WHEN GENOCIDE BECAME "FAMINE" : IRELAND, 1845 - 1850

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#101

2014-02-11 12:30

I'm proud of what you are doing because this has been hidden away from us all for so long. It was never taught in schools and it's about time it was made part of children's education this must never be forgotten. Ireland's Holocaust.

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#102

2014-02-11 22:07

Only one Holocaust is fashionable for remembering these days, all the rest are either ignored or downplayed, the Irish Holocaust is one of them!

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#103

2014-02-12 03:18

It's past time to tell the truth about the "Great Genicide" in Ireland! It was not the potato famine that killed millions of the Irish but the British that shipped all the food out of Ireland at gunpoint!

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#104

2014-02-12 17:27

It's about time the reason why millions of Irish who starved during the famine was recognised and acknowledged.

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#105

2014-02-12 20:02

It is essential that the correct information about this tragedy be discovered, shared and understood by both historians and the general populace. This is our history and even when it seems too cruel and horrible, it must be recognized.

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#106

2014-02-13 03:06

No longer should this be addressed as 'The Famine'
it has been kept hidden for Far too long.Genocide is the correct term, no other!!

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#107

2014-02-15 11:32

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#108

2014-02-15 22:58

When the English turned their back on God they embraced Adam Smith's Invisible Hand with the same fervor the used to embrace the Ancient Faith. When faced with a moral situation, An Gorta Mor, they lacked the requisite tools (informed morality) to address the situation. Instead, their God of the Invisible Hand decided death was the answer.

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#109

2014-02-16 20:49

i support ireland

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#110

2014-02-17 11:50

even though many many years have passed,back then irish people had no voice,now we do,and i feel someone should be held accountable for,in the memory of those people who died,when they had no need to die

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#111

2014-02-18 11:11

I am an American, and have always learned of the false story of the 'famine'. The truth must be told. Too much suffering hapoened and the true story will honour all those who died during The Great Hunger (An Gorta Mor).

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#112

2014-02-19 03:35

This should be taught along with the Jewish Holocaust and Black History.No wonder our forefathers wanted to assimilate and forget all the pain.I agree and think the Irish Holocaust was the first of modern times.All that food sent out of Ireland, of course it was genocide.

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#113

2014-02-19 13:44

The truth needs to be told and the education needs to begin around this and all the other atrcities that happened to our people like being sold as slaves etc etc.

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#114

2014-02-19 17:13

I'm Italian and I love your country. My grandmother was Irish and I will always remember what she told me of the brit occupation of your lovely island...I still remember the lovely days I spent with my wife in Dublin, Cork, Dingle and Connemara! Love to all of you :) Mario.

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#115

2014-02-19 17:58

Historical fact validates the term Genocide. Charles Trevalyan, knighted for his deeds in the Irish Holocaust, confiscating aid sent by the USA and Ottoman Empire from reaching Catholics but not Protestants or Quakers; people forced into exile or sent to penal colonies for falling foul of hunger or landlords; Mass emigration; 2 million dead - 2 million forced to leave; enough food to feed between 13-18 million people stolen by the British Army at the barrel of a gun and sent over the Irish Sea. An axiom from the time read "Providence brought the Blight; England brought the Famine"... hopefully now in the history books it shall read "Providence brought the Potato Blight; England engineered Holocaust/Genocide vis-a-vis forced Starvation".

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#116

2014-02-19 19:28

Some of my family died .

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#117

2014-02-19 23:17

too many lies .

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#118

2014-02-20 01:00

Famine implies there was a lack of food. Nothing could be further from the truth. Russian peasants and other parts of Eastern Europe also suffered under the potato blight. There was no mass starvation because those countries STOPPED exporting food.

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#119

2014-02-20 12:10

glad ur putting on here

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#120

2014-02-23 02:12

This petition is very important to get it clarified that there was sufficient food for the Irish and their hunger and starvation were not due to a potato blight. I had heard for years about the mistreatment of the Irish by the British and how the British wanted to keep Ireland under its thumb.Changing the word "famine" to a more appropriate and honest word should be done. It's too long overdue. - Paula


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#121

2014-02-23 03:49

The damage still continues. A nation was torn apart The suffering was horrific.

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#122

2014-02-23 17:41

should it not be when famine became genocide

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#123

2014-02-23 22:56

WHAT THE ENGLISH DID WAS AND STILL IS DISGUSTING!!!! IT WAS AND STILL IS GENOCIDE!!! CALLING IT FAMINE MINMISES THE WHOLE ATROCITY. THE ENGLISH SHOULD BE ASHAMED!!

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#124

2014-02-24 05:20

It was definitely a genocide and not what we would call a famine nowadays. The people of Ireland and the memory of the ones who departed in those terrible times deserve the truth.

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#125

2014-02-24 16:50

Tiocfaidh ar la