The Famine Irish in Glasgow

The Famine Irish in Glasgow (34:58) features Professor Sir Tom Devine, the leading historian on the Irish in Scotland. He reflects on the impact and legacy of the Famine Irish migration to Glasgow in 1847 as well as his own grandparents’ story of relocation from Ulster to Scotland in the later nineteenth century. The film also explores how Celtic Football Club was established to help alleviate the poverty of Famine Irish emigrants and their descendants.
The Famine Irish in Glasgow is part of the Great Famine Voices 2022 season, hosted by the National Famine Museum, Strokestown Park and the Irish Heritage Trust with funding from the Government of Ireland Emigrant Support Programme.
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[@jimmcquade7956]

Sir Tom. Thank you for sharing your family history and the Famine Irish in Glasgow. By chance you echo my family history, the originated from Tyrone and in 1865 moved to Carfin and later to Bothwell. The male members of the family were coal miners which in turn led to a move to High Blantyre and Dixons Mine and lived in Dixons rows. Bare earth floor and outside toilet. They also had other own property in Camlachie where they lived when the miners went on strike. My father and his father lived in Halfway Cambuslang and both worked in the pits. Once again I thank you for giving me an insight to how the Irish came to move to West Scotland.

[@jacqueline4905]

My great grandmother was fae Camlachie

[@jacqueline4905]

Great grandmother from Camlachie.
2nd post

[@keithloughrin6981]

My family are from Clonoe in Tyrone. They ended up in Cleland and then moved to New Stevenston

[@elayneyoung1837]

My ancestors came to Glasgow.. some were born in co down, Belfast, and younger ones born in Scotland...they lived at calton and worked in the textile mills. ... Gt gt grandma died of dysentry ..

[@MoMaryR]

Really interesting. My family also from Co. Cavan, settled in Glasgow. Your family's cottage is a wonderful painting. Thanks for posting this video.

[@tomkeenan1345]

Thank you for this. My family history reflects much of what you have described. I recently travelled to Strokestown House Famine Museum while researching my Irish Famine (An Gorta Mor) descendants. Many on my ancestors arrived on these shores from 1847 to 1851 to settle in Blantyre and Hamilton and to work in the pits. I had family too in the Calton in Green Street. I have Keenans, Murphys, Higginses, Callaghans, McGhees, McKees, Girvans, McArvilles, Burns, Morans, Rooneys, all with a common link they all arrived in the famine years, many coming from C Down (Drumore, Killkeel, Killyleagh), C Tyrone, C Monaghan (Keady and Newbliss), C Galway (Carrowpadden), C Longford (Ardagh). I travelled to these places to 'walk in their footsteps'. The Fields of Athenry really were lonely when they left (over a million of them) leaving many dead (a million). God bless them.

[@jacqueline4905]

Another great grandmother came fae Cork❤

[@jacqueline4905]

Girvan in mine too. Hughes, Quigley and macs

[@norbertholstein2604]

Very interesting.

[@gavinlaird85]

brilliant 👍

[@tomcolvin8199]

Thanks for your history video, I am from Glasgow of Irish Catholic heritage.

[@tomcolvin8199]

@@steelydanlover1972 Hi Peter, on my mother's side they were from Cork area and father's side they were from Donegal, l think a lot of the Irish immigrants back in 1800s time period to Glasgow were from Donegal. The Colvin name came from Campbeltown big whiskey area😁

[@patsyballantyne9886]

@@tomcolvin8199 yes my Grandpas parents came over from Donegal to live in Glasgow.

[@tomcolvin8199]

@@patsyballantyne9886 Thanks for reply, yes my father's side Davitt were from Donegal and my mother's side Healy came from cork. Also have Scottish from Campbelltown and English on mother's side from Bolton were they came to Glasgow from working on railways.

[@vitalgreenspace]

What is the piece of music that accompanies this please?

[@nurlatifahmohdnor8939]

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John Alexander Macdonald was born in Glasgow, Scotland, on January 11, 1815.

[@nurlatifahmohdnor8939]

He came as a boy to Kingston, Upper Canada, and grew up to become a successful lawyer.

[@billathighwoods4289]

Wonderful history lesson, sorry to say, the music is very annoying

[@cyclesgoff9768]

I think Sit Tom might just be a closeted Well fan.🤔

[@420somewhereG]

Hail Hail🍀🇮🇪☘💚

[@roderickscott7429]

Did Celtic not pinch most of the Hibs players when starting up ?

[@chrissydidit811]

about 4 according to the book "The Celtic" the gathering storm

[@andrewheaney6858]

@@chrissydidit811 No they signed them as the Club began , no stealing or kidnapping involved

[@chrissydidit811]

@@andrewheaney6858 just inducements like public houses and more money

[@andrewheaney6858]

@@chrissydidit811 Aye probably, definitely enough to annoy the Hibs fans to this say Chris

[@chrissydidit811]

@@andrewheaney6858 "the Celtic"the gathering storms by Ian McCallum is a good historic record and a good read I recommend it ,cheers be well

[@alexbowman7582]

There wasn't a famine, there was a potato blight. British soldiers took food out of Ireland to England whilst people starved to death just like on Bengal in 1943.

[@billathighwoods4289]

Soldiers were used as dockers and teamsters or pockets of blighted potatoes?

[@jacqueline4905]

Correct. So called famine in Scotland but never mentioned

[@waynewallace2583]

Give the facts without the annoying background music.

[@jacqueline4905]

Tom. You shouldn't have taken the 'sir'.
Really??

[@m.k.s.7417]

Should: "ALL The [very]_Irish_ comm-unity; in Glasgow/Scotland"; be:
"Reparated"; today?? (Say, for instance; for: Celtic and/or; the Hib's: to: have "Extra_Fund's!!"!?)??

[@mrsuperger5429]

Sadly, famines were not uncommon back then. Scotland also had its own famine. Celtc, however, were not formed to alleviate famine, but to maintain in Glasgow the sectarian division and tribalism found before on the island of Ireland.