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Why do most Irish people deny the genocide of the 1840's?

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  • #252
    Denerick
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 6,488 ✭✭✭Denerick


    Its unfortunate that for every person who has thought and debated about this, ten more will come along with an internet assembled opinion and opine about something they know very little about. Enough to make you misanthropic :(


  • #253
    Wolfe Tone
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    donegalfella wrote: »
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    Obviously it would have been better if it had never happened at all, but do you not think that the govt of the day should have distributed foodstuffs, aid etc to the starving peasant? They had a moral duty to do so, and didn't.


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    Permabear
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  • #255
    tomasocarthaigh
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    existential wrote: »
    Agree with the above. It was of course genocide but this has been and will continue to be brushed under the carpet for the sake of political expediency. I don't think our Govt will ever officially recognise it for what it was, privately i'm sure they do. A lot of Irish people choose to believe it wasn't a genocide, but that is counter to the facts. They probably don't want to believe it more to the point. The British Government were responsible for a lot of wrongs throughout their rule of Ireland but the Great Genocide of the 1840s was perhaps their most evil, vile act, resulting in over a million deaths.
    Fogarty strikes me as beyond militant... from the right wing of republicanism. We have to accept that to spite all the fine talk of the Union, we still were a colony to be exploited and used by the British at will.

    They were a parasite from us the same as the USSR was of the Ukraine... which incidently while sending food everywhere else lost millions in a famine...

    Was that genocide?

    Some dude came up with the term "democide" for such happenings.

    We have to hand it to fogarty for his research though, its top notch. Im just cautios about his agenda. If hes just republican... cool. Millitant... no problem... stormfrontesque... big problem.


  • #256
    tomasocarthaigh
    Registered Users Posts: 221 ✭✭tomasocarthaigh


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBNNKFR_Qgk


    The poem above was read at the AOH Famine Memorial in Boston, USA by Kevin Durant. It goes a small way towards a tribute to the victims.


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