity to expand its holdings and further enrich themselves. Who cares about people below 'the cut'? No ruling class has been as hypocrite as the English toffs and still is. They did it again in 2016 by fooling people into Brexit from which the wealthy profit immensely. And again in 2022, grabbing billions in the midst of an extreme crisis for the non-wealthy. Dumbdumb Truss was fooled and now went full Trumpian with her tax bill.

@quintdegourd6342

Жыл бұрын

The Irish would have done better agriculturally if they would have teamed up with the Dutch. But unfortunately, the Irish are Roman Catholic to the hilt and Roman Catholic countries are notorious for underdevelopment as there is something wrong with that church (I don't know what, probably the way it is organised, for the faith itself is OK) that keeps people stupid and down. You see this in every R-C country of the world.

@Haru-nee

Жыл бұрын

I'm not surprised. Britain did that with all its colonies. Who cares if there's a famine, right?

As an irish person I find it absolutely baffling how there were more Irish than Egyptians in the 19th century. Ireland are doing well now but it's been a combination of hard work and smart thinking. We were poor as crap up until the 90s. While we come across very jovial at times scratch below the surface and there is still a lot of pain.

@IchBinDerTitan

Жыл бұрын

Well we weren’t too bad off since the early 70s, it’s just the 90s when we got rich

@Mbwunion

Жыл бұрын

Now it’s the rising cost of living putting downward pressure on population growth

@RealEngineering

Жыл бұрын

Generational trauma runs deep in Ireland

@bighands69

Жыл бұрын

Ireland is wealthier today because it abandoned the idea of government socialism and adapted free market thinking but it has a welfare state mentality. And slowly that welfare state is eating up all of the great market gains Ireland achieved.

@newjerseyselfdefense6199

Жыл бұрын

Look at how much arable land Egypt does not have

Irish GDP per capita tends to abstract away the "pass-through" economy problem. Essentially, the Republic of Ireland is perhaps the best entry point into the European Union economy, primarily (but not only) because of really low taxes. A lot of goods and services enter into Ireland only to be sold to the rest of the EU. GDP is going to be artificially high, but the benefits to the Irish economy and people are tiny.

@richl6966

Жыл бұрын

Yes, there are a lot of big firms based in Dublin that do nothing for Dublin as a city, let alone the country as a whole.

@petergibson2318

Жыл бұрын

A 2019 UN "Quality of Life Index" of all countries ranked Ireland as having the 2nd best "Quality of Life" in the world. Only oil-rich Norway scored better. No country is perfect ...but... being ranked the 2nd best place to live in the world by the UN must mean something. Happy New Year from Ireland.

@WhatTheFunK.

Жыл бұрын

It’s no longer a republic but rather a woke democratic system.

@bu7833

Жыл бұрын

yeah this is kinda poorly researched for this video and dissappointing

@aluminiumknight4038

Жыл бұрын

@@richl6966 but does provide jobs for your people?

You missed out on an important figure, Thomas Malthus. He was a Welsh economist who theorized that Ireland was overpopulated in 1794, thus leading to the action of forcefully withdrawing food from the Irish by the British army, causing a famine. Malthus actually coined the term "overpopulation", that we now use today. He wrote an essay titled, "A Principle on The Theory of Population" in the late 1700's where the term was first used. In it, he theorized that populations can be controlled through war, famine or disease. I would recommend everyone read it. Malthus is often quoted by some political figureheads today which is a bit concerning to me, personally. Klaus Schwab wrote a a dissertation in 1964 regarding controversial Malthusian ideas, here's the title of that, "Thomas Malthus was right and I can prove it." Some governments still seem to be on board with the idea of controlled famine, so what happened to Ireland doesn't seem to be ancient history. It may even be regarded by some as a blueprint for successful depopulation.

@hattielankford4775

Жыл бұрын

Are you saying that the British government intentionally committed genocide on Ireland's population?

@oscaralegre3683

Жыл бұрын

definitely there are governments that want to depopulate the world nowadays

@AB-fo3hj

Жыл бұрын

That's a silly theory, the population is the biggest drive of the economy. In Ireland case, the stupid or cruel British laws are to blame

@MiloManning05

Жыл бұрын

@@AB-fo3hj you know nothing of the true intentions

@AB-fo3hj

Жыл бұрын

@@MiloManning05 it saddens me when white nations are put in collision with each other, instead of synergizing. Analyzing these instances (of clashing) is very important

As an Irishman my myself I can say that the great famine was one of the greatest tragedies that ever happened in Europe… some would even call it an attempted genocide

@patrickbutsmart

Жыл бұрын

Due to one of the main reason for why the famine happened being legal reason (britain) it is fair to say a genocide.

@50TNCSA

Жыл бұрын

The English attempted genocide... I'm shocked I say shocked / heavy sarcasm

@becomingachristian

Жыл бұрын

I’m sure the monarchy has taken full credit for this and worked to rectify its history

@avshzjkncffj8652

Жыл бұрын

@@Felixxxxxxxxx The difference is the government (the British government) did nothing to help us. They let us starve because they thought we deserved it. We owe more to the Turks and to the Chocotaw then we ever do to the British.

@clashwithdaragh

Жыл бұрын

So true, even the 1916 rising, the troubles or the cromwellian war don't compare to the devastation that was the famine

The most amazing thing about Ireland is how they turned their history into a positive by helping other countries who struggle with hunger, I love the Irish!

@kitkat47chrysalis95

Жыл бұрын

how can you love them? they are white colonizers

@tacotuesday2489

Жыл бұрын

Cool

@himynameis3664

Жыл бұрын

That's why you see a lot of Palestinian support here aswell. We understand how wrong it is to hold an entire population hostage in their own country.

@derekbolger8330

Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@tacotuesday2489

Жыл бұрын

@@himynameis3664 Oh yeah hundred percent.. Cant believe after what the jews were through theyd do the exact same thing without a second thought..

My great-grandmother x3 came to Australia 1849. She was a famine orphan. Came through the Earl Gray transport system. She had a hard life, had 11 children and I thank her for giving me a life. I've been to Ireland,and I hope to return one more time. The Irish are truly welcoming people.

@christophercolumbus8944

Жыл бұрын

how many children do you have?

@jstone247

Жыл бұрын

@@christophercolumbus8944 five. And five grandchildren.

@christophercolumbus8944

Жыл бұрын

@@jstone247 excellent good for you

@christophercolumbus8944

Жыл бұрын

i hope theyre all full blooded irish

@alis.b.4631

Жыл бұрын

@@christophercolumbus8944 That doesn't really matter.

One important thing to point out, Ireland's gdp is distorted by the presence of large American multinationals. The Irish government posts figures that exclude these distortions, and these numbers indicate that while Ireland is wealthy, its roughly in line with other parts of Western/Northern Europe.

@jamesmason8944

Жыл бұрын

Exactly, his statistics gloss over what is the reality. One reality being young people unable to purchase homes and high rental rates.

@occamraiser

Жыл бұрын

Corporation Tax farming is a major income stream for ireland - that's why it dropped its rates to bring HQs from europe to irl.

@jamisojo

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing. A distorted statistic.

You did a great job with this video! I'm a 22 year old Irish woman, I've lived in Mayo in the West of Ireland (which was one of the counties that suffered the most during the famine) for my entire life, and I can absolutely still see the great effects the famine has on the people. The tiny road I live on, which is barely a kilometre long, used to have 100 people living along it. Now there are less that 40. There have been studies to suggest that current generations are still effected by the feeling of starvation and scarcity mindset that means that our bodies actually hold onto more calories than average. It can be hard to find records of our ancestors, as so many moved abroad and brought their documentation with them. I know maybe 4 people who speak fluent Irish, but that's only because they grew up in Gaeltacht areas, where most people speak Irish on a day-to-day basis in their communities. Most of my peers would regard the famine as a genocide. Although the overreliance on potatoes was real, other crops still existed and would have kept us afloat if the English didn't insist on exporting them. It's true that the average Irish male ate approx. 20 potatoes A DAY, but we did have other food available. During the famine, people resorted to eating grass, hedgehogs, all sorts of stuff because they were so desperate. Some of the quotes from English leaders at the time about the famine are actually appalling and downright heartless. They had no problem stripping the lands of its resources, helping out their own English landlords, and leaving the Irish to starve. No wonder we still have bitterness towards the English.

@NashvilleUK

Жыл бұрын

Bit dumb singling out the English when it was the British government in control

@niamhl6964

Жыл бұрын

@@NashvilleUK Scotland and Wales were colonised by the English. So I think blaming the individual coloniser, the English, over the British as a whole, makes more sense

@zakcullen6124

Жыл бұрын

Despite all that happened, in schools they never call it a genocide, to avoid anti British sentiment. We are a nation that experienced immense tragedy whether it be under the British as well as under our own catholic church and laundries. Hopefully as we begin to thrive we can be a good example to other nations.

@hotbeefo

Жыл бұрын

@@niamhl6964 Scotland joined the union voluntarily.

@cheesebuger13

Жыл бұрын

My grandmother is from Mayo, she immigrated to the states in the 50's. She told me about the effects of the famine as well.

My grandparents left Ireland in 1961, they said there were no economic opportunities for them at home. They're amazed at how much the country has grown since

@MarsJenkar

Жыл бұрын

Seems they left as the island's situation was scraping rock bottom, and about to finally take a turn for the better.

@Declan_Moriarty

Жыл бұрын

Oh wow. That's my family's story too. My grandparents left the homeland in the late 50's, settled in the Bronx, NY. God bless

@IchBinDerTitan

Жыл бұрын

Same thing happened to my grandparents and my my grandaunts and uncles, but luckily my grand parents ended up moving back after 20 years. But since my grand aunts and uncles didn’t I have a lot of American/English/Welsh relatives

@brendenmcmahon2023

Жыл бұрын

Me too- did they go to the USA or Canada?

@arolemaprarath6615

Жыл бұрын

So sad that Irish language is now extinct

My father's family came to the New World from Ireland during the Famine in the 1840s and worked as fur traders in Canada before making their way down to the states. My mother's family, however, stayed, only leaving for the states during the political unrest and economic turmoil leading up to the Troubles in the 1950s. I'm still astounded by the way they were able to find each other. While my father's family had slowly begun to let go of their heritage as they became Americanized, only preserving certain cultural artifacts and celebrations tangentially during holidays, my mother's family fought to hold onto their heritage and worked to instill a great sense of pride in us as we grew up. I still have a lot of family members in Ireland who, as you mentioned, moved across the island from counties Mayo and Galway to Dublin in the decades after the Famine. It was through hard work and a great sense of national pride that they stayed on the island through the war for independence, the Troubles, and even today with Brexit raising major red flags with regards to the ROI/NI border. While I don't think this video was necessarily a perfect history of the Famine, it's good to see people continuing to speak about it both through the lenses of historical fact and as a major influence of the modern day. Erin go Bragh! ☘

@jamestoh2519

Жыл бұрын

It's time to fight off British rule

@aboutlivvy

Жыл бұрын

BRITISHHHHHHHHHH

@nickiemcnichols5397

Жыл бұрын

Maybe the Irish are too smart to overpopulate.

@icosthop9998

Жыл бұрын

@@nickiemcnichols5397 yes

@drumtheraver9452

Жыл бұрын

I'm from Great Britain, I feel saddened that our government did that and feel very sympathetic towards Ireland, our government should be sending over serious amounts of compensation

Your content is so interesting and inspiring!

Fun fact: I helped paint the graffiti on the building at 0:18. Finbar McHugh is the artists name!

@brickmedusa

Жыл бұрын

Never thought I'll see you here

@simonsaysno

Жыл бұрын

Real Engineering and RealLifeLore should form a team and challenge Sam to do another Jet Lag: The Game.

@some_guy7734

Жыл бұрын

Hi Real Engineering :D

@hubertmenschubermensch2985

Жыл бұрын

Real Engineering helped paint graffiti featured in b roll footage of the footage explaining how our population is small... Forget the video, that shows how small we are lmao

@Rmx2011

Жыл бұрын

Nice, that's a cool piece of art.

During the Famine, Ottoman Sultan sent three ships loaded with wheat. The British blocked the ports for them, but one of the ships managed to drop the cargo at a beach close to Drogheda, it helped local starving fisherman.

@Karlach_

Жыл бұрын

People harp on about the messed up stuff the US has done but completely ignore the evil shit England has been doing for centuries

@JohnnyDoh

Жыл бұрын

That Sultan probably saved lots of lives. And even more if not for the English. Thank you from a Irish American and thank you for this story 🙏

@lasakau272

Жыл бұрын

Lies lol

@jamescurtis9634

Жыл бұрын

@@lasakau272 No, truth in that one. The Drogheda football team even have a crescent moon on their jerseys in honour of it. Worth a look, and if you're interested in outside help to Ireland check the Choctaw Nation from the USA, amazing solidarity

@katemarin8363

Жыл бұрын

@@jamescurtis9634 Glad you mentioned the Choctaw- Their numbers were literally decimated, having just struggled to their new, bare land over the "Trail of Tears." Yet their hearts were so touched by this evil, they sent almost $100 (which was clearly worth far more then than now) to those suffering in Ireland. I will always have a warm place in my heart for the Choctaw.

Love your content bro you're an absolute legend

I just spent hours watching your videos! Thank you.

I've lived in Ireland for the past 13 years, and it's fascinating to think of how the country would have looked had it not suffered the famine and reached the 20+ millions you indicated. Instead of just Belfast and Dublin we might have had other large cities, perhaps in Cork, Waterford, Limerick, or Galway.

@somerandomperson3970

Жыл бұрын

The world would suffer. Remember, the Irish had the 3rd largest voting population in the US. Without them, most nations would still be a colony after WW2.

@itsjonathanbitch

Жыл бұрын

If you look at the population spread from 1800, it’s seems most populated areas where mid north east. I’d say we could have had a few mega city’s up the east coast, like Dublin, in Drogheda and Dundalk leading up to Northern Ireland city’s.

@Abhinav_Sengupta

Жыл бұрын

A city like Dublin would have been a metropolis.

@mycelia_ow

Жыл бұрын

@@somerandomperson3970 US would have been better for it too, if the famine did not happen. We're talking about a massive butterfly effect here that gets stronger the more time goes on. By the time ww2 comes around people who wouldn't have otherwise been born in Ireland could end up changing the geopolitical landscape as we know it, long before ww2. Perhaps Ireland annexes England or becomes their equal in power. Many possibilities.

@closki226

Жыл бұрын

@@mycelia_ow England will always be part of Ireland with Northern Ireland

As an Irishman this was a well put together summary of the whole issue. Well done.

@Mr.Noob1

Жыл бұрын

@@abcxyz2927 You do know that increased abortion rights don't decrease the size of a population. Also why bring this subject into this?

@xotan

Жыл бұрын

@@abcxyz2927 Are you Irish? Do you know the second horror that beset our poverty stricken island? Have you checked the number of clergy who died of starvation during the Great Famine? Are you aware of the state within the state? Ultramontanism? . An aristocratic clergy who owed its allegiance to Rome, not to Ireland? We had two battles for freedom, one against the British. Guess what was the second one! Do you know the song "The fields of Athenry" whose composer died a matter of a few weeks ago? It's about the Great Famine. We Irish have long memories, and although generally polite, do not forget or easily forgive those whose loyalty was not focused entirely on our land. "We serve neither King nor Kaiser, ( nor any other foreign potentate) But Ireland". Now tell me, what did the Papal States do for the starving millions in Ireland? Sweet Fanny Adams, although the Vatican was/is rich.

@MoreGeography

Жыл бұрын

@@xotan That guy didn’t mention the clergy at all though? What was the long rant for?

@DIEKALSTER8

Жыл бұрын

He didn't include the population of Northern Ireland in the modern picture, but it was included in the older ones?

@Mr.Noob1

Жыл бұрын

@@abcxyz2927 The median age of Ireland was 37.4 in 2016, that's where you are right. But how did you come up with 40.2? in 2021 it was 38.25 and in 2022 it is 38.2, so it's currently sinking slightly, which btw is good in comparison to the rest of europe.

Enjoyed this. Thanks

As an Irish person settled in Norway with Norwegian family I can say that the need to emigrate is still very high in Ireland . Modern issues mostly revolve around housing , we can’t get that right even after the worlds worst housing crash the world has seen.

@apjpisared

10 ай бұрын

Sure even those of us looking at a year or two back are eyeing up Belfast. The Republic is no place to risk being homeless/living out of grossly overpriced short term lets or airbnbs while looking for work. Even those living back there still, many have moved up North from what I see.

As a young Irish lad from Dublin, I have to say that this is one of the best summaries of recent Irish history that I've seen, and way more consumable than hisory class. I want Ireland to do great, and I primarily want the Irish language to grow. This video has reminded me how important this country and this language are to me and other Irish people. Tír gan teanga, tír gan anam. Go raibh míle maith agat don físean seo! Tiocfaidh ár lá!

@grandebadidea7689

Жыл бұрын

Can you tell me why are Irish so rich, the GDP per capita omg?

@centurymemes1208

Жыл бұрын

Cope, seethe. Rule britannia 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

@katherinelennon668

Жыл бұрын

I agree I really hope the Irish language will flourish again someday. I am an American with Irish grand parents so it’s difficult for me to learn Irish. But if I had the opportunity I absolutely would!

@danielbentham758

Жыл бұрын

@@grandebadidea7689 because corporations register there for tax purposes pushing it up massively. Its inflated

@dhanvi-shah

Жыл бұрын

Dia duit!

Nowadays it’s not a shortage of food, it’s a shortage of housing. Right now we aren’t able to keep a roof over the heads of our homeless, refugees and sometimes even students. Definitely a problem we’ll have to work hard to tackle over the next decade or so

@darkMuffin31

Жыл бұрын

How do you rationalize a country where new housing is always being built and the average family has 1.38 children also has a housing crisis? Seems obvious that the problem isn’t housing…

@conallmccabe385

Жыл бұрын

@@darkMuffin31 do some research before you comment, it’s not just the fact that there are little houses being built, it’s the extortionate price of rent that landlords are charging meaning young people and worse off families are unable to have their own home.

@eugeniabarsukova

Жыл бұрын

@@darkMuffin31 there's a video by Foil, Arms and Hog: "Why you'll never buy a house in Ireland"

@MichaelDavis-mk4me

Жыл бұрын

@@conallmccabe385 But they couldn't charge a lot if loads of houses were built, increasing competition between landlords. The same thing is happening in Canada, I loan my house, it used to be very hard to find people that wanted an apartment, but now that there are no houses being built and no apartments left, I crank up the prices, just like everyone else since there is no competition. That and rising interest rates mean the house costs more, which is then passed on the people loaning. Landlords don't do charity, welcome to the real world.

@ElectrostatiCrow

Жыл бұрын

@@darkMuffin31 Well if I remember correctly I read that Ireland and the UK have enough house for all their homeless and about 10% of houses in London for example are vacant because people who buy real estate do that to push up prices and profit.

Thank you , it's well made and a step forward.

Excellent video bro

I'm a Canadian of Irish descent. My ancestors came to Canada because of the famine. I find this stuff fascinating. I really want to go to Ireland some day

@alanbudde8560

Жыл бұрын

Its beautiful, highly recommend! Scotland too!

@Lando-kx6so

Жыл бұрын

You can get Irish citizenship & live there if you want

@robertcarter4722

Жыл бұрын

@@alanbudde8560 SCOOTLAND FOREVER lol I agree, thoughts on nicola?

@chad_b

Жыл бұрын

@@alanbudde8560 Scottish is the second biggest chunk of my heritage so I'd love to go there too

@chad_b

Жыл бұрын

@@Lando-kx6so I've actually thought about that before. It might be kind of cool to start over somewhere and return to my ancestral land

When I visited, I was shocked at how sparsely populated Ireland is and how small it’s cities are compared to the US. Crazy to think how culturally important and popular Ireland is vs how small the population is. The people there are incredible and were very friendly.

@mrcaboosevg6089

Жыл бұрын

Only culturally important and popular in the US, the rest of the world really doesn't notice Ireland exists. i'm 20% Irish and i don't really care about Irish culture at all

@guysumpthin2974

Жыл бұрын

Mostly,They’re incredibly wise with high family values and great work ethic (for those who stay out of the pubs)

@yoyoholck

Жыл бұрын

Nah families are mostly completely broken.

@Isjshdkskskajsj

Жыл бұрын

@bab ep3 Irish culture is also popular and culturally important in my country Japan, not just in U.S. Try searching about significance of Irish culture around globe, you will be astonished how much significance it has.

@barryb90

Жыл бұрын

@bab ep3 There's a massive Irish diaspora in Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand.

Love your content 👻

Thanks for the video RealLifeLore from the native Irish people like me.

As an Irishman I would have loved if Irish was still the main language of the island. I've learned it throughout school but sadly hardly remember any as it isnt widely spoken, especially in the east where I live.

@X525Crossfire

Жыл бұрын

From what I've been able to hear, it's a beautiful and unique language (at least within the context of European languages). Really does suck that England is such a sucky overlord.

@silveriver9

Жыл бұрын

Economically, Ireland is better off having English as the main language as English is the world's lingua franca and it is one of the main reasons for foreign direct investment.

@OzzyM1998

Жыл бұрын

@@silveriver9 That is certainly true! It would just be nice to have our own language I believe. I am also envious of the fact that the majority of Europeans are bilingual and how they seem to find it much easier to pick up other new languages as they already have experience becoming fluent in a second one.

@liamcullen5105

Жыл бұрын

The education system teaches it horribly

@OzzyM1998

Жыл бұрын

@@liamcullen5105 Terrible, but no use of it outside of school doesnt help. I'd love to compare it to how English is thought in other countries.

Greetings from Limerick in the Republic of Ireland. I am a 70s baby growing up in a hugely challenging and changing Ireland. I thoroughly enjoyed watching RealLifeLore breakdown of Irelands turbulent past. The piece was well researched and written by . No real sticky bits. Thanks RealLifeLore.

@barcodereader

Жыл бұрын

🇬🇧

@cro1884

Жыл бұрын

Yessir fellow limerick brother

This video actually shows how badly the famine struck the emerald isle, the graphics and the comparisons help you to understand the HUGE IMPACT it had, congrats 👏

Can you do one like this for Jamaica regarding the slow population growth. This is Very informative. Thank you.

As a Brit, what England did do Ireland is heart breaking, it's not something we learn about in schools very much which is a crime, we need to hear about the consequences of Empire more often

@WinterIsBestSeason69

Жыл бұрын

its not a crime though its completely irrelevant

@oliverleonard7730

Жыл бұрын

True it's not a crime, but we should and could have done a lot more to help the Irish than we did.

@glandersonbooper9342

Жыл бұрын

@@WinterIsBestSeason69 I agree with your name. It's almost that time of year! We already have snow in the mountains where I live.

@WinterIsBestSeason69

Жыл бұрын

@@glandersonbooper9342 mhm, 9 full months without summer is quite nice

@gibbo7879

Жыл бұрын

​@@WinterIsBestSeason69 The UK is happy to call what Russia did in Holodomor a genocide but what they did in Ireland and Bengal isn't?

As an asian, I was always wondering why so many people in the US have Irish ancestry but I found the answer today. Thank you for a nice video!

@attiladahunk8211

Жыл бұрын

@ Ui Chroinin Did you have a stroke when writing this?

@georgeiii2998

Жыл бұрын

@Ui Chroinin He/she said that they knew the answer.

@kobemop

Жыл бұрын

most americans are germans, but yes there are lots of irish

@v.e1374

Жыл бұрын

@@kobemop that's not even true idk where u got that from

@brownjatt21

Жыл бұрын

@@v.e1374 if You break down the white population by race there's more of German ancestry than Irish in the US. There's probably more English tbh but a lot of English Americans had been here so long they just started marking down American in the census after that option was opened up so it's hard to know exactly.

An important thing to consider with the Famine was how is served the interests of the landlords who wanted to have less tenants on larger farm

@occamraiser

Жыл бұрын

it is 'fewer tenants;' not 'less tenants' and grammar isn't the only error in that statement.

@cushyglen4264

Жыл бұрын

Not all landlords by any means. Many did their best for their tenants but were victims of the system they inherited. It’s interesting to reflect that the decline of the landed gentry in Ireland began with the 1840s. By the end of the century they were finished. I think the British concluded they were no longer useful agents in governing Ireland. Instead they built up the Catholic Church to a point where they were able to take over after ‘independence’.

@ismilehossain3588

Жыл бұрын

@@occamraiser This sounds like something an english person would say.

@vatnidd

Жыл бұрын

@@occamraiser "Less" has been used with countable nouns since Old English times (i.e. over 1000 years ago)

Thanks!

Love the video, I feel you did the history a justice. One short note though: I feel like it's important to explain why the Irish became dangerously reliant on potatoes, because it wasn't out of choice or ignorance. The vast majority of land used for agriculture production was owned and organized by platantioners from England and worked on by Irish laborers. Most Irish had to grow crops in off seasons or on land considered unsuitable for crop production (except for the amazing potatoes that grow anywhere) when the famine hit, most of these plantationers were concerned about their yields and profits and not the lives of those living and working on their plots, so they sent mercenary tax collectors and farm managers to make sure tenants were still paying dues (or being evicted if they weren't) and still producing their crops. That's why food exports didn't stop during the famine, that's why the whiggs built workhouses instead of provide aid to make sure the Irish were still producing value instead of consuming. In my opinion, it's profit incentivized genocide and should be labeled as such. The same title can be given to the horrific famines during colonial India imo. But we should legitimize this definition of genocide.

@wainber1

Жыл бұрын

Ukraine's own Golodomor (aka Holodomor) was also a genocide although collectivization across the Soviet Union was likewise an abject failure.

@CrabTastingMan

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I was a bit ticked this video kinda makes it look like Ireland just screwed itself over with eatingn too many potatoes like some dumb pig. I am thoroughly disappointed for this video not showing the oppression of Ireland that has been going on for centuries before this, and outcries of "let the Irish starve, it is their divine punishment" kind of rhetoric that existed during the famine but was certainly far older, as in the 1600s, some English scholars suggested an artificially created starvation to teach the Irish their place. Not to mention numerous attempts to paint Irish as "half-ape subhumans related to half-ape Iberians" etc. to dehumanize and discourage any human sympathy to the residents of the island. The starvation and the refusal to give back what they exploited for centuries by basic relief aid, was just what the English were trying to do for centuries: steal the land and drive out the population. Not to mention the steady decrease in land fertility was at the expense of Ireland but done for the benefit of England. Then of course when the English took everything and some Irish followed it to England, the English will portray this as Irish being spiteful but cannot help but eat off the England's hand. But in actuality more like robbing people and using to build industries with it, then pretending giving mere crumbs of what was stolen that Irish are forced to "work to earn" as "magnanimous ever-sympathetic charity" from the English.

@CrabTastingMan

Жыл бұрын

@@wainber1 England killing 7 million people in the Bengal Famine, despite even the viceroyalty objecting Churchill's requisition of Indian grain "for English to eat in case the war drags on for longer." (Churchill ignored the warnings and said something along the lines of "if the famine is so bad, why isn't that rebel Gandhi dead yet?") was tantamount to the 7 million for the dead Ukrainian deaths during the Holodomor. This is why 50,000 Ukrainians fought their oppressor Stalin with Germany's help in the Ostlegionen, and 5,000 Indians even went to Germany to form the Free India Legion to fight the English oppressors.

@KrishnaSharma-io4ic

Жыл бұрын

thanks for bringing out the similarities of genocide in India in 19th century and Genocide in Ireland. British were even more evil than Nazis

@quinsuchor7725

Жыл бұрын

EXACTLY!! It wasn't a famine--there was food to be eaten, but the Irish weren't allowed to eat it. It all had to be exported. Behind the Bastards did a great 2 parter on this back in April (That Time Britain did a Genocide in Ireland) that goes over all the ways that The Hunger was a genocide and not a famine.

This is one of the most accurate accounts of the situation we faced here in Ireland. Thank you for drawing attention to the devastation our country suffered.

@CrabTastingMan

Жыл бұрын

I am thoroughly disappointed for this video not showing the oppression of Ireland that has been going on for centuries before this, and outcries of "let the Irish starve, it is their divine punishment" kind of rhetoric that existed during the famine but was certainly far older, as in the 1600s, some English scholars suggested an artificially created starvation to teach the Irish their place. Not to mention numerous attempts to paint Irish as "half-ape subhumans related to half-ape Iberians" etc. to dehumanize and discourage any human sympathy to the residents of the island. The starvation and the refusal to give back what they exploited for centuries by basic relief aid, was just what the English were trying to do for centuries: steal the land and drive out the population. Not to mention the steady decrease in land fertility was at the expense of Ireland but done for the benefit of England. Then of course when the English took everything and some Irish followed it to England, the English will portray this as Irish being spiteful but cannot help but eat off the England's hand. But in actuality more like robbing people and using to build industries with it, then pretending giving mere crumbs of what was stolen that Irish are forced to "work to earn" as "magnanimous ever-sympathetic charity" from the English.

@dusk1673

Жыл бұрын

Australia and Canada will rule the commonwealth in 100-200 years, UK is next to fall

Great video! I am currently working on an essay regarding Irish language. This video presents a lot of useful facts for my essay! Is there any possibility for me to receive or know the sources you have used in making of this video? Thank you! Love your channel and the work you do.

"There's only one direction left to go, up" Why does this go hard?

As an Irishman this still stings terribly to think about, it's insane the country was so much bigger, at its lowest we got to only 3 million I believe

@CrabTastingMan

Жыл бұрын

It's even infuriating, like with India and Pakistan, even as the English were driven out they sowed division in Ireland to make the nation to split apart to delay England from receiving the tiniest fraction of what can be called its just desserts.

@jonchedgy6654

Жыл бұрын

@@CrabTastingMan I don't think we sowed division as we were driven out - I think we did it 300 years earlier during the european religious wars.

@Booz2020

Жыл бұрын

Ya surname Gonzalez but Irishman 🏄 Cool story bruh💬

@bristoled93

Жыл бұрын

@@CrabTastingMan You can't blame the English if south Asians and Irish hate each other, it's not England's fault if Irish protestants and Catholics hate each other or Hindus and Muslims hate each other.

@pebystroll

Жыл бұрын

@@bristoled93 wow I wonder if you're biased at all with that profile picture

To be honest… I haven’t really watched your videos in a while, but years ago, on a different account, I used to be a HUGE fan. Your tsunami video is still my favourite KZread video to date. The book you wrote is sitting on my shelf right now, one of my favourite non-fiction books. I watched your 100k, 1 mill and 2 mill QnA’s. It’s crazy coming back to you with 6 mill. I think I’m gonna start watching you consistently again, since I don’t really know why I stopped watching you in the first place. I love your channel!

@diabolivirtusen-tavares-ea4645

Жыл бұрын

maybe you didnt turn on post notifications.... maybe u thought u were too good for the channel and us 🤔

@_Super_Hans_

Жыл бұрын

Why haven't you watched his videos of you're a 'huge fan'? Obviously not that 'huge'.

@aquietwhyme

Жыл бұрын

Edgelord responses to your comment, lulz.

I'm glad you mentioned Liverpool

I’m British and I seriously, *seriously* wish this was taught in our schools. Ireland is our next door neighbour, we have similar geographies and ancestries. We should have been natural allies. I’m sorry that the British aristocracy and political class used and used Irish lands like they meant nothing. Great video as always.

@Racko.

Жыл бұрын

Sometimes I really think countries really love to leave out major horrible conflicts they did to others out of their education system to keep students from knowing it

@alcabone1126

Жыл бұрын

Another one is British rule in India. At least 3 big famines(larger than the Potato famine by deaths, doesn't make any of these famines more important just a comparison. Benghal famine of 1770, Bangalore Famine 1876-8 and the Benghal famine of 1943-44. Largely due to the priority placed on growing cash crops to export to the UK compared to food for Indians.

@joshwenn989

Жыл бұрын

@@alcabone1126 The Bengal Famine literally caused by the Japanese invasion of India?

@adamshatwell8437

Жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree more here. Whilst we are generally taught about the atrocities caused by and as a result of British imperialism, Ireland in general is barely touched upon despite it essentially being lodged under England's (later Britain's) foot for 800+ years. There's a focus on teaching appreciation of humanity's past mistakes to prevent them from being repeated (transatlantic slave trade, inter-war Germany etc.) and yet our mistreatment of our neighbour was never covered when I was at school, despite the millions of lives lost or ruined as a result. You'd think the comparatively recent troubles would make it even more relevant in context, but apparently not. The actions of those Brits mentioned in the video, as well as others like Oliver Cromwell, are in my opinion completely and utterly despicable and I seriously wish all the best for Ireland as a nation, regardless of whether or not the north reunites with the republic :)

@maxdavis7722

Жыл бұрын

@@alcabone1126 I don’t know about the other two famines but the bengal famine in 1943 is not due to the British at all.

Thank you for making this video. Its a tragic history that I wish more people were aware of. Both my mom and dad's side were from families that fled Ireland during the famine. There's so many layers to this tragedy beyond just the initial loss of life and lands. My fathers side never recovered financially from leaving. They still live in pretty serious poverty generations later after coming to America.

Ireland is on my bucket list of places to visit.

Interesting video

I didn't realize until visiting Scotland that there was also a potato famine in the late 1840s in Scotland also, and it coincided with the Highland Clearances. Though that only affected a few hundred thousand people (as opposed to millions in Ireland) it might make for its own video. With that said the Irish famine had/has tremendous world-historical importance.

@damonf4340

Жыл бұрын

The potato famine affected most of northwest Europe. It hit Ireland hardest, mostly because potatoes were poor people food and most other veg was rich British absentee landlord food.

@dex6316

Жыл бұрын

@Robert Lemon poor people (most Irish) ate potatoes while rich people (like the British who ruled over them) ate other crops.

@Dutcheh

Жыл бұрын

the potato famine hit the US and nearly all of Europe. the only reason Ireland was affected as hard as they were was due to the English’s policies on governing Ireland. They would not let them import other cheap foods. They wouldn’t let them own land, etc. Ireland would have been impacted the same as say belgium (which relied even heavier on the potato yet didnt starve to the same extent) if it weren’t for the English

@gingerandbroke1402

Жыл бұрын

The British were feasting on the food being exported out of Ireland during the famine so they didn't suffer to badly.

@maxdavis7722

Жыл бұрын

@@Dutcheh that’s just not true at all, the Irish were allowed to own land and the Belgian reliance on the potato wasn’t even close to the Irish reliance. Ireland suffered from this because they relied strongly on the potato and were poor/unindustrialised.

I was always drawn to Ireland the green island. 🙂 I hope to visit one day. Greetings fellow humans from Bosnia 🇧🇦

@grumpofitzgerald4350

Жыл бұрын

Greetings from Ireland, I've always loved Bosnia and feel we share a history of enduring hardships. I'd love to visit your beautiful country one day. 🇮🇪❤️🇧🇦

@theresanolan1157

Жыл бұрын

Cead mile failte

@aliannarodriguez1581

Жыл бұрын

It’s very nice, but they need more trees. Also I noticed an astonishing lack of plant diversity even in the wilder areas. I was in the southwestern part of the country.

@knighty7912

Жыл бұрын

@@grumpofitzgerald4350 Strange thing I noticed, a lot of us Bosnians feel attracted to Ireland for some reason. Maybe it is our similar histories of hardships? Either way, I hope to visit Ireland aswell some day

@nollag

Жыл бұрын

@@aliannarodriguez1581 this is a legacy of our colonial past. Our country was originally covered in wonderful Irish oak, which was felled to build the cities and infrastructure in England. Today, you can visit the Mary Rose or the House of Commons - all built using Irish oak.

After just watching this, trying to think of what little I know of my family tree. I am in Victoria, Australia but the last person in family tree that came from any other nation was Ireland in 1890s. But before him there were others that line up with this famine period in Ireland. I think the ones that went to Victoria were decades after the famine but also have ancestors that came from Tasmania and some of them were born in Ireland and some must have emigrated from Ireland in this time period as a result of this famine but do not know much about them. But I suspect some went here and others to places like America, Canada and New Zealand and never saw each other again. Never been to Ireland but it would be fascinating to go there one day and imagine what life was like for my ancestors both before and around that period. It is crazy to think how Ireland itself was stunted in growth in this period and how many left those lands and had to start a whole new life on other sides of the world as far away as America and Australia.

@RealLifeLore where are you getting these datas and quotes/history??

My family left during the famine after we were nearly wiped out. I love the Irish, their history, and how they have bounced back in many ways. They are always quick to have sympathy and empathy for others going through struggle and give everything they can. Love you guys, you make me proud and I hope to visit some day 🇮🇪☘️💚

@vazatimo3000

Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry to hear that. I hope you are doing ok sir.

@nathanon7177

Жыл бұрын

@@vazatimo3000 bruh nothing happened to him it was his great great great grandfather

@OhEidirsceoil

Жыл бұрын

Do, come visit us👍🇮🇪

@Karlach_

Жыл бұрын

@@vazatimo3000 Wtf do you mean? It was his ancestors who suffered, not him. I'm sure he's not starving to death lmao

@vazatimo3000

Жыл бұрын

@@Karlach_ I know that I was just saying I'm sorry to hear that. That's all and that I hope he and is Family are doing ok now that's all. Nothing wrong with that

As an Irishman thank you for making this video ♥️🇮🇪

I'm British and it makes me sick what our government did in that period (and still f**king do). At least a national recognition in Britain is in order, if not a full official apology from the royal family. I have never met an Irish person I disliked, and agree that as a nation, it is truly remarkable how much they have given the world, in music particularly. Long live Ireland!

@peterdoyle1591

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Hugo that's a really nice post. We did get an apology of sorts from the Queen when she visited Ireland. She said "things that were done in Ireland which she wished never happened" We'll take it and move on. It's not like the ordinary British people were treated any better in the industrialised city slums of GB. The rich are always fu*king over the hard-working middle class and the poor.

@mohdadeeb1829

Жыл бұрын

Tears of Crocodiles. Edit: If a butthurt is still reading this, do not reply. I am tired of this and you will neither get nor deserve any reply from me.

@mohdadeeb1829

Жыл бұрын

Apology? What's apology gonna do? That's right! Nothing. Your government comitted massive atrocities in my country India but as an Indian, I would rather have British Government have some dignity than Tears of Crocodiles. Apology for something which happened centuries ago is not going to change anything. If I was a British Person, I would've been extremely ashamed of you. My country is not Innocent BTW, over 400,000 Hyderabadis were killed in the Hyderabad Genocide. I do feel sorry for it but I do not think I am the one who's accountable for that horrific events. I would stand against any form of apology though I will 100% support reparations. This is what I don't like about the modern west. They base their entire Identity around a guilt that happened a long time ago.

@vladitnt7576

Жыл бұрын

​​@@mohdadeeb1829 what do you want them to do? Yes, the people who ruled britan a century ago did unspeakable things to India and all the other colonies, but what do you want the modern british population to do? They can't go back in time to stop colonialism and why should they pay for something that they have nothing to do with and that they didn't even ask for? No one can fix the past and that's that. If you don't want an apology from them then there's nothing else they can do for you.

@mohdadeeb1829

Жыл бұрын

@@vladitnt7576 I just want everyone to move on just like the Japanese.

I have family who left Ireland in the late 1860s or 1870s, The dad coming 1st to find work and then the mom and 11 kids after. Crazy to think the 1st of those kids was born a few years after the famine. Makes me wonder just what kind of stories They had to tell, we have so much more from my great grandma's side than from her husband who is the one of Irish descent.

@jamestoh2519

Жыл бұрын

It's time to end British rule

@stephaniegormley9982

Жыл бұрын

Both mine and my husband's relatives came here after the Easter uprising of 1916. What I learned from them was to be grateful for the opportunity to live here in the USA. And not to live in the past because 'there's no future in it'

@anna-gt2mu

Жыл бұрын

Earea

@cannabislife1688

Жыл бұрын

@@stephaniegormley9982 My family immigrated from England on fathers side in the 1920’s . in 1916 my Great Uncle was in the Battle of the Somme. 🇺🇸🇬🇧🩸

@cannabislife1688

Жыл бұрын

@@stephaniegormley9982 I too am grateful to live in the United States. My State ( Colorado ) is beautiful 🏔️

As someone from (born and raised) Ireland and a fan of this channel, this makes me happy!! It’s good to see our story told.

@Booz2020

Жыл бұрын

Cymru am byth

@Substance2020

Жыл бұрын

And to remind ourselves of our own story. I deliver goods across all the country and I've seen just how fine the Irish people are in every corner. Obviously you get the scum as in every country but overall some great people. It's no surprise that the Irish have flourished across the world.

@ardri31

Жыл бұрын

@Robert Evans No thanks

The GDP grossly misrepresents Ireland's economic standing, big-pharma have some manufacturing and r&d here, plus you've got a bunch of tech companies with European HQs or offices - but the massive profits they makes are barely taxed & flow straight back out of the country. As for population growth, rent is extortionate (and all costs of living are rising unlike pay), foreign investment funds outbid and buy up newly build homes instead of locals, and you've got people in their 20s, 30s and 40s forced to live with their parents or on a friend's couch - not the kind of place you start a family.

@niamhl6964

Жыл бұрын

It's absolutely appalling that the government have no problem letting big tech and pharma companies in with basically no taxes and pushing the educated population to move to those companies, but they don't actually give those people any resources to like, live. And it's only getting worse. I think it's the pressure that the government felt seeing all these neighboring countries making bank and wanting to feel caught up, but not actually doing much for their own people.

@vorynrosethorn903

Жыл бұрын

Sounds a lot like the UK, the people in charge basically don't understand economics and are wilfully sabotaging living standards for the sake of making the GDP bigger, or 'line go up' as the meme seems to be.

@Makofueled

Жыл бұрын

We can't eat GDP or live in it unfortunately

@irishemperor

Жыл бұрын

More than 70% of Google jobs don’t go to Irish people; so you've got people moving here from abroad, further reducing the available housing. For a short time during the pandemic, tech companies told people to go back to their own countries temporarily - as they were working remotely anyway. The tech companies should've been encouraged to build their own new city somewhere in the midlands - (do a compulsary purchase order somewhere in the midlands or west coast) give them free land with a 50-100 year lease & lets them finance the construction layout and chip in to build road & rail links to an airport eg Shannon or Knock.

@elbinalejandrofelizgonzale1742

Жыл бұрын

@@Makofueled BUT THE FREE MARKET!! INVICIBLE HAND VUVUZUELA NO IPHONE

It didn’t make sense before. But thanks Lore for the righteous explanation

Excellent video! Even though I’m from just over the water in Scotland and have Irish ancestry it still amazes and saddens me how the famine as well as Britains policies against Ireland, its culture, identity and its people made such an impact. Your video puts it into reality👏🏻 Would love to see your take on the Scottish Highland Clearances. A somewhat similar situation where people were forced off the land and had no choice but to immigrate to America, Canada, Australia etc.

@jason-gf8dg

Жыл бұрын

It wasn't just against ireland it was laws for the whole country including England.

Great summary, and I appreciate you taking on this subject. Thanks and subscribed!

In NY where many Irish folks fled to (including my dad's family), there is a special memorial for the famine called the Irish Hunger Memorial right by the WTC. The Irish Hunger Memorial's construction began in March 2001, and despite 9/11, it was completed and dedicated the next year in July. The memorial was designed at a slant to replicate a typical Irish hill. It features not only labeled stones from every Irish county as well as native Irish plants but also an actual 19th century cottage from Attymass in County Mayo that was abandoned in the 1960s as the family who lived there all left for the US and let the memorial have it. So it's a little piece of Ireland right in the middle of a very Irish part of the country, dedicated to both the famine and its legacy through the diaspora.

@karenmccaffrey344

Жыл бұрын

There is 😮😊 💖🇮🇪🇮🇪

@disapearingboi

Жыл бұрын

I stumbled on that memorial when visiting New York. It was a pleasant surprise - especially since my father is from Attymass.

@clairebatt4030

Жыл бұрын

i live in ireland, this is very romantized x sorry our hills aren't all at a slant lol

@philipthomey7884

Жыл бұрын

@@clairebatt4030 what does that mean?

@Beofware

Жыл бұрын

@@clairebatt4030 ...... Isn't a hill inherently slanted?

Interesting video, thank you. I am a bit amazed by the tone in the final part of the video, where population growth by itself is portrayed as the obvious way towards a glorious future. The island's population density is only slightly lower than in Spain or Austria, and slightly higher than in Scotland or Croatia. What's wrong with that? Despite the current prosperity / high GDP per capita, the fertility rate is far below 2, so any population growth is purely caused by net immigration. In stead of rushing to over 10 million people and having a rapidly growing GDP in numbers, I hope (N-)Ireland can diversify away from the FIRE sector and its tax haven-ish initiatives (my own country has the same issues btw) towards qualitative growth.

I'm from Croatia🇭🇷(small countri in south Europe) I love RLL's videos and I hope you will made a video with title "Why Croatia have less people than in 1991?"

Ireland is insane. One of the fastest developing countries in world. There were zero highways in ireland in the 80s, now there’s dozens . My father grew up in a practically broken old serf house. Now his house is surrounded by mansions and now the house is being fixed up and we’re planning to move back to ireland soon.

@thetwins6029

Жыл бұрын

Ifyou do, make sure to visit all the places, I live in Ireland and I love the country and never knew that a lot of people didn’t know about this, as my ancestors lived through the fammon and I do have relatives in Canada but I’m not sure if they moved there recently or from the fammon, so if you move back here, there are too much places you can visit 😂

@beyondthesunset9659

Жыл бұрын

Partially is due to the EU. Remember that Farage when asked how the irish issue will be solved after brexit, he said that brexit will have a domino effect and then Irexit will happen (which he campaigned for) and then both countries could have their own little union. Reality is that Ireland is one of the most europhiles countries in the union and partially is because of the British mistreatment.

@josephshields2922

Жыл бұрын

What will you do for medical coverage? You are not asenior I hope.

Been subscribed to this page for about 6 years now I am so happy we see a video about Ireland, thank you

It's funny, i'm Irish and thought everyone knew about this, because we have been learning about the famine practically since we were born

@jamestoh2519

Жыл бұрын

It's time to end British rule

@thedestiny326

Жыл бұрын

@@jamestoh2519just wait…

I'm from south west rural Ireland (kerry specifically) and a few years back some distant relatives came to visit from Ohio. Some ancestor of ours had fled to Ohio during the famine so they wanted to see their roots

I love this because its so rare that we get coverage as great as this

My grandpa told me his great grandpa came to Canada from Ireland in the late 1840's. Lines up with the famine. He worked as a carpenter in Ontario, got married and saved up enough to buy some land in the prairies. Built a farmhouse and home quarter and multiple generations were raised there. House is still standing but no longer in the family sadly. Best memories of my childhood are in that house and running around that farm with my cousins like a pack of wild dogs. I would like to go to Ireland one day. I bet there are a million other "Ryans"😃

@michaelryan9347

Жыл бұрын

Plenty of Ryan's still in ireland as well. Very hard to track down long lost family, considering most of that information was destroyed during the civil war. I remember hearing of family that went to Ontario, I'm sure plenty of Ryan's went there.

@parkerbohnn

Жыл бұрын

My great grandfather's story is the same but he was wealthy before leaving Ireland for Canada.

@franzherflek4116

Жыл бұрын

Ryan is a very popular name in Ireland

@dannyboy5517

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelryan9347 Michael O Riain

@BillMcHale

Жыл бұрын

Your great grandfather was probably carried by a cargo ship. During the famine, cargo ships would ship raw materials from the United States or Canada; cotton from the United States and wood from Canada, and not having anything to export back to those countries, would fill their holds with Irish looking for passage.

Thanks for the excellent video! However, the statistics regarding Ireland's recent GDP growth are extremely misleading. Since introducing very low corporate taxes in the 1990s, many multinationals have, on paper, relocated activities to Ireland, giving the impression that Ireland's economy is much bigger than it actually is. It's worth noting that this policy is extremely bad for other European nations, as it allows companies to avoid paying tax that would otherwise to European public budgets. Perhaps this is Ireland's revenge for the near-genocide of the nineteenth century?

@French20cent

Жыл бұрын

That would be a bad revenge though, because of Brexit

As an Irish person, this makes me feel very patriotic, I know the story but I'm still gonna watch this video because yes.

I love your videos, can't wait to watch it. I don't ever put in request or anything but your recent video on Vegas's water usage has me super interested about the impact of a Mississippi canal leading to the west coast like some folks have proposed in recent years.

Fantastic video. I'm Irish and while I knew a lot of what you mentioned there was still a lot of things I didn't know and a lot of nuance to the things I was thought in school.

I remember seeing on the news the issues the fighting in northern Ireland

As an Egyptian, hearing that there was once more Irish than Egyptians is probably the most mind-blowing thing I've heard in a while.

@g6kid1

Жыл бұрын

Do you know that there's an Egyptian queen buried in Ireland ?

@user-wm5bv6hb2x

Жыл бұрын

@@g6kid1 and how's that

I've been to Ireland several times, it's a wonderful place. Very interesting and informative video. Thank you for your work!

I am Irish and the famine still affects us to this day. My family has this hammered in idea of eating everything on your plate. And I feel like a piece of crap whenever I throw away food, even if it’s rotten.

@parkerbohnn

Жыл бұрын

I always ate well until I got Crohn's disease.

@Dead_Again1313

Жыл бұрын

The thing about finishing your plate is definitely a left over habit from poverty of the past. My grandparents grew up during the great depression here in the US as countless others did. They showed their kids how to conserve and it keeps getting passed down the generations. Im the same about feeling bad for throwing away food. So now I order smaller meals and make my own plate smaller. Our ancestors were primarily concerned with survival and mouths to feed but they didnt realize those habits would be part of the perfect storm to cause weight problems throughout that society. With those big challenges gone, everyones just been enjoying the craic and stuffing their faces on both sides of the Atlantic, it seems. PS Always throw away rotten food, but you could make a compost pile and start a garden there if you're into that. Best wishes to you

@pancake_ghosty

Жыл бұрын

I reckon it has something to do with our obesity level too. Ireland was the most obese country in the world in 2015, North America second. I always had a hunch it was connected to the relatively recent famine.

@maxisussex

Жыл бұрын

Are you Irish or "Irish"-American out of curiosity?

@JimOne-pz5hj

Жыл бұрын

Oh give it a rest and stop whinging

"Elves" Good one nick. This was his comment to this title.

Great video, with a few important critiques: 1. As Irish commenter stated, Britain’s role in inducing such over-reliance on potatoes 2. Due to role in tax-havenry and international thru-traffic, Irish GDP is not generally as representative of living standards as with other countries (link still tenuous elsewhere) 3. 2021 GDP growth numbers represent a recovery and adaptation from the height of the Pandemic and are not indicative of wider trends. 2019 would’ve been a better pick 4. It isn’t clear that Ireland will continue to grow at substantive pace even though it has the carrying capacity. Many developed countries have seen a slump in fertility despite having lots of theoretical ability to provide

*me, Irish and a history student, watching this video to see if he made any mistakes* But you didn't! Everything you said was dead on. It's so nice to finally see a video on the Great Famine that actually spoke about the reality of the situation. We didn't starve because of the potato. We starved because of the British policies against us. It was a mass attempted genocide. And it partially worked. Thank you for the amazing content as always!!

@joerourke8393

Жыл бұрын

He made loads...go read some real history books...

@livvyflynn9364

Жыл бұрын

@@joerourke8393 he didn't? Lol

@joerourke8393

Жыл бұрын

Penal laws? Cromwell? The 1740-1 proportionally deadlier famine? 1780 food shortages as dealt with by Dublin Parliament versus laissez faire approach by London Parliament in 1848 onwards. Role of Catholicism and po Oh and potatoes don't make lots and lots of babies and population growth, human adults having sex do...and seeing huge levels of population growth as being a good thing...

@joerourke8393

Жыл бұрын

Typo above by me: role of catholicism & poverty in creation of large population numbers.

@iwasanacciident

Жыл бұрын

@@joerourke8393 "Cromwell? The 1740-1 proportionally deadlier famine? 1780 food shortages as dealt with by Dublin Parliament" If you care to read the title of the video, it says "why does Ireland have a lower population today than **200** years ago" Now, I understand that those events did have an effect on the overall population growth of Ireland, but by by the time we hit 200 years ago from today which is 1822, the population is higher than before those events so, so they do not have a lot of relevance in regard to the question posed by the title. "Oh and potatoes don't make lots and lots of babies and population growth, human adults having sex do" This is abundantly simple and if you just payed attention in first year geography you might have a basic understanding of demographics. But since you didn't, let me explain! If a woman and man have a child, they need to feed it. If they have two children they need to feed two children. If they have three children they need to feed three children, and so on. Now the thing is, humans are intelligent, and if a human mother and father notice they cannot provide enough food for more children they will attempt to not have more children. In even simpler terms: 1 potatoes can feed one person a day(not actually but just for the purposes of explaining). Man and Woman have three potatoes, so that means they can have one child. If they have two children, one of them will starve. so man and woman will try not to have more than one child.

Heartbreaking. I believe this event will forever define us as a people.

@randymoyan7871

Жыл бұрын

Never let victimhood define yourselves. All cultures have been victimized throughout history and have persephered and prospered to become strong confident nations. There is no pride in being a victim.

@WolfetoneRebel1916

Жыл бұрын

@@randymoyan7871 Shared trauma is what builds and defines relationships. Generational trauma is a real thing. When I say it defines us as a people, I mean a sense of community, shared deprecating humour, integrity, pride, willpower and determination. Victimhood is not what I was insinuating.

I am glad my family stuck it out 😅 Happy to live in cork today

content is good, 1 suggestion tone down the statistics a bit too many numbers!

As an Irishman, it’s really refreshing to see someone outside of Ireland seeing the seriousness of the famine and how much of an impact it has on our lives over constant destructive and ill-thought British interference here even to this day. I was very surprised about the estimated population growth, shame we might never see 10s of millions of Irish on our land in our lifetime but it’s finally a positive turn for our country. Thank you for the video again mate 🇮🇪

@krushnaji4940

Жыл бұрын

I am Indian when I read first time of Irish famine I cried because it made my memory fresh of Bengal famine.

@markbollinger1343

Жыл бұрын

start having big familes

@ihateregistrationbul

Жыл бұрын

31.5 million residents Residents With Irish Ancestry Are in All 3,142 U.S. Counties and Make Up 20% of the Population in Some. Irish heritage is strong in America: More than 31.5 million residents claim Irish ancestry. We can all come back if ya want??

@RenegadeRanga

Жыл бұрын

Wasn't a famine, it was genocide

@gradualdecay1040

Жыл бұрын

@@RenegadeRanga shut up.

My 3x grandma Thompson's family came over during the famine. Wish her stories weren't lost to time. Her family settled here in Ohio, which oddly enough had the same potato blight as Ireland at the time. Thankfully we have so much food diversity it wasn't an issue. Oddly enough here in Ohio growing potatoes has been quite rare till about 10yrs ago.

@cc23001

Жыл бұрын

Oh now that you mention it, he said the blight came from the new world!

@InvestmentJoy

Жыл бұрын

@@cc23001 and I had never heard of that one I can't say I'm super surprised but I do know that the strain that affected Ireland was also here at Ohio. I ran into a potato farm in Southern Ohio very recently and they told me the yields they were getting and they were absolutely absurd. I told the farmer I was shocked that everybody here did not grow potatoes and then he went into the story about the blight and the potato famine. I know when people grow potatoes here on their own property and their backyards a person can easily grow a ton of potatoes in a moderately sized backyard. We also have the hillbilly method which I would not be surprised if that is a Scott or Irish thing that we just brought over where they grow potatoes above ground in vertically stacked tires

@robokill387

Жыл бұрын

That's because the blight affected most of Europe and North America, it only became a famine in Ireland because of the actions / inaction of the British government and their strict adherence to free market capitalist principles.

@InvestmentJoy

Жыл бұрын

@@robokill387 not sure how it's free market to force people to sell food they'd otherwise eat

@guysumpthin2974

Жыл бұрын

So ,, the globalists didn’t want any competition

First of all it's a well made video, however the narrator seems to talk in a way that what he's saying is absolutely fact which is his first mistake. He's completely wrong about how irish people became largely dependent on potatoes somehow implying that they somehow knew no better and that it was their own choice to become complacent. The truth is that the British forced this diet on the poorer and working classes of the day. Before the potato blight it was common practice for all grains and meats harvested to be taken by the British to be shipped around the empire. Ireland was yielding incredible amounts of food both before the blight, during it, and afterwards. When the blight happened it was seen by the British as an opportunity to thin out the troublesome irish population who had already many many attempts to break away from British rule, most notable at that time was the 1798 rebellion. The British were losing their grip on this valuable island, the blight came at the right time for them. What they did then was possibly the worst crime against humanity in human history even rivalling the holocaust. They simply did nothing and continued to remove food from Ireland and even increased exports under armed guard. They systematically starved my ancestors. There was no famine in Ireland. It was merely a result of tyrannical rule under one of the most evil empires ever to exist. It took 800 years of continuous attempts to free Ireland of Britain, so this video is poorly informed to think that the Irish were some sort of absent minded race of people who just became too reliant on one crop. Also the narrators version of events after the war of independence is the result of lazy research. It's far more complex than what he says. I could go on and on but I'm not going to. I'll just say I wish this guy done more research about my homeland in which I still live. We are a proud race of people with a rich history that can be traced back to ancient times, long before British rule where we built some incredible structures that predate the pyramids. The British almost wrote us out of history, but they didn't succeed, we're still here and we still have our cultural identity and heritage.

As an Indian, I can relate.

@harveyjenko6666

Жыл бұрын

To what exactly? India has a fucking huge population lmao

@ajaysabarish9645

Жыл бұрын

@@harveyjenko6666 i can relate to this since India had huge famines under british rule, in which 50 million people died. And famines were rare in Indian history before the british.

@seanrommel7535

Жыл бұрын

@@ajaysabarish9645 Yet here you are speaking in English and so many of you immigrate To the UK

@ajaysabarish9645

Жыл бұрын

@@seanrommel7535 Yes to get our artifacts back from British

@Anakin_Sandy_High_Ground

Жыл бұрын

@@ajaysabarish9645 you would have to get past an undefeated military

Potato Famine

@lenz7370

Жыл бұрын

Thanks bro you just saved me 17 minutes🙏

@notoriousgoblin83

Жыл бұрын

Yep

@deadmeatjb

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for letting me know that I won't learn anything from this video

@Xerxes2528

Жыл бұрын

Bri'an

@niemand3637

Жыл бұрын

Yea done video over

As an Egyptian I have always loved the Irish they are strong respectful people who went through hardship and came out only by the hand of their people despite the challenges. they understand suffering and help against it today with the majority supporting Palestinians against the occupation. All my love and support to Ireland 🇮🇪 🇪🇬

@kt9021

Жыл бұрын

MuIIah 😂

@agasxt

Жыл бұрын

@@kt9021 Racist kid

@erbykaoskilpatrick

Жыл бұрын

I also support the Palestinian people... .. Many things to consider though.. One is the "good fight" , another is whom is more powerful... I would gladly continue in the footsteps of those that had a hand in Lord Mountbatten.. fuck the crown IRA FOREVER!

@dhanvi-shah

Жыл бұрын

Go raibh míle maith agat! Grá ó Éirinn

@elite4370

Жыл бұрын

The pan Arab flag is a British invention which the Palestinian and Jordanian flags come from. Never was there an arab country called Palestine. 🤣

Explains the welcome mat

If you want to read an account of stunning Irish victory over the British I reccomend the Catalpa Rescue by Peter FitzSimons!

Thank you. Loved it. and of course what JackHanafin said.

I'm glad you didn't leave out the impact that the British had on the potato famine in Ireland. Belgium had the same potato blight disease around the same time, but they only lost about 40,000 people or so. The deaths in Ireland were greatly exacerbated by the policies of the British.

@here_we_go_again2571

Жыл бұрын

All of Scandinavia and the German states also suffered from the Potato blight (fungus). The governments of those countries imported grain from USA *for years* to sustain their farmers on marginal land. (There was several waves of potato blight from 1840's to 1920's) These governments also offered incentives to relocate to the US, Canada, South America. After the American Civil War (1860 - 1865) European governments also made contracts with land developers in the Midwest of US/Canda to purchase land for their poor of the poorest subjects (Europe's population was too large to be sustained on the available Europeanfarmland.) The above is why huge swaths of the Midwest (US/Canada) have people descended from Germans and Scandinavians. At the time of WW1, fully one quarter (25%) of the population of USA had at least one "German" (Scandinavians were grouped with Germans) grandparent.

@gurrrn1102

Жыл бұрын

How could he leave it out when British policy was the major cause?

@anna-gt2mu

11 ай бұрын

Eareaeraea

@cillian303

10 ай бұрын

@@gurrrn1102 If anything, he downplays the British impact, no mentions of the landlords, famine roads and sick workhouses for one thing. Also kind of makes it seem like the Irish farmers only grew potatoes when that wasn't the case, it was just the rest of the crop had to be sold to pay rent and taxes

@OnwardsUpwards

10 ай бұрын

​@@cillian303Yes, details like this shouldn't be left out. Hope he sees this.

Really enjoying these geography videos about population of certain countries

:0 i didn't realise he had a video in our struggles u-u

We'll continue to be a small, but mighty people. And will never forget our history.

@jamestoh2519

Жыл бұрын

It's time to end British rule

@Asiandramas99

Жыл бұрын

Yea, that’s why you feel ashamed to speak Your own language Irish but proudly speaks English…history 🤣🤣🤣

You are animations are awesome and no one can beat them

I love this channel! As an Irish person, I'm very happy you did this video!

I am a quarter Irish and I did know a good chunk of this I knew just how truly devastating the Famine was.

it's kind of sad that the Irish population is declining. i visited Ireland back in 2015 with a few friends and honestly the Irish are the sweetest and funniest people ever and the landscape is so sooo breathtaking. hope to visit soon. love from Pakistan.