Irish Famine - English reporter describes fault of British government 

The wildest thing is that we are watching sometjing similar happen right now in real time, in Gaza, and I wanted to learn more about why the Irish have shown so mucj solidarity with Gaza and now i understand why. It really makes you understand the saying by MLK, "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere".

As a British citizen, this makes me so upset and ashamed😢 im so sorry that this is a part of irish history

It wasn't a famine it was a genocide

Never once was I taught about the famine in my school in London. Let alone the history between England and Ireland. Fortunately, I was taught by my parents and I’ll never forget it 💚☘️ ✨

Time to educate English people about the Famine , the majority know little about it and the history of English rule in Ireland as it is never taught in English schools.

I thank you Sir for bringing this very old deep hurt to light, for your country men and women to see. 🇮🇪

The food was plentiful all over Ireland but what could the Irish people do as the food was stolen at gunpoint by the British army. Then shipped over to Britain and Europe. Over half of Britains 130 army regiments were stationed in Ireland in 1845.

The Potato Famine was a terrible disaster. Some claim Ireland had a population of ten million by the time of the famine. So even more may have died than historians state.

Thank you for finally opening British eyes to their past ignorance & insensitivity toward Irish history. We will never forget the lost people of this beautiful land. 🇮🇪

Thank you for seeing the truth for what it was

Much respect to Mike Nicholson for his research and attempts to show that not all british are bad, but what happened to Ireland because of Britain was.

Where did Trevelyan expect Irish people to grow food, given that all the land had been taken from them?

His book "Dark Rosaleen" is perfect. It features one of my most favorite main characters ever, Kate. She has an amazing character arc.

I don't care what other people think...this was genocide.

Absolutely dynamite altogether! Thanks a million for all the hard work you put into this piece. God bless ya.

There needs to be at least another 10-15 minutes of discussion of what the villain said and did. Thank you for sharing!

Thank you... This was well researched... 👌

The irish that came to the uk built the place irish are great hardworking people regards from scotland

This is accurate i think imma go to war with my history teacher cause she thinks the brts were nice and gave food

Having seen the British "free trade" induced Irish famine first hand, Matthew Carey passed his hatred of "free trade" on to his son, Henry Charles Carey, who was Abe Lincoln's economic advisor. From this was born The American System of Economics, in which tariffs funded the federal government. It was this system that made The U.S. into the wealthiest country with a growing middle class, within just a few decades.

The British government provided relief only to those who had no land (i.e., either owned or rented). People had to choose to give up their tenancies, including their homes, to obtain relief. Soup kitchens, by and large, were run by private individuals and groups, such as charities and religions, rather than by the government

This video doesn't mention that there was more food taken out of Ireland during the time of the Famine than in any years before. He had no intention of feeding the Irish- it was genocide. Trevelian was an Evangelist and made it illegal for the Catholic churches to stay open or to educate a Catholic, hence the 'hedgerow schools' that cropped up. He called them what his laws restricted them to be, yet, the Irish have risen despite him- they hold their own among the most amazing writers, musicians and actors in the world.

Being a British Indian I had no idea the callous way the Irish were treated. I shall endeavour to read the book to learn more.

Because Ireland is separate, they were able to do this outrage.

Ireland starved because its food, from 40 to 70 shiploads per day, was removed at gunpoint by 12,000 British constables reinforced by the British militia, battleships, excise vessels, Coast Guard and by 200,000 British soldiers (100,000 at any given moment) ( Thus, Britain seized from Ireland's producers livestock; tons of flour, grains, meat, poultry & dairy products; enough to sustain 18 million persons. The population of Ireland at this time was about 9 million people. Please see below fact checked details of some of the food shipments sent from Ireland at the Hight of the " FAMINE " which was really a " Genocide " by any logic of that time or now. At this time Ireland was ruled by an elite absent landlord class based in London. If they had their own Parliament in Ireland with Irelands interests at the core ,the starvation of the people would not have been allowed to happen. The potatoe crop failed in many parts of Europe at this time also , e.g. Bavaria , Sliesvig Holstein ,Belgium ,The Netherlands etc. ()Germany was not formed at this time ) . However, they having a similar class system reduced the export of food to other areas and in some cases forbade the export of all food products to save their own peasantry . In England at this time there was a hatred of Catholics and a fear of Irish rebellion ( see 1848 failed rebellion ) and Lord Trevelyan and his type looked on this famine as been a gift from GOD or GODs will to sort the Irish problem once and for all. They also argued to themselves that "laize Fare" was the system they traded under and should not interfere. It was a way to get rid of the over populated landless Catholic peasantry of the western sea board of Ireland. Check the song from Christy Moore of Black 47. The Food Removal From Cork harbour on one day in 1847 2 the AJAX steamed for England with 1,514 firkins of butter, 102 casks of pork, 44 hogsheads of whiskey, 844 sacks of oats, 247 sacks of wheat, 106 bales of bacon, 13 casks of hams, 145 casks of porter, 12 sacks of fodder, 28 bales of feathers, 8 sacks of lard, 296 boxes of eggs, 30 head of cattle, 90 pigs, 220 lambs, 34 calves and 69 miscellaneous packages. On November 14, 1848 3, sailed, from Cork harbor alone: 147 bales of bacon, 120 casks and 135 barrels of pork, 5 casks of hams, 149 casks of miscellaneous provisions (foodstuff); 1,996 sacks & 950 barrels of oats; 300 bags of flour; 300 head of cattle; 239 sheep; 9,398 firkins of butter; 542 boxes of eggs. On July 28, 1848 4; a typical day's food shipments from only the following four ports: from Limerick: the ANN, JOHN GUISE and MESSENGER for London; the PELTON CLINTON for Liverpool; and the CITY OF LIMERICK, BRITISH QUEEN, and CAMBRIAN MAID for Glasgow. This one-day removal of Limerick's food was of 863 firkins of butter; 212 firkins, 1,198 casks and 200 kegs of lard, 87 casks of ham; 267 bales of bacon; 52 barrels of pork; 45 tons and 628 barrels of flour; 4,975 barrels of oats and 1,000 barrels of barley. From Kilrush: the ELLEN for Bristol; the CHARLES G. FRYER and MARY ELLIOTT for London. This one-day removal was of 550 tons of County Clare's oats and 15 tons of its barley. From Tralee: the JOHN ST. BARBE, CLAUDIA and QUEEN for London; the SPOKESMAN for Liverpool. This one-day removal was of 711 tons of Kerry's oats and 118 tons of its barley. From Galway: the MARY, VICTORIA, and DILIGENCE for London; the SWAN and UNION for Limerick (probably for transhipment to England). This one-day removal was of 60 sacks of Co. Galway's flour; 30 sacks and 292 tons of its oatmeal; 294 tons of its oats; and 140 tons of its miscellaneous provisions (foodstuffs). British soldiers forcibly removed it from its starving Limerick, Clare, Kerry and Galway producers. In Belmullet, Co. Mayo the mission of 151 soldiers 5 of the 49th Regiment, in addition to escorting livestock and crops to the port for export, was to guard a few tons of stored meal from the hands of the starving; its population falling from 237 to 105 between 1841 and 1851. Belmullet also lost its source of fish in January, 1849, when Britain's Coast Guard arrested its fleet of enterprising fishermen ten miles at sea in the act of off-loading flour from a passing ship. They were sentenced to prison and their currachs were confiscated. The Waterford Harbor British army commissariat officer wrote to British Treasury Chief Charles Trevelyan on April 24, 1846; "The barges leave Clonmel once a week for this place, with the export supplies under convoy which, last Tuesday, consisted of 2 guns, 50 cavalry, and 80 infantry escorting them on the banks of the Suir as far as Carrick." While its people starved, the Clonmel district exported annually, along with its other farm produce, approximately 60,000 pigs in the form of cured bacon.

Thanks for this, I shall now seek out your novel and read it.

' For you stole Trevelyan's corn that our young might see the morn, and the prison ship lies waiting in the bay'

My Fathers father came in 1880's my grand mother walsh (Boylan ) came into USA in 1850's.

Very well said

They did this to Bangladesh, Africans, the Indians. Are you suprised. It angers me. And i see them try ING to do it again.

I will definitely read this book , thanks Mike for raising attention to this horrible genocide , it's time the British government took ownership of this historical injustice and apologize to the people of Ireland for the passive and indifferent response to the famine , it would go a long way to healing the scars of the past between our two proud nations .

Millions dead, Millions fled!

Thousands more died on what they called coffin ships trying to get away 🙏🏾🙏🏾

Even the ottoman who im not fan of helped Ireland with 10000£ this is a dicrase

My ancestor Thomas Brennan fled to America with his brother.

It wasn't a potato famine.

In Ireland the blight was able to do far more damage than in other countries as it had only one crop to deal with namely the Irish Cropper which represented 90% of the local crop. This lack of biodiversity led a more resistant, robust form of blight which is why it kept coming back over an over, the lack of knowledge about crop rotations, the smaller size of Irish farm steads and the fact that there were a lot of farms owned by absentee landlords didn’t help.

England and Scotland had both been affected by the Blight and you could easily write a paper on the mishandling of the Scottish Highland famine

A European famine from 1840 to 1870, terrible and tragic. But it was a Europe wide famine and Finland had the highest % death rate per person.

From a British education and curriculum perspective, the.famine is a minefield. To acknowledge the colossal cruelty of the UK government, which had complete authority over Ireland at the time, would undermine the national (UK) narrative. Allowing the Irish to die of famine ( about 200 calories per.day) and disease achieved a political goal. It successfully subdued the Irish, regularly rebellious against British rule, without having to fire a single shot. That came later of course, as the scars of the Famine influenced the Irish independence movement of the 19th and early 20th century.

Lillian Keane..Not yet, but I sure will try it. Thanks!!

One of the saddest things about the famine was what we done to each other,,,, because of the starvation,,,,reported crime rose from 6 thousands to something like 60 thousand in one year,,, I don't think people stop to think about that,,,

Rosaleen is pronounced as a, Rose, Rosaleen!!!!

this was part of the the norther O'Mahoney attack distributed by the 40er's

Everyone still dancing around the real description of what happened........ GENOCIDE...... nothing more, nothing less . GENOCIDE... Until that word is front and present when talking about what happened in Ireland. When I hear the Crown appologise for the GENOCIDE which they caused, only then will my opinion change and maybe forgive what they did to my fellow Irish men and women.

#GenocideNotFamine

Get it Right The Rich British, the poor people in Britain suffered as well

Well over a million

How marginal was the food situation in the UK at the time? I know Scotland suffered a potato famine of lesser impact, and presumably the potato crops in England and Wales were similarly hit, but how marginal was the food situation in England and Wales at this time? Is there any pragmatic rationale to Trevelyan's argument that he didn't want to transfer famine from one country to another? Could cutting food exports to the UK, or sending food to Ireland have pitched England into famine? Has any work been done on this?

Has he got numbers of deaths in Scotland. Wales. England. Europe who endured famine same time. World of difference between life time reporting and hundreds of years later. Rich versus poor then as now. Irish maintain only Catholics died never protestants or other. The 2023 version has not altered from past by poor. Plus 2 only child support chb will return to shortages if hit hard times again as Irish have 3/4/5 plus kids and continued getting pregnant often 10-16 kids many dying of maluration.. While average Welsh English 2.. And Irish n Scots more kids more food required.

first Agricultural School only opened in England the same year the blight started. One of the best means of protecting potatoes from blight was copper (they had no idea of that at the time though.

Go raibh maith agat 🇮🇪✌️

They died? Oh my god The pepole died poor pepoles

And finbarr mcdonnell abp international ireland with his evil buddies( butchers) in uk want to bring it back again. On a mail he wrote under the mask of another " he got exotic food from his boss that no one else had".❤

2 million, not upto a million.

The Irish make the most delicious whiskey, called Bushmill's Irish Whiskey.

Irish lies every single country in Europe that grew potato crops were affected the storms carried the blight from country to country and it had a devastating effect world wide.

So he had never " experienced anything like the Irish potato famine",god he must be a very old man then.

What happened to the Irish people's 'White Privilege'?

All lies.

Whoa there..... he was NOT guided by God but only thought he was. Jesus didn't say anything about starving people to death but to have mercy and help the poor. Many claim they are guided by God but are really guided by their emotions or hormones. Not cool to not clarify this in your video.

this was the moment when Ireland embraced the English language

In 1943 a million died of starvation in southeast China. In 1944 two million Vietnamese died due to Japanese and French actions. Over a two million Bengalis died of starvation in 1943. Around 40 million Chinese died of starvation between 1958 and 1961 due to Communist policies. Almost two million Biafran people died of starvation during the Biafran war of 1967-1970. Around a million Ethiopians died of starvation between 1983 and 1985 due to the civil war there. Around 500,000 people died in the Henan famine of 1942-1943. In 1921-22 five million died of starvation in the Soviet Ural and Volga region, in 1930-33 8.7 million died of famine in Ukraine and during the same period some 1.3 million died in that Kazakh region. These are just some of the famines that have occurred in the 20th centuries. DO NOT say the Irish famine was the worst famine ever. All famines are terrible. People only remember the Irish famine because the Irish are white. The remembrance of this history is completely Eurocentric. Like the Ukrainian war and the Ukrainian refugees.

My ancestor Thomas Brennan fled to America with his brother.