Forums › Life › Politics, Media & Current Events › irish famine…………
since there was a good debate about it, and a tread about brining it back i thought id start a topic on it,
The Famine was the single biggest social catastrophy of the nineteenth centry. and as a result of it, 1.5 million Irish men, women, and children emigrated , hence thats why you always hear folk sayingh when they hear an Irish accent, yeah i have irish in me, like 1.5 million Irish folk went all over the world, that with the death toll, didn’t leavre many Irish at home.
a staggering 1 million died – this out of a population of around 8 million people. In the years following the Famine, emigration continued unabated until the island’s population was roughly half of what it had been in the pre-Famine period.
Given the extraordinary role that the Famine has played in Irish history, it is suprising that there has been very little public memorialization of the disaster.
please carry on, and keep iit civil.
Hiya TR, welcome to PV!:bigsmile:
I saw Gangs of New York the other day, i thought it that had quite a few nice moments, tho it was very violent. Daniel Day Lewis was absolutely awesome.
Obviously, I don’t generally rely on hollywood for my history (there was a historical documentry on the DVD as well!), but it was interestin that the emigrants seemed to have it quite tough, from the moment they got off the boats. It was ‘out of the fire, into the frying pan’, in a way.
Seems the ‘Fairytale of New York’ goes back along way.
The other thing that was really notable, was the amazing level of corruption depicted, as I thought the US started with a healthy dose of idealism. Apparently not. I think countries don’t change as much as we might want to believe.
There you go, civil as you like.:love:
not the debate i was expecting, civil as it was.:wink:
Sorry, i’d have to disagree with you first!
0
Voices
2
Replies
Tags
This topic has no tags
Forums › Life › Politics, Media & Current Events › irish famine…………