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The Great Irish Famine | Human Voiced, No Ads

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00:00:00 Intro and Welcome
00:02:12 Eve of the Famine
00:07:18 The Blight of 1845
00:17:26 The Darkest Year, 1847
00:25:09 Famine’s Lingering Years: 1848–1852
00:34:19 British Government Policy
00:44:01 Emigration During and After
00:53:14 Thoughts and Conclusion

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Sources and Further Reading

Cummins, Nicholas (1846). Letter to the Duke of Wellington (The Times, 24 Dec 1846).

Mitchel, John (1861). The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps).

Trevelyan, Charles (1848). The Irish Crisis.

Nicholson, Asenath (1851). Annals of the Famine in Ireland.

O’Rourke, Rev. John (1874). The History of the Great Irish Famine.

Woodham-Smith, Cecil (1962). The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845–1849.

Kinealy, Christine (1994). This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845–52.

Donnelly Jr., James S. (2001). The Great Irish Potato Famine.

Whyte, Robert (1848). The Ocean Plague: A Voyage to Quebec in an Irish Emigrant Vessel.

Society of Friends (Quakers) (1852). Transactions of the Central Relief Committee of the Society of Friends during the Famine.

Information sourced from Wiki, Gutenburg, JSTOR, primary and secondary sources. All information is congruent with archaeological and history evidence at the time of recording.

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@briege3096 7 months ago

Born and raised in Belfast so I want to thank my ancestors for sticking it out and staying in Ireland because I love this country 🇮🇪

@nentendomofo 7 months ago

"There are not enough of us left to tell what happened" is so poignant and heavy I would have thought it was a line from a fantasy novel.

@han2868 7 months ago

You made it to the a Choctaw Reservation in Oklahoma! We love our Irish brothers and sisters❤

@KarenD-rz3gn 7 months ago

proud descendant of a "famine Orphan" sent from Derry workhouse via the ship Diadem to Australia. A hard and sad life- just wish she could see how her family grew and contributed to so many aspects of Australian history.

@joshayybee 7 months ago

I haven't yet listened to tonight's video, but I'm hoping it covers the realities of the "famine". Ie. a deliberate action on the part of the British to starve Irish people to death.

@OriginalAngster 7 months ago

"I just think they're neat" thanks Marge

@samichgrrl 6 months ago

Fun fact.A lot of orphaned irish children ended up in montreal, where they were adopted by french canadian families who let them keep their irish names.So to this day, you will find people with irish names who do not speak a word of english.

@sodabake 6 months ago

Belfast Northern Ireland. 🇬🇧 Thanks for the upload.

@GlcYoungvibez 6 months ago

We had food, but the famine resulted when British soldiers took all the meat, fish, and vegetables out of the country under armed guard.

@parkerrich2613 6 months ago

My great great grandmother was born 5 years before the famine in Ireland, she survived and in the late 1860s immigrated to the U.S.

@jennylithgow2993 7 months ago

This has to be one of my favourite history channels as its one of the only ones that puts a biblagrophy in the description for further reading

@Baron-von-Throphousen 7 months ago (edited)

Yay, reminding everybody of my country’s fantastic history. What is it they say? “If you’re proud of your country’s history, you’re not studying it correctly” or words to that effect.

@shelbssellscheeseshells1739 7 months ago

Thanks tonight to the wonderful team that puts these videos together.

@ardapelle 7 months ago (edited)

Many of my Irish ancestors came as assisted migrants to my hometown in Australia during the famine. They did pretty well here during the gold rush in the end. The street they lived on with some other Irish families is still called Tipperary. It’s so strange and sad to imagine how this must of been to live through. Thank you for this one.

@strayrah 7 months ago

thank you for making a video about my country!! your pronunciation of sligo made me giggle :), please cover the 1916 rising or the war of independence <3

@katieforsyth2089 7 months ago

My father's side of the family lived through this dreadful time 😢 god bless all of the poor souls ❤❤

@libbya-zh6wt 7 months ago

When we went to visit Galway, we toured the Woodville walled garden which was a poorhouse during the famine. The gentleman selling the tickets so genuinely shared the experience of his grandparents during the famine, suffering in the workhouse, with tears in his eyes, I'll never forget it.