A Fateful Journey - The Untold Story of Famine Irish in Canada

Produced by Canada Ireland Foundation

In Partnership with The Government of Canada and Ireland's Department of Foreign Affairs | Emigrant Support Program

Directed by Ted Jefferies and Beatriz Lôbo

[ellen]

I'm Northern Ireland born and raised I thank you for sharing how much the Irish people suffered during this time, I hope the young here learn the history of Ireland and our ancestors we're all Irish, thank you really appreciated, God Bless you 🙏💚🌹☘️

[dominicsheeran]

Thank so much for this Film . It’s not always told just how desperate the time was. An Gorta Mór : The Great Hunger . A famine is an absence of food. Even during Black 47 thousands of atoms of food was exported from Ireland to England . The English passed a law forbidding the Irish from travelling to the coast for food & seaweed .

Hence term Hunger An Gorta Mór

Greetings from Bradford Irish Society in Northern England. Most of the Bradford Irish came from the Midlands because it was the Wool producing area of Ireland @ at the Time Bradford was the Wool capital of World Wool Trade and Fasted Growing City in Europe.

Thank you Canada

[MsCatM]

As a Canadian of Irish background, whose family would have arrived in this country around that period, I say THANK YOU! We always hear about the Irish in America (i.e. the USA) but rarely do we hear about our own Irish *Canadians.* The link between what was happening then and what is happening now, with refugees arriving from all over and for many reasons, and how they are treated well by some and badly by others, is thought-provoking and very appropriate.

[cargosmith]

My young teens are learning about the Irish famine now in school - I wanted them to realize how their ancestors got here to Canada. We will remember. ❤ thank you! They watched as well as were astounded and moved.

[NomadicArtist-pq]

History can teach us much if we have open hearts. I can not ignore the fact that here in the US and Canada we are losing a great allie. Canada has come to my countries aid when we faced the hardest times. I am so sad for what is happening now. I hope the good of our people will prevail and we can once again have the friendship we once had?

[KingsleyGallagher]

Thank you for sharing, it's disturbing to see what our ancestors suffered ❤☘️😢

[derekstynes]

Thank You for this very interesting story of Canada and the Irish Diaspora .

[valerieasher]

Robert Kearns et al - Thank you for your work!
Having ancestors on both my Maternal + Paternal sides (who came in those early days), it is nice to see that what they went through is being brought to the publics attention. People have no idea. They were the first slaves and what they endured was horrific.
Thank you!

[maureencurran]

Remembering them, and remembering the medical staff who gave their lives to help them. Also remembering all who helped them.

[caronpaulovich]

My paternal great grandmother was a toddler when her family migrated from Ireland to Canada in that summer of 1847.

[BernieWhelan-lr]

Why the music? I can't hear what's been said. 😢

[CaseyKCRichards]

I am born in Ireland spending my youth there before i emigrated to California. I did not know any of this.. What i cant get my head around ….. there was no famine… it was British genocide. The irish ☘️ just didn’t eat potatoes …we had enough of fish in the sea to feed the Irish population. We were ran out of our country by the British who stopped food imports and starved the Irish so they could take our land. I want to thanks my Irish patriots who fought for survival. The Canada’s treated the Irish with so much love unlike the Americans.. Thanks you my Irish Citizens and those who continue to see them themselves as Irish Canadians . Thank you Canada . I salute you. ☘️

[mikecain]

Great video. Do you know anything about the famine Irish who ended up in Peterborough?

[katerawlings]

I find the music is overtaking the dialog could be softer.😊

[SuperAnglocelt]

There was potato blight all over Europe. The poor Irish relied on the potato to survive as you can grow a lot of potatoes on just 1 acre of land. There was no large scale Irish fishing industry as British policy in the 1820's and 1830's was to run down facilities to protect the British fishing industry. Unfortunately food was exported from Ireland during famine times due to British laissez-faire theories about economics . There was also prejudice against Irish people by the UK government but some British charities did their best to help. To call it a British genocide is inaccurate, but certainly the UK could have done more.

[heidimisfeldt]

Sometimes I wonder, whether there was any Irish immigrating to Latin American countries, during those extremely difficult times.
Also if any went to Australia for that matter.

[entranced]

Please ask British slappers from Barnet Council to return my sons please they are not stringent or scrutinous or correct or thorough in fact they are evil inappropriate cheating wirdos thick vulgar and my poor son cried to me aged 17 along with oh please help us my mums crew are from Belfast I am half English but tits too much Theyve alsonstolen hersisters Lockerbie compensatiom

[St.Joseph-Pillar-of-Families]

Why in the Hell is the New Brunswick story not told in this incomplete history of the Irish famine! I swear that New Brunswick and the rest of the Atlantic Canada should seperate from Canada. It's not truely part of Canada anyway.