Hem
Secrist skrev: ett resultat av missväxten i kombination med de brittiska myndigheternas otillräckliga respons.
otillräcklig respons ????? Jävla mörkläggning ! Det finns massvis "ickekommunistiskt" att läsa om detta.
The Almighty, indeed, sent the potato blight, but the English created the Famine.
http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Den_stora_sv%C3%A4lten_p%C3%A5_Irland
Potatispesten spred sig även till övriga Europa, men fick inte samma förödande resultat som i Irland då befolkningen i övriga Europa hade fler valmöjligheter i sitt födointag.
Befolkningen i Irland var i mycket större utsträckning beroende av potatis jämfört med övriga europeiska länder, trots att Irlands bönder odlade många andra grödor och Irland var en av de största exportörerna av mejeriprodukter i Europa.
Väldigt många av de irländska bönderna var tvungna att betala orimliga hyror för sina arrenderade marker, och när potatispesten förstörde deras basföda fanns det ingen buffert för att betala hyror.
Bönderna tvingades lämna sina hem och mark och miljontals svalt vid sidan av vägen eller flydde landet helt.
1845 hörde den osmanske sultanen Abdülmecid l talas om den stora hungersnöd som drabbat Irland. Han bestämde sig att donera 10 000 pund till det irländska folket. Men när drottning Victoria hörde om detta protesterade hon och krävde att sultanen bara skulle skicka 1 000 pund eftersom hon själv hade skickat 2 000 pund.
Sultanen skickade 1 000 pund men skickade även tre (i vissa källor fem) skepp fulla med mat och förnödenheter till landet. De osmanska skeppen närmade sig Dublins hamn. Men de engelska myndigheterna tillät de inte att komma i hamn.
http://www.wolfetonesofficialsite.com/famine.htm
Bad / Cruel government
Bad government was the major cause of the famine, Ireland was treated as a colony not as an equal and used for the benefit of England. During the famine laws and legislation were passed which favoured their interest over Irelands. They adopted a policy of lazes fare, free trade and non-interference.
Ireland was not the only land effected by potato blight but every other country managed to save its population. Why did it not happen in Ireland? Some countries closed their ports to exports and imported substitute foods, some from Ireland.
The Irish party proposed these same measures plus many other positive suggestions. Why did the English government not adopt them?
O’Connell asked them to leave the oats, to tax absentee landlords, use the proceeds of the forests and to put people to work on productive schemes. Not one of these proposals was adopted.
The government failed the people by not providing the means or measures to save them from starvation. They used the famine to solve the problem as they saw it of overpopulation and poverty.
They had felt their power challenged by the repeal movement and the sheer numbers that rallied around it. English officials were also frightened of the vast numbers of Ireland’s population.
They allowed the famine to occur because they saw an opportunity to reduce the population, to punish Ireland, and bring it back under its control.
Prior to the famine mass emigration was proposed as a remedy to the Irish question of poverty and population control. The idea had been abandoned because the logistics of moving so many people to British North America were thought to be too great. They took advantage of the potato blight to implement policies to achieve their aims and settle the Irish problem permanently.
In a address to the house of commons Lord George Bentinck said that” never before was there an instance of a Christian government allowing so many people to perish without interfering. The time will come when we shall know what the amount of mortality’s been when the public and the world will be able to estimate, at its proper value your management of affairs in Ireland”
John Russell
He was disastrous for Ireland and the lives and suffering of millions must be charged to his name. He could have at least followed the example of Peel and brought in a substitute to relieve the market, instead this political economist presided over a policy of free trade at the expense of human life and misery.
He had his soldiers shoot down hunger maddened peasants who were trying to prevent there food from leaving the land .
He bankrupted the landowners and farmers by wasting there money on useless schemes. At the height of the famine he closed the public works to phase in soup kitchens and left thousands of families to starve during the period of transition.
The Society of Friends forewarned him of the devastation it would cause but he chose to ignore them. He could have used the encumbered estates to implement land reform instead he chooe a policy to encourage English and Scottish settlers.
He wasted Irish money on providing and supporting extra police and military, not for the people’s protection but to subdue and force them to submit to starvation.
When the people fought back he disarmed them proclaimed whole districts and made them prisoners in there own homes. He increased the fares for steerage passenger to England to prevent the hungry poor from escaping there and made Ireland a prison for them, without food.
He presided over the mass exodus of her people, to North America that was unprecedented at the time. Forced in many cases to take sub standard ships under provisioned and unfit for human transportation. He refused to provide money and assistance to help the government of Canada cope with the huge influx of sick and dying flung on their shores.
He watched as millions starved to death without helping. He gave a deaf ear to the cries of children. It was unknown in the world to put people through such agonising torture over such a long period of time. Some of his own officials described it as a policy of extermination and it is very difficult to see it otherwise.
Ireland a Colony
Under the colonial system there was a shortage of cash in the country. The crops and produce were exported but so too was the money gained by the sale, in the form of rents to absentees. Ireland contributed vast sums to the imperial treasury in tax money held over and above what was spent in the country. Irish taxes went to support their wars and expansionist policies across the world but in return received none of the benefits. The proceeds from the forests were claimed as the property of the crown and used during a time of famine to build Trafalgar square and to beautify Windsor castle, every resource was taken from Ireland leaving widespread destitution and starvation behind. Yes the usual food left for the Irish failed but why were the other crops exported. No substitute food was provided and when available they were insufficient. What were the people expected to live on?
There was no shortage of food but it was exported because under the system there was a shortage of money in Ireland to purchase it. In desperation during the early stages People were forced to sell everything they possessed to buy food, their cloths, cooking utensils, their turf and implements of trade, thus worsening their chances of future survival.
The little money that was available in the country was spent on imported meal, brought thousands of miles across land and sea, giving huge profits to merchants and ship owner. Then sold to a starving Irish people who had little money at greatly inflated prices. Money was spent on emigration drained the resources and gave further profits to ship owners.
These are the results of the actions of uncaring and vindictive colonial governments that put selfinterest over human life and suffering.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_%28Ireland%29
In an article on "English Rule" on 7 March, Mitchel wrote that the Irish People were "expecting famine day by day" and they attributed it collectively, not to "the rule of heaven as to the greedy and cruel policy of England."
He continued in the same article to write that the people "believe that the season as they roll are but ministers of England's rapacity; that their starving children cannot sit down to their scanty meal but they see the harpy claw of England in their dish." The people, Mitchel wrote, watched as their "food melting in rottenness off the face of the earth," all the while watching "heavy-laden ships, freighted with the yellow corn their own hands have sown and reaped, spreading all sail for England."
Mitchel later wrote one of the first widely circulated tracts on the famine, The Last Conquest of Ireland (Perhaps) in 1861. It established the widespread view that the treatment of the famine by the British was a deliberate murder of the Irish and contained the famous phrase:
The Almighty, indeed, sent the potato blight, but the English created the Famine.
Du har dock förmodligen inga problem att heja på drottningens sjörövare, den största förtryckarorganisation som någonsin existerat, det Brittiska imperiet !
Må någon borra den jävla ön i sank
Irländarna lär aldrig vare sig glömma eller förlåta
By a lonely prison wall
I heard a young girl calling
Micheal they are taking you away
For you stole Trevelyn's corn
So the young might see the morn.
Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay.
Low lie the Fields of Athenry
Where once we watched the small free birds fly.
Our love was on the wing we had dreams and songs to sing
It's so lonely 'round the Fields of Athenry.
By a lonely prison wall
I heard a young man calling
Nothing matters Mary when you're free,
Against the Famine and the Crown
I rebelled they ran me down
Now you must raise our child with dignity.
Low lie the Fields of Athenry
Where once we watched the small free birds fly.
Our love was on the wing we had dreams and songs to sing
It's so lonely 'round the Fields of Athenry.
By a lonely harbor wall
She watched the last star falling
As that prison ship sailed out against the sky
Sure she'll wait and hope and pray
For her love in Botany Bay
It's so lonely 'round the Fields of Athenry.
Low lie the Fields of Athenry
Where once we watched the small free birds fly.
Our love was on the wing we had dreams and songs to sing
It's so lonely 'round the Fields of Athenry.
