Hunger: The Real Irish American Story Not Taught in Schools Comments

shyak

Tue, 29 May 2012 15:07:08 +0000

Same story of food export during the 1876-1877 Indian famine, by the way, which killed a 6 - 10 million.

mike c

Sat, 17 Mar 2012 18:29:21 +0000

I'm glad you also mentioned the Anglican Church, an Irish friend of mine pointed out that the Church of England people would offer food to the starving Irish Catholics, but only if they would renounce their religion, no wonder the Catholics hate the Protestants over there!

Chris

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:21:49 +0000

Itsafluffy- Stalin did no such thing-there was a long and sever drought that resulted in the deaths in Ukraine-the res is US-UK propaganda. and this site is hardly on the left. Liberal at best. and for a left site it has plentyy of right wingers on it like Paul Craig Roberts et al.

Chria

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 15:19:11 +0000

He fails to state that the landlords were Anglo-Irish or British and exported all the food to England to deal with shorgtage there due to drought. To enforce the theft of food from the Irish people the British army had almost its entire British garrison transferred to Ireland to accomplish the task. The British government deliberately starved to death the Irish. The famine was mass murder, organised and systematic. As John Lennon said in his wonderful song The Luck of the Irish, "f you had the luck of the Irish you'd wish you was English instead."

guest

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 11:48:00 +0000

Famine and wars are the result of British policies in the name of empire, from slavery, to poisoning the water holes of the native americans and blankets with small pox in them. Most native peoples around the world have practically disappeared. Stop whinning! Life has became stale because everyone was chasing the same lie.

Anymouse

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:09:02 +0000

Famine my arse...Call it what it was and always will remain....planned extermination and organised genocide by the Britlanders.. See Chris Fogarty's research and seminal work at his website below for the terrible truth that shames the Crown, its minions and the gullible who refuse to face their own history and the evil of John Bull's government across the water. Strange how WASPs with all their genocides and ethnic cleansing be they in America, Africa, India or Ireland never fess up and have again and again managed to bury the truth and dupe the credulous for so long, whereas the Hitler business rolls on and on and allows the xionnazi monster in the rump enitiy of occupied, apartheid Palestine to spin its permanent slow burn genocide against the true Semites of that unfortunate land. http://irishholocaust.org/

marcus

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 10:03:59 +0000

re:poster it'safluffy:: That story about Stalin's policy in Ukraine HAS been endlessly repeated by the CIA's "Operation Mockingbird" secret propaganda collusion with all the corporate media, but like much anti-communist "truth" we know, it aint so, & was originally manufactured by Nazi propganda & circulated widely by pro-Nazi & anti-communist (virtually all) U.S. media like the Hearst Empire, & by the CIA's smuggling of thousands of Nazi war criminals into media, academia,etc. after WW2. SEE "Lies Concerning the Soviet Union" "Grover Furr Montclair"

Cisco812

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 06:48:52 +0000

On the one hand you wonder why the Irish peasants didn't rise up in revolt. Then you realize that poor, starving people have no energy to expend and no weapons to use anyway.

tadzio

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 06:23:22 +0000

Corporations print textbooks to satisfy the demand of left wing teachers. The real culprit is the union that squeezes out all narratives except those that promote anti-American Marxism. Only Blacks and Jews have ever suffered. For some silly reason, slavery, which was universal, is the sole responsibility of Americans who sacrificed over a half million war deaths to eliminate it. The accept it or go to jail 6 million Jews are everything, the 8 million Ukrainians killed by the Jewish dominated count for nothing because they are White Christians. The author has identified the problem but he doesn't have a clue who causes it. the publishing houses are not the problem, the customers catered to are.

boomslang

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 04:31:15 +0000

Between 1945 and 1948 three million German civilians and one million prisoners of war were deliberately starved to death by the victorious allies. That is ALL the allies.

Itsafluffy

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:26:21 +0000

Super good to see this, being 5th generation Irish (and don't think the Scots-Irish, whether in Scotland or northern Ireland had it any differently...you do know that the majority of indentured servants in early America were Scots-Irish) and also Scots-Irish. Now, would ICH, a leftist site, mind telling the truth about how Stalin starved several million Ukrainians to force them into collectivisation in the 1930s? BTW, Stalin did what the Brits did: sell every last ounce of food confiscated from the starving Ukrainians abroad? It's okay, leftists, to tell the truth.

Jake

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 03:00:08 +0000

A good argument against textbooks. Many textbooks are written to please the big textbook purchasers (states that buy the same textbooks for all the schools in a state, like Texas). If they don't want something in it, it usually is taken out and vise versa. Then those same annotated texts are sold everywhere else. The good teacher doesn't rely on the textbook. He/she supplements with real world knowledge and truth as the author has done. That's getting tougher to do today with lock-step curriculum and standardized tests keyed, often, to the text.

VoxFox

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 02:45:18 +0000

The English Ruling Class (& their American cousins) are a death-oriented group that despises everyone else on the planet - they have done so for hundreds of years, hence the British & then US Empires. These groups currently hide behind the mask of giant corporations. They need to be rooted out & thrown on the trash-heap of history.

Ron

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 02:26:09 +0000

The hatred the British must have had for the very poor Irish they ground under their feet is something of a puzzlement. Food shipped from America by the Quakers was not allowed into Irish ports by the British. It had to be transferred to British bottoms before entry. God bless the Irish. I'm not one of them except in my heart.

jan36

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 01:20:33 +0000

Whats in these words ? famine / genocide maybe its blame or fault . I contest that prince-ably ittle has changed FOR THE BETTERMENT OF HUMANITY since 1840's. PRIVATE Corporate entities stalk and pillage the planet at will , programmed to maximize profits .Lying is '' the Art of spinning '' The avaricious is pure and in its core / heart a simplicity ,understood by all who breath or who wish to breath . I believe man is unique in the application of CAPITALISM . this capitalism is fueled by greed , Its principle enemy is community , The Irish peasants of 160 years ago we're superfluousness for a variety of reasons just like the present daily death toll of darker skins , racism is within the armory of capitalism, the Irish peasant we'er depicted in caricature as primates. i D'ONT HAVE THE ANSWER TO Hep INOCULATE humanity but i am understanding my enemy . Happy St Patrick's Day xxxx

refirex

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:44:38 +0000

Similar to the deliberate destruction of the buffalo in order to wipe out the plains Indians.

Chris & Mary Fogarty

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:30:51 +0000

Grarifying to see this piece of truth-telling. For more see my www.irishholocaust.org. Be sure to click on its map to learn which Brit reg't starved your relatives.

hypatia

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:52:03 +0000

then they had to go through the nightmare of ellis island and being checked for admission to the US, some being denied entry. There was no food stamps for the lucky Irish that were admitted into the US. No free housing and no free healthcare. Of any immigrants to the US, it was the people at this time that came here that I admire the most for their endurance and patience with the bigotry that met them by the WASP. They really had to fend for themselves, unlike the over-weight illegal immigrants of today that stand in grocery line ahead of you and whip out their welfare card to pay for their cart of groceries and then open their wallet brimming with 100 dollar bills to pay for the stereo and other non-food items (its like they want you to see all their cash, because they make a big effort to flash it around). There's been quite a few murders of whites of this magnitude and larger in history. Mostly it gets shoved under the carpet, but it's good to remember that victims of genocide and ethnic cleansing come in all colors. There was also the Russian one that Stalin did killing something like 20 million Christian russians. Humanity never learns. Pearson: Glad he brought Pearson up. Pearson is in the business of propaganda too. The 10th anniversary of 9/11 gave them the opportunity to make some big bucks: This article is from the now dead American Pendulum, which was destroyed by some sly ones. Used to be good site but they still have some of the old articles and this one is perfect about Pearson: http://www.americanpendulum.com/2011/09/01/pearso... here is Pearson's Learning Guide in PDF format: http://www.onlinelearningexchange.com/content/ass...

Ironhead

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 23:15:15 +0000

"Let them eat their children. It will kill two birds with one stone..." Queen Victoria

Frank

Thu, 15 Mar 2012 22:42:32 +0000

Contrast the treatment (or lack of it) with copious materials on the holocaust.