"The Great Famine" Part Two: Poverty and Land Ownership in Ireland 

The lanlords actually taxed daylight the larger the windows in your house the more rent you paid absolute madness

The Great Genocide is what the title of this film title should be. There was never a famine in Ireland.

Shame on those cruel, greedy absent landlords...so much injustice !

As others have said this obsession with trying to pass this off as a crop failure and 'famine' does not wash. Every Irish family has stories passed down about this period of history and we know that food was exported out of Ireland. People were left to starve in a purposeful manner in an act of malicious genocide.

You’re missing very important facts here. Prior to the famine the English placed numerous laws to oppress the Irish; they squashed all Irish industries and sources of income. They were not allowed to export wool, linen, animals, animal meats or diary, metals, etc. If they were allowed, it was only to England and England demanded 30% taxes which killed the opportunity.

This is an excellent presentation - should be mandatory on the Education Curriculum in England. Well done !

The Irish peasants grew plenty of food for the landlord but was allowed only a small plot for himself. They grew one type of potato and when that type was blighted there was no fall back. They just did not know. For every famine relief ship arriving from other contries, six ships of Irish grown food left for England.. There was food in Ireland but the peasants could not afford it.

The Irish don't refer to that nightmare as famine,they call it".An Gorta mor,"The hunger great.The British have a nerve pointing fingers at the Germans.Irish history should be compulsory in Ireland and England.Not blaming ordinary English people for their Governments inhuman actions.

Under British rule, the Irish were not allowed to grow other crops.

Not a famine a genocide 🇮🇪☘

This is why my ancestors were able to leave for Australia. I’d love to visit Ireland one day (post-COVID obviously). I know it sounds odd as over a century and a half have passed since the majority of my ancestors first came to Australia (not so much as came as invaded through a different strain of colonialism, I know) but I do feel a sense of kinship with Ireland and likely always will.

Yes I will, but I have to create it first. But thanks for watching! I'll be working on the third one this month.

Fantastic presentation !

How many millions died in Europe from this 'famine'. And what about the fact that food exports increased out of Ireland in the years during this 'famine' - and as American food relief was being shipped in - Irish crops were being shipped out. This political action/inaction was clearly blatant political-religious based genocide. In Germany that more direct action was referred to as a Holocaust. The term 'famine' makes it so much more acceptable, like simple 'bad luck' and no one accountable. Given the choice I think I might prefer being gassed over watching myself and my family starve to death!

Othmani Sultan helped Irish people. I was shocked that it hasn't mentioned! I think history need to be revised.

I often wondered how the poor got their clothes in those days when when couldn`t afford to eat. Obviously, most of the garments are cast offs from the upper classes but how did the poor get them? I assumed the maids and servants working in the big houses were given them by their employers and this turned out to be correct. The origin of the name Boxing day goes back to those times when the rich (flush with new stuff after Christmas) would box up unwanted old stuff for the poor, i.e. their servants who would then get the day off to return to their families with the boxes of old clothes.

That was a great presentation. When will part 3 be finished. My repect to the Irish people. Many are coming to Australia. They will do well here.

In america we had slavery as the greatest shame of the country. Funny how the brits like to point it out that we had slavery and stuff but they had slavery too in the irish for more than 500 years and still to this day. So anything thr ira ever did can be justidied to an extent

The Irish say, "God created the blight, the English created the famine".

Hello Jonathan, many thanks for this splendid series of lectures. Best Wishes to you.

Even today Ireland is a breadbasket. We export £11 billion/€12.2 billion of agriculture as of 2016. NI interestingly only produces £2.2 bn of agriculture, to £1.6 bn consumption. If there was a food shortage in Ireland nowadays, it would be more likely to happen in NI, particularly as the UK is not self sufficient.

While Europeans in the 19th century did not know how to make potatoes last all year, the Indians of the Andes knew how to make them last for years. The Indians hauled a portion of their potatoe crop up the mountains and would alternately freeze and dry them. They are called chuño if you are curious.

Its a miracle Ireland survived at all.

Is anyone from the British royal family ever going to apologise for this genocide by their ancestors?

Conquered but never beaten . There's a big difference.

Wait... what. .... still happening today. Slumlords are Slumlords -

Many landlords went bankrupt because their tenants couldn't pay their rents. Ireland was overpopulated before the great hunger and plots rented by the cottiers were subdivided again and again to give their children their own plot of subsistence. Plots became smaller and smaller as families grew bigger. The landlords couldn't pay their mortgages so they evicted their tenants in order to modernise farming and make the land pay and be productive. Many landlords supported their starving tenants and were wiped out during the great famine. Loss of rent, unproductive lands, helping their tenants and paying for their tenants to immigrate finished some of them. (Source: The Great Hunger, Emigrants and Exiles by Kirby Miller).

Enjoyed that....looking forward to part 3

This is awesome! Very informative, cant wait for the next episode!

LOOK AT ENGLAND TODAY WITH BREXIT WHAT GOES ROUND COMES ROUND, KARMA GOD IS SLOW BUT SURE,

This is why every generation rebellion stirs within the Irish and who can blame them knowing the history

Very good situation well explained.

irish holacost

They are my ancestors . Proud and amazed any of them survived. England , like many nations, has a lot to answer for! Wish we could all live in peace now in the 21st century. But that seems to be a very big wish...😔

Land sharks were the middle managers back in the day in Ireland.

I'm from Karnataka , south India , I can't relate to Irish people from any POV. But still one interesting thing about how crops cultivation influence culture and civilization is sometimes fascinating to me. In south India "rice" has always been major staple food crop along with other grains like jola and ragi. Cultivating rice is complex compared to any other crop or food grain. And rice ages really well with years, it doesn't get spoiled so easily. Moreover south India always has been "variety" crop part of the Indian subcontinent. Even in my state of Karnataka , food surprisingly changes from district to district. Even during the British time in India , southern India didn't have landlord system unlike in the north and north eastern part of India. South Indian princely states did keep the British away from interfering in peopled daily life. Unlike in bengal where farmers cultivated only rice and when it was taken away from them they also starved to death. Variety of food and commercial crops do save a country from total collapse. Vareity is good.

Great doc

Go raibh maith mile maith agat, lean an obair ,Thanks a thousand,keep up the good work.

By any means necessary. in order to maintain the empire abroad they had to stifle & contol its next door neighbor. If the world got out that ireland could succeed independently the empire would collapse.

very good

tragic.

Being horrible to other hasn't got any nationality,remember that...Hi from a froggie :)

This is so inaccurate and false. Ireland had a wool industry in the late 1700's but it was shut down by the British as it threatened their export market. They did the same to the glass making industry. Ireland was only permitted to grow food which was exported to Britain. Exported under armed guard during the famine.

Can you not refer to the Irish people as peasants please.

Where’s part 1? I can only see part 2 and 3 on your channel

Bit like today rents still going up elecricty gas same shit

Noting has changed.

heartbreaking

A very interested piece of history which is similar to my native country Greece. Soon Germany can do anything with the country. The Anglosaxons always on the front line how to impoverish peasants.

The short answer.. The British .

At 1:11 i realized i was listening to a numpty

Survival diet...not necesarlily healthy diet !

Short answer, the English.

Later in the 19th century, Irish nationalist leader Michael Davitt was influenced by the writings of the American Henry George, who argued that an end to landlordism could be achieved easily by requiring owners of land to pay an annual tax equal to the full potential annual rental value of the land held. As Henry George explained, this payment would eliminate the profits from absentee land ownership. Land prices would fall as the potential rental income was passed through to the community to pay for public goods and services. Landlordism would come to an end as idle land was brought to its highest, best use, creating employment for people, lifting incomes and business profits.

If your poor and have so many kids up to 16 for some you will be poor.

I heard everyone owned a pig to pay the rent.

Before the great famine, Ireland was dangerously overpopulated.

Why did so many keep having children they couldn't feed.. I fail to understand that whether its India. Africa. Ireland.

Les TL de Monges plantent leur drapeau ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Bpo

Well done England

Lol like all these potatoes they've had. Only if they new they can open a McDonalds'.

Under British rule, the Irish were not allowed to grow other crops.