RTE The Hunger The Story of the Irish Famine

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  • čas přidán 28. 09. 2023
  • A thoughtful and challenging analysis of the worst European humanitarian disaster of the 19th century, with input from historians and witness accounts, marking the 175th anniversary of the Great Irish Famine.

Komentáře • 46

  • @bp7495
    @bp7495 Před 4 měsíci +18

    Thanks for sharing. The Irish Famine was not mentioned once in my English schooling. Brushed under the carpet along with many other shameful episodes of British colonial and domestic history.

  • @DannyNev15
    @DannyNev15 Před 8 měsíci +10

    Thank you to whoever finally put this up here. On PBS site, not watchable. Cheers🍀

  • @DarrenCarrie
    @DarrenCarrie Před 5 dny +1

    God bless Ireland 🇮🇪 🙏🏻 ❤

  • @Pollyanna012
    @Pollyanna012 Před měsícem +2

    Informative and very sad, thank you for sharing this.

  • @roisinmalone3015
    @roisinmalone3015 Před 6 měsíci +4

    Great programme. So sad. We should be taught more about this in Ireland

  • @Sean-jc6cu
    @Sean-jc6cu Před 7 měsíci +8

    Everyone needs to watch this

  • @mraclark6171
    @mraclark6171 Před 7 měsíci +4

    Thanks Nicholas this really helps with my Irish history class that I teach in the UK

  • @NeilC-yc1zd
    @NeilC-yc1zd Před měsícem +2

    If this doesn't bring a tear to the eye there's something fundamentally wrong with the heart in my opinion.❤

  • @lynseymcgarry4475
    @lynseymcgarry4475 Před měsícem +2

    Always knew my family where part of the irish immigration caused by the famine but watching and hearing really hits somewhere else along with my family stealing sheep

  • @Arab--Man
    @Arab--Man Před 5 měsíci +1

    Great upload, thank you... Very informative and sad part of Irish history

  • @DamienHalliday-jc7xf
    @DamienHalliday-jc7xf Před 24 dny +2

    Why is it so. easy to feel sorry for the victims of tragic events many years after they happen without. doing anything about it at the time: Irish Famine (170 yrs); Holocaust (75 years). Will it take 50 - 100 years to regret that we in the Western world didn't do anything to alleviate the suffering of the innocent in Gaza. How pathetic we are as a species.

  • @greenfrog9702
    @greenfrog9702 Před 4 dny +1

    They fought so hard to be free and preserve Irish culture... and now look at them, they allow themselves to be replaced and erased again... shame

  • @charlottescott6609
    @charlottescott6609 Před 8 měsíci +3

    Sad poor people starved to death

  • @dmitryostrovsky5763
    @dmitryostrovsky5763 Před 2 měsíci +5

    If that happened in Ireland today, they would call it The Great Irish Food Insecurity. They used to call it Famine and Hunger, but now days it's called Food Insecurity. What's going on? Hunger is hunger, not food insecurity.

    • @andreahodson7031
      @andreahodson7031 Před měsícem

      deliberately meant to dilute the reality..

    • @hint0122
      @hint0122 Před 13 dny

      How many poor people in the us have resorted to cannibalism?

    • @dmitryostrovsky5763
      @dmitryostrovsky5763 Před 12 dny

      @@hint0122 How about Jamestown, the Donner Party, The Utler Party Massacre, as well as Liver Eating Johnson, Boon Helm the Kentucky cannibal, prospector Alfred Packer, Mississippi Alonzo Robinson, Stanley Baker, Lester Harrisen, Albert Fentress, Brandon Flagger, and of course Hadden Clark and Gary Heidnik, Dan Rakawitz, Mrs Nelson in Costa Mesa, and a lot of other Americans that I can't recall tier names. Also.sorry that I probably misspelled a lot of these names, but I hope it helps you for whatever reason you asked such a question?

    • @hint0122
      @hint0122 Před 11 dny

      @dmitryostrovsky5763 haha, that's funny. Those are people who don't have a choice, or are insane killers. People who food insecure are not hungry enough to eat people.

    • @hint0122
      @hint0122 Před 10 dny

      @dmitryostrovsky5763 food insecure is a far cry from eating people

  • @izzyRider877
    @izzyRider877 Před 4 měsíci +3

    Did ottomans helped to irish people during the femine?I would like to know any comments.

    • @mylittledaddy9137
      @mylittledaddy9137 Před 3 měsíci +2

      The Turkish-Irish relations had begun with the remanding of an Irish merchant ship which was captured by pirates while cruising the Mediterranean Sea by the Ottoman Navy in the 16th century.
      Ireland suffered the Great Famine between 1845 and 1851 resulting in the loss of lives of around one million of the Irish population and causing another million to flee overseas. During the Famine, the Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecit provided 1.000 Pounds of financial aid to Ireland. Furthermore, the Ottoman Empire sent ships carrying grain and food to the island. It is known that the Ottoman ships departing Istanbul were not allowed to enter the Port of Dublin, and thus had to unload their cargo secretly at the Port of Drogheda, a town 70 km further north of Dublin ( In remembrance of the aid, a plaque was unveiled on 2 May 1995 on the building which served as the City Hall of the period, on the occasion of celebrating the 800th Anniversary of the historical Town of Drogheda and in commemoration of the 150th Anniversary of the Great Famine).
      Diplomatic relations between Türkiye and Ireland first started with an Exchange of Note Verbal in 1951. The Turkish Embassy in Dublin was opened on 10 December 1973, whereas the Irish Embassy in Ankara was opened in 1998.
      Türkiye is among top destinations for Irish tourists. In 2023, the number of Irisih tourists visiting Türkiye reached 158.962.
      In 2023, Turkish-Irish bilateral trade volume reached 2,09 billion USD.
      4.700 Turkish citizens live in Ireland. About 800 Irish citizens inhabit in Türkiye.

    • @OSTARAEB4
      @OSTARAEB4 Před měsícem +1

      The Choctaw in the USA who had nothing scrounged up money for the Irish.

    • @mylittledaddy9137
      @mylittledaddy9137 Před měsícem

      @@OSTARAEB4 Indeed this has been recorded. czcams.com/video/WlapEAWWDQc/video.htmlsi=yi3aEX2RtddrtySx

    • @gradualdecay1040
      @gradualdecay1040 Před měsícem

      Turks 4 ships of food.
      Cash donation.

    • @gradualdecay1040
      @gradualdecay1040 Před měsícem

      English govt donated £8million.
      English public £500k+
      Queen Victoria was the biggest individual donor during the famine.

  • @action963
    @action963 Před měsícem +2

    Very narrow view of a complex issue

  • @user-zo8gz9yp7n
    @user-zo8gz9yp7n Před měsícem +2

    The British taught the Germans all they needed to know about genocide, then judged the Germans for perfecting the British example.

  • @RyanBrown-hp3sc
    @RyanBrown-hp3sc Před 6 dny

    Ill say this. For those who are annoyed at hearing American tourists mention their Irish heritage KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT! There have been so many who were stuck in slavery and indentured servitude force under duress to capitulate to it and those who fled the famine!