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Meine Worte. Ich finde es aber auch etwas tragisch, das hierzulande nicht wirklich was davon bekannt ist...

@@jeremiasc.2972 Not so well known in Ireland until recent times - the shame, humiliation..that the Famine inflicted - people didn't want reminders.

Sounds like Ozzy jingoism is alive and well. Maybe you should do a bit of digging before rushing to make senseless points.

@@philipbrennan4214far from it. I search for a while until a came upon a wonderful rendition of this song on Facebook sung in an Irish accent.

What Australian has ever pronounced any word with 2 last syllables containing vowels other than the open e ? tray-lee aye-aayee ? Their teacher-nuns woould have made their lives a misery had they sounded anything but accent neutral.

@@iggytse publish a link, dammit, man !

@@angusmckenzie9622 what link are you referring to?

@janette Davis "Guess what girls I'm Irish..." I'm none of Irish born, a girl nor familiar with Ballina. There's a bond between Ireland and Australia. Not everyone gets it, you did a couple of years ago.

pfff lamo, i was looking for Louis Armstrong's wonderful world and came across this

I imagine that that was the hope that steeled a lot of people's resolve. Their lives might not be very good, but their joy would be in seeing their children and grandchildren have better lives.

@@rowanaforrest9792 Being poor is no fun, particularly the poverty of the Famine. At least they had North America and Australasia. .

@@angusmckenzie9622 True. And I'm genuinely curious, did they call it "Australasia" at that time?

@@rowanaforrest9792 Hello, Rowana. Australasia is used to describe Australia nd New Zealand. Some use it to include New Guinea, too but in Aus, it means Australia and New Zealand. To add to information. Australia became a nation in 1900 by federating British Colonies on our continent . New Zealand was intended to be part of Australia but refused to join.

@@angusmckenzie9622 Thank you kindly for the information. :) It's good to learn something new today!

Wow, many thanks!

Thank you Anne!

Treated the same as livestock! Dam you Limeys, Im half McKelvy!

Thank you Ernest!

@@reginadeacy9176 I only stated the simple truth. If the school choir ever gets around to releasing an album or multi-song video of Irish songs I'd be interested in knowing about it and I'd likely purchase it, as I liked both of the numbers they have on the website.

@@ernestbywater411 agree. and hats off for the writer/composer and the music director

The lass from St Mary's going to be far less practiced than the Uni lasses and closer to the age of the orphan girl about which they sing. I prefer this version, too.

The beautiful haunting voices of the two leading singers never fails to bring a tear to my tough guy eyes.

On a 3-month sea voyage, chances are some of them died en route of illness, but hopefully most did find a better life in Australia.

"I wonder how many actually found a better life.." a great grandson of one of them became An Australian Prime Minister (perhaps not a very good one, but)

@@angusmckenzie9622 If you are referring to Paul Keating he's widely regarded as one of the greatest Australia's PMs and in my personal opinion the greatest!

@@mjw12345 Kevin Rudd

@@vinryan3267 Nailed it.

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You should read Australian scholar Thomas Keneally's masterwork The Great Shame if you enjoyed Trinity. Tirelessly researched, the truth it reveals is even more brutal than Uris' sympathetic fiction.

@@paulstratforddearsley2516 Thank you so much I'll look it up. Keep safe best wishes fron Mexico

@@camotzin awesome! Hey, I didn't realise that Leon Uris spent time in New Zealand during WW II. Feliz Navidad senor :)

@@TheWrensHouse Indeed it has. And Ireland has always been and still is subject to "Braveheartisation" of reports, especially by the BBC. When Unionist mobs invade nationalist areas the BBC reports it as "clashes between Unionists and Nationalists"; strictly speaking correct but inaccurate.

@camotzin "By the way, I have read several times the novel TRINITY..." Me too. I read Trinity in my mid 20s, on the recommendation of a fellow teacher on staff who had spent time teaching in Northern Ireland. I'm a fair bit older, now. I'm rereading Tim Pat Coogan's History of the IRA, which I'd first read at around the same time. I'm much less angry, more analytical and have now visited Ireland on multiple occasions, as a young blade, a family man and an older but pre grandfather, my next trip. Then, I thought Uris had really captured it. As soon as I finish Tim Pat's, it'll be Leon's.

thank you, amazing information

PS I was thinking the exact same when I heard this wonderful rendition... I am a fan of the CSUD as well...

It's interesting in this video that we don't know whether these 2 friends were chosen to sail or were turned down. I guess it's fitting that this is left up to each of us to imagine. Wonderful song and wonderful video.

For more information search „Songs of the great hunger (with brendan graham)“ an look from 14:55! Very interesting. Love the song sung by St.Mary‘s Secondary School!

Mr. Pirsch, you really don't get it. When, as even you acknowledge in your "death trap" comment, one faces certain death there really is no choice but to try to escape any way you can. Yes, Mr. Pirsch, they were "forced" to go with death by disease and starvation being the alternative. And though many of them were fortunate to find loving husbands, far too many ended up as virtual slaves to wealthy land holders or, worse, ended up in Australian houses prostitution, or died at the hands of abusive men. Indeed, the English government not only made the famine worse through their inept relief policies, they cause it to happen in the first place.

@@frederickkearney7798 No Frederick, you don't get it all. The people who organized this wonderful scheme to save lives did not cause the famine and did not abuse the girls. Indeed, it was a rather brilliant plan. It's all too easy sitting here in the 21st century to not understand the harsh realities of the 1800's Ireland (or almost any place else). You couldn't just blast out a GoFundMe campaign and raised $$$ millions to save these girls. The reality of the time and place was that there was no money, travel was dangerous and life was almost always harsh. The existence of so many orphaned girls bears witness to this cruel reality, Mary Browne and her sister being just two of so many who lost both parents at young age. Perhaps there were other relatives, but likely none could afford another mouth to feed. Nor were the charitable organizations (mostly the Catholic Church) loaded with money. The realty was that people were starving to death in great numbers and there was little to no resources. Sailing Away to Australia was what gave hope. Likewise for the much maligned Magdelene Laundries. The orphan girls were made to work for a very good reason. Without the income generated, the orphanages would close. There'd be no shelter and no food for the girls. There'd be destitute on the streets and one can easily imagine what kind of lives they'd live if they survived at all. There will always be a few people who abuse their power over children. We're dealing with mankind here. That happens even under the best of conditions. Even the rich kids at super expensive Horace Mann Prep School in NY suffered decades of sexual abuse by teachers and staff. The Catholic orphanages saved and cared for countless children. I know two of these children, now in their 80's, who were cared for by the nuns. Both said it was the greatest blessing and that they were treated with care and love.

@@frederickkearney7798 I'm genuinely curious whether you have done actual research into the ill fates you say some of these young women ended with in Australia, or are you using your imagination or basing your beliefs on fictional stories (some of which hold more truth than others)? It was an awfully tough situation in Ireland (and my understanding is that while the English didn't cause the famine, they didn't do anything to help the Irish either). I doubt that their main motive in sailing these young women to Australia was humanitarian, since their fledgling colonies in Australia really did have great need of cheap labor and wives for the men working to build up the colonies (and then babies). However, the fact remained that these orphan girls had no good future in Ireland, so although leaving their homeland and making the long, dangerous voyage to a foreign land required great courage and strength of spirit, it did present them with an opportunity for a better life (and hopefully a much, much better life for the children they would have). It's hard for modern-day people to imagine having enough courage and strength to do what they did, but people back then had to be very tough of body and spirit or they wouldn't make it far in life. Modern life makes it possible for most people to be quite soft and weak by comparison (and I include myself).

@@rowanaforrest9792 "I'm genuinely curious whether yo..."These, lucky in retrospect, girls were the forerunners of the mass post Famine emigration to the North Americas and the rest of the British Isles, with a trickle following in their footsteps to Australasia. Your choices as a girl in 19th century Ireland (a) die in the famine; (b) marry a subsistence-level farmer on diminishing plots of land with multiple children and systemic poverty; (c) join a convent and end up running a school or a hospital in the US, Canada, New Zealand or Australia; or (d) Orphan girl.

Sure. The technical work by the girls, which is flawless, the historical value is very relevant, and perhaps most important I think that doing this should have been an educational experience for the girls. Most young people today feel very entitled and give everything for granted. I think the girls who worked in the video had a big chance to think and realize how fortunate they are, comparing their situation to other girls from their very town which had to survive a terrible experience. I'd love my daughter (who is pretty much the same age of the girls in the video) could work in something like that so she counts her blessings.

By the way, I have read several times the novel TRINITY which explains in depth the Famine and its aftermath. I developed a great admiration for the Irish people since then (I was about 13 when I read the novel for the first time) and to this day. If there is a brave people on the world, it is the Irish. Best regards from Mexico (see John Riley).

@@camotzin thanks for the information. I know a bit about the famine, but not all. My Great Great grandmother was on orhan

Most probably the girls were scared to death of failing the inspection as the song explicitly states. Surely they were checked for cleanliness and not in a gentle way. And besides, considering the fact that workhouses were government establishments, the MEN carrying out the inspections most probably were Protestants, and of course the girls were Catholic, very lonely and under the impresion of having lost everything (including their parents and siblings). So probably they were very scared to be rejected for having lice (as the video implies). I put myself in these girls place and say "how brave those girls must have been". I have read also a website which carries the documented story of some of them after they got to Australia, and many of them proved that they were NOT willing to be abused. There are newspapers reports of some of them going to court to sue their employers for mistreatment. I admire these girls profoundly, not only for having survived the famine (which is not little deal) but for having made themselves a new life. An inspirational story. Thanks for reading.

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@@MilanCrow over 4000 from Ireland, 137 of whom were from Mayo. And all while the english traded locally produced food abroad instead of feeding the local people.

@@matthewpengelly761 yes and they got away with it .it’s disgusting

@@janetoner4907 "yes and they got awa..." They set a template for Mao, China exported rice to Cuba during the Cultural Revolution whilst up to 40 mil died of starvation. At least the starving Irish haa Australasia, England, Scotland and the North Americas.

@@angusmckenzie9622I think most of the "starving Irish" died! The SURVIVING Irish made it to those countries - if they they were lucky enough.- like my 16 gggrandparents. My gggrandmother, Catherine Toland and her sister Sarah, from County Donegal, were 2 of those "orphan girls" who made it to Australia. I don't quite understand the connection with China and the "Cultural Revelation" - perhaps you're confusing Mayo with Mao.