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- Irish Potato Famine - The Young and the Old - Extra History - #5
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Daniel O Connel is heavily praised today. One of the main streets of Dublin, where |The Spire resides, is called O'Connell Street and a major statue of him stands on that street. He also has the largest grave in Ireland
Yep, it even has a round tower built over it as a memorial
He was a major driving force in the UK parliament who advocated for the abolition of slavery in the colonies as well as campaigning for Catholic emancipation .. the great great grandfather of the human rights movement.
Daniel was a good man. It’s a pity we didn’t have more of him.
It's very important to note that Daniel O'Connell invited Frederick Douglass to Ireland. Douglass spoke to the Irish people and then O'Connell told people who were migrating to America to show solidarity with Black Americans.
Good video man, and fair play to you for broadening your horizons and delving into Irish history. Shame the video didn't acknowledge what the Choctaw tribe of Native Americans did for us during this time. A decade after the Trail of Tears, displaced from their birth homes, subjugated and having lost a significant amount of their population, they came together to send what they could to the suffering Irish population. They had nothing, but gave what they could. Kindred Spirits, and Ireland will never forget.
Honestly some of the true heroes of that terrible time, the Native Americans (especially the Choctaw nation) helped us when we needed it most, despite having next to nothing
This was touched on in a previous video, although it should have given credit to specific tribes instead of saying just Native Americans.
Britain donated £8million directly to the irish.
Frederick Douglas came to Ireland as Daniel O'Connell's guest
Oi! Lad... I’m an Irish transplant living in the USA and I’m an Irish Catholic.... this is the first channel that I have found that is doing anything to understand what the Irish people have gone through to survive the Potato Famine and the religious persecution and fighting to have all of Ireland ruled and controlled by the Irish...So to you Lad I say Thank You and keep up the good work
so you just gonna send the unionists to england? lol
Unionists are welcome to live in a United Ireland that's brought about through the consent of the people of Northern Ireland. No one wants to kick them out. It's a lot fairer than how the UK treated Ireland.
Our revenge will be the laughter of our children. - Bobby Sands
@@AM-xh9iq the issue is that you have to do it democratically in NI which is unlikely. Although Brexit may have changed that.
To all who responded to my message thank you I couldn’t have said it better myself, growing up I remember seeing so many of my family and friends dying and not understanding why... then I witnessed the turmoil in Belfast first hand during the Hunger Strike and then Bobby passed away and every Irish citizens life was forever changed. I personally don’t care if you are Catholic or Protestant , first and foremost you are IRISH and we need to treat each other as such, only then will we have a truly United Ireland 🇮🇪
@@JudenPeterson186 oh I agree, and brexit really put the bull among the china.
But it must be done democratically, violence has tried and failed to everyones detriment.
As a londoner I probably more politically aligned with the irish than I am with the rest of the UK and you bombed us. but here we are.
I would rather London was part of Ireland than part of the UK and In the EU.
Ireland gives more per person to charity than any country in the world
The Easter Rising is absolutely fascinating - I highly recommend you react to it on here :)
The video mentions “Turkey” and you’re right that it was The Ottoman Empire. Sadly, the Sultan tried to make a personal donation to the Irish and the British government rejected his money because it was a higher donation than Queen Victoria had given, and they didn’t want to embarrass her. The Irish today despise The Famine Queen, who did so little to help people she claimed to be the rightful ruler of
The British govt donated £8 million directly to the irish.
Set up a works program that employed 144k irish people which in turn supported 800k irish people.
Set up cost price food shops for the poorest .
Soup kitchens that fed millions.
Repealed tax laws making food cheaper.
Multiple brit charities also aided.
Nearly a million irish people fled to Britain to be cared for.
Unfortunately bringing with them a Typhus epidemic which killed thousands of British people.
Britain helped Ireland during the famine more than the entire planet combined.
Actually, there is very little evidence that the Sultan tried to give a massive donation (usually said to be 10,000 pounds or so). He gave 1,000, which was the highest accepted individual donation for the reasons you stated. He knew this before he ever tried to give money, and to his credit he also sent food.
There is nothing to explain about that “Turkey” comment, western accounts have always called Ottoman Empire Turks and Turkey out of laziness.
Yup, calling the Ottoman Empire as Turkey, is similar to calling the USSR as Russia or calling the British Empire as England.
You were wondering about the legacy of the guy you compared to Belgium's Leopold II. As a British/Irish guy born and (mainly) raised in England by Irish and English parents, the English don't remember the guy who got knighted at all. They don't even teach this history in schools and there is no popular knowledge of these events.
The only places in the UK where you're likely to find people familiar with this history would be Northern Ireland or specific cities with religious and ethnic conflict that breaks out still on important days and sporting events, like Glasgow in Scotland or Liverpool in England.
The current government has just this month passed laws against teaching "victim narratives" against the history of Empire so future generations will probably be even more ignorant, somehow.
They should teach "survivor narratives" then because the Irish are strong, resilient, and survivors! This is history that needs not be forgotten! Éire go deo!
Yeah luckily the Blight just disappeared. Thank god it did because the British overlords did jack shit to stop it
How is O'Connel seen by the Irish? Very similar to our version of Abraham Lincoln.
How is he seen by the British? Daniel O' Who??
How is Trevelyan seen by the Irish? Well to quote a very popular old song sung by Irish soccer supporters in support of our national team "so I stole Trevelyans corn, so the young might see the morn(ing)" Fields of Athenry. So about as bad as African Americans who know their history view John Calhoon
Great series, I learned a lot. And I'm an Irish American who's ancestors showed up in the states during the famine.
Thanks for doing a reaction for this subject Devon, I don't think I would have watched the original videos without your content. Ireland is pretty fascinating.
I hope you are doing good Devon, CZcams shouldn't be taken serious like that. You make great content and entertain thousands, so don't bother about the few negative comments in between. We don't want you to end like some youtubers that stops or take a break from the hate. Maybe it doesn't bother you, but just know your regulars watchers enjoy your content a lot and I'm sure many people feel uplifted when watching your vids, so keep up the good work my man! :)
Well said
One important element seems to have been left out of this documentary. It's the continued exportation of huge quantities of Irish food of every type (except potatoes) to England & the US while the Irish starved, literally to death. This operation was carried out under the guns of the Britsh military.T
The Ottomans were a ruling Turkish dynasty, like the Ming Dynasty in China, Bourbons in France or Tudors in England. The Ottomans ruled for the entire duration of the empire and so the name is synonymous with Turkish Empire.
Thanks for the video Devon. You're trying to educate yourself about something you don't know and you're taking a genuine interest. That's *always* a good thing. Ignore the haters ✌
The problem with soup kitchens was that in order to get a bowl of soup you had to give up your Catholic faith so many poor Catholic Irish didn’t use them. The Quakers were an exception and did a lot of good work, when they were allowed to.
Side note on Daniel oconnel, he pulled alot of women. The expression became you couldn't throw a stone over a wall in Dublin without hitting one of his children
"Pray daily for peace, and keep your gunpowder dry." John Brown
O Connell was a major figure at the time and is name checked in the foreword to Frederick Douglas's 'An American Slave.'
I am English but what the British have done in the past is disgraceful
For real? England was the driving force behind the murderous British Empire, just like today. There is a reckoning coming for England as the ugliness and brutality of the Empire becomes more well known in their under educated population. The debate is beginning around British involvement in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, we have this discussion on Anglo-Irish relations, more to come on further atrocities in Africa, India, Pakistan, the Caribbean, China, the Middle East and on and on. The world would be a better place today if the Spanish Armada had conquered perfidious Albion in 1588.
There as bad today just hide it through puppet media same as vile usa foreign policy
Your comment just made me burst into tears! Thank you so very much for that. It means so very much to me. We never got an official apology from the UK. I’m so very glad someone from the UK can see things as they really were. If we had more of this, there would be a lot more healing and forgiveness for everyone, on both sides. Thank you. You’ll never know how much that means to me personally. 🌺
@@nigelosullivan3984 Give the man a break. He’s agreeing with what’s been said. He didn’t personally do anything to anyone. He at least can see what happened and agrees it was terrible and wrong.
And now ireland is ranked 3rd wealthiest country in europe and the most generous......x
The Easter Rising was an Irish rebellion that while failed ultimately led to Irish independence. The leaders of this rebellion were very liberal for the time (you should read the 'Irish proclamation' to get a picture of their ideals, its just one page) unfortunately because the rebellion failed all the leaders of this movement were executed by the British Government. This meant that when Ireland achieved independence it was led by a controversial figure named Eamon de Valera. An Irish America who's sense of Irishness was strongly related to Catholicism. He created a Catholic theocracy rather than a liberal Ireland for all as envisioned by the original leaders. This led to another oppressive force in Ireland. One that we have only broken away from in the last 20/30 years.
The Rising was a pebble thrown into a big pond and its ripples spread accross the globe and eventually led to the disintegration of the British Empire.
FWIW.
After the somewhat successful Irish War of Independence (1919-1921), a Treaty between the UK and the Irish fundamentally screwed the wants of the Irish - Partition, Dominion (STILL a Colony), a British Governor, NO Independent Foreign Service, an Oath of Allegiance to the British Monarchy - was accepted by some of the Irish and opposed by others. DeValera lead those opposed to the Treaty. After months of tension, and under pressure from the British, the pro Treaty forces began a Civil War. DeValera lost and the Pro Treaty forces began the whole Catholic Church dominated, Conservative and NO Social programme.
DeValera won the election in the early 30s and dominated Irish politics for the next 30 years. He wasn't as Socially Conservative as the original Pro Treaty government, he did get the blame for the Socially Conservative place Ireland became!
To answer your question: Daniel O’Connell will forever be a hero to the Irish. One of (to some the) greatest Irishman in modern times (after Connor McGreggor of course, 😆)
The Irish also had deep connections to the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa, with more than a few traveling to fight alongside Nelson Mandela (viewed as a fellow travel, we have murals painted of him in Belfast). We oppose oppression wholeheartedly, regardless of who’s being oppressed.
The Irish give back to the Native Americans for their support during the famine whenever they can, either through donations or through statue dedicated to them.
21:40 Ireland never recovered from it. Even today, as you saw I'm the geography now video on Ireland, the population is less (6M) than it was before the famine (8M).
If the famine hadn't happened, according to an Irish historian, Ireland would now have 16 M habitants.
There's still a fierce debate among Ireland historians whether that famine was a true genocide or not. Someone I know did her thesis on this and she said it was one.
Watch the film Michael Collins if you want to know about Easter rising .. It's cool to see you interested in Irish history!
Great channel. Greetings from England.
Scotland also went through a similar experience with a potato famine, with many dying and emigrating, but one big difference is that the UK government was more proactive in dealing with it here than in Ireland. Nonetheless many landowners were in huge debt as in ireland and forced tenant farmers to be removed to make way for livestock as it gained them more income and kick started the clearances. The ruling class sti8ll looked upon scots as inferior as they did with the irish James Hunter quotes a contemporary Lowland newspaper: ‘Ethnologically the Celtic race is an inferior one and, attempt to disguise it as we may, there is ... no getting rid of the great cosmical fact that it is destined to give way ... before the higher capabilities of the Anglo-Saxon.' Trevelyan thought of himself as a reformed Celt
I never knew that. But then that divides me, because I'm mostly English but have Scottish ancestry (Clan Campbell .>). I wonder who still holds views like that.
@@MzyraJ ah clan campbell not the most popular clan in scotland
@@albaelf8481 maybe that's why my great/great-great-grandmother had to marry an englishman, lol 😅
Meh don't entirely buy that. What happened in Ireland was genocide. Scotland suffered from the potato blight as much as the rest of Europe. Anglo Saxons may have thought Scots inferior, but the Irish were treated as a subspecies. Ireland was seen as a place for absentee lanslords to raise crops, native Irish were trated like slaves in all but name.
Scotland (being Protestant, and all in with Empire building) benefitted greatly from industrialisation, education, etc, P.S. is there any way you could take back your "Ulster Scots" from the North of Ireland thanks.
@@davidhuff5676 we wont take back ulster scots as the scots initially came from the north of ireland in the first place
To your question about the ottoman empire. The Europeans always called it the Turkish empire the reason why it's called ottoman is because of the Family who was ruling the empire, the Term Ottoman comes from the turkish tribal leader Osman the first , he started the empire there is no ehtnicity called "Ottoman" it's just the family Name
Interesting fact about the famine, the Sultan was far more generous than Queen Victoria in his iniital offer of aid, to the extent that British diplomats had to talk him down to a smaller sum of charity than she had donated. Unsatisfied with this, he then had several ships illegally smuggle food aid into Ireland.
As you said, India was inconveniently distant for ease of domination..Ireland is just way too handy. It's only a12 mile boat ride from England to Ireland at the nearest point.
The Irish on January 30th 1972 in Derry city had a civil rights march, peaceful protesters but the British army at 4.10 PM that day opened fire,21 British soldiers fired 108 live rounds into the crowded streets murdering 15 people.🇮🇪☘freedom is for everyone every race every religion✊
Bloody Sunday. Maybe he should do a video about Bloody Sunday if he continues with Irish history.
I dont think I've ever heard any ignorant comments from you, as a Scottish decendant from the "great hunger" it was interesting to listen to your take on this.
Turkey and others wanted to give lots more, but the Queen blocked them as to not make her own donation look bad. There is an Irish County football team that wears a Turkish crest to this day in honour of their charity.
Which one
@@BelcarrigFarm Drogheda I think.
@@twalker76jspk I'm confused drogheda isn't a county
@@BelcarrigFarm sorry, town.
Love the video man👍🇮🇪☘
You should do a video on Frederick Douglass, he was pals with Daniel O Connell and he was a former slave who came to Ireland to preach on the abolition of slavery.
18:08 oh yeah 1848 ! The second wave of Europe wide protests and revolution (an European spring you might say ). Fun fact : It was France's third revolution since 1789. So much for *the* French revolution that was actually just the first one
4:10 just a mention, at 1833 Britain abolished slavery across the British empire, (abolished in England in 1083). Though the British were neglectful of the people they governed, they did ALOT to end slavery world wide
That ending where the ahole politician gets a baronet reminds me of another Extra History series on the 'South Sea Bubble' - really interesting economic shenanigans history that has its parallels in the recent economic troubles in the 2000s/2010s
Walpole that smooth bastard.
At this time the prime minister was the most important person in britain but the monarch still had a lot of power and influence
In Britain, their history with Ireland is ignored. The vast majority of British people are unaware of who O’Connell was.
You WILL react to whatever you choose to!!! You hear me??
Daniel Ó Connell was opposing American slavery. There wasn’t really slavery of Africans in Ireland. Aside from the fact it wasn’t lawful, the vast majority of Irish people would have been too poor to afford slaves even if they wanted to, which they didn’t. There was strong anti slavery sentiment in Ireland in the 18th and 19th centuries, especially in Ulster. Look up Mary Ann McCracken. There were those who benefited from American slavery by selling food or shoes to plantations or working on ships but there weren’t really any slaves in Ireland. Frederick Douglas visited Ireland and said it was the first time he was treated as an equal by people with white skin and was welcomed with open arms into churches. He noted the difference between Irish and the Irish Americans. The former stood in solidarity, the latter were taught to hate the African Americans as soon as they stepped foot in America.
Ironically one of the Young Irelanders Mitchell was a horrible racist git
Only Irish Americans fought and died to end slavery, standing along side black Americans, literally, on the battle field. Also, Douglas said he felt treated as an equal in his informal counsel of and friendship with Lincoln before he was shot.
Back then it was known simply Turkey to westerners. Asia Minor (Anatolia) has started to call Turkey (Turchia in Latin i suppose) from Late Middle Ages onwards in Western Europe. And Ottoman Empire originated from there just simply known as Turkish Empire, and all of the country simply called Turkey. Even the modern name of Turkey in Turkish (Türkiye) derived from Western perspective. Before rising of Turkish nationalism in the late 19th century, nobody were thinking of the name of the country anything but land of Ottomans.
So in modern times, this archaic term (Turkish Empire or simply Turkey referring Ottoman Empire) is still using time to time. They all refer to Ottoman state: Turkey, Turkish Empire, Turkish Sultanate etc.
The name Turkey is not a new one, it's very old. The modern republican state newly adapted it.
15:29 you summed up India's independence pretty well here
tá an chuid seo de stair na hÉireann chomh brónach ach, le buíochas, tá cónaí ar mhuintir na hÉireann 🇮🇪🇮🇪
Sea, is tréimhse brónach í sa stair, ach tá muintir na hÉireann láidir, righin, agus marthanach. Cuireann sé áthas orm an Ghaeilge a fheiceáil anseo. Tá súil agam go bhfuil sé seo scríofa i gceart. Grá mór ó shliocht Éireannach i Meiriceá.
@@catnation2446 Aontaím go bhfuil an Ghaeilge mall ach is cinnte go bhfuil sí ag teacht ar ais níl súil agam ach go mbeidh daoine in Éirinn níos diongbháilte í a fhoghlaim amach anseo. Cuireann sé fearg orm nach gcuireann an chuideachta an Ghaeilge chun cinn mar cheann de na teangacha
The slave trade was actually abolished in 1807. The 1833 Slavery Abolition Act abolished, slavery itself
Daniel O' Connell would be looked upon similar to how you look at your founding father's.
The British govt donated £8 million directly to the irish.
On the comment about India, it's a lot more complex than just being hard to hold onto. Post WW2, England just didn't have the money to keep colonies. India was just too expensive to keep especially with it rebelling. On BLM and protest in general, I feel like we probably agree on most parts but one only has to look through history to see there is a line that once crossed can be devastating to the protesters. BLM and the rioters, not the majority of the protesters, are on a path leading to that line.
My personal opinion on the threat of violence when it comes to protest is mixed. I think all options need to be on the table, absolutely. My concern is the effectiveness. MLK and Gandhi as individuals were killed but their movements survived them; plus violence often leads to bad press. Especially in world powers like the modern-day USA, UK, etc, a moment has no chance if it has no allies, largely because a pitched war with a government the size of these superpowers cannot be won at the grassroots level, but also because when one has allies in that powerful government (which can be hard to achieve through violent protest), change is more likely.
With all that said, the elites listen most to capital, and the threat of them losing their money, whether through boycotts or rioting, has to be on the table.
Yeah i agree, protests and rioting are tricky. Id argue that most people dont want to do violent things to be heard. But, while i dont condone violence in general, its completely understandable why people would resort to violence if little, if anything is done by the higher-ups to change anything.
At this point turkey was the seat of power in the middle East .
We were never slaves.
There was some Irish that were indentured but we were never chatal slaves like Africans.
Tá.
@@patrickfitzpatrick6897 😆.
Maybe try to improve your spelling and grammar before you accuse someone of being "dump" Patrick.
Mind yourself and have a nice day.
@@patrickfitzpatrick6897 I know you have a point to make and it may be a valid one but you are doing yourself no favours by expressing it so.
please react to a video by ask a mortician, maybe the one about finding the worlds oldest mummy and the moral is that even the dead aren’t safe from climate change.
Even us irish don't know how irish politics work 😂😂😂😂
To address one of your questions at the beginning, It was the British as a whole as by this point England had convinced Wales and Scotland that Ireland was racially inferior by this point. Also slavery never existed on Irish soil, Irish people against slavery were mostly looking at American slavery. (The native Irish being exploited made slavery kind of unnecessary) Daniel O’Connell was actually good friends with Frederick Douglas, both were sympathetic towards the others conditions in their countries of birth etc.
woah Slavery did exist in Ireland man the vikings king of Munster brian ended it when he got rid of them but t say it never existed is crazy
Please don't try to make Ireland completely free of all wrong doing. It also greatly benefited from the slave trade as well.
@@tommydawsonnyc2490 You are referring to the Protestant Ascendancy class, most of whom did not self-identify as Irish, when you erroneously claim "Ireland" benefited from the slave trade. The impoverished, and often starving, native Irish of the time would have been astonished by your revelation that they had "greatly benefited from the slave trade." You do not seem to be aware of the colonial nature of Irish history, and whilst many people are not, your comment would still raise hackles in Ireland and be considered offensive by many.
22:17 so you were right, it did lead to a revolution eventually
21:48 this is also why we celebrate Halloween in the USA, Canada & Australia (& maybe other places) :P and St Patrick too obviously, but Halloween isn't as obvious to some people. Like in Britain or other European countries they don't really do Halloween.
Native American Choctaw peoples aided Ireland during the forced genocide. They also came to Ireland during the troubles to protest for the freedom of IRA POWS
Daniel O'Connell is printed on our money so he is still held in high regards over here
That FFVII shirt is dope!
Great Britain abolished slavery but, wealthy mill owners supported the Confederacy. Plantations with slaves were integral to having cheap cotton ro feed the textile mills.
The irish slave trade was one of the largest in western europe.
7:00 no idea why they said Turkey there, yeah it was the Ottoman empire
Lission to the song The Fields of Athenry.
Thanks for covering this fada beo na heireann
Go maire sibh na Gaeil 🙏🙏🇮🇪🇮🇪
Steven Wood aontaithe
It's good that someone is trying, even if it isn't accurate. I wish they would teach the Irish language in the US! The more people learning to speak Irish, the better the chances of the language surviving in the long-term.
13. 15 Storming captol buildings.........awkward 😬😄🤦
#davincireacts The Troubles - Part 1 and 2 by Feature History
5:04 yeah at this time the only countries left to abolish it were the USA and Brazil. But the UK still did indenture servitude with Indian people
Check out the Irish slaves who were sent to the west indies and Australia van demans land
Hey u should do a reaction on theirs for tulsa oklahoma
I was actually planning to react to that very soon.
What are you will never understand is how people can advocate non-violence against a group which is committing violence. If one group is willing to use violence and the other is not, who is going to win? History has shown us violence always wins
Not necessarily true. MLK advocating for civil rights in the US, Ghandi with the nonviolent campaign to gain Indian Independence (which he did live to see through), among other examples
@@Number1Irishlad and those examples are all valid, however, even MLK denoted that violence has merit timeline.com/by-the-end-of-his-life-martin-luther-king-realized-the-validity-of-violence-4de177a8c87b
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daniel o connell was abot african slavery abolition
Great Britain freed the slaves in 1834.
20:28 no it was a constitutional monarchy just like today, but only (wealthy) male land owners could vote, just like in the USA (but obv add - white for the USA)
If I’m correct, Queen Victoria was horrified by what was happening in Ireland.
She provided little aid and didn't use her position to help, so whether or not she was personally horrified doesn't actually matter- she was still very complicit in the mass deaths. And knighting the guy who was most responsible doesn't exactly show her horror
Never let the facts interfere with a good story.
There were vastly more people driven out of The Republic of Ireland since 1911 because of economic incompetence of the Southern Irish government than were driven out in the whole period of the potato famine. It’s very useful as deflection weapon though, for the government and Irish Republicans generally to blame everything on the potato famine. As usual, also serves to distract the Southern Irish population from their hardships, by demonising the British.
The Dublin parliament was responsible for exports from Ireland but Dublin traders prioritised their profits over basic human compassion. As did the Irish and Anglo Irish farmers who continued to export their produce while those around them, their neighbours, starved. The English were way too busy making money for themselves to care about anyone, let alone the Irish. They didn’t control the trade from Dublin port in any case, so their impact was negligible.
Empty Ireland today, has absolutely nothing to do with the potato famine, it is caused entirely by the economic hardship of the Southern Irish population and continues to this day. High cost of living, high cost of housing, low working class wages, massive wealth gap, expensive healthcare and no facilities outside the greater Dublin area, equals high levels of outmigration of the Southern Irish, the young cannot afford to live there.
An economic situation that also encourages high levels of immigration, as unlike the locals, immigrants receive subsidised housing which allows them to get an economic foothold.
Not a good time to be young and Southern Irish in the last one hundred years, as most of their young have had to leave for the hated UK or America, and are now being replaced by foreigners.
Some areas having a 75% drop in their population since 1911, shows no sign of changing.
Yes watch out for political ideology. America is a great democracy.
It was the English parliament, so the English people (not regular people but aristocracy and middle class-in Britain middle class isn’t the same as it is here-I’m middle class here but over there I’d be looked down on by anyone not in the working class.
I think a interesting subject to learn about is the Irish in the American civil war as it's American history this is only a suggestion also great video
20:00 defund the police is a pretty good one now. But as many great ideas as somd young americans have, and as much as they try to put them in place by joining politics, unfortunately the "doing nothing" and stalemate will continue for a long time. Because of the fundamental flaws in the American government system, which lead to increasing partisanship, and even more so slide to the right of ghd Republicans. And the Democrats still desesperatly wants to "play nice" and make comprises with them, with results in Democrats being dragged to the right too. When you think *Biden* a typical 80s conservative republican would unleash a socialist distopia, you're waaay far off into the right
You keep giving capitalism shit whilst ironically having a patreon. Bit hypocritical
It wasn't a famine it was a genocide, that failed, the British stood back and did nothing for the Irish people when the potato crop failed, and they sent record loads of grains, beef, and bacon in 1847,1848 and1849,from the very lands the Irish people were straving on, the British tryed to wipe us the Irish of the face of the earth, but they failed.
Them and the whole culture including the language
"1 million people had died because of prejudiced men writing bad policy". Devon davinci it should be clear even from this sentence that this is a very biased video. The proximate cause of the famine was the loss of a food stuff on which most of the population depended on to survive, caused by a fungus that was unknown at the time. This video seeks to blame everything on Charles Trevelyan and the British. It is very biased.
The horrors Britain afflicted on Ireland can not be ignored
@@BelcarrigFarm I'm not asking for them to be ignored I'm saying this is a distorted anti-British version of the history of the Irish famine.