Thanks Martin, the film-maker, Pat Collins of Harvest Films made the recent award-winning film 'That they may face' which is also well worth watching if you've not already seen....
The sad thing is all my great grandparents,are buried in kolbrogan bandon,and my mother and ourselves are exiled in england due to seeking work and poverty ...at least our ancestors were buried in their homeland but we will die and be buried as exiles...
I wonder about a connection between the Counter-Reformation & the beginning of these burial grounds, the Church trying in its own clumsy & heavy handed way to preserve the “sacredness” of regular burial grounds. Inexcusable from this vantage point, like many rules.
Thank you so much for this. I only heard about cillini from Patrick Joyce’s book Remembering Peasants. Such sadness & devotion in this whole idea & custom.
Certainly one of my life's most memorable events was during my only visit to Ireland, when Tadhg O'Driscoll brought me to this holy place and was able to show me the two unmarked graves where my McCarthy ancestors of Heir Island were buried. I can close my eyes and travel there despite my physical body being in the states.
I'm not in to Irish history and was never very fond of my home country, but this brings home how near ago the famine was (I couldn't have told you), and the scale and the suffering of so many people. Plus the seeming inhumanity and cruelty of many people of the time, both in relation to the famine but more directly those horrendous workhouses where humans were treated awfully. Seems like any religion Catholicism could turn a blind eye if it wanted to. I grew up in Cork City until aged 17, but my father's family were originally from Skibbereen, though we seldom passed through it. I lost touch with my remaing family at that age, in 1977, so this fills a gap for me. I'm living in London 37 years (now hate it here too - being impoverished but not on the scale here) previously living in Dublin for 10 years until 1987. Thanks for the video.
thanks brits,, AGAIN...3 thousand english pounds she sent for famine relief, and then spent 250, 000 pounds on the memorial for her dead husband...i drive by that graveyard everyday and bless myself for those poor souls..i hope if there is a God he was watching this and give those poor souls everlasting happiness
Hello, I hope you will reply. I only recently picked up the topic of the Great Famine and there's one thing that confuses me. What exactly is the relation between Skibbereen and Caheragh? Does Skibbereen own Caheragh as a sort of subordinate village/suburb? I ask because of that rather infamous sketch of the boy and girl, I saw it used interchangeably for both, so I was wondering if it's an actual relation between the two places or if it's just a matter of proximity.
In der Schule haben wir von dem Wort „Famine“ nichts gehört, ich kenne es aus dem Lied „The Fields of Athenry“. Ebenso nie etwas gehört von „Holodomor“. Kennst du das Wort? Schau nach Holodomor. We didn't hear anything about the word "Famine" at school (at the time in GDR), I know it from the song "The Fields of Athenry." Also, never heard of "Holodomor". Do you know the word? Look for Holodomor. Beides sind Genocide mit über 5 Million Menschen, die verhungerten. Both are genocide with over 5 million people who starved to death. 💔
I would seriously consider a sort of national survey of the graves to answer some questions about the Famine that either were not answerable at the time or might not be accurate. Privately, I suspect more died than we know, but the only way to prove that would be to dig up the pits. WAIT, WAAAAAIT, HOLD YOUR FIRE!!! Hear me out before you throw the rotten tomatoes and muck!!! I SWEAR, it would be for honest reasons, and also there would be every intention of putting them back to their eternal rest unless their descendants can be connected to the body and would wish to give them the burial and a coffin they were denied long ago. What we could find out or reconstruct would be how many died of cholera, how many died of typhus, how many had refeeding syndrome, total body counts per site per county, etc. it would be an unpleasant job, but it would let the dead speak when so many couldn’t bear to do it. It would be, in a way, seeking justice: Ireland is free now, and has been for 100 years. The people now are well fed and pat their bellies after eating a nice ROAST BEEF sandwich at lunchtime, something in 1846 they would have had to steal to get anywhere near, particularly the beef. Time to reckon with the ones who never got that far. And if my suspicions are right, if the numbers were fudged, the proof will show itself in those graves.
Why is there never any mention of the OVERLORDS NEVER BEING HELD TO ACCOUNT FOR STOPPING ANY FISHING AND OTHER FARMING for people to feed and care for themselves!!!
@@skibbereenheritagecentre8706 thank you am compiling a book of irish terminology for yanks and there are several dozen entries under "Death." added this one
I've often wondered at the word, "Inhumanity". Man is not "Inhumane" to man. Man is UnGodly, and UnChristian, one to another. How else can man explain how a national government watch millions die on their doorstep. die
