A Timeline Of The Potato Famine That Changed Ireland Forever

No one will deny that Ireland has had its share of hard times. From adverse policies implemented by Britain to inequality abroad, the Irish have weathered countless struggles and horrors. Despite their often tragic history, the Irish have created a unique culture that has profoundly impacted the world at large.

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[Irelandretroclips]

The Choctaw Nation gave aid to us during the famine and to this day it is not forgotten. Thank you from Ireland 💚.

[jturie]

I recently went to Dublin (I"m an American). All we ever were taught was that the Irish had no food during the famine. This is why my Mother's family emigrated to the US. Thanks to a phenomenal guide at Kilmainham Gaol, I learned the real truth...that Ireland had an abundance of crops that were exported to England. The word for this is....genocide. Never has the phrase "History is written by the winners" been more appropo.

[yoda]

The choctaw, the native american people. Sent money over to help. Despite having very little themselves they did that for us. Theres a beautiful monument to the choctaw in Middleton, cork.

[shanegooding]

Has there ever been a point in human history where the powerful actually helped poor folks instead of taking advantage of their suffering?

[Dogman]

A statue in Ireland commemorates the 1847 donation by the Native American Choctaw People to Irish famine relief during the Great Hunger, despite the Choctaw themselves living in hardship and poverty and having recently endured the Trail of Tears

[billc.]

And yet during 'The Great Hunger' Ireland was actually a food exporter thanks to the British holdings in Ireland. Ireland really had ample food but the British wouldn't share it to relieve the suffering.

[fordfan]

That sign "No Irish Need Apply" was still in use into the 1900s. My grandfather emegrated to this country with a sick wife after the British backed black and tans burned the city of cork. My grandfather's citizenship papers are from 1927 but he had been here since 1920 working for the NY Railroad as a "fireman". That title meant he shoveled coal for steam engines up to 16 hr's a day. He worked till he was ready to drop but after a dozen years he was able scrape together enough money to open his own pub. It had formally been an Italian restaurant and that sign hung in the front window of the establishment. That exact sign hangs in my brothers home over his fireplace. The great American dream!

[Sept-pegy]

Thank you my Quaker friends for helping the Irish people. Though you are Non Catholic, you are still magnanimous enough in helping thousands of mainly Catholic Irish from certain death

[johnlewton]

My Grandfather, an Irish person, said "it's true you know. that the sun never set on the British Empire, because ya couldn't trust a feckin' Englishman in the dark!"

[eddielouisemoran]

Lets not forget the British abuse didnt end after this and kept up even after Ireland gained it's Independence. From Famine to Bloody Sunday.

[andrewburcham]

This was genocide. There was plenty of food in Ireland. The British lords took it to rid themselves of the “Irish problem.”

[PositivelyPresent]

Similarly, the British literally “created” the Bengal famine in India, (now Bangladesh and parts of Eastern India) . It never recovered and it’s after effects are still seen in Bangladesh even today. Most of the freedom fighters were from prosperous Bengal and Churchill brutally took away the food from farmers and sent it to soldiers in world war, the colonised Indians were in no way connected to the war being fought in Europe. Till today British have given no apology regarding it!

[coreyodonovan]

A key point to mention on the severity of the famine, its been 173 years since Black 47. The population still hasn't recovered. Also worth looking up is the recorded food exports that left the country daily, armed soldiers guarded it while people died within sight (literally). The number of mass graves in Ireland from the famine is unfathomable. Orchestrated genocide.

[LemmyA.D]

"Unknown Disease" is a weird way to describe the British

[alisade]

The Irish starved while grains and other foods were shipped to England. The Irish should have stormed all the farms and ships filled with food. The English were so cruel to them. Watching them starve for years. The Irish were found lying dead with green coming out of their mouths. They tried to eat the grass. Which was the only thing left to eat.

[richardbowen]

For me the most interesting part was the comments section. I am appalled that even today we are not given true and accurate accounts of history. The Irish potato famine is one example of very many British atrocities carried out globally and never properly recognised. To some the British empire, the monarchy and the establishment is still something to be proud of and respected. Not from this Brit.

[jamessheridan]

People wonder why the British were so adept at colonizing so many parts of the southern hemisphere. It's because they'd had six hundred years of practice in Ireland.

[eileenstrange]

A terrible time for Ireland. Some international relief did come through. A Turkish pasha offered a large donation but was forced to scale it back because it was bigger than Queen Victoria’s. Horrible

[EWUFBIiswatching]

My dad was the first born American in our family in 1945. In 1985, I was the 2nd.
My grandfather immigrated from Ireland years after the famine but swore until his death it was the crown who was responsible for the famine.

[miss]

I am Indian and this is too depressing and all too familiar to the stories of my people to finish watching ..why were the british made like this? No compassion! What made them think it was ok to do? Even what they did with the Scottish Highlanders calling them savages having to tame them...is the same ideas they bought to India.. how are the British so proud of an empire like this based off of manipulating and starving other humans and then to be treated like 3rd class citizens in your own country.. it had to be immoral to some of them in their time..