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Dude, get your facts right! My country is called Ireland, not the Republic of Ireland. Article 4 of our Constitution clearly states that the name of the State is "Ireland". No where in my passport will you find the words "Republic of Ireland"... on our cars, the blue rectangle has the letters IRL, not ROI. And the name of our country registered with the United Nations is Ireland. Fix your poorly researched video!
There is nowhere in Ireland where people 'don't live'. There are barren mountain lands and bogs that you can't build in. The rest is agricultural land and that is where food comes from - kind of important to us! Ireland is starting to overload now due to excess immigration with no planning for resources.
Immigration, asylum seekers and refugees are not proble, poor planning is and not having adequate rent caps and if you took your fingers out of your ears you would have heard that there are, by now, over 190K homes left vacant, 40% of which, again probably higher by now, have been vacant for over six years. Just like there is built in obsolescence in tech these days there is purposefully built scarcity in regards to homes to buy and/or rent, why? Well to drive up house prices and rents. Immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees are not the problem. There are more Irish immigrants around the world then there are in Ireland. The largest group of immigrants are Irish nationals returning home most of which were born in Ireland. The largest immigrant group in Ireland by nationality are from Great Britain, 2nd largest are EU/European and the rest are non European, most are from english speaking countries. Immigrants and especially asylum seekers and refugees are not the problem. At any given time there are about 10K asylum seekers/refugees, that's it, one of the lowest in Europe. The main problem are those that keep voting in the same two parties every other election and/or decade expecting a different result whilst also acting all shocked and surprised that the two parties they keep flip flopping on are the problem to Irelands problems due to ineptitude and inaction. Voting for the same two parties expecting a different result is the sign of insanity. Stop doing it. Try something different. Christ on a bike 🙄🤦🏼♂️
@@LeonVEKH Irish nationals returning home are exactly that, they’re not “immigrants”. Immigrants from UK have almost identical cultural values and beliefs. As do most Europeans. Neither Irish returning home, UK nationals nor European immigrants are stabbing children in broad daylight.
@@LeonVEKH Those Irish who left went chiefly to large empty new lands where they were crying out for manpower. They neither used deceit to enter, nor received handouts on arrival. Some weeks now Ireland takes in 500 unskilled people. A portion don't speak English properly and are economic basket cases. 20% of people in the state were not even born here. Through border mismanagement we're adding on something like the population of Limerick City yearly. There is no hope of keeping up with schools places, hospital beds, sewerage capacity etc. so we are digging a dreadful hole for ourselves going towards 2040. What crisis do people in power require to cop on? That count of 'empty' homes involves a huge amount of holiday homes, a right afforded to ordinary people even in the most niggardly misery of Soviet Union. Anyway, homes are required for our own youth in the coming decades. How foolish to give over housing stock now to any old opportunist flotsam and jetsam.
@@LeonVEKHLeon, three times or more you dogmatically stated that immigration is not the problem. Please open your eyes when you are out shopping, 10% of the population are visibly non-European, and another 20% are not Irish or British, the numbers of these foreign immigrants is rising quickly! Every Western country is having its identity, culture, sovereignty, and homeland quietly stolen from them by a government that puts destructive mass immigration as its longterm priority, even above the democratic will of the people. I think that you are not Irish and want to reassure yourself by diverting attention away from the immigration crisis.
@@Finglesham I live in County longford, between censuses 2016 and 2022 there was a 14% increase in population which is higher increase than Dublin. Possibly the housing in County Dublin is so expensive that immigrants are being forced to move to rural areas where homes are cheaper. The increase is due to immigration. Our family size has dropped from about 4 to 6 per family when I was young to 1.6 per Irish woman which is less than replacement which is 2.2. You did not take into account that prior to 1922 the census and figures were for the 32 counties, whole island, the figures you used later were for the 26 counties, of the Irish Republic. Which are about 1.5 million lower than the 32 county population.
@@henkvandervossen6616 Dear Henk, Ireland all 32 counties was governed as part of the union of Wales, Scotland,England and Ireland from the act of Union about 1800 until 1922. Then the 26 counties became the Free state, independent of the Union which became The Republic of Ireland, or Eire, the other 6 counties remain with the Union. Best wishes Andrew.
Ireland was one a farming shithole producing only cabbage and potatoes and still was able to feed 8.1 milions of people. Till potato plight came and people were unable to pay rent nor to feed themselves. This did not stop greedy landlords. Now Ireland is a Celtic Tiger, tax haven for international corporations, with huge GDP...but..only two centres of industry - Cork and Dublin, no real or reliable public transport, no improvement of life with modern technologies, no planes for urbanisation. Landlords make from from basic human needs. This time they are not English, they are fecking Irish, mostly. People live in dispersed setlements, transport on their own way, feeding on their own way. O.K., Boomers, during your life time the population of Ireland doubled, unfortunetely nothing else doubled except the price for living. Its is your fault.
Ireland's full , we need affordable housing , hospitals,schools, and care services for our own people. Charity begins at home. Food has to be grown , wake up , our woke politicians are a disgrace. Vote no no , then vote them out.
Far less controversial than the other comments I've read is the undeniable beneficiaries of it all - the United States and Canada. The contribution of Irish immigrants and their descendants to both nations cannot be overestimated. Nor can the opportunities both nations have afforded people of Irish origin. Often the best things happen for the wrong reasons.
Two corrections. The British evicted the Irish when they couldn’t pay rent. These unfortunate people were given a meal a day but made to construct roads and other civil works to get this meal. In short they were used as a slave labour. Thousands of Irish worked lived and died at the side of the road. The British then presented this food distribution as “famine relief” to the rest of the world. The ottoman sultan donated 10,000 pounds towards famine relief. This was rejected because, despite plundering the wealth of the world, the murderous Victoria donated only 2000 pounds. As this looked very bad for her the British reduced the sultans donation to 1000 pounds. These are important facts that show the deliberate murderous intent of the British towards the Irish.
@@nickjung7394 the sultan had no financial, military or political interests in Ireland. I don’t pretend know where he got his money from but he was willing to share the modern equivalent of millions to help a nation that he had absolutely no connection to. That’s the polar opposite of what the British did.
@@briankelleher2156 Just the usual British bashing from feins. The Potato blight affected the whole of Europe. The Sultan wasn't the only one to set up aid. Britain set up soup kitchens and aid. It's funny that we forget the barbary slave trade so quickly.
@@briankelleher2156 Excuse me? The British send a lot of aid. The potato effected the whole of Europe it was nearly 200 years ago. It was a very different world. Mostly the Potato famine has been used to generate anti British hate for the republican movement, an excuse for their murdering!
The 8 million number is probably not accurate given that the census takers couldn't document the whole country, the actual population size before the famine was probably closer to 11 million.
There is absolutely no evidence to support your assertion. To suggest that the census was out by three million is a nonsense. The Catholic Church also kept scrupulous records of their parishoners.
Interesting video. Emigration to North America is frequently mentioned in videos and books on the Irish Potato Famine, but many more emigrated to Great Britain at that time, (source: "The Great Hunger. Ireland 1845-1849" by Cecil Woodham-Smith. Chapter 11.) The reason is pretty obvious when you think about it.
@@denisescally7090 Quite right but my point is also correct. Between 1845 and 1850, many more Irish people migrated to Great Britain than to America to escape starvation.
@@retiredbore378 What a presumptuous bore you are (of course that could mean anything in your mindscape). So you 'knew development aid workers'.. is that an an attempt to impress or hold some relevance? You're 'old enough to have studied economics' - wow! What does that make you.. 16? You are a perfect example of how talk can be meaningless. You need more than a decent dictionary. Oh and as for disasters - I lived through two.. but what would you know.
The reason why the Irish was so dependent on the potato is because the indigenous Irish were pushed off the Midlands, which has the best farming. That was all owned by absence heat landlords. The only things that Irish could grow on their soil on the West Coast were potatoes.
Some very strange claims here . Ireland empty ?? Heaps of empty houses ?? Seriously ?? Our goverment would be delighted if the housing situation was anything like this . We're bursting at the seams here given our lack of hospitals etc .
Working as doctor in republic and later northern ireland I was made aware of many stories about the suffering of irish people by english and unionist population .I am an absolute outsider in both religious and ethnic terms but it is hard to deny the suffering of irish people at so many levels and over such a prolonged preriod.
2024: Ireland's population is now over 5.1 million, higher than the pre-famine era. Also, for the last 15 years, Ireland's population has been growing - thanks to immigration and American investments.
And let me guess - you're Irish - right! That's why you can't see the glaring falseness in this video. You are suffering from bias confirmation which is why you won't believe what I'm saying.
@@Caambrinus I'd go further and say it is deliberately false and anyone who doesn't believe this should get out an atlas and fact check the first 45 seconds (which is as far as I could put up with it's propaganda (I can't believe anyone could be so wrong so I am assuming it's deliberate misinformation).
In the 17th & 18th centuries most of those emigrating from Ireland to America were Ulster-Scots, not Irish. Irish emigration to USA didn't really start until the potato famine in the mid 1800s. The earliest emigration was "The Eagle Wing was the first emigrant ship to leave Ulster for America. She sailed from Groomsport in September 1636, carrying 140 Presbyterians in search of a life free from persecution in the New World". This was just before the 1641 rebellion when around 12,000 Ulster-Scot men, women and children were massacred by the irish catholic rebels.
Well Cromwell cleared up your grievance on that last score hopefully. 850,000 Irish Catholics slaughtered I think this video said by the man whose statue stands outside the national Parliament of the UK. Even Netenyahu would probably be satisfied with that scale of retribution as a punishment for the Irish having the temerity to try and liberate themselves from their oppressors.
@@seandoherty925 There you go trying to make it all about poor innocent Irish Catholics. Actually there was a war going on, Roundheads vs Royalists and your lot picked the wrong side. I think Cromwell and Netenyahu are to be admired for their ability to get the job done, don't you?
@@tulyar57 Do you really think so? Or are you just trying to paint any pro Israel comment as beyond the pale given the Irish tendency to support terrorists like the IRA and Hamas? I'd really like to know.
An interesting reply. I really have no strong views on the Irish question (which I presume is what this video is about). However, your tendency to interpret everything through a prism of partisanship is quite illuminating.@@asanulsterman1025
You speak of the thermometer being invented by Fahrenheit and then vive the temperatures in celsius which does not have as many points and most of us in the U.S. do not use, much preferring the Fahrenheit.
In fact there were several camines in Ireland, the one 1845 to 1849 calles the Great Famine, which I presume you are referring to, non1740nas you mention. The Irish didnt inmigrante in huge number was during and after the Great Famine and they didn't go to Pensylmania and Maryland, it mainly to Boston and New York. Some Protestants did immigrate to the US in thev18th century, bit not near as many after the Great Famine.
How many generations? If you have to go back to your great grandparents you should give it up. Nowhere else in the world do people assign themselves to another nation so many generations back.
Northern Ireland is not a different country from Ireland. There is a single sovereign territory. Currently partitioned into two administrations. The smaller partition is administered under treaty by the unitary UK government. The UK is it's self only a unitary government in control of multiple sovereign territories and so called overseas territories. For convenience the UK does not fully extend laws in the island of Great Britain over many of these territories. That allows bankers in London to order activities in these territories that would be illegal if carried out in the UK. Money laundering and tax evasion being among these activities. In the case of Northern Ireland the UK somewhat fudged the line between offshore and direct control. NI had a parliament like New Zealand but still sent MPs to London. This allowed the Northern Ireland government to commit crimes for the purposes to maintaining UK control of that partition of Ireland. Denial of civil rights, police executions, fraudulent trials and elections being just the start. The Catholic population was economically suppressed. Denied employment and access to tax funded services including education. It was said an African witch doctored would have more chance of employment in a Northern Ireland hospital than the top Catholic medical graduate. Since the political and legal situation affects population vectors and concentrations you should be more accurate.
Its called "enforced starvation" know to many as the "potato famine" or "The Great Famine" or "potato blight in westen Europe" History calls it many thing , but the winners always write History the way the want you to know it
Ireland is far from 'empty'. I'm British and I love visiting Ireland. If I wanted to live there then buying a property would be very expensive. I have Irish friends who used to live in Dublin but it became so expensive to live that they moved outside of the city to commute in.
London/Population: 8.982 million (2019) @@EpicAelflaed The population of Ireland 7,185,600 (2023 estimate) if you mean the Republic of Ireland in 2024 is 5,089,478, a 0.64% increase from 2023. Either way maths is not your strong point! As Ireland has over 60% of the London population, and more than Wales or Scotland.
@@JamJam0189 yes I was referring to the republic which is projected in the next year or so to be over 5.3 million so I said 5.5 as we are still at the beginning of 2024. Also I was comparing it to London which has a far larger population than the whole of Ireland. And before you send another ‘rude arrogant’ text - I am referring to London and Greater London population. I thought the Irish were friendly? You know - a thousand welcomes
You're reference to London and Ireland in the original message came across as you mocking Ireland and the low population. I thought the Irish were friendly, they are but forgive me I'm not Irish I'm one of those English straight talking people, my great grand parents moved from Ireland years ago I've been to Ireland many times since being very young and like it.@@EpicAelflaed
While people died of hunger there was more than enough food being produced in Ireland to feed everyone. But deliberate British policy insisted on exporting it to Britain. At least a million people died the horrible death of starvation. In London it didn't really matter. They were just peasants. And in the main, the culprits, apart from British policy, were landlords,: those who had taken over Irish land and reduced the people to reliance on the potato to keep alive. But then the potato crop failed over several years and pitiless slow murder of a people was the result. Irish hearts still go out to the Choktaw Nation for the assistance they, in their own distress, gave to the starving Irish. It is hard not to see the Great Famine as the uncaring failure of Britain to save the lives of those it ruled. Indeed there are those in Ireland who see it as a casually and cynically exploited natural disaster that conveniently got rid of a lot of undesirables - Irish people - in what became a convenient genocide. Genocide is a harsh word. But what do you call callously letting a million people die and forcing another million to flee to escape death. by starvation. The final outcome is telling. A population of 8,000,000 in 1840 was reduced at the time of my birth (1943) to 4,000.000. So it is not acceptable simply to gloss over the matter and say that the Irish relied on the potato without saying why this was so, and why food was being exported in the face of mass starvation.
@@mirowestmaas4566look at it again it mentioned them but never told the full story, the sultan tried to donate 10,000 pounds but the British government refused to accept it as queen Victoria had only gave 1,000 and they didn't want to embarrass her so they only accepted 1,000 😡
The most telling thing is when we hear that 4 ships of grain where sent by the Ottoman Sultan but the British stopped them. One only got through. Imagine being in the British Navy and ordering the ships to return. For me that's a picture of hell.
You mean she’s expecting a baby - we are aware she will be born in Ireland My daughter was born in England though I wouldn’t say we’re expecting a little English baby 😂 too funny 🤣
@@amoxzi Though it is weird. If I posted on social media that I’ve just had a daughter - then posted “a little English baby” they would ask why I had to add that part in. People never say “I’ve just had a little Sudanese baby” or I’ve just had “a little German baby”. It’s something we never hear because it makes no sense to. Yeah a very odd thing to say. Why didn’t she just say “a little bundle” or something like everyone else? What does an Irish baby mean? Lots of babies are born in Ireland and the parents are from different countries
Ireland is not empty. There are 5.5 million people on a relatively small island. England /Wales is very over populated, Holland is also densely populated..
If you are talking about the island of Ireland (as you are) the population of Ulster needs to be added, so 5.5 + 1.9 = 7.4 million i.e. roughly what it was before the famine. Despite Ulster having 2 of the most densely populated counties on the whole island it is still only 50% of England's population density.
We have mass imigration but no affordable housing we have a huge problem incoming. The gov are obsessed with asylum seekers and are trying to spread them all across the land. The people are getting annoyed with it all and there will be big trouble.
Yes and during the recent C19 pandemic when we were suffering on the Navajo Nation to get water and other basic supplies, Ireland made much appreciated donations.
Under any such video , where the famine is mentioned, there inevitably are comments from Brits getting defensive. Look, the blame isn't against the people themselves but the government in Westminster. in those times Do remember that the ruling classes had millions of English, Scots and Welsh living in grinding poverty too, even at height of the empire. An empire that was largely built on hundreds of thousands of British military casualties while a relative few actually benefitted. The British authorities also didn't cause the potato blight. It was something that happened across Europe. But the catastrophic consequences in Ireland were down to discriminatory laws that resulted in so many people becoming dependent on that one crop. Remember too, that in the 1840's, Ireland was actually a part of the UK (or was supposed to be) yet quite clearly was treated differently. Again, ordinary British folk are not being blamed as their own forefathers struggled with oppressive laws that crushed workers rights and true democracy.
Bravo for a factual comment. The British Government PLUNDERED and colonized many countries. They were eventually eradicated from America and India, but the Irish are still struggling to be free of that burden. A shame too because Ireland is a beautiful country, quite capable of standing on their own.
The Irish, Scottish and Welsh won’t have heard what you have said. You’re English and therefore to be blamed for your past countrymen’s behaviour - and they require apologies from the English - our answer - I will apologise to ‘absolutely’ no one
@@EpicAelflaed I'm Irish. And as I said, it's the past actions of the government that have been criticised, so apologies are neither asked or expected from ordinary folk..
Discriminatory laws that caused dependence ? Not really . The biggest factor was the size of the average Irish family.Growing a population from 2m to 8m in a short time.The result was inability to feed people at a time of famine. ... The English provided many thousand of tons of aid.Shipswere constantly passing taking food one way and peoplr the other my Family were part of that The common idea that the English government was to blame was all part of the Irish authorities off loading some of the blame.
You have palms in some parts of your island. It rarely snows...you can golf year round. Tell me how this all sucks? I live in Canada, we lose 5 months a year to winter in some places
Look at the figures in the latest NDP which was released by the government to little fanfare during the panic and confusion of the so-called pandemic. 😩☘
@@ClannCholmainnearly a quarter of the population has no Irish heritage, will be closer to 50 % in another 20 years, and u think that's a good thing?!
@@hector7187 and there are about 100,000,000 people who identify as Irish diaspora. Article 2 of the Constitution of Ireland states: ‘The Irish nation cherishes its special affinity with people of Irish ancestry living abroad who share its cultural identity and heritage.’ Get a life.
Very well put together, I enjoyed it. On the Turkish Sultan who donated £1000, he actually donated a lot more but because his original amount was more than Queen Victoria had donated, he was advised to downscale it so not to insult the monarch..
People forgot the Barbary slave trade very quickly. The whole of Europe, had the potato blight, food was hard to get. There was a lot of food sent by the British Government maze from the new world, soup kitchens. The way the law was in Ireland-the local land owner had to pay for the poor, in his parish. That's why they had to sell their grain to England. The potato famine was complex, a lot of BS talked about it as it was used as propaganda to stir up anti British hate.
It's not really full though, more so just broken like its healthcare which has been in tatters for over a decade now but groups are trying to accuse migrants for that despite the fact migrants make up a lot of healthcare staff - there's a ton of empty houses in the countryside that are just left forgotten, more like owned by older people that passed on and are now owned by their children or family that live elsewhere or abroad.
And Irish politicians actually standing in parliament telling the Irish people that they need to admit their "white privilege"!!!!!! The country was almost third world until the end of the 20th century.
Agree with your figures. Census were unreliable and Children aged 5 and under were not counted. This whip through Irish history portrayed a very mild version of what occurred. They were purposely starved to death. They needed the land, it's what is underway today. The template of what was done to cleanse a people have and is being used by tyrants today.
@@iainpattison903 Irish just wanted to drain profit from emmigrants and have no responsibility. No investment. No plans. Like public transport in Dublin, outdated, unreliable, with not enough capacity, but more people who needs it = more money. Let make most country for sheep to graze, this is genius plan.
Uneatable lightly potato blight infected potatos can become distilled into vodka. Same goes with barley. People saved from the crops what they could by means what they had.
I dont your ordinary Paddie has any grief with sharing the space with other nationalities,they were even curious about other cultures,and supporting at all times the "underdog".However,the totally irresponsable behaviour of the people in power in induntating the country without any forseen plan how to integrate the hordes arriving,unfortunately has changed that because people have become confused by this treccerous behaviour
There are simply FAR too many coming in. It's as simple as that. We are a hair's breath away from completely losing our country. If it keeps going thus, in 20 years Ireland will NOT be Irish any more. It will be just another landspace filled with ghettos of ethnic clumps who do not mix nor want to mix, all living on minimum wages, keeping the billionaire classes in absolute power. There will be no middle class.
Hogwash.... Ireland has enough people for its size and geographic structure. There is a type of celebration for Ireland reaching a 5 million population milestone, and with asperations for the population to go on increasing, mainly driven by immegration The last time the population reached such heady numbers resulted in the people living in sod walled cabins in the bogs and hills, with pigs in the kitchen to keep them warm
Please use the accurate and now accepted term, there was never a "famine" it was an early example of ethnic cleansing and one of the first acts of genocide.
The little natural ice age mentioned from the 1300s to the 1800s is important in understanding how the slight global warming since the mid 1800s , is not "man-made". The IPCC only counts from the mid 1800s and onwards. Several regions in Scandinavia were colder than usual in october and parts of september this year btw according to scientific data. The media tried to say otherwise
from 1300's to 1800's was before the Industrial Revolution. Man made global climate change has occurred since then. What you say makes no sense (but you already knew that)
KibyNykraft Great comment and true, the fake health emergency and fake climate emergencies are being used by those behind the UN as a means for them to take the world for themselves with mass Genocide planned.
Ridiculous statement there are 8 billion people on the planet today. During their time they were probably about 450 million people on the planet. You guys just don’t stop with this ridiculousness that don’t have an effect on the climate and today’s day and age, sit down buddy.
Ireland suffered terrible famines, but the population has recovered. Scotland also suffered massive depopulation. When I visited Ireland I noticed the population is fairly evenly distributed, whereas in Scotland 80% of our country is basically empty and still in decline, the Scottish people having been marginalised from their land into the cities.
Nonsense......ireland has a house shortage.....there's plenty countryside remote houses.......but their too expensive for a lot of irish to buy ....even a small country cottage will set you back 250,000 euro...!
Bullshit. The red areas are rather heavily populated with small family owned farms. Only a relatively few remote and mountainous regions are genuinely uninhabited. I know. I live in Ireland.
This is actually true. All Irish people were wiped out by an ultra-specific plague last Tuesday. There are now absolutely no human beings in Ireland at all.
You are right on the wrong premises. Ireland is, indeed, uninhabited. All Irish people have died 150 years ago. Those calling themselves "Irish" today are transients: they only pass through the country in cars and never feel Ireland on their skin.
@@blaircorral8158 So where da hell did they get this story from? And don't tell me that people on RU-vid are lying sacks of shit who are pushing a crypto-fascist agenda. I mean, are they? ARE THEY?
Isn't it strange to talk of grain prices when people were starving to death. Tons of food was exported from Ireland while people were dying. The land was controlled by wealthy English landlords. The people were not allowed to hunt or fish. They were effectively slaves, living in dire poverty. Why else would they depend on one crop for sustenance? So climate and blight were major factors but since England still profited, while the Irish starved, blame can't be overlooked. Ireland isn't empty by the way, and you won't find abandoned land there. You will find expensive land.
Yawn Yawn! the same old BS straight from the IRA propaganda play book. The reason the IRISH landlords (yes some owned estates in England too, but not many!) sold their grain was: In Ireland the law for the poor had not changed for centuries. It's your responsibility as the landlord to give money to the poor in your parish. The Landlords had to sell the grain to get this money. However, facts don't make anti-British morons, to do your biding!
The term English and British is disingenuously changed by some historians. The landowners were almost exclusively Irish, but a greater proportion were Protestant rather than Catholic, so termed "English as in Church of England or Anglican. It was the British (all 4 nations) that undertook the greatest efforts and eventually resolved the famine by over-rulling the Irish landowners.
It would be interesting to hear someone better versed on the historical facts than I am, debate you on this. I would question the Irishness of the landed gentry as opposed to the labouring tenants. Whatever their original heritage, they had the backing of the British Empire. As you say decisions were made across the water. While the subject was being debated in parliament, counting the cost to the English taxpayer, people were eating grass in a vain attempt to stay alive. Those who got the 'opportunity', boarded sickness-ridden "coffin ships" across the Atlantic. Not much credit due for letting an eight of the population starve to death. @@A190xx
@@A190xx They followed British policy. 5/8 of the british army were stationed on the island over the 4 years with the sole purpose to ensure food extraction. Over 1 million cow, sheep and pig were taken off the land in that time. They call it a famine to cover up the truth. This video is far from factual. Most Irish dont even know a fraction of what really happened having been taught a watered down British white washed version of what they created. Irelands problems ultimately stems from the balls of king henry.
The British obviously did not cause the potato blight but they did cause the famine by “confiscating” all other crops grown and exporting them to England so the Irish had nothing left to eat.
Anyone who thinks that a famine killed millions in Ireland, needs to read the Perfect Holocaust, by Chris Fogarty, The Food was removed at gunpoint by the British Army, dont believe me , he has a full breakdown of British units in Ireland at the time, fully corroborated and documented.
I was at the Manchester children's hospital few years ago and met a wonderful Irish nurse she told me how life was difficult in Ireland eventually she chose to move to the uk 🇬🇧 just hope ireland as a nation can do well they are wonderful human beings
Speaking of childrens hospitals, Ireland has one of the most expensive in the world. That doesnt mean its one of the best, just one of the most expensive. Its our Berlin airport, one of those money pit projects that just wont win.
The Genocide started in 1845 and is described in this video as a Famine,How can a country exporting vast amounts of corn and meat be described as suffering from Famine?
Ireland traditionally had a population density similar to that of England which means today there should be at least 30 million Irish living there but it's less than a third of that.
For the famine that never was there was enough food exported to feed everyone up to 26 million in fact that's why we're refer to in as An Ghota Mhór or the great hunger
This vid glosses over the refusal of the English to help the Irish during the famine of 1841-1842, even to the effect of removing the scarce food still available and prohibiting other nations to offer relief to the Irish. It is at par with the death camps in the South African desert during the Boer Wars, later known as "concentration camps" in Nazi times.
situated off the west coast of the united kingdom? WRONG! it's situated off the west coast of great britain. the united kingdom includes northern ireland.
Our way of live was forced on us by England they only wanted Ireland for beef and agricultural products then and to a lesser extent now we only ate potatoes because all other food stuffs were unaffordable Irish people’s small land holdings could only feed them if they sold all other crops to pay there rent and lived on potatoes also the good land was taken by the English you can still see the lazy beds going up the sides of mountains were no one would farm but we had to may Trevelyan burn in hell he had half dead people building roads to no were he refused help because it would embarrass the crown if not for the Quakers the death toll would’ve been a lot higher. Ireland has never recovered from it population wise. During the famine, the Anglican church offered food in exchange for renouncing Catholicism There is a saying from that time “God brought the famine but the English were responsible for the hunger” Ireland exported over 1000 tonnes of food a week during the famine.my grandfather born in 1915 heard the stories of an gort more at his grandfather knee as a child my grandfathers grandfather only lived because a Quaker feed him as a young child the only survivor of his family.if I sound angry I am sorry but it hits a nerve to see an old man so sad because of hearing such stories as a young child
@@sarahann530 Most of Ireland's land is used for livestock production, the bulk of which is for export. It was the sale of food on the open market that was the nail in the coffin for many when the potato crop failed. Today Ireland south and north can't even house the population in the good times, what do you think will happen when bad times hit in the future?
@robert6106 When the bad times hit people will emigrate like they did before. During the famine the land was owned by the English and they exported their crops . If you are worried about starving in the bad times I suggest you learn a skill of value now .
This video failed to address the tripling of Irish population in the period 1740-1840. That is, it was mentioned, but no attempt was made to explain it. Secondly, this video spent an inordinate amount of time discussing a temperance crusader and ignored the long, violent movement for independence: Father Mathews got three minutes (out of 13), while the Grattan Parliament, O'Connell's movement, the Wolf Tone Uprising, the Easter Uprising, the Black and Tans -- were all passed over in silence. The video only implicitly mentioned the Great Depression, saying that (unspecified) "adverse economic conditions" led to emigration. It chose not to mention the Irish boom which has drawn immigration to Ireland from all over the European continent, if not the world, with a sharp reversal due to the Panic of 2007, followed by a rapid recovery. In short, this is a hasty, unbalanced, uninformative take on Irish history which claims to be about explaining the loss of Irish population, but ignores most of its causes.
Ireland is not empty! Those red areas on your map are not accurate. It is lightly populated. Farmland and many many villages. There's another channel that is making these videos about empty areas as if the standard is somehow a crowded city! There isn't hardy a single area that is truly wilderness in Ireland. Man has lived in Ireland for 9000 years. It is true that the famine and economic oppression depopulated and suppressed growth in Ireland. The beauty of Ireland is the rural inhabited areas.
Ah, the famine. Yes, no question that a huge number of Irish went over to North America - and many came over to England (allegedly the land of the hated oppressors...). For clarity, my maternal grandmother was either directly Irish or born to Irish immigrants. The draw of North America was not confined to the Irish - some of my (Welsh) father's distant relatives went over to Canada in the 19th Century and helped build the Canadian Pacific Railway (and one became very senior within the CP). The opportunity was there for those willing to make the effort. As noted by others, Ireland is not really empty, but (like Scotland) rather uninhabitable on account of mountains and bogs. What isn't mountainous or boggy is farmed and then there are the urban bits where the relative population explosion nowadays is driven by immigration. The same is happening in England.
A friend of mine from Chicago Illinois USA did the ancestry test. She’s 71% Irish lol she’s originally from Pennsylvania and they have about 2 million Irish Americans there. I swear everyone is Irish or Mexican
My British (maternal) family relocated to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland from Britain. The women, it is ALWAYS the women who turn their backs on others. My (paternal) British family did everything thye could to help others. I grew up in total racism towards other races from the maternal line, NOT from the British (paternalL line!
@@Richard1A2B The video was the normal anti British rubbish to be honest. The BS about the potato famine is mostly told by fein scum, to justify their hatred of England. It a more complex issue than... blame the British narrative.
Northern Ireland isn`t a different country. What I don`t understand is how the English think Northern Ireland is not part of Ireland but Eastern Ukraine is somehow part of Ukraine. Please stop bothering our Russian friends and recognize Russia`s annexation of Crimea and Donbas. I do and unlike you people, I am at peace.
Everyone seems to forget that it was the Americans who sold them blighted potatoes. That blight also hit the rest of Europe but was not as damaging as the rest of Europe had a more diverse agriculture. Land had been repeatedly subdivided due to the population going from 3 to over 8 million in around 55 years. This caused a focus on potatoes, esp in the West, due to its nutritional value and ease to produce esp on low grade land. It was a disaster waiting to happen. Recently Dublin based historians are revisiting the complex reasons for the famine.
Need to get a better understanding of the disease.As descendants of potatoes who shifter to the best potato growing area in the world in 1850s and continued to grow potatoes in perfect soil and rainfall.With the right foggy atmosphere and humid conditions you still got blight here.Then the fungus was in the soil for years.Dispute that it was imported with seed but caused by replanted seed potatoes from crops grown in same soil year after year.Small plots of land dictated this problem.
Apparently there is a bit of a kerfuffle in Eire at the moment with the invasion of, how can I put this, non Celtic darker skinned folks (almost exclusively young males) this does not bode well for social cohesion and a peaceful existence.
In recent times, Ireland is far from empty. Just like Great Britain, thanks to "asylum seekers", the island north & south has been inundated with immigrants. Contrary to what you say, there is a serious housing shortage - particularly in the cities - which has been worsened by these new arrivals, as have the health services, schools, etc. This situation will only get worse, unless there is a curb on immigration, as the increasing world population seeks to move to "wealthier" (aka better benefits) countries.
It didn't take long for the first dogwhistler to appear in the comments. We wouldn't have a health service without migrants, and our economy would revert to its pathetic performance in the 50s
Immigration has added to Ireland and will keep doing so, just as Irish emigrants have added to their new homeland. Government neglect of housing problems is a more serious problem.
@@Caambrinus Why must the Irish wait for the government to do something for them? Are they babies? They clearly are. I've recently tried to buy bricks at B&Q. They were out of stock. Sums up what's wrong with this island.
We have sheep and cattle stations bigger than Ireland. It's no wonder the Irish flee Ireland. Like the Croatians, there are more Irish living overseas than live in Ireland. We parochial Aussies don't mind the Irish - they at least have a sense of humour. The English not so much.
@@malahammer OMG! only the Irish suffered in history? Things were tough for everyone! As an Irish Protestant whose family had to move from Co Kerry in the 20s. I think Cromwell did a good job in Ireland considering there was 4 separate armies in a constant war. He brought peace. The whole of Europe was at war over religion!
the ottoman's sent 10,000 not 1,000. which was refused and not alowed by britain on the grounds it was insulting for anyone to offer more than the Queen who only gave 2,000.
@@sarahann530 a friend of mine thoroughly researched this topic, by accident as he was originally researching his ancestry,, and wrote a book, "The Perfect Holocaust"
@@flynnjp19 Provide links to the source material your friend found so we can independently verify . Just because your friend wrote a book means little . There are books written by people saying the World is flat . Provide evidence
