The Famine
I love stepping outside the norm (for me) to learn. Today, someone posted a link on the Cork Genealogical Society Facebook page for a 10 minute clip about the potato blight, or the Great Famine. Whatever you decide to call it, I am fine with it. But always remember this, we can learn from many different places and You Tube should be on that list!
Below is a video that gives a lot of information about the famine in just one area of Ireland, with heart wrenching music by Sinead O’Connor.
Heart wrenching….Added to my bucket list is to pay respects to the famine victims at the cemetary in Skibbereen. Thanks for sharing!
Lisa,
I agree that it is a very heart wrenching video, not to mention the music. Someone posted it either on facebook or twitter and I knew I had to post it here as well. There are many video’s out there that I plan to share has well.
Thanks for reading and commenting, it is always appreciated.
What a moving and informative video! I had never seen any pictures of the great potato family, nor had I known anything about the “coffin ships” and the number of dead. More than a million dead and a million emigrated sounds like a kind of holocaust to me — and in this case, perhaps, a holocaust of neglect. Ireland’s bitterness toward the British has many causes.
I agree Mariann. So much that we can learn from the You Tube videos. There are so many out there on Ireland and the famine.
Thanks for reading and commenting, I appreciate it!
Teri..thanks for the response! I think our FB group from the CORK Genealogical society posted it. I think I first watched it there. Slainte!
That is probably where I got it from. Though after I watched it (a few times) I saw that there were a lot of great videos there on the Famine. I plan to watch some more and then post the ones I really like.
Thanks again for reading and taking the time to comment (on two posts) today!