The Great Famine 1845-52 - How Was It So Bad?

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In 1845 Famine hit Ireland and we would lose 25% of our population due to it, the population still hasn't recovered to this day and this reflects the huge scar that this tragic event dug on the Irish people. Even though we were an integral part of the biggest and most powerful empire at that time, Ireland suffered hugely during the years 1845-52. In this video I will explore the reasons for this devastation and look at what caused the Irish people to be so unprepared for disaster.
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@Koyangi Год назад

I'm learning Irish simply as a hobby (no Irish roots or anything) but I wanted to say how much I appreciate that you mix up your lessons to be more than just strictly vocab and grammar exercises. Your videos are engaging and enjoyable!

@LearnIrish Год назад

You're very kind to say so, glad to see that you have found the videos useful and best wishes on your journey.

@alpenjon 2 года назад

Whow history and teaching Gaelige in such a cunning way - fair play and thank you!

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

That's certainly my plan going forward 😀

@mdlahey3874 2 года назад

Thank you for this. My father's family is all Irish, my great-grandparents having fled Ireland because of an gorta mór. 🥺

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

This físeán was made for you and your family 🍀

@georgemurphy1050 2 года назад

Your approach is novel, entertaining and above all EDUCATIONAL. We need many more people of your stature to further our cultural heritage particularly through our language.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

I'll certainly try to do justice to that comment.

@sarah-by5ky 2 года назад

I’m very thankful for your videos! You are a great teacher.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

I try my best, history is important.

@gregwall4263 2 года назад

Nice to see you back

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Good to be back, thank you 😁

@Cormorant0512 2 года назад

GRMA for putting this together, more people should know about this genocide

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

You're God damn right

@shaneoconnor8966 2 года назад

Físeán iontach! We need more high quality Irish language content like this on RU-vid.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Plenty more on the way

@jwmulligan1 2 года назад

Nice to have you back, you've been missed.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

So I hear, good to be back 🙂

@user-bf3pc2qd9s 2 года назад

Thankyou for this.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

You deserve it

@lspthrattan 2 года назад

From what I've read, it wasn't a real famine; the only crop that failed was potatoes. Plenty of other foods were being grown--and shipped overseas to feed English soldiers. An Gorta Mor is a better name for it; it's more accurate.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

You're absolutely right, many tonnes of food such as livestock, corn and honey were exported at gunpoint by the British. That's their legacy and we have to live with the trauma of it.

@NoName-yw1pt 2 года назад

Heeey! So good to see you again! Welcome back.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Míle buíochas! Good to be back 🎊

@katlawliss9496 2 года назад

It's nice to see you again! I really love your style of video and I look forward to the next one!

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

You're very kind thank you and I'll see you next time 😁

@ciarandevaney385 2 года назад

@@LearnIrish why didn't the irish just eat fish during the famine?

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Actually that's a good question and the answer reflects society at the time. A lot of the land was taken from Irish owners and given to absentee landlords so access was restricted. Catholics had limited rights in those days and many had sold their boats and nets to buy food. Most were too weak to survive days on rough seas. Some did enjoy herring and there were reports of people eating raw shellfish and seaweed.

@puckforgoodluck Год назад

Thank you so much for these videos. A lot of us Irish-Americans in my generation are starting to reach for our ancestral culture - we're skeptical of just using American nationalism to make identity. I am only just learning that the Irish famine, why I speak English, and why my family is in America is because of British colonialism. This knowledge is so important if the colonial age and harms are ever to end. Thank you.

@LearnIrish Год назад

It's a pleasure to be able to help you shed light on your past, you are exactly the kind of person this channel is aimed at. Ireland is ancient with a treasured and deep history and you are just as much a part of this as anyone else on the island. The British will try and whitewash their colonial past but we must never allow that to happen, our ancestors are buried under the cloak they use to try and hide their imperial crimes.

@LoideainTheScribe 2 года назад

This is great. I've been watching the movie Arracht and each time I'm understanding a bit more of the dialog. This video will get me a little further.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

I've seen Black 47 but not Arracht yet, is it good?

@LoideainTheScribe 2 года назад

@@LearnIrish It's incredibly good! I'm in the States so I'm not sure what your options for seeing it are but I bought it to stream on RU-vid. Dónall Ó Héalai, a native Irish speaker, gave the performance of a lifetime. Actually starved himself down. Incredible!

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

That's dedication! Sounds very interesting.

@oscarosullivan4513 2 года назад

Would love to watch Arracht loved Black 47. Some of the language can be hard to listen to, think the judge. The likes of Gemma O’ Doherty or any Irish who took anyone elses land or opposed the abolition of slavery ignore that fact

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Interesting and tragic history

@paulaneary7877 2 года назад

Thank you for the video. I really like this style of video, with the phrases in Irish then you speaking them. I tend to remember the phrases better because I can see them, (eyes) and also hear (ears) at the same time. Also because the sentences and phrases are already put together. For me this is a more efficient way of learning a language, and learning about a subject matter also. Breaking down the language into syntax and vocabulary are also necessary of course. Both types of vidoes are useful. Thanks again.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

To learn Gaeilge and Stair ag an am céanna using both Béarla and Gaeilge is the aim 😊

@charliehiggins1537 2 года назад

Thanks

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Best wishes

@derekobeirnes482 Год назад

great way of learning English/Irish translation

@LearnIrish Год назад

Thanks

@greendragonpublishing 2 года назад

Well done - I did a bunch of research before writing a novel set in Ireland in 1846, and I am loving learning the Irish words for so many things.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Glad to hear that you enjoyed the video, I remember reading a great book in school called under the hawthorn tree, set during the Great Hunger/Genocide. Really interesting read for a schoolboy.

@oscarosullivan4513 2 года назад

@@LearnIrish Regardless of what way you look at it. There was depraved indifference. Shamefully my maternal side were ordinary protestant settlers in Wicklow and helped displace Wicklow Irish.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

True that would have been the norm during Victorian times where attitudes were brutal.

@oscarosullivan4513 2 года назад

@@LearnIrish They settled in Ireland in the 1600’s

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Indeed

@Desertrosesage 2 года назад

I really enjoy hearing you speak Irish Gaelic . I am glad the language is still here . 💚💚💚

@Desertrosesage 2 года назад

@@Michael-bf1dt Hi Michael nice to meet you. How are you doing? I am in the United States . I am pleased to hear that you speak it as well. 😊

@LearnIrish Год назад

It certainly is alive.

@Desertrosesage Год назад

@@LearnIrish 🥰💚

@LearnIrish Год назад

Best wishes

@Desertrosesage Год назад

@@LearnIrish Thank you so much best wishes to you to😊

@michelleflood7225 2 года назад

Thanks for the video Dane great as always . This was wonderful history lesson along with the gaeilge , .This famine touched my mothers side of the family as my three times great grandparents John Kelly and his wife Maryann Connors died in the famine they were from roscrea in Tipperary . They left behind a daughter of seventeen ( my two times great grandmother Margaret . Luckily she still had her aunt Margaret connors and Margarets husband Michael Fitzgerald this couple were emigrating to Australia having little to keep them in Ireland at the time Michael and Margaret travelled with their orphaned niece and their own five children including their own daughter Margaret both margarets went on to become my two times great grandmothers Margaret Fitzgerald went on to marry Patrick O’Brien ( from Cavan ) their daughter is my mums maternal grandmother . Margaret Kelly went on to marry Thomas Tydd and is my maternal grandfathers grandmother . Tydd however is a welsh surname but I’ve since found out that welsh people were granted land in Munster as far back as 1582 so who knows . This is why you have the surname Walsh and Branagh as the Irish needed surnames to describe this settlers . Branagh comes from the Irish word for a welsh person . very interesting ! Find Irish history fascinating and very heartbreaking at times . Best movie I’ve seen to depict this period is black 47 .

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

I enjoyed Black 47, but harrowing and tragic at the same time. We must never forget this dark chapter.

@bompikaushal4194 2 года назад

Dia duit,Dane! Tá sé an-sásta tú a fheiceáil arís! Físeán iontach, d'fhoghlaim mé go leor i ndáirire faoinár stair! Go raibh míle maith agat! Slán!

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Tá mé ar ais! Go raibh maith agat agus fan slán!

@kiri101 2 года назад

The crime of this tragedy is laid plain by the fact that Ireland was such a rich exporter of goods to England at the time, particularly in pigs, milk and butter. I will never forget the following quote, although there are certainly more ghoulish such quotes, which I reproduce verbatim from Robert Kee's The Green Flag: Volume I (1972), p.172: "A farmer with a holding of above average size on the Marquis of Conyngham's estate in 1846 declared: 'Not a bit of bread have I eaten since I was born, nor a bit of butter. We sell all the corn and the butter to give to the landlord' [for rent] 'yet I have the largest farm in the district and am as well off as any man in the county.'" P.S I'm loving your method of lacing Irish words and phrases through the video, I'm definitely memorising more words, getting a feel for idiomatic Irish and making links to the little I already know. I'm glad you haven't slowed down the repetitions too much either, I find it makes them harder to understand and loses the natural speech pattern.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Thank you for your thoughts 👍

@Desertrosesage 2 года назад

Hello, thank you for sharing

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

My pleasure, hope to do plenty more on this topic.

@Desertrosesage 2 года назад

@@LearnIrish I look forward to watching more of your videos.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Thank you, I'll probably be focused on history and how we had to overcome so much difficulties from England to get where we are today. A light needs to be shone on their shameful colonial past.

@Desertrosesage 2 года назад

@@LearnIrish You’re welcome. Sounds Good to me. We need to remember the past so it is not repeated. I am of Irish , Scottish,English, French , Norway descent. But the strongest call to my soul has always been Ireland. I did my dna test . I wasn’t aware I was Scottish French or Norwegian. I knew my mothers father was English. My moms mom Irish Swedish. My fathers mothers mother is Irish maiden name McClellan . further back the letter d was on end .

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

An interesting mix, have you been to the old country yet?

@peadarmacconnmhaigh4337 2 года назад

Go raibh míle maith agat for this video. I so enjoy the gaeilge agus stair na hÉireann on your channel. Glad to see you posting videos again. Slán.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Thanks, it's good to hear that you have enjoyed the content 😊

@seanlaoch1678 2 года назад

Dane, my deepest respect! That was a terrible tragedy. Tá brón orm.☘️👊🤝

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

More a systematic genocide.

@seanlaoch1678 2 года назад

@@LearnIrish Agree 100%! This is genocide and crime. And any crime must be punished, earlier or later. And so it will be! 👊👊👊

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

What goes around comes around.

@seanlaoch1678 2 года назад

@@LearnIrish I understood you. Good philosophy. ⚔️

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

👍

@paulJkiely 2 года назад

Enjoyed this lesson, thanks. If eat too many prataí I get pain in the joints of my fingers that can last for days …

@LearnIrish Год назад

Best to go with a balanced diet

@michelleflood7225 2 года назад

Thank you for this video as the three times great granddaughter of a couple who lost their lives during an gorta mor ( John Kelly and his wife Mary ann connors ) and as a result their daughter my two times great grandmother emigrated to Australia along with her mothers sister ( aunt ) and her uncles family which included five of her cousins another of whom is my great great grandmother as well both families were from roscrea in tiobraid arrain this is on my late mums side of the family the family Margaret Kelly ( daughter of John and Maryann ) came with were Fitzgerald’s . All from Tipperary which as I’m sure you know @learn Irish with Dane is as it was back then a very rural county much of my ancestry both mum and dads is linked to various parts of this county the only two families which don’t are the Rings ( dads maternal grandmothers family ) who are from Cork and the O’Brien’s ( mums maternal grandmothers family who are from temple port in county Cavan . According to mum it’s the O’Brien’s specifically Catherine my great gran that I resemble and a little bit the above Fitzgerald’s who are from borrisleigh in Tipperary .

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Lest we forget.

@michelleflood7225 2 года назад

@@LearnIrish very true as in America there is a famine memorial here in Sydney . It has the names of famine orphans that emigrated on it . I’ve not seen it myself only heard it about it . But the fact it exists is heartwarming . I for one think it’s very brave of those that emigrated , when you think many were travelling alone or with the only family they still had coming halfway around the world to an unknown country , where they knew very few people or sometimes none at all and then building lives for themselves after loss that takes resilience and courage and a fortitude that’s admirable and something worth remembering .

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Very true but due to the brutality of British rule they literally had no choice. When we remember these wonderful people let's not forget the horrors of imperial rule because that's where the root cause lies. We all need to remind the British of their past crimes that they would rather we forgot.

@GenuineCupcake 2 года назад

lol no way! I just randomly wanted to learn some Irish and its you. Thanks for helping me pass my driving test lol.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

😂 You're one of the few people who crossover between my 2 RU-vid channels, good to see you here, deas tú a fheiceáil anseo agus comhghairdeas leat 🎊

@edwardthomas6956 2 года назад

Our farming neighbors in Connemara next to our holiday cottage assure me that very little land west of the Shannon can support crops, as opposed to livestock and horses. One of my friends from Dublin was insistent that the land was not much good anywhere outside the Pale...

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Nonsense, we have a green and fertile land and anyone who says otherwise simply doesn't know what they are talking about.

@edwardthomas6956 2 года назад

@@LearnIrish I would be very interested to know just how over-optimistic the UN climate agenda is that wants much less focus on cattle - vast swathes of the UK can only really support hill farming and I can't see Kerry becoming crops focused - the UN agenda is a threat to food and energy security

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

My focus is on Gaeilge and Stair, I'm not interested in the finer details of so called climate change.

@ExtremePacifist 2 года назад

Learn the truth about the Irish Holocaust. Search: Ireland 1845-1850: The Perfect Holocaust and Who Kept It Perfect, by Chris Fogarty, and share it with everyone.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Thanks for the tip

@active_commenter5348 2 года назад

Hi I love watching your videos do you know off any books I can learn Irish (mainly ulster) but I'd love to learn all I want to learn Irish to help revive it! Go raibh maith agat!!

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

I'm not particularly aware of any books but www.focloir.ie is a good learning resource. If you go to any bookshop you'll find something such as a dictionary or a phrase book.

@bernardmolloy4463 2 года назад

Loving the Harp-on-Green Flag. This was Irelands flag long before the Tricolour.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Yes it certainly was, a beautiful reflection of Ireland. I remember first being aware of this in the film Far and Away 😁

2 года назад

Ar dóigh tú a fheiceáil arís 😁 ag tnúth go mór leis na físeáin eile faoin ghortá mór - tragóid a d’athraigh ár dtír go deo

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Mar is eol duit is breá liom stair agus stair na hÉireann go háirithe agus le cúnamh Dé beidh mé ag cruthú go leor eile ar Stair na hÉireann 🙂

@georgemurphy1050 2 года назад

@@LearnIrish Yes, please carry on. We need many more people like you to instill pride in our heritage.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

That's my plan

@seanlaoch1678 2 года назад

Na Sasanaigh 😈😈😈 Go h-Ifreann libh 🔥🔥🔥

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Is maith an scéalaí an aimsir.

@seanlaoch1678 2 года назад

We'll never forget this horror. No forgiveness!

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

We owe it to ourselves and our forefathers to never ever stop reminding the English of what they did.

@seanlaoch1678 2 года назад

@@LearnIrish Yes, yes and yes! A thousand YES!

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

You said it.

@goodgame3374 2 года назад

It should certainly be recognized for what it was & never forgotten, but 'no forgiveness' is a bit harsh, most of the British now are not like that.

@seanlaoch1678 2 года назад

@@goodgame3374 OK. Thanks for your opinion.

@brendymcc7788 2 года назад

You should do a video on how the Catholic church abandoned the people here throughout our history. Near worse than the colonialism!! Brilliant video btw

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Interesting idea thank you for your suggestion.

@jennilocke 2 года назад

What dialect are you speaking in?

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

I'm just speaking Irish, I'm not into dialects. The language is Irish, it's all the same language. If I was talking English to an American and a Scottish person I would talk English.

@pompikaushal4604 2 года назад

Dia duit,Dane! Fáilte ar ais Dane,iontas taitneamhach é! Físeán den scoth mar i gcónaí! Go raibh maith agat agus slán go fóll!

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Míle buíochas go leor, tá an stair an-tábhachtach ar fad.

@oscarosullivan4513 2 года назад

@@LearnIrish Any good beginner courses in Dublin

@marykayryan7891 Год назад

Potatoes can grow anywhere BUT MY BACK YARD. I have tried for the last few years to grow them and naught. I feel I am failing my heritage. I cannot figure it out. Other stuff grows just fine. Luckily I am not under the thumb of the English and I do not have to depend on this crop for subsistence. But still... it's weird.

@LearnIrish Год назад

Where is this?

@marykayryan7891 Год назад

@@LearnIrish Chicago IL. I even got advice from a potato growing gardener. I think maybe I am starting out with bad seed (ie., tubers). The first time I used ones I had left over with eyes. I cut them into the requisite pieces. I even tried different kinds of potatoes. Then I bought some. No joy. And one is supposed to be able to just literally throw some old potatoes out on a heap of dirt and they grow. Ha! I didn't even get leaves.😩

@LearnIrish Год назад

Could be the soil...

@EverlastingHobnocker 2 года назад

Makes me feel really bad about overdosing on fries

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

I thought you were about to say makes me feel mad about the way England behaved 😁

@EverlastingHobnocker 2 года назад

@@LearnIrish yeah that too 😁

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

👍

@oscarosullivan4513 2 года назад

Could be worse putting yourself on one of those “fitness” starvation diets

@paulJkiely 2 года назад

At the beginning of the video you say ‘Tá mé ar aris…. Would you please teach me the second part .. the google translate version not quite the same…

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Mothaím go maith faoi sin which means I'm happy about that. You cannot rely on Google translate, try www.focloir.ie

@paulJkiely 2 года назад

@@LearnIrish Thank you 😊

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Best wishes

@alexlynn5111 2 года назад

And thus my family ended up in America

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

And we got the likes of John F Kennedy whose father's side are from my area.

@edwardthomas6956 2 года назад

It would be interesting to investigate how much was due to that rather wild Cornishman, Trevelyan - I hope he doesn't count as a fair minded Englishman!

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

I'll deal with him next time, he was a vile despicable piece of dirt.

@magaolinewood9268 2 года назад

The thumbnail asks "Famine or Genocide?" Quite clearly it was a genocide as the British did essentially nothing to help and created a situation whereby there was a 'róspléachas' on potatoes due to the country being kept intentionally poor and oppressed. It's for this reason I dont understand why there are so many West Brits across Ireland today. Do they forget what the UK did to Ireland and are still doing to Ireland I.e Occupying the 6 counties still in the north.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

It's called snowflake amnesia and it should be called out exactly for what you say it is.

@magaolinewood9268 2 года назад

@@LearnIrish Ní stadfaimid an brú do Éire Aointhaithe. Is Ard Mhaca mé 🇮🇪 I hope that makes sense. I am still only learning.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

It makes perfect sense, we're all on a journey. Tiocfaidh ár lá.

@seamusha1 2 года назад

Go hiontach go raibh maith agat

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Míle buíochas

@NavigatingTheMatrix420 2 года назад

All I'm gonna say on this matter British gov

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Now you've said it

@djlogan1222 2 года назад

Go maith, a nóis mó, le dó thoill (?)

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Go raibh maith agat

@lyndonquinn9607 2 года назад

Go raibh maith agat, a Dane.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Fáilte romhat

@myhouse08 2 года назад

Failte ar ais, Dan.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Go raibh maith agat 🙌

@brianfrains.j.2360 2 года назад

The Irish government should pay you for school lessons.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

😂😂

@oscarosullivan4513 2 года назад

He does a better job

@12donegal 2 года назад

Faite ar ais ta suil agam go raibh nollaig mhaith agat agus athbhlain faoi mhaise duit faion chonie 2022 Pol

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Go raibh maith agat agus go Máire tú an lá!

@ciarandevaney385 2 года назад

The English tried to promote the Irish language, Fact#.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Of course they did 😂

@paulmerricks3764 2 года назад

Is deas tú a fheiceáil arís Dane. Tú súil agam go bhfuil gach rud go maith leat. Físeán go hiontach . Pól

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Go raibh míle maith agat agus beidh níos mó físeán ag tarlú

@donaldmccormack7580 2 года назад

Haigh Dane. Failte arais , Abhar an suimiúil ar fad. GRMMA.

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Gan amhras, an-suimiúil agus tábhachtach

@gregwall4263 2 года назад

tá fáilte romhat

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Fan slán

@naomiseraphina9718 2 года назад

Falilte ar ais go RU-vid. Is athas orm tu a fheicail! Is fisean iontach ar fad e seo! Is sceal tabhachtach a inis agus a cuimhin, gan abhras. (Ta bron orm gur mo chuid Gaeilge go dona fos!)

@LearnIrish 2 года назад

Maith thú is breá liom an teanga agus stair na hÉireann agus mar sin tá siad le chéile anseo 😀