Kindred Spirit Monument in Midleton, Cork is a testament to that 👏👏👏

The greatest gift ever given . From poor to poor . Love those people

My family lived because of the aid they received from those beautiful people. We will never forget their kindness. ❤

...and, neither do the Irish. Thank you. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/q7x2hLWavdbMaGg.html

@@lindamcloughlin1326 Walk past that every day! Used to live near a native reservation when I lived in America. The lads there all got a kick out of hearing this story

The educated call it the “Great Hunger”.

​@@thebee8415 The only reason for that is so we're not educated from Birth to hate the British.

Yep did you ever here about the handful of Irish that went to fight along side the native Americans

A great movie that covers parts of the famine is called “black 47” which was the worst year of the famine worth a watch

IT WAS GENOCIDE

I remember when we learn about this economy in high school and we got in to a huge debate. I raised my hand to speak and I ask my colleagues to imagine themselves searching on the rubbish bins for something to eat. They all mimicked faces of disgust. I asked them to imagine the pain on them stomach to resource on filthy rubbish bins. After I ask them: " now imagine that there is no rubbish bins" but the pain still in your stomachs" Sadly and suddenly everyone went silent. This was my dad teaching to me. My dad was a poor fishing sailor in Africa, we are spanish and every campaign in the sea he will depart with huge suitcase with all our old clothes already in very bad condition as we didn't have much. Me being attached to what was mine even if I didn't use it anymore, selfish as every kid is, till they learn better. I use to complain a lot. So he told me the story that years after left my colleagues speechless. My already worn clothes were treasures to Angolan kids during war, and my dad being the good heart he was, wouldn't let those kids get unnoticed. He also get sometimes in trouble because he left expired products in nice bags at the seaport instead of wasting them in the sea, before reaching the port. International authorities regulated that is better they die from hunger than get 1 "possible" stomachache from a expired product. Irony of the "civilised" world

the british exported all of our food and left us to die

it was genocide

You're a bot that's what you are.

Correction - the British caused a genocide. They could have stopped it but they didn’t.

No the British caused the Famine. There was enough of different crop to save many more. Britain was still buying carrots, lettuce etc... instead of giving it to the starving/dying

Correct thats why, the reason the irish people have a long long memory !!

Not the British’. Scotland also had a potato famine … many starved or sent on ships to America & Canada.

This is the truth !

Thick as mince. They lived on an island, go fishing for food!

@@mogmacphee7595 "Thick as Mince"?? what kind of idiot are you. Extreme poverty on a land that you are NOT in Control of!!! Everything you did to get food was greatly hampered by Troops ... Basically There was NO FKN Chance of getting food. N OW GROW the actual Fk up and learn.

​@@mogmacphee7595They were banned from getting fishing or hunting licences by the English overlords. When they did and got caught they were put on the death ships.

A genocide from the almighty.

@@mogmacphee7595 please say this is sarcasm

How cruel the British were to everyone! The Highland Scots, the American native peoples, the Australian Aboriginal people the Indian people under the British Raj. The Maori of New Zealand faired better.

@@elizabeth10392 Yes, forgive me for just narrowing my response down to Ireland 🙏🏻 They were cruel to everyone as you stated.

@@maitiu6802 I was just elaborating on what you said. No forgiveness need be involved 🙂 The story was about Ireland after all. I was just saying ...

Remember they treated English people exactly the same way. Our Norman overlords still own most of the land in our 4 countries They have robbed and murdered us for a thousand years.

Ahem. English

Yes, read The Immortal Irishman

At least Cromwell had his boots on the ground. Did the dirty work himself. Not sat in an office with his feet up neglecting an arm of the empire. I'm a planter decendant and my family still got shafted by both of them so no one was safe 😂

No worries. Many of us hold no grudges. Just if your kids are shouting potato into a microphone on the PlayStation give um a slap on the back of the head lol.

Shut it woman, this is why women shouldn't be allowed to vote or have a say in politics

​@@kylemenosAnd Im sure no irish person will say anything anti british and will apologize for the ira I assume.

It's similar to the Russians. We did a lot of horror to the native people. BUT we accept the same from our kings, dukes, princess...

as an Irish person I dont have any hatred for the English people but the royals thats a different story

Thanks.

And now we have 5000 Turkish kebab shops

Irish is a Semitic language. Ancient Gaelic as the Irish are a Semitic people. Ireland the Ur of the Chaldeas book by Anna Wilkes expounds on it. Irish people call Jesus Iosa krist pronounced same as Isa in Arabic.

@@ummnajeeyah Irish is a Celtic language. Semitic languages are Afro-Asiatic languages whereas Irish is an Indo-European language. So completely different language tree. Also Ireland is in Northwestern Europe so why would the Irish speak a Semitic language?

Heartbreaking in this day and age to think that's happening right now with a flotilla carrying thousands of tons of aid being obstructed trying to reach Gaza. 😢

The british also donated some warships to the confederacy. Same charity.

Yes. During the Ireland femin

​@@freneticness6927the Irish people donated the money in honour of our ancestors and for what they did for us during the famine ,

@@christina3959 They didnt do anything. Its made up. But some irish choctaw slave owners donated two quid though so bully for you.

@@freneticness6927 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣people may not be alive but the narrow minded and bullying complex of your ancestors seems to be flowing through your orange veins

This was and perhaps is still barely mentioned in the national curriculum in English schools, the same with the negatives of the Empire, we learnt about slavery at school only because of the William Wilberforce museum. My great grandma's relatives would have lived during the time of the potato famine although I don't know much about them, she left Ireland for love and married a Yorkshire man. It's worth remembering that it British upper class that were responsible for & reacting to this rather than working class people in England, Scotland and Wales at time who were treated better but not well. The population of Ireland in 2024 has still not recovered with emigration to Britain and USA as well people dying from lack of food. Yet when you visit Ireland they are some of the nicest, positive people you could met.

A commentator from Liverpool said it was taught there. I'm from Yorkshire and in my experience it was barely mentioned in the national curriculum in English schools, the same with the negatives of the Empire, we learnt about slavery at school only because of the William Wilberforce museum. My great grandma's relatives would have lived during the time of the potato famine although I don't know much about them, she left Ireland for love and married a Yorkshire man. I read that over 1/4 of people in Liverpool were Irish and you had an Irish Party MP years ago, you can hear influence today on Liverpool accents. It's worth remembering that it British upper class that were responsible for & reacting to this rather than working class people in England, Scotland and Wales at time time. The population of Ireland in 2024 has still not recovered with emigration to Britain and USA as well people dying from lack of food. Yet when you visit Ireland they are some of the nicest, positive people you could met.

Ireland was part of the UK but then it was not.

And then they went on to colonize most of the world with the british and americans and then pretend hitler was ok.

⁠​⁠@@freneticness6927How did we colonise most of the world? And we never pretended Hitler was okay. We remained neutral during WW2, if you even use 2 of the 3 braincells you have you can see it was the correct decision. If we became an ally, we (an extremely poor country due to protectionist policies at the time) would have suffered immensely, we had no way to defend our land or sky and would have most certainly been pretty much wiped off the face of the planet. Our government was much more helpful towards the allies, allowing British and American planes to fly above, and only arresting German pilots after crashes while allowing the allied pilots to “escape”. It baffles me as to why some British people still have a hatred for Ireland, I can understand a hatred for the IRA, but they do not represent the Irish people.

The Choctaws were so moved by the plight of the Irish they collected $5000 to send for relief. There is a monument in Ireland to remember their generosity.

Called ethnic clensing

​@@andykane9866Didnt do a job of it as we missed some of your irish dna.

Hundreds of thousands of irish moved to england. The famines over and they still havent left.

@@freneticness6927 The fuck is wrong with you?

You are our most eastern county 😉 💗

Your in England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 😂. Liverpool is geographically part of England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 whether the Scousers like it or not. Maybe we will all start having to chant that we are being occupied by Irish descendants 🇮🇪 in our country and claiming it's a plantation and that they should all go on home like the Irish keep doing with regards to NI. Liverpool will always be England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

@@hey12542you sound like a right p***k , now get yer head down and hide behind your keyboard

My family was most recently from Yorkshire, but we have a direct link to the famine. My mother's father was born in Liverpool to parents who had come over from Ireland to escape the famine as small children. He was born in 1899.

That's good to know. I'm from Yorkshire and in my experience it was barely mentioned in the national curriculum in English schools, the same with the negatives of the Empire, we learnt about slavery at school only because of the William Wilberforce museum. My great grandma's relatives would have lived during the time of the potato famine although I don't know much about them, she left Ireland for love and married a Yorkshire man. I read that over 1/4 of people in Liverpool were Irish and you had an Irish Party MP years ago, you can hear influence today on Liverpool accents. It's worth remembering that it British upper class that were responsible for & reacting to this rather than working class people in England, Scotland and Wales at time time. The population of Ireland in 2024 has still not recovered with emigration to Britain and USA as well people dying from lack of food. Yet when you visit Ireland they are some of the nicest, positive people you could met

And that's still the case today througout the world.

no its evil that is the problem, and the love of money is the root of all evil.

Im sure the choctaw sold some of their slaves to send the money to ireland. Its a shame there are no more indians and irish people in the world after the famines. Maybe a bit of family planning and birth control would help.

Both my Handsome Husband and my Gorgeous Girlfriend are English. Neither had heard of the Famine prior to moving to Ireland.

I would say it was a disgusting period for the british, their blood lust and cynical callousness on display to the whole world, it was more tragic for the Irish not disgusting imo

*It’s not you mean

Yes, I'm from Yorkshire and in my experience it was barely mentioned in the national curriculum in English schools, the same with the negatives of the Empire, we learnt about slavery at school only because of the William Wilberforce museum. My great grandma's relatives would have lived during the time of the potato famine although I don't know much about them, she left Ireland for love and married a Yorkshire man. I read that over 1/4 of people in Liverpool were Irish and you had an Irish Party MP years ago, you can hear influence today on Liverpool accents. It's worth remembering that it British upper class that were responsible for & reacting to this rather than working class people in England, Scotland and Wales at time time. The population of Ireland in 2024 has still not recovered with emigration to Britain and USA as well people dying from lack of food. Yet when you visit Ireland they are some of the nicest, positive people you could met

I would love to find out more about my irish history.im english from a irish background. My english side of the family worked in Londons docklands and it was hell by all accounts like most ordinary english folk. Ireland wasn't good at keeping records and of course alot was lost in the civil war etc. I know they came from Cork and limerick I also have names Daley and boyle. But I've drawn a complete blank

Steve & Lindsey, I've read that one of the problems was that the Irish were encouraged to only plant one type of potatoes, and that there were other breeds that were resistant to blight . I think the English still feel guilty about what happened, even though ordinary people weren't responsible.

@@chucky2316 hi how are you sorry i hope u dont mind me commenting there is a website called family search it might help u ive done a my heritage dna this year im 100% Irish Scottish and Welsh so celtic dna but most likely u might need dates

​@@lyndarichardson4744planted plenty of variety's and other veg but that was for our masters , The only spud we could afford was the cheapest one and also the only one the got blight

That sort of potato (In the 1800s, the Irish solved their problem of feeding a growing population by planting potatoes. Specifically, they planted the “lumper” potato variety. And since potatoes can be propagated vegetatively, all of these lumpers were clones, genetically identical to one another.) grew best in the soil of South West Ireland. Many absentee landlords were Irish, such as the Duke of Wellington of Waterloo fame. the real problem was that changes to the tax laws caused the landlords to evict many thousands of the peasant farmers on their land. They could not pay their rent so were evicted. They had to take to the roads, were turned away from towns and so starved. @@lyndarichardson4744

That's pretty awful

They didn't emigrate, they were forced off the land and onto the ships after their houses had been burned. I had ancestors who were sold as slaves to a plantation in Maryland by the English government, which isn't mentioned much and isn't taught in Scottish schools

@@lordprefab5534 It was a BRITISH government, mister. I know ya game.

very similar to ireland and the west of ireland in particular.The poipulation of connacht for example where i live has only a third of the population it had in the 1840s.

@@blackbob3358 It was the English government, after the battle of Dunbar. The survivors had a death march to Durham Cathedral where the wounded were slaughtered and the rest sold as slaves to the new world and transported on English navy ships. It's on ancestry if you want to check it out.

Yes, I'm from Yorkshire and in my experience it was barely mentioned in the national curriculum in English schools, the same with the negatives of the Empire, we learnt about slavery at school only because of the William Wilberforce museum. My great grandma's relatives would have lived during the time of the potato famine although I don't know much about them, she left Ireland for love and married a Yorkshire man. I read that over 1/4 of people in Liverpool were Irish and you had an Irish Party MP years ago, you can hear influence today on Liverpool accents. It's worth remembering that it British upper class that were responsible for & reacting to this rather than working class people in England, Scotland and Wales at time time. The population of Ireland in 2024 has still not recovered with emigration to Britain and USA as well people dying from lack of food. Yet when you visit Ireland they are some of the nicest, positive people you could met

Yeah, I'm sure you're right :)

Check out a song called The Fields of Athenry. It's about a man who stole Trivellians corn to feed his family and got deposited to Australia. A line goes "you stole Trivellians corn so the young could see the morn, now the prison ship lies waiting in the bay."

Yes, but they mistakenly conflate this with the Israel / Palestine situation. Apparently but incorrectly associating Britain’s colonisation of Ireland with their mandate in Palestine.

​@@brianbeagthe idiot left government and ngo's are the clowns supporting gaza, the majority of Irish people support the Jewish people, but we are drowned out by the screamers and the islamists

@MartKart8 Those signs are a proven myth.

Where are you from?

@@elsapena5055 sorry I reread it ended up sounding like jiberish☹️

Shove that book where the sun don’t shine 🇬🇧

​@mogmacphee7595 you would know where that is.

Love it. also, Most of us English have Irish and Scottish roots ,My grand father was a Scot, My grand mother was Irish. And I consider myself English .

Not all families had the means to leave,so your family member no doubt was right about some of his family staying your side left.like all families to day some can some can't.

⁠@@briangibson6527indeed my paternal grandmother comes from Irish ancestry (Protestant) maternal grandfather catholic Irish, paternal grandfather Scots Canadian and maternal grandmother English! With a splash of Russian, German and Native American in the mix.

@@briangibson6527 Speak for yourself, I have no irish ancestry whatsoever, I'm purely English not a mongrell like you

​@@briangibson6527Shows how much the irish and scottish have colonized england.

They said they didnt, I think you miswatched the video Bub !!

@@petrokemikal Maybe. I do sometimes misunderstand Steve when he speaks so fast.

I was curious after this video where it originated, so I looked it up. "The researchers concluded that it wasn’t in fact US-1 that caused the blight, but a previously unknown strain, HERB-1, which had originated in the Americas (most likely in Mexico’s Toluca Valley) sometime in the early 19th century before spreading to Europe in the 1840s." From a History.com article titled 'After 168 Years, Potato Famine Mystery Solved'--short but informative.

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There's much that doesn't get discussed

Most upper class were Anglo Irish, Protestant, British ascendancy / colonial class. Irish Catholics were mainly tenant farmers, legacy of the penal laws. So you are right - they were never going to help

the fact that it was the USA that intentionally sold Europe the infected seed potato also goes unmentioned, all of Europe suffered badly from the Blight which is known as USA1 especially Germany, Ireland and Scotland.

@@briancostello9325 we have to go further back in history to Henery the viii who split from the catholic church and regarded all Catholics as potential traitors severely restricting what they could or could not do. to this day they cannot inherit the British crown

Those landlords were british and mostly absentee living in england they were in no sense irish.Many of the agents were irish to be fair ,but the majority of the landlords were Anglo irish protestants who lived in england as absentee landlords for the most part.Irish catholics who were about 90% of the population were just emerging from anti catholic laws which meant that very few would have been able to rise up into the middle classes.To be fair there would have been agents of the landlords who were irish catholics.

@seedhillbruisermusic7939 Hi, in Ireland, all livestock, grains, fish, homes, lands etc were all taken from the poor starving Irish, one were shot if one tried to catch fish in the waters, the only thing left was the potato, that is why the Irish were dependent on it, everything else was stolen

That makes sense! Appreciate the insight. Horrible on all accounts!

I did but not extensively in 3rd year History many years ago. At the time our lessons were based around the Industrial Revolution with part of that curriculum on Irish emigration and their involvement in building railways (navvies). I had no idea until recently anywhere but Ireland was affected.

It's on the English A level history from at least the 2000s. But it's not taught in GCSEs as part of the main education syllabus.

Am 63 and scottish I got tought it ,maybe not in depth but yes it was mentioned.

Middle men were Anglo Irish not Itish

@@ko0974 Anglo Irish is still Irish, and I said most of them, not all of them. Also I was quoting from a history book, not all my own words. So . . . argue with the historians, not me.

@@sharonmartin4036 how am I arguing? Correcting yes ,again Anglo Irish are NOT Irish they were upper class English given wealthy farms and homes in Evicted native Irish homes...History books depending when written and also where will have errors, ...Alot in recent years has been whitewashed ,after 90s books were revised minimising England's treatment and going through peace process so , paper won't refuse ink ....

@@ko0974 Correcting? What makes you right and me wrong? But you're not arguing, no? Good grief! The 'upper class English" landowners DID NOT LIVE IN IRELAND. The people physically running things in Ireland were mostly Irishmen. Greedy and criminally liable for a lot of the evil that took place in the name of their British masters. Good night now, have a nice evening. Ciao.

@@sharonmartin4036 well anglo Irish is still.Irish ...that what corrected...which is a fact.. Yes there were absentee landlords, but would have had other English in situ or scotch Irish planters ....all of Ireland was under British rule ,everyone worked for them, bar the odd few turncoats yes those whom already treated their own like shit... but Anglo..and Scott are not Irish.. Slàn

That does sound quite scary!

Yeah, we were wondering how it got there in the first place...appreciate you sharing!

and your Copy and Paste point is WHAT????? . . . .. .ARE you IRISH ??

Read Chris Fogarty’s study of the event called ‘The Perfect Holocaust’. It might enlighten you a bit and save you making irrelevant long comments about some disease that affects potatoes

I agree that there are many instances of history being erased or re-written, depending on whose in control. Of course, every culture and race has experienced discrimination and suffered abuse to some degree...as well as, at some points, being the ones perpetrating it. It's an unfortunate side effect of humanity, but I do believe acknowledging the past injustices helps us heal and do better in the future.

America and India

Yep...pretty sad. It would take very little combined effort to solve world hunger.

????? WTF ?????

What trauma have you suffered. Bet you’ve never went hungry ffs

And it hurts so much because all the Presbyterian and protestant Scots at that time were colonising and helping destroy Ireland at the same time and for hundreds of years prior as well. Imagine having to move to a place where so many people responsible for basically enslaving so many of your people and the biggest reason why Ireland isn't a united country even to this day it's so disgusting. The divide is still evident to this day with the Irish and catholic side of things being on the side of Celtic and the Protestant English side of things representing rangers in the football it's no wonder there's such a bitter and fierce rivalry but the fact any of them can act proud of such things really shows you how fucked up the world is.

Walter Raleigh was an oppressive stodge to the Irish he colonized their land and killed women and children. He cut down massive forests left the land bare and left the timber to rot when he couldn't sell it forcing the Irish to clean up his mess.

Not only that but it was the church that gave James the second the go ahead to invade Ireland in the first place saying it was the will of god.

.. well there was a strong sense of superiority of the colonising thugs towards the colonised. It was similar to Germany in the 30’s and 40’s, the sub human ideA etc etc, not much to do with religion, just arrogance and avarice. The ‘great’ brutish empire pulled the same trick in the Indian colony where approximately one million were starved to death, facts are facts mate. Also there is evidence that the true population of Ireland before the starvation was 11 million so 4 million were starved to death and 1 million escaped abroad on coffin ships. If the true horrors of the ‘great’ british empire was ever told there would be a forever cloud of shame hanging over their nation like in modern Germany. The problem is as ever the victors wrote the history, you’re welcome 🙏

@@cdunne1620 now tell the full story, the reaction of the British Government but various charities/collections and collection of funds from the British public, which all diminished when the idea was pushed that man should not intervene in an event thought to have been sent from God, everything to do with religion, nothing to do with the later events in Germany

@@cdunne1620 What about every other empire on the planet Russia, ottoman byzantine, Chinese, Mayan. You do realize you'd be a slave right now if it wasn't for those pesky British

That's very true and the blight was in most of Europe....but England. Evicted us from our homes , took all our land and farms. Made us work on our own farms and charged us rent to live on a tiny piece of what was ours.?.. we produced an abundance of food and animals, that they used to feed the English and Scottish planters and exported out of the country .....genocide so I understand not easy everywhere but we had the colonisation and force from the English on top of it.

They were still your aristocratic leaders though whereas the aristocrats in ireland at the time were aliens who stole their lands from native irish chieftains and their clans.I mean the native aristocracy were not perfect a great many of them fecked off to the continent abandoning the country although there lands would have been taken from them.Those that didn't leave and didn't convert to protestantism became peasants and died in the famine.

Ok, but this video is about a genocide in Ireland. It's ok for it to just be about that.

@@deannamcmurtrey5794 Not when it fuels hate and terrorism by equating "The English" as a people as the perpetrators of these crimes. All while working class people all over the British Isles and Europe were treated just as badly. There is still the ruling classes in both London and Dublin who have imported USA university woke ideologies of "white supremacy" and "hate crimes" to both Islands. Ireland is in particular ramping this absolute codswallop up while never having been a colonial power of white privilege. I will also recommend the Liverpool video to show the absurd hatred from the London elites against a city mostly originated from English, Irish, Welsh and Norwegian immigrants. Now it is a totally different demographic but we got our scouse accents from the origins.

British people were suffering but a quarter of the population weren't driven to their graves. In fact the famine was used deliberately to clear the land of Irish people so it could be repopulated by Scots and English settlers. A famine on this scale wouldn't have been allowed in Britain because the ruling class would have had no peasants to produce their food. That's the difference and that's why there's no equivilence here.

Absolutely...it's important to acknowledge the darker parts of history, so that we may learn from it.

Indeed. Check out the "Oranges and Sunshine" story about working class British children exported to Australian work farms for over a century. The movie with Emily Watson and Hugo Weaving really brought it home.

The Irish who died in their hundreds of thousands were also classed as British at the time and were let die in numbers far exceeding those GB. There isn’t an equivalence.

The Irish were not responsible for starving British children in the work houses. The whole point is that the British could have easily prevented the famine but chose not to. And for those that say all this is in the past cowardly British paras have been slaughtering unarmed Irish civilians in my lifetime.

British Victorian society was an absolute nightmare for the poor. Just awful stuff. The Call the Midwife books talk in detail about the workhouses and how terrible they were.

Seems strange so many were never taught this. I was

@@101steel4it was part of history lessons since at least the 1980’s in most cases, earlier in many areas. It’s been a key part of the national curriculum since it’s introduction.

@@matt-fh6hb yes I was at school in the 70s/80s and clearly remember learning about it.

Am 63 and yes it was tought at school ,but Irish,Welsh,and Scottish history was really just skipped over but mentioned, most of my history was about English history,Romans etc.

I only learned about the ongoing food exports from Ireland during my undergraduate studies (the British school system has a real code of _omerta_ about some parts of our history). It was an absolute "We did WHAT?!" moment.

I’m sorry but it wasn’t considered mainstream thinking. It was called out at the time as a complate disgrace. There’s plenty of available information out there if you wish to read it. The simple fact is that Irish food was imported into England to keep food prices low and stop England’s poor starving.

We're considered extremists now😡

@@DreynoI look forward to reading this, which historians & which books would you recommend? I must confess that British political history was my area of study, Ireland was Britain then. But it has been a few years since my uni days. Love to read some new ideas and opinions. Dare say others to responding to the video would be just as interested.

@@belindakennedy5828think any that wanted change back then were called that to. 😔 We have a lot to be grateful for, our ancestors fought for a better world for us all.

@@Anna-ez5ij Ireland was part of Britain only as a means of controlling it and extracting a full measure of wealth. When a constituent part of the U.K. Ireland was a net contributor to the British exchequer for every single year including the years of the famine. “Atlas of the Great Irish Famine” is a good place to start to appreciate the scale of the event. Cecil Woodham-Smith’s 1962 book, “The Great Hunger” is regarded as above reproach. “The Truth Behind the Irish Famine” by Jerry Mulvihill is a collection of first hand accounts of the famine combined with modern illustrations. There’s lots of excellent books on the topic but there is also a pernicious little cottage industry in revisionist historians whitewashing the facts, making false equivalencies with other parts of Europe, downplaying Britain’s contribution in making a crop failure a famine and more or less absolving Britain of blame. The facts show otherwise, that it was absolutely British policy with regards land ownership, tenant rights, penal laws and relief spending (or lack of) that were directly responsible. But their inbuilt jingoism refuses to accept it so they’ve spent the last 20 years writing laughably misleading books in service of their cause.

Its a lot greener now in County sligo largely because of bog reclamation in the1840s peat bogland would be much more prevalent and still covers vast areas of the county

Potato blight is a disease caused by spells of mild temperatures and high humidity ( these are called Beaumont periods ). Those conditions make grass grow , so the greenery is not surprising .

Are you sure? The laws of inheritance in Irish custom did not enforce primogeniture while in england it was l the eldest son inherited. I don't think that the english landlords would have been able to ignore the laws of inheritance that had existed in Ireland since time immemorial

I mean. Where do i start here? In their earlier years the Whigs were overtly anti-Catholic and pro-wealthy elites, but given that was typically the ‘norm’ of the 1700’s and onwards, that is to be expected. But by the 1800’s the Whigs had totally shifted position and were calling for a reform of monarchy, emancipation and equal rights for Catholics, were leading on the abolition of slavery and were in favour of pushing the suffrage movement further. So much so that when the union of Ireland and Britain happened they had to be convinced to leave equal rights of the Catholics off the books, because the Protestants in Ireland would have revolted against it. Many Whigs of the 1830’s also rebelled against the Corn Laws. The Whigs also didn’t ‘morph into’ the Liberal Democrat’s, that’s a very simplistic notion. In the 1850’s some Whigs joined with Peelites (breakaway Conservatives), Radicals (aiming for electoral reform etc) and the Independent Irish Party (seeking land reform in Ireland etc). At the time of the moved from Whiggery to Liberalism the Whigs were led by Lord Palmerston, a renegade Irish Tory and essentially a conservative, capable of radical gestures. The ties to the Conservatives ran deep. Two of the greatest achievements of the Liberals in Ireland were land reform and the abolishment of the Anglian Church of Ireland, allowing religious reform and other things that essentially led to the Home Rule issue, and the right for Catholics, and tenants in general to buy their land in Ireland, and this essentially led to the fracturing of the Liberals. The price the Liberals paid for getting Irish home rule was the eventual loss of the Whigs from their stable, the elites and aristocracy went wholesale to the Conservative side and the more radical and middle class members created the likes of the Lib-Lab groupings that eventually became the Labour Party and ties to unionism. By the 1900’s the party was much more socialist liberal in nature and brought in vast change for the working classes, such as the introduction of National Insurance, sick pay and of course the Irish Free State. The First World War brought the end of Liberals, as they were ill equipped to fight wars and were brought down by unionists, and the changes the war brought to society brought polemic shift to British politics, as more people than ever won the right to vote, the working classes mainly, and Labour were brought into being a force in their own right. To combat this the Liberal factions grew ever more reliant on coalitions with their old friends, the Conservatives. This led ever more to the radical left within the Liberal party to defect to Labour and Labour took it upon themselves to become the sole left leaning political entity in Britain. By the late 1920’s the Liberals were eating themselves over if they should prop up a minority Labour government or seek coalition with the Tories, with both parties actually wanting to end the Liberals for good. The various Liberal factions did briefly reunite and saw a return to national attention but by the 1960’s were again falling out, with the National Liberals joining into the Conservatives in 1968. In 1981 the SDP, a breakaway faction from Labour, joined an alliance with the Liberals and were polling at 50% and looked ready to take a significant amount of seats but the Falklands War saw the Conservatives win that vote share and they again fell to the wings of parliamentary society. And as we know the two groups did eventually merge to form the Liberal Democrat’s. So, as I hope I have demonstrated, the Whigs/Liberals were at times massive reformers of society for the better, and the ties between Labour/Conservative and the Liberals run deep. If anything, the reason they are so ‘ineffectual’ today is that they were a victim of their own success! By bringing together the centre ground they could be radical, reformist and seek out consensus but this coalition of like minded became so broad that the left sought to lurch ever more left and led to the rise of Labour, so they lost the left leaning vote, where the right leaning vote went across to the Tories. Many see the Liberal Democrat’s today as fluffy, daft lefty types but in truth they were more like a radical centre party.

Agree, history is not one narrative

@@davidbartle7169 That's a very good way of putting it.

@SmearCampaignUKI’m still being horrified by our ruling classes and government

Someone has a chip on their shoulder...

@@Christine-jg2ch We are too Christine, although it's with the Irish government, they are corrupt to the core, greedy and lack morals, to say the least

@@grantjohnston7972Would you like to tell us "who"?

@@indiantinamorals5791 although they managed the situation horribly it was not a genocide. No historian worth their salt would say that. You have to remember that this was the 1800s. Slavery was only abolished a decade before hand. Our morals and philosophies weren't exactly on point. It wasn't an evil establishment, just an establishment like any other at the time

I'm glad to say as an Englishman i have never heard of these 'Thick Irish' jokes. If they once existed, they don't exist much anymore. I find it very hard to believe that the Irish didn't know how to cook and store food from mainland Britain as the principles of storage and cooking would have been much the same for many foods.

Hmm only food sent to help was peelers corn in husks, and not used it eaten in Ireland. Not that didn't now what to do ,just did not have the mill equipment

Ireland is as has always been know as the land of Saints and Scholars Irish people always worked hard. in the countries they settled in The song the fields of Athenry mentions Treviallion a Despot of the first water For such a tiny country its celebrated in almost every country in the world. With no dirty history of greed and injustic. Wars and conflict can only have peace with talks marches and good will. Bless us all from hard ship Open up our hearts 💕 to all who suffer in this so called civilized world ❤

​@@marychristinagrantpower2219 get a grip Ireland has it's unjust evil greedy people too (like everywhere else in the world) , it's not the paradise you pretend, And most of the Irish people are great people. Hard working. Fun loving people , But it does have b@st*@rds too just like London or my town. Newcastle upon Tyne, Nowhere in the world is without its greedy evil people,

@@hardywatkins7737 Treating the Irish as thick was very much a comedy meme in the 1970's-80's. I think the IRA terrorists may have made it more than banter. Having said that it was the same as stereotyping the Scottish as penny pinching tight arses with their sporrans, and to this day Irish ancestry Scousers like me as potential thieves who will steal all the wheels from your car. It's water off a ducks back to me. Don't be a snowflake.

Thanks Michael.

If you are comparing the pre famine population of Ireland to now, you must include Northern Ireland. So that’s another 1.9 million people.

I'm surprised that happened to you. We Irish don't tend to class Scottish people as British.

@jeanninelee8821 I genuinely was surprised too... I remember saying I'm Scottish though and the reply I got was your still part of Britain your still one of them. This way way back in 2000, working on 2 buildings called the Atrium which were Microsofts buildings in the technology park just outside Dublin. We were staying in digs in Tallaght and the only pub that let us in was Delaneys in knocklyon. I remember trying to get into a club and the bouncer said you alright lads and as soon as they heard our accent, they said yer not coming in here.. if we wanted to go to a club we had to go into Dublin which even back then was a fortune.

@@weshall5679 sorry that happened to you. I've never ever heard of that before. We love the Scottish. The only way someone would not be nice to someone from Scotland over here (and in most cases it would be banter) would be if they were strutting around in a Rangers Jersey 🤣

@jeanninelee8821 hahaha haha 😄 no way... I stay clear of the 2 big teams... its boring.. one season it's celtic winning, next it's rangers... too boring. I'd rather watch Sunday league

The real cause of the famine was the dispossession and religious discrimanation of the irish which meant that hardly any catholic was educated or owned land.The highlands of scotland recieved much more help because there was a native upper and middleclass to help and the numbers were much less due to the clearances,Also there was a famine in 1740 the governments reponse was very different,because even though the. landlords were still english most of them lived in ireland and there was a parliament in dublin so they still had a vested interest in the country.After the act of union of 1801 the landlords left ireland and became absentee so whatever leadership there was in the country vanished.

That is offensively misleading. I’m not sure if you’re merely ignorant or a disgusting individual who’s helping with the revisionist nonsense that the least reputable”historians” are currently engaged in. Those who survived being blamed for “leaving behind” those that didn’t is an absolutely disgusting attempt to shift blame. That my ancestors hadn’t the decency to go die in a ditch like their relations and neighbours so must be culpable in some way. And then you wonder why there’s anti-British sentiment? Cretin.

Thats not the last census that was the 2016 census.It was 5.1 milllion for the republic and 1.9 million for NI as per the 2021 censuses.There has been huge influxes since of refugees so there is now about 5.3 million people in the republic

@@gallowglass2630 The population of Ireland was actually 11 million but the census takers couldn't account for all parts of Ireland as the country was hard to traverse. Irelands population today should be around 30 million even korea which is the same size as ireland has a 50 million population.

That's very true, but in a way I'm glad my country isn't overly populated like some other island nations. @@BrianBorumaMacCennetig367

There are quite a few Irish and Scottish communities in Yorkshire, I grew up in one. So distinct was the ‘English’ part of the area it was called ‘Little Wigan’ by locals, as that’s where they moved from, to find work in the collieries. I see the Catholic Church, graveyard and school from my window right now. Yorkshire people in general have shared many of the ills of aristocracy as their Irish brethren. From the harrying of the north, to the serfdom of the population, to the uprisings of Industrial Revolution and a call for the right to a paid day off at weekend and so on. There is a reason Football was organised as a pastime in Yorkshire first, and why so many football clubs here trace their roots to the church and boys clubs. Also a reason why unions were such an integral part of Yorkshire society. I just wish people making these videos understood the actual complexities of the matter rather than ‘British/English are bad’ type approaches. I totally understand why Scottish nationalism has made this fashionable again, and why Irish people in general have a legitimate reason to think this way, but it totally misses the fact that in general 95% of people across these isles share the same ills of being a victim of colonialism and empire.

Wow yes absolutely! everything is So polaraised and over-simplified now. 'You English took our land' have had that said to me in Scotland despite part of my family being from the highland clearances and me being from a purely working class background. I attended a Welsh Nationalist event with my partner who is a Welsh Nationalist and they were talking like 'if we break away from England and Westminster it will all be fab' Forgetting that greedy rich tyrants exist in Wales who would just become another version of the Rich oppressors and that they would be breaking solidarity with the working class North of England. So silly and ignorant.@@matt-fh6hb

That's sad that she was made to feel ashamed of her heritage.

@matt-fh6hb We definitely don't think all British/English are bad--not even close! I even stated this at the end of the video. No one alive today is responsible for the atrocities committed throughout history, and we realize that average citizens had nothing to do with the treatment of the Irish back then. The government was at fault.

i think before black people came here in the 60s from the West Indies, the Irish were the big racial targets - slaves existed from scotland and ireland sent out to work alongside Africans. History shows Jewish people too. Staying with the Irish theme - If you havent checked out Shane Mcgowan fairytale of new york please do as he has just passed away sadly and he had a great irish band and its one of the greatest and popular xmas songs ever. @@reactingtomyroots

Does it impact you view on the British as a whole, as a child or now as an adult? Or was it made clear it was the British aristocrats? Just wondering how you felt about Britain as a country after learning this. And if your feeling for any country that tried to assist also changed. /Gen

He was given lands in East County Cork in Youghal in gratitude by Queen Elizabeth. where presumably the potato was first introduced into Ireland.

Incorrect the genocidal lunatic didn't introduce the potato to Ireland it was the Spanish. The potato in Ireland was known as An Spáinneach it was probably introduced to Ireland in 1550 by the spanish at waterford.

@@gniwtram Given is another word for colonized.

Yes but they were rebellions long before the famine

@@gallowglass2630 Imagine wanting to rebel against a conquering force. Oh the shame.