Deserted Village of Achill (lonely reminder of the Irish famine )
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- Опубликовано: 2 апр 2020
- This deserted village on Achill Island is a lonely reminder of the most tragic event in Irish history…the Great Hunger of the 1840s…the Great Famine…sometimes referred to as the Irish Holocaust, such is the emotion it evokes.
A million people died when the potato crop failed and other food supplies that could have saved them were shipped out of the country by greedy landlords. A million more people had to emigrate or face death from starvation.
This video tells the story of the Deserted Village of Achill, and how it fell victim to the famine holocaust.
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Éire go Brách, American descendent, fiercely proud of my Irish ancestors. They taught me to work hard and always take care of my neighbors.
My dad was from Saila Achill God bless the Irish people 💚 🇮🇪
I'm in Jordan in the Middle East, thousands n thousands of miles away from where the tragedy happened. Yet, I was wiping my tears as I watched this.
The Irish Famine England's Shame
Exactly
So many famine plots around Ireland theres one up from where I live anytime I'm up there I say a prayer to all the people who never got the chance to say goodbye.i heard a story where people were so hungry when they walked out of there cabin They where so tired they would fall into a ditch and die there so sad
Not only did England not offer any "meaniful help" but it suited them for the Irish people to starve. We had huge amounts of wheat and barley production but that was reserved entirely to feed the British army. England even forbid harvesting wild game or salmon from our rivers to catholics. We relied on the potatoe crop because it was all we were allowed
Where and when was that.
As an Irish Catholic living in Canada, these documentaries are really hitting home. To say that the ‘Irish Potato Famine’ was a tragedy…… is a monumental understatement!
Thank you from an Irish Catholic in the USA. It was genocide.
Read if you can get it, The Perfect Holocaust by Farrelly. There were 100,000 British troops in Ireland at the time, with one task only, the seizure of all crops and food animals, for export to UK and the colonies. Much of this food went to feed slaves in the US and the Caribbean, as Irish people ate grass in the fields. The census, which puts the population at 8 million at the time, was highly inaccurate, as Irish people, untrusting and fearful of police, fearful of further taxes and other impositions, rarely reported full numbers in families. A more accurate figure for the population was 10 to 12 million, with deaths etc at a much higher figure than accepted by historians action not to upset British sensibilities.
@@billmurray4430 Hey Bill, it's so true. Irish Catholics and Jews have much in common. There are about 100 million Irish Catholics in the world. And there are about 100 million Jews in the world. And many more similarities......but for another day!
@@billmurray4430 Okay. Thanks for the update! All the best and a Happy New Year!!
This village has nowt to do with the famine, or the British
Damn this makes me so sad. love from american irish
My last two remaining ancestors from Ireland immigrated to America in 1850.
I deeply admire Irish people! How did fight, in very hard famine times. But they won! Some weeks ago I was in Ireland . I absolutely fell in love with Irish people's way of life! They are really very kind.😘💖🤗👍☘☘☘All my love and my best wishes for IRELAND AND IRISH PEOPLE. I will remember them. And I want to go back there!
we haven't won just yet, Tiocfaidh ár lá
Daisy Peters Your always welcome back to our beauty of an Isle !!
Go raibh mile maith agat and for sure I'll go back to our heart country, my friend. All the brightest blessings to you and to Ireland! 😘💖🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪👍☘☘☘
@@paddyodoor3090 Paddy, for sure you'll win! 😘💖🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪👍☘☘☘I'd love if I was born in Ireland.
@@daisypeters3216 Ta Failte Romhait !
Tiny, short Joseph Patrick McNamara from the village of Keel, Achill Island got on a boat, came to America where there was work and food. I'm 3rd generation from the village of Keel. Thank you America for taking us in. Joseph Patrick McNamara was listed as a "day laborer" in the census, I suppose that's all he had to offer, that and the courage to get on that boat. Thank you great-grandfather.
As an American of Scots-Irish descent, I’m so very glad you’re here ~~~~~
@@mynamedoesntmatter8652 How kind of you. Thank you.
@@2anthro
You’re most welcome, and thank you for sharing your story ~~~~~
This video is so emotional I am crying. Thanks for the info in it.
More moving is the graveyard with its graves of the people who died of famine.
Where is this graveyard
All those people should never have died and its the shame of my country that could have acted and stopped this terrible tragedy that repeatedly touches my heart !
How many people died, why would your country have acted, twas a war and the invaders lost. What was the tragedy
My great great grandparents, the Morans lived there
Did my family tree on ancestry, discovered my DNA is 93% irish pinpointed to Achill and Clare Island via O'Malleys and Lavelle families.
I'm in my 60s and my goal now is to visit.
My grandmother was also a Lavelle from County Mayo. Ancestry also listed Achill Island.
Why oh why do people usually ignore the other factors involved at the time such as the success of the textile industry at the time so that landlords, put in place by foreign landowners who never set foot in Ireland, threw tenant-farmers off their land to replace them with sheep and the fact that the tenant-farmers were paid in potatoes when the two potato blights happened? A number of social problems created those (two main) famines.
Saludos desde Galicia, otra nacion Celta, que tanbien, fue victima de la emigración salvaje.
Saludos , son historia De Guerra en esta isla.son Victoria. Por favour Quall partito De gallicia
Gracias compadre, compañeros de armas.
My ancestors suffered due to famine in Ireland am not sure what happened to them after this it must have been terrible for everyone back then
As an afto amer i do enjoy enlightment of man plight of survival. Thank You.
My goodness , I didn’t know that the British government refused to help feed the starving Irish people in the village of a hill? What a disgrace , this government should ask for forgiveness & make amends to their Families, if, there are any of them left in Ireland ! Poor people , may God bless those starving families & their grand & Great Great grandchildren be given a public apology for their terrible treatment of their ancestors !! God bless all those families who survived that famine ! Helen Kirrage xx
I’m sorry my misspelling of Cahill xxx God bless you all . Love Helen Kirrage xx
You don't know the real history of that village. No apology is required from any government. The truth is stranger than fiction in this case for sure
It was English landlords who exported the food to england guarded by the British army.
They need to make that clear otherwise the video is a soft lie. England leadership going around the world stealing and killing.
And no-one in the British Government was held to account. Nothing changes.
Governments are supposed to serve the best interests of the people ... maybe changes are needed?
During the study of my DNA and ancestry, I can see many of my relatives were from the Irish Famine period. Sadly many perished on board as they made their way to Canada or the USA. Horrific experience to be ignored by their homeland and starving to death, they took a risk of life over death. We here in Canada, and U’m sure in USA, we are grateful to their contribution to building our country stronger through immigration.
"Horrific experience to be ignored by their homeland and starving to death"???????? You must have eaten the propaganda cake. Ignored by their homeland? You wouldn't speak that way if you were a real person and in front of us Irish people. The homeland was invaded and occupied by the English monarchy when they began their genocidal food removal. Your countries were not grateful when seeing asylum seeking Irish people land over there. You pathetic anti Irish troll account.
Genocide
Very interesting.
It wasn't a famine, it was genocide.
Same as Ukraine in the Stalin era.
Not all true, as you said,1940, last person born there lives in cork visited some years ago spoke to a local news paper. I have been there, local history tells a story of war not famine
A lot of the Irish left & went to America on coffin ships so rickety that some of them sank on the way over to America,
A very sad chapter of Ireland’s history . Caused by greed & indifference. The Irish were catholic’s & didn’t matter to the English .
In fact, It was caused by the English monarchy family. They planned and carried out another genocide of the Irish people. Famine spread through several countries but as the abundance of other foods remained people had plenty to eat for survival. The English occupation of Ireland was 100% of the cause/reason people died. Not a low scale potato blight that is dealt with by not eating potatoes till the blight goes away. Ireland has excellent fishing and chickens and wild mushrooms and wild berries, wild spring onions, turnip, cabbages etc
It's not believable that starving people would not try to eat the many other things that were not blighted by famine.
Most people in Ireland are not religious. Most weren't catholic or protestant. Children can't consent and that's when the child abuse religious cults start to indoctrinate them. The genocide was done by the English monarchy family to the Irish people.
@@user-yp3oj5se1i I don’t know where u dug up that pile of rubbish. I’m Irish I was brought up in Ireland & learned Irish history . What u are saying has a grain of truth but most of it is rubbish
@@DiddlyPenguin The grain of truth is
"In fact, It was caused by the English monarchy family. They planned and carried out another genocide of the Irish people.
Why call facts "rubbish" like that? it shows more of your fakeness. You immediately said facts were rubbish.
If you were really brought up in Ireland you'd know that you weren't taught the real Irish history. There was no group called celts or celtic. That is anti Irish propaganda that was started by the English media in the 1700's. They started that 'celts' thing to avoid reporting about the Gaelic/Irish that populated both islands pre roman invasions.
@@DiddlyPenguin. , you must be a trump supporter with your fake news, alternative facts and conspiracy theories. GTFU.
Why don’t you watch Black 47, Australia movie about the famine ...
Visiting here from Cork next week on staycation :)
Hope you enjoy it!
The whole of Ireland suffered, the North was badly affected not just the republic. Both Catholic and Protestants
Suffered from what, there was no republic in that history, this was not a famine story. Twas war.
Prod, but very interested and proud of my irish heritage.
Jake, you don't need to mention your faith. As an Irish man you're my brother, never mind religion. Blessings and respect from Ireland 🇮🇪 🙏
all through irish history some of the the people at the forefront of the fight for irish freedom were ''prod'' . A point missed by a lot of people . Today plenty of ''prods'' live in the south of ireland without fear or favour and it is never even a point of discussion or given a second thought . All we irish care about is that you are a decent person .
@@DJPulse. im fully aware of people '''taking the soup'', and it was not confined to the south west. people from a protestant background were involved in the fight for irish freedom long before the famine and excepting food to change religion . look up the history
Nothing wrong with being a Prod, Jake. God Bless you and yours.
I’m looking for my father. John Cafferkey he was from Achill island. He was born in July 1917. I’d appreciate any information.
I hope you find your father, best of luck from Ireland
My Father Brian Kilbane was also from Saila Achill I hope you found some information about your father best of luck 🍀🇮🇪
And let’s not forget that trevelyan and the British govt talked about clearing the island of Ireland of the Irish and resettling it, a million dead wasn’t enough in their eyes, they needed mass transport to eg America and any form of transport there would do for those they depicted as sub human, they encouraged them to travel on what became known as coffin ships as so many died on the crossing and soon after landing due to the conditions
Terrible. Thanks for posting.
Thanks for the view
Just like all those deserted villages in Cornwall and Scotland; for the truth, see below.
The Potato Famine was a plot by the English of genocide against the Irish poor so they could steal their land.
Irish Nationalist; “The potato famine was a premeditated act of genocide on the part of the British government in order to exterminate Irish Nationalists”
Irish Unionist; “What do you base that on?”
Irish Nationalist; “Well it’s what we’ve always believed”
IU; “But that’s because you’re anti-British bigots who always want to believe the worst about Britain. What evidence do you have of this wild conspiracy theory?”
IN; “Evidence? We don’t need any evidence, we believe what’s in our hearts!”
IU; “What’s in your hearts is racial hatred and hypocrisy. Irish Nationalist historians have for over a century combed through every bit of evidence they could find to substantiate this idea and found exactly zero”
IN; “But what about the food ships from Turkey which the British refused to unload at Drogheda?”
IU; “Yeah, that’s a folktale, first regaled by an Irish Free State representative to the Turkish government but without any foundation. The crescent and star insignia on Drogheda’s crest dates all the way from the time of King John, possibly linked to the crusades and also appears on the crest for the English city of Portsmouth. The story may have its’ origins in the Turkish Sultan offering a contribution for famine relief but being asked to reduce it by the British ambassador so as not to outdo Queen Victoria’s own charity”
IN; “AHA!”
IU; “Yes it is preposterous but these are the actions of one man. Plus again, these are the Victorians who thought arsenic was good for the skin, you shouldn’t give painkilling drugs to women giving birth because the agony is good for their character, considered cocaine a cure for mental illness (and especially useful in countering opium addiction) and a man could beat his wife as long as the rod he used was the width of his thumb. That taking photographs of naked children was a wholesome hobby but that “trousers” was an obscene and immoral word. As late as the Edwardian era the White Star Line demanded their money back from the grieving families of the musicians who drowned on the Titanic because they’d be paid for the entire journey and only completed half of it”.
IN; “Are you actually claiming Britain would have acted the same way if the victims of the famine weren’t Irish and Catholic?”
IU; “Of course not, how were we Irish any different from anyone else? Protestants suffered in the famine too. Do you really think the Irish Nationalist Catholic millionaire sipping champagne in the House of Commons/Lords is being oppressed by the English/Welsh/Scots peasant dying of cholera in the gutter?”
IN; “But the government would have done more if hadn’t been Ireland?”
IU; “How so? This is the Victorian era? The Scots were suffering under the Highland Clearances, the Welsh were sending four year old children to work down the coal mines, whole villages in Cornwall were left ghost towns as the starving inhabitants left in desperate search of food. London was the richest city in the world but half of all children died before their 5th birthday. So many people were dying of poverty related diseases the government had to build a railway to take corpses to graveyards outside of the city as those inside were overflowing. Dr Barnardo was a Dublin doctor who was passing through London on his way to be a missionary in China but was so appalled by the poverty he found there that he stayed and founded his charity instead. Meanwhile the English lower classes were being worked to death in the industrial revolution, the life expectancy in Manchester reduced to 17 when it had been 30 even in Norman times. How was Ireland any different? These are the Victorians, people who universally went to church yet let the poor starve, no matter what religion or nationality they were. Who had just abolished slavery within living memory (although before practically the rest of the world), where you could be hung for consorting with gypsies for a month and given 9 years penal servitude in Australia for stealing a string of onions. Dickens didn’t write about the happy childhood of Oliver Twist or the carefree adventures of little Nell, things were tough for everyone, Ireland was no different”
IN; “But other nation’s governments did more to help their populations?”
IU; “Where do you get that idea? Modern day Belgium and Saxony lost a third of their populations in the potato famine. A single failed harvest in France killed 16,000 people in Paris alone and triggered the commune uprising. Rather than feed the rebels the government sent in soldiers to shoot them down in the hundreds. Victor Hugo didn’t write about the contented French peasantry, he wrote about Les Miserables”
IN; “But if Ireland had its’ own separate government things would have been better!”
IU; “Why do you think that? The first act of the Free State government was to slash relief to the poor, maintaining work houses long after the rest of the British Isles had abolished them. Poverty and mass emigration actually increased in the Free State”.
IN; “But the Free State government had less money to spend than the British”
IU; “So Ireland was better off in the Union?”
IN; “Uhhhhhhh……? So why was Ireland so much worse affected than everyone else?”
IU; “Because we were on the outskirts of Europe with few natural resources and a climate and soil that would not support our population. Furthermore those who emigrated in other parts of Europe could return to their homeland once the famine was over, we live on an island so we can’t. But then half the population of Britain would emigrate in the 19th century, once again, we were no different from anyone else”
IN; “Then why is the legacy of the famine still alive for Ireland but not the rest of Europe?”
IU; “Because it’s the one time you can try to claim Ireland would have been better off outside the Union?”
IN; “Hmmmmmm...” .
IU; “Not to mention of course that the last famine in Ireland was actually in Connemara in 1925”.
IN; “WHAT? I’ve never heard of that!”.
IU; “Of course not, the Free State government was so embarrassed that people were starving to death in a Home Rule Ireland that they covered it up and actually banned anyone from referring to it as a famine”.
IN; “But it was much less devastating that the Great Famine of the 1840s”.
IU; “Unarguably but then the weather only wrecked the crops for a couple of years whilst the potato blight lasted a decade. Also farming had improved. We don’t actually know how many people died in it because the whitewash surrounding it was so comprehensive”.
IN; “Oh but after googling it I find that the Free State government did this, that and the other to help the famine victims!”.
IU; “Which is EXACTLY what the British government did the 1840s!”.
IN; “Hmmmmm….?”.
If this village had been populated by Dutch people it would be a thriving community today
The word famine incorrectly describes the willful starvation and genocide committed .
There was no genocide there,
Anyone know the air of the music in the background, I am sure I know it but can't really listen because yer man is so loud!
It's called Carrickfergus. Best wishes, Yer Man :-)
Carrickfergus.💚☘☘
You should search this Tube for the group VOCES8 and their rendition of "Carrickfergus". They mix English and Irish by the singer known as Sibeal. (sorry for the dropped fada).
Who here from online class
yep
Sir Charles Edward Trevelyan, 1st Baronet, KCB (2 April 1807 - 19 June 1886) was a British civil servant and colonial administrator. Trevelyan's most enduring mark on history may be the "quasi" genocidal anti-Irish racial sentiment he expressed during his term in the critical position of administrating relief for the millions of Irish peasants suffering under the potato blight as Assistant Secretary to HM Treasury (1840-1859) under the Tory administration of Lord Russell.
During the height of the famine, Trevelyan was slow to disburse direct government food and monetary aid to the Irish due to his strong belief in laissez-faire economics and the free hand of the market. He also wrote highly disparaging remarks about the Irish in a letter to an Irish peer, stating that "the judgement of God sent the calamity to teach the Irish a lesson".
Trevelyan never expressed remorse for his comments or actions.
This Trevelyan guy sounds like a right bastard. I'm on the side of the Irish
although I'm English unfortunately and not at all proud owing to the fact that
the barbaric government under Churchill slaughtered innocent Irish families
in the " Easter Uprising " of 1916. and also caused the "Civil War". I've been
visiting the Republic (as I like to call it) for over 30 years now, and I've always
found the Irish to be genuinely friendly, but oh' how their ancestors suffered
through the sad old days during the famine. We here in this country have never
known such terrible times as they have. Thankfully the Republic these days is
doing fine, economically and politically. A up and coming fine country that I'm
hoping to be part of in the future, and totally democratic and free unlike here.!!
@@briancox3050 come on over. It's a grand spot
@@coolkevo Yes I know it's a
grand spot. I did say in my comment
that I've been visiting the Republic for
over 30 years now, and just maybe I
might end up over there someday....
The fields of Athenry !
A shameful event exacerbated by an absence of moral impulses due to a general decline in Religion among the British elites during that era.
What county is that in? 💚🌺🌷🌻
Achill Island, off the coast of Co Mayo.
Achill Island, Co Mayo. Maggie
Ireland, is my heart country although I was not born there. God save and bless The Emerald Island. 😘❤🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪👍☘☘☘
That's our family's home county, our village was Keel. We left after the famine, why I do not know.
@@kateeilers574 I have been trying to research this Islands history, what year did your people leave, there were many reasons for leaving,
There has to be some other factors involved re the deserted village. The potato famine should have had less impact on the population along the seashore where there was an abundance of fish.
As far as I am aware the land did not belong to the people, it belonged to a landlord named Sir Richard O'Donnell so it might have been a case of people being evicted because they could not afford rent.
Tiocfaidh ar la. go mbuail an gorta cois cladaigh na Breataine Bige
Bruhhh we got absolutely blasted by blight in the 1800s lmaoooo
Uk to blame
The UK started from 1922, things were different in the 1840's and 1850's. Food was run by the free market during this time, so it is not so clear cut as suggested. 100,000 people also dies outside of Ireland, probably for the same reasons. Inoculation of children was one of the causes of overpopulation and over-reliance of potatoes the massive rise in population over a short period was unsustainable and a time bomb waiting to go off..
@@jemmans Wipe that shite from your mouth.
The English/German monarchy family planned and carried out the genocide of the Irish race. A minor famine of potatoes wouldn't damage the many other foods like fish, chicken, mushroom, berries, parsnip, turnip, carrot, cabbage, wheat, corn etc
Late blight potato
And don’t forget about the genocide committed by the British in 1649 Cromwell the devil
@Ireland Calling..Though the phrase Irish Holocaust is unfortunately used in the video I urge you to remove it from the written description you posted. These two profound tragedies were very different and conflating them is somewhat insensitive at it undermines their unique natures and thus is a disservice to both the Irish and Jewish peoples. I hope you will consider this suggestion.
Try minding your own business.
The first use of the word holocaust dates back to the 13th century. Inspite of the tragic events that happened to them during WW II they have no exclusive right to the word itself. .
@@rapier1954 I think in your deliberately rude way you are missing my point (not sure why you would suggest I mind my own business when you don't make that suggestion to ANY of the other people who commented, though I think we both know what's really riling you up). As for the use of the word "holocaust", the "they" you refer to don't claim exclusivity for all of its uses. However, it's use in association with a genocide was specifically and indisputably established in reference to the slaughter of Jews during the Second World War. "Holodomor" is a neologism that also comes from Ukrainian words that have long been used in that language. But it's fair to say it has come to represent a specific event and that it would be wrong to appropriate it for other calamities such as the horrible tragedy in Ireland. If the phrase the Irish Holodomor had been used in the video and I had objected, would you still be telling me to mind my own business, or is something else at work here? I think most fair-minded readers of your comments, notwithstanding your few likes, know what's really going on here with your comments. I don't expect to respond beyond this.
@@vintagebroadcastingsystem8028 I repeat the word holocaust dates back to the 13th century. Someone used it to describe what happened to the Jews at the hands of the Nazis and rightly so. But to say as you have said "it's use in association with a genocide was specifically and indisputably established in reference to the slaughter of Jews during the Second World War" is pure nonsense. Not everyone has accepted the commandeering of this word in this way. The Jews are not the only people who have suffered. In Cambodia what happened was on a percentage basis much more extensive a slaughter than what happened to the Jews in Europe at the hands of the Nazis and was a holocaust by any definition. It's not a title suffering people are vying for. And Holocaustianity is not some new form of religion with its own chosen people.
@@vintagebroadcastingsystem8028 "However, it's use in association with a genocide was specifically and indisputably established in reference to the slaughter of Jews during the Second World War. "??
Search the many videos of the word being referenced many times and long before ww2.
" it would be wrong to appropriate it for other calamities such as the horrible tragedy in Ireland"????
Calamity?? bye fake account.
Stay apart from Brittany today and tomorrow. No forgiven to
I think the air of the music is Caraickfergus
You can’t do that. A large portion of Britain is of Irish descent and vice versa. You can’t blame today’s people for what happened back then.
All lies.
The scandal that is England’s history.
Get over it! Eat fries!
say that to the next irish person you meet
God bless ireland love the irish
people are over it in ireland but its still important to remember history and honour and remember are ancestors but we should also not blame the people In the UK for what happened back then i have a Irish father and a British mother and i can tell you know one is to blame nowadays.
I see some people in the comments and in the real world out there telling Irish people to get over it but they already have except for a small subset of people the rest are over it in ireland but its still important to remember history and honour and remember are ancestors but we should also not blame the people In the UK for what happened back then i have a Irish father and a British mother and i can tell you know one is to blame nowadays.
Get over what, the invaders of that island were Irish LED. There was nothing to get over for the natives, the resisted and won . The invaders got funding from around the world.