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

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Joe Canning

#376 An overall view on the opinions of the people who have signed this petition and commented.

2014-06-04 00:29

Thank you all for your wonderful support and comments. It shows your depth of feeling and even anger sometimes regarding the subject. Please help the petition even more by sharing and recommending it to your friends and asking them to share and sign (if they agree with the petition) and increase the signatures by asking their pals to do the same. A big, big, thank you to all so far. Please help us reach the big 5,000...... Joe Canning, one of 3 site admins.

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#377

2014-06-04 11:31

everyone who reads this petition should sign it. the english almost wiped out the whole population of ireland and called it a famine, when in fact it was mass murder........

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#378

2014-06-04 23:59

The victors always right the history, but the truth will always come out. The time for the truth is now.

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#379

2014-06-07 09:42

Good work let the truth be known

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#380

2014-06-08 15:55

For the Irish people and all oppressed peoples regain their dignity

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#381

2014-06-08 19:51

After all these years we need to admit to the truth. What happened in Ireland was not a famine but The Great Hunger. A deliberate attempt to annihilate the Irish people by the English. It was an attempted Genocide. LET'S CALL A SPADE A SPADE AND TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH AT LAST!

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#382

2014-06-08 20:26

History should never be re written in order to salve the conscience of the guilty.The truth should be told in honour of the families who suffered.

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#383

2014-06-09 00:08

My great-grandfather left County Cork so that there would be one less mouth to feed. He went to London, married, and then came to the US, where he faced hatred and discrimination.

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#384

2014-06-09 02:57

ENOUGH IS ENOUGH... THE TRUTH MUST BE SHOWN OUT!

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#385

2014-06-09 09:25

Yes The famine was used to exterminate people, the Crown gave more money to the building of a horse racing course in Ireland than famine relief.
Today the mass emigration from here is often used to justify inward emigration.
Our people did not emigrate to take advantage of a social welfare system, they emigrated to work and help those left behind to survive.This is also the case today our emigrent's emigrate to work not draw welfare.

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#386

2014-06-09 12:41

It's about time. It seems that every other ethnic group have receive restitution of for the wrongs of the past. It's high time we Irish take up the fight!

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#387

2014-06-09 13:35

I remember History 'A' Levels and Irish history was skimmed over with the usual soundbites and (what I've now come to see as) lies. And this was in a Christian Brother school. What a disgrace.

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#388

2014-06-09 16:18

This is why I live in the U.S. and not in Ireland my family came here during and never went back

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#389

2014-06-09 17:29

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

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#390

2014-06-11 11:47

In memory of my Great Great Great Grandmother Dorinda Saltry who came to Australia as an Irish famine orphan on the "Lady Kennaway" in 1848 aged 15, alone after she lost all of her family. She managed to have 9 children in Melbourne before she died at the young age of 34 years.

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#391

2014-06-11 18:48

This is a travesty. It is clear that our history texts continue to ignore unpleasant truths in favor of the victor. Shall we set the record straight then?

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#392 Re:

2014-06-11 18:49

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and I have a Campbell ancestor, one Andrew Campbell born in Ireland, not sure when precisely, left there for America. Can't help wondering when exactly and if it was at all related to this or what other atrocity?


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#393

2014-06-12 11:10

The great hunger and the slave trade and the church abuse are important parts of our history that need to be told in schools and understood so that the true history of Ireland can be written. Only then can the Irish regain true dignity and the long awaited healing begin.

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#394

2014-06-12 17:40

As a person of ancestral linage from both cultures, I well believe we should teach real history, not the sugar coated untruths.

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#395

2014-06-13 00:05

On behalf of my ancestors in Donegal....a grateful thanks to the Choctaw nation.

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#396

2014-06-13 06:02

Too much of our history has been AIRBRUSHED by civil war politicians in Dublin.Time is now and the people are hitting back.This is a war of attrition and no true Irishman or Woman must take this lying down.Share this plea.It is one small sling in the hands of the people.Use it and watch the true Ireland emerge from the mists of time.Go raib mile mait agat.

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#397

2014-06-13 19:35

Only when we learn from our mistakes can we be enlightened human beings in the future.

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#398

2014-06-13 22:00

Much of history is lies ..written by the victors...This needs to change....This so-called famine was genocide...period...

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#399

2014-06-14 10:35


My 2 children are married with IRISH ,and i will have soon grndchildren who will be Irish ;so i am concerned by the History of tuis counrty ,and also because i am Corsican!

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#400

2014-06-14 21:06

the government who provoked this genocide should think about it today