Lol true

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Yep

“Tanned” you might say.

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What does that mean?

Same as Russian. Why do you think we're drinkers?

I think "to live is to know at some point, things and people will break your heart"

It’s an old Irish ☘️ proverb that says, “Live long enough and the world will break your heart”.

@@itsme-sn5gi Lots of hardship

@Heloise O'Byrne Famine means there’s no food. There was plenty enough food, it was just being shipped off to Britain under armed guard

@Heloise O'Byrne the definition of a famine is “a scarcity of food” by that metric alone it fails as a famine as Ireland didn’t have a scarcity of food it actually produced plenty, whether it was crops like oats, barley, wheat or the likes of fish, ham, pork, beans, peas etc.. while political or economic reasons led to many other so called famines across the globe, such as in Africa or across Asia, in many of those cases it led to there being literally nothing to eat. Unlike in Ireland where there actually was food but it was seized and sent to Britain. So it wasn’t a case of England “not sharing theirs” it was more them taking from Ireland and causing them to starve. Let’s not forget the British navy also blockaded aid from other countries reaching Ireland, and when you take away someone’s food and prevent food from getting to them, it’s pretty obvious what happens next!

im irish living in the south of spain, people still live in caves here its quite normal

Not many census records survive?

And then the Irish joined the Empire forces and did the exact same thing to the locals...we're no saints.

chlorea did for more people during the same period, even at that time only like 2% of irish people where 100% dependant on potatoes

@@niallmcdonagh1093: You'd have opted to starve, would you?

@@niallmcdonagh1093 so this is justification in your eyes....if you are irish shame on you Niall

@@theinfernomaster8826 Thank you for confirming that only one view of Irish history is woke acceptable.

And the Irish pride. And no matter what the situation or time of day, they could break out in song and/or dance, with or without music. My mom was Irish and I remember her breaking out in song many times. Her favorite song was Tura Lura Laura

Please. Let's move beyond the "inside" granny histories and onto a more nuanced narrative of the past.

@@themaskedman221 please let's not. Don't like the truth change to another channel the Irish people suffered immensely under the English rule, but unlike some nations they don't harp on about it and pull on people's heart strings of how hard done by their ancestors had it. They just got on with my their lives instead of bleating constantly about their plight., And holding this particular country to ransom, like be their own people were blameless in it all.

@@lenagreen4031 Actually this entire comment section is an illustration of what the historian Liam Kennedy described as the "MOPE" syndrome -the mythical belief that the Irish were uniquely victimized throughout history. MOPE stands for "Most Oppressed People Ever." Sorry, but this is not "the truth", but a twisting of the historical record so as to exaggerate Irish suffering. It's propaganda, not history.

Everything the Brits did to their Colonies they first tried out on the Catholic Irish

Truer words were never said! Beyond evil what they did! My family had seven castles in Tipperary and the Kilnamanagh Mountains region and resettled to An Clar during of course, Oliver Cromwell may he eternally burn in Hell.

Bjorn Goumundsen There again Cromwell came to Ireland in response to what the Pope proclaimed the worst atrocities anywhere in Europe by Catholics against Protestants. Not in his name declared the POPE..

@@OSTARAEB4 It was wrong, the aristocracy of the time were to blame and still are now.

@Bjorn Goumundsen Harsh

Like they stole African lands Australia lands etc.exactly

I was also there that yr. my mother was born there and her cousins still live there. I love it. I’m from Australia and my mother died when I was 4 so could not find out any family history until I started going there in 2014. It was wonderful.

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Irish pagan tribes pledged their allegiance to King Alfred The Greay. Therefore it wasn't your lans to being with 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@@agentlemanofhermajesty7051 I'm not sure where you are from, however,the education system must be pretty useless.🇨🇮

Your BRF are showing their true colours, aren't they?

@@janefriel6895 I'm actually half Irish. You'll be surprised the crimes of our people. And now Ireland is a nation that is reliant of bail outs and protection from the UK.

@@janefriel6895 You can even tell irish people are caring less about their national. Theres more Irish (Not including Ulster Irish) nationals in the British Army Regulars and Reserves than there are in the actual IDF

Strictly speaking of nature tho not all clouded skies feel gloomy.

Ireland is beautiful though.

It rains a lot but in the summer it can be beautiful especially in the west

That's the English for you

You mean a bit like Scotland?

The same could be said for many peoples.

In the US, it's called Eminent Domain. They legally take homes ans land away from poor people, and give it to 'job creators'.

Says every colonized country ever! :")

Ralph Raffles - And now with homelessness on the rise, all the rich in America can say is: Get them (the homeless) away from my house - I feel unsafe. Nothing has changed.

The was a revolution in Ireland in 1798...a big one. Another two smaller rebellions in Ireland in 1803 and 1848.

My sentiment exactly

The Gaslighting of colonialism remains the legacy of it victims

We were treated like savages yes but we were not bought and sold like cattle the suffering of my people was barbaric but please refrain from equating our situation to slavery we were barely seen as people yes but we at least didn't have to suffer the indignity of sold in chains at the market!

@Kai Cee shut up

@@finbarr64 Oh bull. You know little of history. There were thousands of Irish children who would have happily chosen the cotton fields over the dangerous mechanical woolen mills with hot vats of carcinogenic dyes and the ridiculous company town wage system associated with them.

Irish definitely had it worse (the famine was far worse over there, religious persecution etc) but remember the lot of the working class in Britain wasn't much better. Workhouses existed all over the UK too.

@@ChairmanRingo my mum from Scotland told me how kids had no shoes . She had photos of them . Another relative was born in a poor house .

The one is portumna is excellent. So eerie

@@smallfeet4581 the no shoes isn’t just a famine thing. A lot of older people I know walked miles to school and some in bare feet. People played in bare feet too and kept shoes for important things like walking as well. This is in rural areas

@@noon4545 yes I know people as kids preferred wearing no shoes in summer but had plenty shoes , that was 70s , poorer people did have shoes , dress\suit and a coat they kept good for Sunday's or occasions , what I was talking about was not rural but just poor in 30s depression era where you could get shoes from the parish which had a hole punched at the back so you couldn't sell them on , now kids want trainers at 100 quid lol, many men's suits were pawned for a few weeks and the man didn't know , you could go to the cinema with an empty jeely jar , tough but happy times and you wasted nothing

Stella clarke Really ❗️...never knew or heard anything about that. Life too hard for tenants.😞

@@nancyreece969 yes speaking your native tongue.

When the New England missionaries came to Hawaii, they forbid the Hawaiians to speak their language or dance their Hula. And they figured out a way to take their lands as well.The Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani was imprisoned in her Iolani Palace for 9 months while a new & corrupt government was established. And some people wonder why some Hawaiians are indignant ! Still they are a good-natured race .Mark Twain thought they were God's sweetest work. I agree.

Now the Irish language is prevented by the Ulster Scots {DUP} who were given the land of the native Irish by the English invaders!

LC: The missionaries arrive in the land and they hand out bibles and tell the population to kneel down, close their eyes and pray. When the population finishes praying, open their eyes and stand up they find that they still have their bibles but have lost their land.

The US itself is another stolen land. Instead of learning to share we just report the theft and oppression to the next land/person.

4 Horkan brothers went to US in the 1840s from Mayo. A few of my Brennan family also left in the 1870s from Dublin. Can follow all of them in the Census. General Horkan is a relative of mine.

Whoa that shocked me!

Oh dear, never heard of this and it sounds terrifying.

@@Lafemmefutile It wasn't an actual disease you got from grass. It was a sarcastic way to say that the person had been so hungry that they had been eating grass for a while. Their mouths were stained from the chlorophyll. Hence, green mouths were a sign of terrible suffering and starvation and there were many, many corpses found with them.

Every people, Colette, when a) you look at the collective world - and still now the continued starvation and destruction e.g. the Uyghur suppression in China to name only one - and b) know what the Crown is. It's not the Queen as most people think. Look also at The Dustbowl in America, the Industrial Revolution in Britain which was also designed to force people off the land, Africa which we were told 50 years ago would be restored by re-irrigation, still hasn't happened, Native Americans and so many more. Until people unite as inhabitants of Earth and not divided by counrty/nationality and the false history, change will remain painfully slow. I have Irish ancestors on both parental sides but feel for all sentient beings without borders.

Also a reminder that many British people are ancestrally closer to the Irish people who suffered than to the British elites who committed those terrible acts.

@@dawnadriennetaylor970 Right because people in England and America died and fled by the millions, and that's why the Irish went to England and the u.s because it was just as bad as there...

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You think permaculture could have helped through the famine?

My Pop told us we were Scottish-Irish, English, German,Cherokee. They move from many places on the east coast to Missouri the southwest

@@peggymaynard9193 Scots-Irish were Scots who had been removed to Ireland then moved on to the Americas.

Yes I know now as a child my dad told us that we are Scottish-Irish. In my 50's I did research & learned that. But wouldn't they become Irish? Dad also told us we were Cherokee. 3 of us kids have no Cherokee, maybe our 2 siblings that didn't get dna have it. My oldest brother has French ,N. Italian & S. Italian. I have eastern Europe & Russian. And almost all of Africa. That was a surprise.

@@peggymaynard9193 Scots-Irish just reflects that their immigration papers showed they left via Ireland. They never gave up their Scottish heritage. The group was only there for about 70 years. Even now, after 300 years they don't give up the history just by calling themselves Scots-Irish, it's largely been forgotten where the description came from.

In the UK, Scots-Irish folks are called Ulster Scots and still live in Northern Ireland.

If we're not careful, this will happen in the United States and Canada. Don't believe me? Notice how far in debt people go and who holds the debt.

Check out 1798?

Several project Irish figure were protestant

check 1798?

Many of Ireland's greatest advocates for freedom were Protestant. Dean Jonathan Swift was a tireless campaigner for justice in Ireland. Notable Protestant advocates for justice and independence such as Wolf Tone and Henry Joy McCrackin paid with their lives. The first President of the Irish Free State was the Protestant Gaelic Scholar Douglas Hyde. The Penal Laws were introduced after the success of the Williamites over their own family members The Jacobites to deprive the Catholic Irish of every single human right including the right to own property in their own country. They were enforced rigorously until the mid 1700s leading to frequent famine, death and immigration. But freedom won out in the end and many Protestants joined in the long drawn out effort.

seriously? What history is studied?

I'm looking at my comment of a month ago and see that I didn't spell Julie's last name correctly...WALTERS! Sorry, Julie! I'm a fan; maybe it was a typo? Anyway, there 'tis.

BTW, "Educating Rita" was shot in Dublin.

could you imagine if your forefathers didnt invite the english into ireland how different it would have been, you would still be in the dump like the rest of us

Grow up.🤮

Yes, sad as it all was, terrible things happened to all nations at one time or another.

Spiritoflugh8 obviously, so. I just made a comment. stop being so aggressive.

@@chriswilliams6568 Easy to know your Breeding.

You can still enjoy English history, yes awful things happened but the everyday English people would have nothing to do with it. To have interest in England history of culture, etc etc is fine.

Yes lots of bad things happened, and in history all nations did nasty things, some are still doing them. I think we just have to appreciate that most countries have learned from mistakes made, and have rectified their behaviour.

or irish history by the sound of it?

Well in reality the same exact 'terrible' things that the 'english' (actually recently conquerors of england I.e the french) did to the Irish... are the same things that the vikings and Norman's did to the native Britons. Can't pick and choose history to make one side seem bad.

@@markettechniques Not a great comparison at all. Better to compare what the Irish did to a race/country they conquered. I think you might just see the problem...

Liam O Sullivan It is included in various themes, but there is choice in what topics History teachers choose to cover.

absolutely and i would also add that Irish history in general should be taught in English schools.

Nigel Murphy. Including when Irish Catholics slaughtered thousands of Protestants in 1641. When they even cut the babies out of the stomachs of pregnant women. And the evil history of Catholics everywhere. Tens of thousands of French Huguenots fled to England after the massacre of thousands of their kind by Catholics. The Catholic Queen Mary (Bloody Mary) who had hundreds executed, many by burning at the stake. And the attempt by Catholics to stamp-out the renascence by executing those who wished to provide rational explanations for natural events. Even Galileo was threatened with torture and kept under house arrest for the rest of his life for repeating the notion that the Earth orbits the sun, not the other way around. (That’s why leadership of the world moved to non-Catholic Northern Europe and to this day Catholic ruled countries tend to be poor and only recently democracies.) And the Catholic Church only accepted that the Earth really did orbit the Earth in the mid nineteenth century!! No wonder the English lacked respect for Catholics Irish or otherwise. And just to say, the potato famine affected northern England and Scotland as well. But they were able to deal with it. And it was only after the Irish failed to do what the English and the Scots had done did a newly elected government decide to end or reduce help. It was a bad decision taken on the advice of a famed philanthropist famous for good works. He thought too much help made the Irish irresponsible. History is complicated.

More like Irish genocide

A W. its a pity it didn’t work.

SHES ONLY AN ACTRESS.

So unfairly treated by the British, one day they will have their comeuppance

Unfortunately so did our politicians in Ireland too, so we're also going to suffer yet again after being through an 800 year plantation

@@ondineclaudel Nahh we won't.

Like everywhere.

I agree with you compleatly,some of my ancestors were English on my grandmothers side,they had enough of the empire and being used as cannon fodder in their wars,as soilders,they turned in to Irish nationalists,sadly we are all now under attack from Globalists,we can not let them win.

Well observed. You are one of the few that understand the truth of it all…

I fully agree the government thought that poverty was peoples own fault and treated English poor just as badly as Irish poor if you couldn't pay your way you went to the workhouse where you either died or were sent to Australia to work on the big farms or buildings their and if you were a woman as a wife for the big property owners so while we Irish have plenty of reason to grieve at our past treatment by past British governments so do working class English people.

You are right yo a certain extent but show me where the population of Britain was reduced by 25% in the space of 5 years. So no, they were not treated the same

Ireland went through a famine. They were not treated the same. The fact Irish history isn’t taught in schools in Britain says it all.

Appalling so sad!

You mean the rich, like the world over, are you that thick you think there wasn't any poor English.

@@hetrodoxly1203 England had no right to make any country starve while they ate... Hence why the Irish don't like or trust the English.... Then again not many country's do

How did the Scottish, English and Welsh cause the potato famine? I've travelled the world and have nothing but friendship shown to me so that's a load of BS, what country are you from?

hetrodoxly 1 it was a potato blight that destroyed all potato crops which was the staple diet of Irish tenants. All other foods were exported to England or taken by the Planted English/Scottish landlords. That’s why they caused it.

Marguerite Heale genocide. Not a famine, pure genocide.

It was NOT famine but genocide.

Ireland has never had a fimine,while these people starved to death the English were still exporting food from Ireland. Also at this time such requests for reduced rents could result in imprisonment.

Forty acres....... An interesting resonance to an American like me.......

Not the failed potato crop but the English deliberate genocide of the Irish population they knew exactly what they were doing.

Marianne Leng ...No, money means power and most didn’t use their power for good.😔

ML: Correct, it has only gotten worse. There are the ''makers and bakers'' and the ''rakers and takers''. The takers now are the Bankers and their politician gang members.

@@ravirumplestiltskin598 for sure

The same as in England and every country in Europe, the way the rich treat the poor the world over.

Capitalists are proud to show you the riches they've accumulated on the backs of the working-class. There was only a very short period in time when strong unions and wages kept worker bees in line with the cost of living. We are falling far away from it again and have been for decades. Our future is back to thankless labour and poverty.

It's all in the past. There's no changing it, and all who did it are long dead. You are YOU, not them and not their actions. Move on.

United Kingdom was formed late 1800s Ireland will never get financial reparations. No one can be accountable for what people did in technically a different country

@@EggGames , could you refrain from writing garbage. "United Kingdom was formed in late 1800's". Idiot trying to sound knowledgeable. "No one can be accountable for what people did in technically a "different" country." What a useless and completely meaningless sentence. Go back to reading your comics.

When the rest of the world gets reparations from the UK. If the UK was to repay every country they wronged then they’d be in major debt

That's the green there. I went on holiday, and the color green is unlike any other place on earth!

That’s why it’s called the Emerald Isle.

Perhaps oldman is too old to realise that the young will change the face of Ireland and Brexit will decide of its future , hopefully a due reunification , northern ireland is like a cancer and it's so out of place in the 21st century.

@Margaret Gust right, a lot of people don't understand everything that was going on here . My great-grandfather left County Mayo when he was about 10 years old.. he came to America and when he got off the ship he was an orphan... he may have been an orphan when he got on the ship ...we don't know . Terrible thing that happened ... starvation is a terrible way to go

No!!! The land that they had they grew potatoes on it for themselves, a small plot of land you could grow a lot of potatoes. The rest of the land they had was used to grow corn etc that was the cash drop that was used to pay the landlord. When the blight struck we were faced with a dilemma eat the corn and don't pay the rent or pay the rent and starve.

It was a staple crop, not a cash crop. They depended on it for their food, that's why it was so devastating.

which is dark?

@@randomvidios09 Thank you so much for that information, it will help. I do so want to know more. Thanks again. Be safe...

@@randomvidios09 You are so right. Northern Ireland had not been established. The uprising I have read about did not even occur until 1916(?), and the split occurred later. Of course! I feel like such a dummy. Time to read again the history.

probably sold it

Pay attention,they didn't own the land.

@@brazilianbhoy he could have meant the original owner, the ones from england.

@@noortjelief1987 They were sent packing in 1921...all lands taken back into the hands of the New Irish State and redistributed to the rightful owners

@@TheRiordanlad yeah, i guess i did not remember the comment clearly or misread it bc he is specifically talking about the family not the landowner 🙈 so just ignore my stupid comment 😂

No not all the English you can't judge a whole race by the actions of some. That is just ridiculous There was terrible poverty malnutrition and disease in England. The situation was the same in England, Rich Landowners exploiting the poor. The Land enclosure Acts, the rich stealing common land from the people. Stately homes with all that land was given by the King/Queen to people who did their dirty work. Nothing has changed still have the few who own much of the land in the UK. My late Grandmother on my Fathers side was Irish from Dublin born in 1893. I and my sisters are trying to look into her family ancestry.

@@deniseg-hill1730 judge a whole race you write . English is a nationality Origin of birth. Dd

@@dabdella1460 English Scottish Irish Welsh are nationalities. British you can be a British Citizen after 5 years residence it doesn't make you English, Welsh Scottish or Irish. The English are an ethnic group same as the others. British is anybody who has a British passport.

@@deniseg-hill1730 I am from a family of all thee above mentioned but we are all only from the one race of human Dd

@@dabdella1460 Obviously but It annoys me when these days the English are blamed for everything.

You mean the gory!

It disproportionately impacted the Irish and as they were occupied by a foreign power who continued exporting the other Irish food sources, it is considered Genocide.