Irish Potato Famine - The American Wake - Part 4 - Extra History
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- 📜 Irish Potato Famine: The American Wake -Not all of the 214,000 Irish immigrants in 1847 made it safely to their new homes--and of those who did, many faced classism and xenophobia and even bullying from the "Ulster Irish" or "Scots-Irish" folks who had previously established themselves. In New York City specifically, the Five Points neighborhood became an infamous center of conflict--while local Irish-American John Joseph Hughes became instrumental in restoring Irish Catholicism.
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In 1847 alone, a stunning 214,000 people left Ireland in search of a life, where they could escape the hunger, disease, poverty, and surging violence. But they would face a new set of unique challenges in the countries they moved to--even from within their own community.
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thank you all for your hard work!!!!
I’m wondering if you can do a video on the French Revolution considering it was a big part of history. But you don’t have to also you made me love history.
That Bishop is a badass! Damn! :D
I like him!
LordBloodySoul WE WILL BURN NEW YORK
Will you mention the St. Patrick's battalion that fought in the US - Mexican War?
"Native Americans. Beware of Foreign Influence"
Is ironic to a glorious level
Oh *those* native americans
The irony is so thick you could cut it with a knife
What a great taste of irony and hypocrisy, indeed.
Still haven't learned our lesson
Humans are irreparably stupid
@Budz buddington *dab dab*
That´s less of an archbishop and more of a battlepriest...
In some battles you're required to bluff.
In some other battles, you're required to be prepared to lose EVERYTHING in order to deal the most possible damage.
I didn't know multiclassing was allowed
Didn't you see Gangs of New York? Cracking skulls to get the Word out was a bit of a job requirement.
Considering the level of violence in those riots I honestly wouldn´t have been surprised if he wasn´t completely bluffing.
Never seen it, probably will soon if I find the time
We started this episode with two sisters abandoning their land and their family forever, and ended it with an arsonist bishop.
History is just amazing.
An arsonist priest, That would make a wicked album cover.
@Fallen Knight Tyler Sabaton
Arsonist archbishop *
@@pablodonner5213battle priest flamer*
@@datcat8458 I would think more like Ghost.
9:44 "...burn New York to the ground."
That... escalated quickly. But I suppose it worked.
That face of the mayor tho when he realizes that he better not mess with the Irish...
It was less funny when it partially happened later in 1863. XD
Had his insinuations gone public the anti-Irish sentiments would have been as bad as the Chinese exclusion acts. An arguement could be made that he was extremely reckless on the same level as Robert Peel. Had he failed many Irish would have suffered horribly just to further the power of the Church.
Hey you know Dresden multiply by two
@@RKNGL Yeah but that's how history goes: sometimes reckless moves work exactly the way they're intended and carefully studied plans fail miserably... Preparation, Initiative and Luck are the three main elements that make a good plan, and, if mixed the right way, the plan becomes infaillible.
Nativists: Get out! We were here first, we're *Natives!*
Native Americans: (looks into the camera like they're in the office)
Well my family has been in north america since 1620, if you can't also trace your genealogy back that far you must not be native.
@@kevinsullivan3448 still doesnt make you a native, just a decendants of immigrants that were there a bit longer.
Genesis23OPB He means native in the same way you would call someone who was born in California a “native Californian” or something like that. He and his family have lived in American territory for centuries, so he has every right to call himself a native of America.
@@carterdc3576 he has a right you say? where is this defined? as long as you are not of actual native american blood, the definition there is very blurry. there are loads of decendants of irish people in the US that were there for 2 centuries and still condider themselves more irish-american instead of "native"
Native dude: **Jim face**
It’s always great to see people in real life who can be heroes while not being morally above such little things as burning city blocks
Sherman did nothing wrong.
Chaotic Good
Stilluetto I mean most “heroes” at least almost all national ones killed people, confiscated things, outright lied etc
Good is not nice.
Insert Christianity joke
The population of Ireland didn't return to pre famine level until... actually it's still much lower than it was before the famine!
We only hit above half of what was there pre famine in the past 50ish years as of 2018 its 4,803,748 compared to the 8 million here before all this happened...the famine is effed up...
With the advent of modern agriculture (which allows more people to flourish than historically), that surprised me! I wonder if Ireland will ever actually recover from that kind of loss.
The damage wasn’t just in how many were killed by the famine but in the culture of immigration it started. The reason (one of) Ireland has never recovered is because there has been a constant stream of immigration. Like even today. In 2008 when the financial crash happened, people fled the country because the economy was so poor. It’s that attitude which keeps Ireland small, not agriculture.
@@graceohanrahan2865 emigration. Immigration is when someone enters the country. Emigration is when someone leaves it. #JustSayin
@@Snafflert Don’t forget that 8 mil figure includes Northern Ireland too, who have 1.85 million people today. The whole of Ireland has about 6.8 million people today. Still less, but almost there
Twas the land lords who drove us from Ireland, the high rents were our prison walls, then the famine came round and blackened the ground and the auctioneers hammers did fall,
Farewell to the ones I adore, and the land I shall see never more, for I'm saying goodbye with a tear in me eye, to the dear little shamrock shore
Author? Neat poem
@@mistyavril6803 The Irish Rovers, part of one of their songs.
@@nicholaspoling9691 The Irish Rovers? Deeeeep! lol! In all seriousness, I've been to Ireland a few times now, and learned some of its history. Where I used to be quite anti-Republican, I am now fully behind the Republican cause. What the Brits did there was brutal and disgusting. And I come from British ancestry.
We Irish have many a song about this dark period of our history. It brings a tear to my eye watching these videos and remembering the awful history of this event. The worst part is it was another 100 years before we we're equal
My Great great grandparents got lucky and immigrated to Boston during the famine. My entire family history was saved by my great great grandparents because they sneaked onto a cargo ship and survived. They were great people
🙏🙏 they were strong
Thank god they survived
Emigrated!
Irish:`does something illegal`
British:"you've just earned yourself a free forever trip to australia"
Irish: "Thanks."
Dude even today Australia is a nightmare to live in where everything wants to kill you and most things can. And this was more than a hundred years ago. This really was a desperation measure.
@@johnaeryns5364 Australia: the worlds biggest middle finger to humanity
@@johnaeryns5364 said like someone who has never been to Australia. Weak as
"WOHOO"
I would like to add that a huge Irish population headed into the Montana region where many would work in the great Anaconda Mine which supplied a huge chunk of the US copper for many decades. There was also a move into the Dakota territories where they made a sizable minority of the populous but not as much as the Scandinavians and Germanic cultures that arrived. And I would say it makes a lot of sense that they would have stayed in those low-cost places having just spent everything to get to the US and yet still very close to family and friends back in Ireland who may very well be completely dependent upon family overseas to survive.
One final observation though is that it would make complete sense to have a quarantine zone as that could have quickly lead to an epidemic. Not perhaps the best temporary situation for the immigrant, but I feel justified after seeing what not having pro-active precautions lead to with the Spanish Flu epidemic.
I wonder if I have a family in Ireland???
well you will have a clan their anyway.
You are correct! In fact, some nicknamed Montana "Nova Hibernia", including the Civil War hero Thomas Francis Meagher, commander of the Union "Irish Brigade", who also became the territorial governor of Montana for a time.
Thanks for the info!
Brilliant information. Thanks
Went to Ireland a few years ago and met some distant relatives. They mentioned the American Wake tradition when the family members would head off to the United States, and how surreal it must have been to know that you weren't going to see your kids or brothers or sisters or whatever again, although this was closer to the 1900s and everyone who went made it to the United States alive. Neat.
My Grandma was telling me about how her mother had an Irish wake but like you said this was after all this. Still I think she only spoke Gaelic and was like 15.
Dang, she was only 15? My ancestors/relatives were at least young adults when they left. Being 15 and going off to a country where you didn't speak the language alone must have been something else.
This reminds me a little of my Japanese relatives. My grandma was one of ten with a single mom (no joke), and while she had some communication with her family, she faced so much racism as she immigrated right after WWII and she had a lot of trouble speaking English.
@@DragoniteSpam 15 was considered a young adult back then.
How times have changed
That is one bad ass bishop.
I also was told some Irish immigrants went to Mexico to fight along side them. They became the San Patricios.
I heard the Irish fought the KKK
@@marloyorkrodriguez9975 The KKK fought the Irish - big difference
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
And that's why it's important to learn world history.
@@Tiosh Yeah because we don't learn from history. That's the point she was making.
Did you attend Western Kentucky University? I had an instructor that would say that every class.
"Nativist" they called themselves. Oh the irony.
Yes the Brazilians were the real American natives
They were American Natives
@@Mypromiselive almost as funny as the idea that this land belongs to you.
@Andrew Gray I mean, sure, but those people then turned around and abused actual Native Americans.
If your born somewhere, that makes you a native. Sorry
That... is surpringsily similar to what "Gangs of New York" reflected. Huh. Curious. I always took it as far less historical accurate than that.
Nooooope. Gangs of new york was very well researched and hilariously accurate.
got a nickel?
The Dead Rabbits are one of the central gangs in the movie, as well.
The primary inaccuracy in that movie is the time period. All this happened well before the Civil War, but they wanted the Irish-Nativist riots to coincide with the Civil War draft riots in the movie.
@@TempvsMortis thank you pointing that out!
8:35 Video: 'In New York, the Irish had a champion who would fight for them!'
Me: 'Leo Dicapri….'
Video: 'John Joseph Hughes'
Me: 'Oh...'
When I visited Ireland two years ago, I visited Kilmainham Gaol, a big prison in Dublin. There, they said that during the Great Potato Famine, the prison was overpopulated, because peoples steal food or choose to do some petty crimes to be imprisoned, as in prison, you will not starve to death. The youngest prisoner was seven years old.
"The neighbors shake their hands and kiss them"
"...tomorrow they may as well be in their graves..."
C'mon, I thought it was going to be a happy video
A happy video with the word "wake" in the title?
Title: *IRISH POTATO FAMINE*
when have the Irish ever had a happy ending?
@@seancampbell6292 Does the old ballad " Polly Vaughn " kinda count..? czcams.com/video/DeWoxVfqcIg/video.html
@Herdan
He ended up getting a sudden dose of iron, followed by a quick drop in blood pressure and heart rate before he had a chance to consolidate his rule, resulting in the Kingdom of Ireland fracturing.
I'm the only one laughing at the faces that the bishop made when threatening the mayor?
"Boi, look, don't mess with Jesus >.>"
"I'm not threatening you, I'm saving you. From myself."
"If you guys so much as _touch_ our churches, the biggest city on the continent is gonna be a pile of ashes."
Dang. John Joseph Hughes was pretty hardcore for a priest. (And he was from Ulster, too!)
Timothy McLean he was a Tyrone man so he was
My family has a big streak of pride in being Scots-Irish. My ancestors were doctors and teachers in New England and fought on the union side of the Civil War before moving out west... Now I wonder if those same highly educated ancestors might have been part of the persecution of the 1840s Irish immigrants... It's a humbling thought. Thanks so much for these series. They help satiate my inner history nerd, and now have made me aware of an uncomfortable possibility of the nature of my family's history.
It's all water under the bridge. There's virtually no genetic difference between us. And we're culturally very similar as well. The Scots-Irish were Gaelic too if you go back far enough. No more brother wars.
Hi I was actually born in Scotland, my mum was born in county Cork and my dad was born on Islay (where all the whisky comes from.) Both my parents grew up around native Gaelic speakers and my Dad speaks the language quite fluently. I’m conversational at best. My genes are 96% Celtic Hebridean and 4% Norwegian. My family own a property and land on both the Isle of Skye and the Isle of Mull. I can trace the title deeds for the land on Mull (within my family) to before America was even discovered.
All that being said and having literally been in New York this week for work, the week of Saint Patrick’s day (*Not* Pat or Paddy, Patrick 🤦🏻♂️) I think I speak for all non Americans when I say; You aren’t Scottish or Irish, you’re American.
Please stop claiming a heritage you’re so removed from you have no frame of reference for the culture it’s embarrassing and disrespectful.
It truly is cringe inducing to hear full grown adults essentially invent fantasy backstories for themselves. You are literally the only country I’ve ever been to who do this and it’s really weird please stop.
@@fioredeutchmark Have you never met a Canadian, Aussie, or Israeli? Cause all of them talk about their heritages, too. And we can’t call ourselves f****** “American”, it’s a continent. 🙄
@@fioredeutchmark Thanks for gatekeeping a culture and speaking for millions of people!
@@TheBLGL keep the language alive in your family
Liam Neeson's character in Gangs of New York was loosely based on John Joseph Hughes..
He wielded an *Irish cross* as his weapon
I love that they used the old-school Canadian and Australian flags.
Yeah but sadly they do not use the United States flag at the time early so I don’t think they do
I do wish to use the flag of America had in that time
If you arrive in 1861 - 65 you can be immediately offered a job position as a private in the Union army : p
... results may vary.
Seth Woll many Irish joined the confederacy
We'll Fight For Uncle Sam!
@@chaosXP3RT There were huge anti-draft riots by the new Irish immigrants, especially in NYC and Boston.
One ship that was used during the Irish potato famine was the Jeanie Johnston it used to be a lumber ship but became famous for everyone be healthy and alive on the ship. In its 16 years of being a passenger ship 3,000 came in and 3,001 came out. Since it was so successful many Irish people wanted to go on it. They also stayed healthy because there was a doctor on board who would make sure everyone was healthy and went on deck 2x a day to make sure they could clean their blankets and waste. Since they could go on deck, they always knew what time it was.
It's sad, when humanity forgets its history, because when we no longer remember our roots, our truimphs and our mistakes, we then have to cross those obstacles, which we jumped over before...
):
I’m pretty sure humanity knows its history, but just not the history of other regions and cultures.
(I.e. European and American history is priority in the states, while this isn’t the case for places like China or India, they learn their history).
But did we ever jump over immigration issues, I doubt it.
Agreed. 7:03 - 7:13 Makes me wonder if there will be a video series on the 19th century era of dismally "Scientific" hubris, given that it was, and continues to be a pervasive and particularly destructive variety of hubris. "It can't happen here/now-days" is a mistake we couldn't afford then, and still can't afford now.
As the saying goes, "There's nothing new under the sun." People have always and will continue to value themselves, their family, and their culture over those of others. In a way, it's good, as it helps preserve cultures and familial bonds. On the other hand...well, you watched the video. It's just something we need to be aware of so we can keep the good elements and reject the bad.
I can guarantee you, not a single Irish soul to this day has forgotten what happened during the famine.
The back breaking hard labour the Irish immigrants in the USA and UK did is seriously under valued and understudied. Considering they basically built the UK infrastructure from the ground up with little thanks.
I cry laughing every time I see 3:19's frame. The sheer terror on that officer's face is priceless.
5:35 I love this map, rarely do we get a glimpse of North America in the 1800s except for like the civil war.
That opening nearly made me cry. Extremely well written and delivered.
Here in Canada many of the Irish immigrants found shelter with sympathetic French Catholics, though they ended up assimilating into cities like Montreal. Meanwhile moved to more rugged east-coast settlements like Newfoundland, where half of my family is from and the influence of the Irish culture there is obvious.
9:40 "If ONE catholic church is touched... Well... We are prepared to burn New York to the ground."
Intimidation 101.
@@wikiuser92 Destruction 100
Speech 100 *Success*
*catholic
@@melonheadthecherrybomb5886 Baptist?
3:14 that is actually darkly funny. "I am so hungry I will beat the shit out of you so you kick me out of here."
I read a very interesting book in school called “Under the Hawthorn Tree”. It was really insightful into the lives of people during the famine
I’m definitely looking up the book, thank!😊
What makes this channel so great is its finally a history channel that does more than wars and violence, and actually allows me to learn more about history than just war.
This episode make me think of the movie “Gangs of New York”
There's a reason for that lol
Tea thats cuz it's based on the working class gang wars between the Irish Catholics and protastants fighting for religious/cultural/political and working rights of the poor District streets of New York and well lol there Irish
I'm sitting on my bed in Galway, hearing one of the best retellings of my culture's greatest woe. Thank you for the great work you have done on this and all of your otter series
At 8:02. I live a few blocks from the notorious Five Points, which is today deep in the non-touristy part of Chinatown, close to the huge courthouse complex in downtown Manhattan. I'm glad you guys got an actual accurate map of my neighborhood. That's pretty cool!
3:55
yeah all that red hair in Liverpool must have came from somewhere
We of the Irish diaspora will never forget what occurred to us. But we shan't become the persecutors of other groups. Rather, we should be some of the first to respond in times of crises for other groups. Anyone who wants to come to the states is welcome in my book, so long as their intentions are pure.
Kuma Sama preach, bother
This is a great series to transition into the story of the Irish Brigade in the American Civil War
ethan hatcher , that war changed the perception on how USAmericans viewed the Irish: before the war they were seen as a foreign burden living next to crime with a pledge to a foreign leader (the Pope). After the war, they were seen as law-enforcing fellow Americans as they were alligned with the Union (the stereotype of the donut-eating cop was born).
I love the Irish civil war songs about it. David Kincaid's music is nice.
What about the San Patricio’s
@@markcruz5489 that would be a good one too
@@carlosalbertofernandezvele7574 don't forget the confederate irish brigade witch defeated the union irish brigade.
My Grandfather's parents were lucky, they make to to the Midwest, despite being roman catholic. They fled in the late 1800's from County Sligo.
That opening... I was not ready for all those feels
The Scots-Irish were not Irish as we think of them today. They were protestant immigrants to Ireland from Scotland and northern England.
Traitors
They were anti Irish
I LOOOOOOOVE the outromusic of this!
This is my favourite one for sure
I am a bit mad that when the map from Ireland to Canada at 4:04 it did not have the island of Newfoundland, I feel a bit hurt about my homeland missing
I feel like the bishop had a lot of planning done, just walk in, threaten the mayor and say he will burn everything in holy fire, and walk out
Shannymuffin hw did
Aww yeah, I have been waiting so long for this
John Joseph Hughes was one of the founders of my university, and he was kind of a badass. His nickname was 'Dagger John' because he signed his name with a cross before it, and also because of his badassery.
Video on Puerto Rican history, it's relationship with Spain and the USA, and the diversity of the island?
9:46 when you give your younger sibling a warning about putting legos on the floor as a prank
Please do the haitian revolution next
That would be so cool!
Yesss extra history goals
Would be cool, because it was a violent neuanced revolution
Yup. Before Muslim ban there was Catholic ban.
Didnt go way until after more than a century. Hell there are still protestants who absolutely hate Catholics. The aspect of irish representation was pretty huge with JFK appointment into power.
My great grandparents made the trip during the famine. Now it's a tradition that each successive generation make a "pilgrimage" of sorts back to the town outside of Cork where they originally lived. My grandmother, my mom, have both gone. My sister and I are currently saving up to go as well :] at least something good came of their suffering. Through all the hardship, and the straight up evil of British overlords my ancestors managed to make a better life. Top 'o da fucking mornin' to yeee!!!
I hope you find a good welcome when you come! All the best
As an Irishman, I'm glad you still have the connection to here. Hopefully you love your time here when you get here. One word though: people don't say top of the morning. It's almost seen as offensive here. Still, have fun.
*"When the going gets tough; **_The Tough GET GOING!"_* 👍
Descendent of Irish from Cork who left to Canada 10 years before famine.
Me too
cool , im from cork
I love the fact that the Intro is so cheerful, but the content...
2:47 So, a fancy way of saying exile.
‘Michael, they have taken you away,
For you stole Trevelyan's corn,
So the young might see the morn
Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay’ - The Fields of Athenry
6:36 - Oh high Bill the Butcher.
8:35 - Oh high Priest Vallon.
thanks extra credits for making my sat afternoon with sad stories like these. you haven't disappointed me ever since i subscribed to you. hope you this ritual of sat afternoon uploads forever
This series got me wondering about my own family tree, and if any of my irish ancestors came over because of the famine. I have an ancestor, with a marriage record in 1840, and a census in 1855 from NY. So its possible that one of my ancestors actually came over because of this famine. Interesting to see it connect home like that.
4:52 they just look like there goes another one...
Irish immigrants situations remind me of something we have today...
Irish people. It's Irish people isn't it?
@Sammy Foley Maybe it has something to do with the legality of our current migrants? Hmmmmm
@Sammy Foley As far as they come legally and work hard *NOT CAUSING PROBLEMS* it's fine.
@@TheSunderingSea You think the Irish were all legal immigrants? You think they crossed Canada in a calm and orderly fashion? The only difference this time is the distance between our nations, and the color of their skin.
Sakurako Oomuro just stating that the Irish that came in from Canada more than likely didn’t have documentation. Just stating that observation from the video not taking a side.
1848 was when my patrilineal great-great grandfather came from Ireland. He married, had children and was able to bring his widower father over a few years later. On my mother's father's side of the family, her grandfather was disowned by his Irish Protestant family for marrying an Irish Catholic.
This is truly fantastic lads! I really hope you will eventually get to the Irish in the American Civil War before this series ends!
Gangs of New York
No se si haya otro comentario en español, realmente no me importa, quiero darles una felicitación por este episodio, por lo conmovedor y desde lo más profundo de mi corazón les digo que me ha llegado hasta el alma, alguien se preguntara ¿Porque? Pues, yo soy venezolano, soy un inmigrante en Perú y salí de mi país debido a todo el cataclismo político-social que se vive en Venezuela, y como en este episodio puedo entender el dolor de cualquier persona que ha tenido que salir de su país, de su pueblo, alejándose de todo lo que ha conocido solo para poder conseguir un futuro mejor, ver personas casi muertas de hambre o ver como tu familia y tú bajas hasta 20kilos en meses por la falta de alimentos debido a las terribles políticas económicas de un grupo de políticos que no tienen sentimientos ni entienden del sufrimiento de las personas, este episodio me hizo llorar por su realismo y su cercanía a cualquiera que haya pasado por eso. Gracias por expresarlo, en nombre de las personas que hemos pasado por el dolor de esa pérdida de un hogar por la hambruna de su país.
Interesting thing about mortality on route to Canada. Many Quebois have Irish names, because French families adopted Irish orphans.
I think that your history videos might be the best series. It certainly opened my eyes.
9:37 Most savage archbishop I've ever heard of.
Neighbors, paying their respects: "F"
F
Medium D Speaks lmao
Press F to say goodbye
f
F
i'm really liking this particular series, @ExtraCredits your work is amazing
As someone moving out of a parent's home currently, the opening... wow... the opening... my feels!
You might have mentioned Archbishop Hughes' nickname, 'Dagger John'! He was a total bad ass!
Ireland: Sails to America
Ireland: ITS A WHOLE NEW WORLD!
oh its whole new world alright ..... a new world of pain
@@legionarylion1794 I can't stop laughing at this comment, it's sounds something like out of a movie. X'''D
Cause there are noooo cats in America, and the streets are made of ccheeeese!!!
I sang that to the tune of the Aladdin song.
@@whattheheckamidoinghere4305 because it is, its a parody but it is out of a movie
THIS CHANNEL SHOULD HAVE MORE SUBS!
yes people...I have subscribed
Thank you for creating this. It was very well done and helped me understand better my ancestry.
About conspiracy theory about Catholics.
That ended up a thorn point for Al Smith (1928) and JFK (1960) during the election.
Proud Canadian of Irish descent from Quebec.
Love this serie. Thanks for making it.
love how this episode touches a bit of the history covered in one of my favorite movies Gangs of New York it was nice to hear the real life equivalent
Awesome work....
Best way to learn history.
I literally just finished the third episode, refresh the channel page and this one is out
You should talk about how the Irish language almost completely died out due it mostly being used in the worst affected areas in the west.
also, anyone else from Cork here?
before my family came to the us we were... does that count?
@@jimmyjohnson8233 sure why not :)
I enjoyed learning about my history. Thank you sir!
Great video keep up the great work
Such an interesting story
It's interesting (and in this case depressing) to see how history does indeed repeat itself.
@Reg Eric No, but it is worth mentioning for those that don't know their history.
This series is awesome
I really liked this episode. Its nice to learn about history of the country from which your ancestors came (among other countries)
3:05 the history of my family.
9:43 bishop going hard!!!! THUG LIFE....
The Hate U Give Little Infants Fux Everybody
THis so far has been my favorite series of Extra History.
FINALLY!!! I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS!! THANKS!!!!!!
edit me: *starts hearing ending music*
me: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I legit cried at the end of the last video on this series. I mean what it takes for to be a man, a prime minister, who won't help the literally starving people, just in order not to make your morning tea's price a two pennies higher?! I mean yes, it is a simplified view of that question, but still, to have no heart so much that you actually make someone starving starve even faster........I don't know man. And it sounds like nobody, literally nobody, in English (yes English, not a British, English) parliament didn't cared for a starving people not a single bit! One must be really crazy just to understand their thinking, not to mention what it takes to practice it. Unfortunately, it seems that majority of the politicians think like that in any time in history. I mean just........may the God help for never like this to happen again, anywhere and to anyone.
P.S. Bravo for the choosing of the outro music. It really completes this series. And bravo for idea for this series at all. People really need to know about things like this.
Steva Stevanovic is a good day for you
The world was cruel then. People only looked out for their own kind. Whatever that may be.
@@s.hudson7524 • The World was cruel back then and it still is now. If you truthfully and completely think and believe that everyone and/or everything, including humans, have changed overall and in its entirety, then you and everyone else, are just as naively idealistic as they were and still are as of now.
Many of the Scots-Irish themselves were descended from Gaels. We are all one people. No more brother wars.
I love you guys so much keep doing what your doing
I find this topic very interesting. My 3x great grandparents and their four children (including my 2x great grandfather) immigrated to Australia due to the famine. They all arrived in Australia in 1852. I don't know a lot about them, but this video makes me think they must have had a bit of money for all six of them to buy passage. Paul Kelly is also descended from them, I met him and his children at our families 150-year family reunion.