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

My great great grandmother was kicked off her land in Co. Kilkenny several years after her husband died in the famine. I saw the British land census for 1849 - 1850. In 1849, she was listed as the resident, and others with the same last name were on surrounding properties. In 1850, the designation on all of them is "land empty, house down". The owner was James Scully, Esq. The families made their way to the coast and eventually to the U.S. Another gr. gr. gr. grandmother, born 1830 in Thinvaun, Co. Kilkenny, wound up in the U.S. also. I visited Thinvaun and talked to some of the people there. There are few farmers in the area to this day, and these people said there were thousands before the Hunger. I will never let go of this. There was sufficient food in Ireland. The British took it out. They knew people were starving. Like the U.S. Republican party of today, they would rather people die than do anything to help them. Despicable.