Doolough Tragedy (Irish Famine Victims’ Walk of Death)
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- čas přidán 2. 10. 2020
- The Doolough Tragedy is one of the most heart wrenching episodes in Irish history. Even by the standards of the Great Famine - the events at Doolough were particularly horrifying.
They resulted in the deaths of untold numbers of starving people who were treated with callous indifference by the very officials who were supposed to be helping them.
The tragedy happened in 1849 when Ireland’s poor were enduring their fourth year of hunger due to the loss of the potato crop and the failure of the government to provide adequate help.
Workhouses and government schemes were providing some relief, but it wasn’t nearly enough. To make things even more difficult for the starving, they had to submit themselves to inspection by government officials to prove that they really were destitute before they could qualify for the limited help available.
On March the 30th, 1849, two officials were due to assess the destitute people of Louisburgh in County Mayo. For reasons that that have never been fully uncovered, the meeting did not take place. Instead, the two officials made their way to spend the night at Delphi Lodge, 12 miles away.
The starving were told to report there for inspection at 7 o’clock the next morning or they would be struck off the list and get no support. That meant they were obliged to walk through the night through the bitter March weather to be there on time. It would be a challenging 12-mile walk for the healthy and fully fit, but for people already weakened and debilitated by years of starvation, it was virtually impossible.
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I’m from Co. Mayo and I never heard of this😢😢😢😢. They keep insisting it was a Famine but it was a Holocaust and the bastards never paid for it😡😡
Same
@Caroline Do you know what part of Mayo your relatives came from?
I'm from Co. Mayo myself wee town on the coast, I've never heard of this before and my town is only a small drive to Loughborough
@@trish3321 I didn’t either😢. I know mayo was very badly hit! These poor people were denied a decent burial and the church turned turned their back on them😢 in fact none of the holocaust victims were were given a decent burial😢.
The disgusting thing is a lot of the "officials" were Irish !!
Very heart breaking to hear this story. i also read that the government sold potatoes to other countries while the Irish starved. My grandparents were living at that time. I hate the thoughts of them being hungry .
😟 So heart broken for my ancestors...💔
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OMG, my heart aches for those poor soles. I have relatives from Ireland, I can't imagine what they had to endure. But what's upsetting to me is no one was held accountable for this. Even today, there should be some way for the country involved in this horrible act to make amends.
I’ve never heard this story!😱 Its just terrible what my ancestors went through😢 and to this very day none of them ever got real justice. Most Irish people don’t realise the extent to which they suffered. The gov really did a number all these years, covering up the atrocities that happened. The so-called famine needs to be officially acknowledged as a genocide!
The Irish and her Diaspora have and continue to deal with their tortured history. Other Irish people wherever they don't want to deal with it because it's still too painful. In many ways, it's a very tragic history despite her amazing beauty.
it was indeed a genocide!
politicians don't want the public asking questions, they dont want them to know this was a well planned genocide because it would turn the country upside down
I'm British, and I have to say, the longer I live, the less I like my own country. The Irish are right to say this WASN'T 'The Potato Famine'. Yes, the potato blight wiped out the crop, but not a single person need have died as a result, because at the time, Ireland was growing twice as much food as it needed to feed its people - but most of it was going to Britain. One pretty sickening fact: a Turkish Sultan wanted to give Ireland £10,000, but the British Ambassador asked him not to, and why? Because Queen Victoria had only given £2,000, so the Sultan's gift would 'make her look bad'. So instead, he sent a ship full of food to Ireland, and the crew unloaded it secretly, under cover of darkness, just so as not to embarrass the Queen.
Charles Trevelyan, the British politician in charge of famine relief, actually ordered a grain ship bound for Ireland to turn back, and why? He thought the Famine was God's way of 'teaching the Irish a lesson' and he didn't want to interfere with God's work. Unbelievable, but true.
The Choctaw Nation, thousands of miles away, cared far more about the suffering of the Irish people than we Brits did - they donated what today would be over $6,000, when they were virtually penniless themselves. No, I'm not proud to be British.
I'll never wrap my head around how indifferent and cruel the Parliamentary English were in the 1800s.
It was GENOCIDE but don’t think it won’t happen again😢😢😢😢
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This was an excellent program. I learned of this tragedy from the A&E special (now on CZcams) about the Irish famine. (Long program but excellent historical). Must get back to reading more books about Ireland, the land that I long to see one day, but must settle for vicarious travel.. God bless the Irish people.
I never knew of this horror, it was never taught when I was at school.I remember in history lessons hearing of starving people dying at the side of the road & people being too weak & ill to bury them, mothers lay dead with children still clinging on to them.The utter inhumanity of these officials is sickening to me tears are falling as I write this.
Genocide through starvation. Crimes against humanity.
The great brittish empire . Showing you how history will never forget. And irelend.
My Family .....Crying
No horses in the USA 🇺🇸 race I’m Scottish with an Irish ☘️ mother thank God 4 Biden bc he won’t do business with the English if the try & put a border up . C Mayo is were my mum came from & my ancestors died during that walk the genocide. Yes indeed your ancestor made it hence us having the Irish ☘️ in the W house . You will life 2 see Eire as one
@@carolinelees8561 why politics? this is human tragedy
The more I read about the Irish Famine and the atrocities caused by our gentry of the time the more ashamed I am to be English. The sad thing is that this is not taught in schools and should be just to prove how inadequate Governments can be. My thoughts are with those who perished along the way and may they rest in peace.
The British Empire is really the most evil empire in the history of mankind. The death toll by starvation in famines caused or worsened by Britain in Ireland, India, and other parts of the colonial empire surpases both the death toll by famine in the Soviet Union and Mao's Chinas.
God Bless whoever this person was who took the time to write that article 😢😢😢
But there were record crops of barley and beef being exported !
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1:00 oh look that's where I live louisburgh
terrible. As usual the masters don't give a damn
My heart breaks for them 😪😪