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

Tim Pat Coogan's book The Famine Plot: England's Role In Ireland's Greatest Tragedy, fully explains why it was in England's best interests to delibrately starve the Irish. Our Irish culture is much older than England's or France. The Irish taught the English to read and write. How many Irish are aware of THAT fact that has been suppressed? It appears to me that the English were the ignorant, barbaric people here, not the Irish. Also Thomas Cahill wrote a book called "How the Irish Saved Civilization"; tis sad that they saved England. Ireland had plenty of food during the Great Hunger. It was WITHHELD at gunpoint and sent to England to feed their fat guts. What is also seldom discussed is that the potato blight also happened in Scotland. Why did the Scots fare so much better? Because England wanted to end the small farmers and instead use Ireland for grazing cattle. Cottages were ripped apart with the people still inside. Roofs were torn off so that people in Ireland had no place to go. The reason? They could not pay their rent because they were starving which, again, was a delibrate plan on England's part to rid themselves of what they considered a 'lower class of people'. Really? I would like to see the TRUTH not only about the Great Hunger in Ireland and why it didn't affect Scotland as much which also had a potato blight, but the genocide that was done to the Irish should be known far & wide. It wasn't the lack of potatoes which caused all the Irish deaths. It was the taking of their food- cattle, pigs, chickens and grains by FORCE by the English. Were/are the English too stupid to know how to grow their own? Or too lazy? This FACT needs to be in every schoolbook. If the English think they did no wrong, why are they trying to hide it? The deaths and forced immmigration of over 3 MILLION people is shameful and I will continue to voice my opinion on this until it is resolved. England, the Queen, should be held for crimes against humanity - genocide - which. under the UN Conventions a punishable crime. England should pay every Irish person a decent amount to make up for what they did. Crimes of this nature should not go without consequences. England forbade the Irish to speak Gaelic, teach the children (thus the hedge schools) practice their choice of religion or honor their ancient culture, which is far older than England's or France, at all. The same happened in Scotland. They made it against the law for them to wear their traditional garb, the kilt or keep their culture. Yet the Irish and Scots managed to keep the 'old ways' alive despite England's attempt to impose their so called 'culture' on everyone else. Records can easily be checked to prove how much food was being removed from Ireland during the Great Hunger and shipped to England, again, at GUNPOINT. It does not take a great mind to figure out that this was delibrate starvation of an innocent people who had been doing well before England took over. Ireland is a proud country and we will not bow to any queen unless she is 100% Irish. We have no reason to. We had the Brehon Laws which were quite sophisticated compareed to anything England had at the time. Ireland has IT'S OWN CULTURE. We are not nor do we want to be English. We want the facts of the Great Hunger known worldwide, just as the Jewish Holocaust is known worldwide. The Irish Holocaust is no different. Tony Blair's apology in 1997 stunted the growth of historical revisionism. Professor Joseph Lee has written "The external examiners in all Irish Universities came from England. Irish historians of that generation were bound to be conscious of the widespread English assumption that they might be prone to wild flights of Celtic fancy that any claims that sounded remotely exaggerated were in danger of being dismissed as extravagant. There may therefore have been a tendancy to counter this image by insisting on the sobriety of one's scholarship". In evading the horrors of "Celtic fancy", Irish historians have also left themselves open to a charge of evading the issue of British decision makers's responsibility for the Great Hunger. Here is a short historical example of the suffering of ONE family out of the millions: Nora Connelly was a peasant woman in Ireland and was hungry and ill-clothed, yet she walked several miles over rocky Kerry hillsides to get food for her children from a workhouse. However, she was turned down because her name was not on the 'list' of those who were to be given food. When Nora stumbled back to her cottage, she found that four of her children had DIED of starvation. Just another example of the delibrate bumbling idiocy of the English. Later is was discovered that her name should have been on the list but a CARELESS 'official' had given her a wrong name. There were many such officials. To quote Tim Pat Coogan's book, The Famine Plot: "...for many years Irish people had only the haziest notion of what happened during the Great Hunger, or indeed, how the Irish themselves can sometimes be blamed for what occurred. In some respects the silence of the Great Hunger survivors and that of their decedents on what happened during the Great Hunger resembles the guilty silence that the horror of the Holocaust imposed on some Jewish survivors of the camps." End quote. Genocide against the Irish can no longer be hidden or denied by the English. It was not the lack of potatoes that killed so many Irish. It was the delibrate stealing OF THEIR OWN FOOD to fill fat English landlords stomachs that killed them. And the English KNEW it. The Great Hunger should be in EVERY textbook in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales.

If England thinks it has a UK it cannot cherry pick what FACTS to print and what FACTS to not print. The truth is out and it is spreading like wildfire. Most of the world is quite aware of the cruelty of the English towards India and China, to name just a few. Irish people deserve to have their children learn of the English's cruelty and genocide. I would like to reiterate that the head of state in England is responsible for this crime and should be convicted of crimes against humanity! Under the UN rules, this is a punishable crime. England does not rule the waves any longer. They have no power. Their sins are coming home to roost. Make them pay for their crimes. Make them admit they were wrong. Make them compensate every Irish person for what they did. Make the Loyalists leave Northern Ireland and go to their queen. Ireland has no room for those who bow to the queen. They are Orangeman and have no place in Ireland, no will ever. If the Orangeman think they are Irish, watch them on St. Patrick's Day. By the way, the Anglican church was created by Henry the VIII so that he could divorce his wife. Anglicans are very close in style and beliefs to the Catholic church. The only thing they lack is a Pope - their 'pope' is the archbishop of Canterbury. Ireland has suffered too long under the yoke of the english. It is time for truth about the Gorta Mor, Great Hunger, and time to make Ireland one country with all 32 counties intact, and abolish Northern Ireland and it's loyalists back to where their kind originated: England. I want to see the Emerald Island united as it was under Brian Boru, run by 100% Irish, not loyalists and I want to see the facts of the Great Hunger published and acknowledged everywhere. The English can no longer lie and deceive anyone that they are innocent in this genocide. It is an Irish Holocaust and should be known as such worldwide. The Jews did not create the name holocaust nor do they own it.  Again, I will say: if the English think they did nothing wrong they should have no problem with making the facts of their genocide known. It is their guilt which prevents widespread knowledge of their crimes. Let the truth be known!! Erin go Bragh.