While I agree with the premise, the implementation is making me sick.
DuncanHynes on
It’s worse. There were actually food exports [grains] out of Ireland, that continued on throughout the famine. Read up on it, wild circumstances that were a Catch-22. The slow reaction by the English was no doubt a massive factor since we saw later on they did levy aid and assistance in 1879’s event which resulted in less deaths.
Johns-Sunflower on
IIRC, some landowners employed the starving Irish, just to make them work for the ability to feed themselves. Sometimes they didn’t even have them to do anything ‘useful’ – they just built follies and such.
Because, apparently, feeding the starving for free was too much of a stretch.
Queen Victoria: “It is no concern of mine whether your family has…what was it again?”
Irish man: “Um, food?”
Queen Victoria: “Ha! You really should have thought of that before you became peasants!”
Sobieskil on
It was basically the same during the Bengal famine.
No_Pipe4358 on
As an irish person with a ukrainian family sleeping next door, more holodomor memes please. Also, please reconsider if you live in an evil country, and are thus an evil person. Sudan. Sudan. Sudan. Gaza. Ukraine. Sudan. 25 euro a month is 300e a year is a person’s life to unicef. And fuck this. Also fuck this shit.
Von_Uber on
Oh this again, how original.
asia_cat on
I just love the fact, that the ottoman empire send so much famine relief that the british crown asked them to stop.
It made them look bad.
The sultan wanted to send 10.000 Pounds to the irish but the british crown negotiated him down to 1.000. The queen herself only send 2.000 Pounds. The sultan went around the british and send ships with food to Drogheda after the british closed Dublin harbour.
Imagine a foreign monarch is more genorous in times of crisis than your head of state.
Strong-Expression787 on
Chasing Abbey’s song titled “Gorta” explained the event quite well : They feast and dine while the people go hungry
We never forget through our song and our stories, They told us that the disease was blight,
But I’ve been hearing voices whisper at night,
They whisper about ships full of life,
Sailing out and leaving behind, They watched us suffer, they watched us die,
They watched us leave and the land bled dry,
It’s all for nothing, what a waste of life,
The type of shit that keeps you up at night, Who wants to be told that their ancestors,
Great great grandfather and grandmother,
Died on the side of the road with the grass stains on their mouth,
They were treated like animals, They feast and dine while the people go hungry,
We never forget through our song and our stories
Orthobrah52102 on
Ugly ass looking show, whatever this is
Diazepam_Dan on
The average Brit was also starving or locked into wage slavery at this time
Paleodraco on
One of Tasting History’s episodes briefly touched on this. Some of the English were really bigoted against the Irish.
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While I agree with the premise, the implementation is making me sick.
It’s worse. There were actually food exports [grains] out of Ireland, that continued on throughout the famine. Read up on it, wild circumstances that were a Catch-22. The slow reaction by the English was no doubt a massive factor since we saw later on they did levy aid and assistance in 1879’s event which resulted in less deaths.
IIRC, some landowners employed the starving Irish, just to make them work for the ability to feed themselves. Sometimes they didn’t even have them to do anything ‘useful’ – they just built follies and such.
Because, apparently, feeding the starving for free was too much of a stretch.
There’s a charity dedicated to Ireland’s follies [here](https://follies-trust.org/). The YouTube video where I first learned about it was [this ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7FDWao4t88)one.
Queen Victoria: “It is no concern of mine whether your family has…what was it again?”
Irish man: “Um, food?”
Queen Victoria: “Ha! You really should have thought of that before you became peasants!”
It was basically the same during the Bengal famine.
As an irish person with a ukrainian family sleeping next door, more holodomor memes please. Also, please reconsider if you live in an evil country, and are thus an evil person. Sudan. Sudan. Sudan. Gaza. Ukraine. Sudan. 25 euro a month is 300e a year is a person’s life to unicef. And fuck this. Also fuck this shit.
Oh this again, how original.
I just love the fact, that the ottoman empire send so much famine relief that the british crown asked them to stop.
It made them look bad.
The sultan wanted to send 10.000 Pounds to the irish but the british crown negotiated him down to 1.000. The queen herself only send 2.000 Pounds. The sultan went around the british and send ships with food to Drogheda after the british closed Dublin harbour.
Imagine a foreign monarch is more genorous in times of crisis than your head of state.
Chasing Abbey’s song titled “Gorta” explained the event quite well : They feast and dine while the people go hungry
We never forget through our song and our stories, They told us that the disease was blight,
But I’ve been hearing voices whisper at night,
They whisper about ships full of life,
Sailing out and leaving behind, They watched us suffer, they watched us die,
They watched us leave and the land bled dry,
It’s all for nothing, what a waste of life,
The type of shit that keeps you up at night, Who wants to be told that their ancestors,
Great great grandfather and grandmother,
Died on the side of the road with the grass stains on their mouth,
They were treated like animals, They feast and dine while the people go hungry,
We never forget through our song and our stories
Ugly ass looking show, whatever this is
The average Brit was also starving or locked into wage slavery at this time
One of Tasting History’s episodes briefly touched on this. Some of the English were really bigoted against the Irish.