Why Ireland Is Now Empty

2024 ж. 12 Мам.
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Today we look into Why Ireland's Land Is Now Empty, due to their drastic decrease in population over the last 200 years. We talk about how Ireland's history over British control, whilst also talking about topics such as the Great Famine.

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  • Hello everyone! I just released a new video about the Irish famine and how the Irish recovered, feel free to watch : kzhead.info/sun/d9iHkdKGboefl58/bejne.html

    @FactVoyageChannel@FactVoyageChannel2 ай бұрын
    • What century are ye looking at? 🤔 When ya have nothing to say 🤐

      @Mr09DJ@Mr09DJ2 ай бұрын
    • Thumbed-down. Go take a remedial Maths course, troll.

      @Juicexlx@Juicexlx2 ай бұрын
  • I am 70 years old. The population of the Republic of Ireland has doubled in my life time.

    @andrewmellon5072@andrewmellon50724 ай бұрын
    • You must live in Dublin.

      @Finglesham@Finglesham4 ай бұрын
    • @@Finglesham I live in County longford, between censuses 2016 and 2022 there was a 14% increase in population which is higher increase than Dublin. Possibly the housing in County Dublin is so expensive that immigrants are being forced to move to rural areas where homes are cheaper. The increase is due to immigration. Our family size has dropped from about 4 to 6 per family when I was young to 1.6 per Irish woman which is less than replacement which is 2.2. You did not take into account that prior to 1922 the census and figures were for the 32 counties, whole island, the figures you used later were for the 26 counties, of the Irish Republic. Which are about 1.5 million lower than the 32 county population.

      @andrewmellon5072@andrewmellon50724 ай бұрын
    • ROI was founded after the 1840ies famine and following emigration

      @henkvandervossen6616@henkvandervossen66164 ай бұрын
    • @@henkvandervossen6616 Dear Henk, Ireland all 32 counties was governed as part of the union of Wales, Scotland,England and Ireland from the act of Union about 1800 until 1922. Then the 26 counties became the Free state, independent of the Union which became The Republic of Ireland, or Eire, the other 6 counties remain with the Union. Best wishes Andrew.

      @andrewmellon5072@andrewmellon50724 ай бұрын
    • Ireland was one a farming shithole producing only cabbage and potatoes and still was able to feed 8.1 milions of people. Till potato plight came and people were unable to pay rent nor to feed themselves. This did not stop greedy landlords. Now Ireland is a Celtic Tiger, tax haven for international corporations, with huge GDP...but..only two centres of industry - Cork and Dublin, no real or reliable public transport, no improvement of life with modern technologies, no planes for urbanisation. Landlords make from from basic human needs. This time they are not English, they are fecking Irish, mostly. People live in dispersed setlements, transport on their own way, feeding on their own way. O.K., Boomers, during your life time the population of Ireland doubled, unfortunetely nothing else doubled except the price for living. Its is your fault.

      @luciamacakova7516@luciamacakova75164 ай бұрын
  • There is nowhere in Ireland where people 'don't live'. There are barren mountain lands and bogs that you can't build in. The rest is agricultural land and that is where food comes from - kind of important to us! Ireland is starting to overload now due to excess immigration with no planning for resources.

    @gearoiddom@gearoiddom4 ай бұрын
    • Immigration, asylum seekers and refugees are not proble, poor planning is and not having adequate rent caps and if you took your fingers out of your ears you would have heard that there are, by now, over 190K homes left vacant, 40% of which, again probably higher by now, have been vacant for over six years. Just like there is built in obsolescence in tech these days there is purposefully built scarcity in regards to homes to buy and/or rent, why? Well to drive up house prices and rents. Immigrants, asylum seekers and refugees are not the problem. There are more Irish immigrants around the world then there are in Ireland. The largest group of immigrants are Irish nationals returning home most of which were born in Ireland. The largest immigrant group in Ireland by nationality are from Great Britain, 2nd largest are EU/European and the rest are non European, most are from english speaking countries. Immigrants and especially asylum seekers and refugees are not the problem. At any given time there are about 10K asylum seekers/refugees, that's it, one of the lowest in Europe. The main problem are those that keep voting in the same two parties every other election and/or decade expecting a different result whilst also acting all shocked and surprised that the two parties they keep flip flopping on are the problem to Irelands problems due to ineptitude and inaction. Voting for the same two parties expecting a different result is the sign of insanity. Stop doing it. Try something different. Christ on a bike 🙄🤦🏼‍♂️

      @LeonVEKH@LeonVEKH4 ай бұрын
    • @@LeonVEKH Irish nationals returning home are exactly that, they’re not “immigrants”. Immigrants from UK have almost identical cultural values and beliefs. As do most Europeans. Neither Irish returning home, UK nationals nor European immigrants are stabbing children in broad daylight.

      @earthsmoke9450@earthsmoke94504 ай бұрын
    • @@earthsmoke9450 Well said. He's a clown, as is the creator of this video. ÉIREANN is for na hÉIREANNAIGH AND WE WILL FIGHT AGAIN FOR IT.

      @Sionnach1601@Sionnach16014 ай бұрын
    • @@LeonVEKH Those Irish who left went chiefly to large empty new lands where they were crying out for manpower. They neither used deceit to enter, nor received handouts on arrival. Some weeks now Ireland takes in 500 unskilled people. A portion don't speak English properly and are economic basket cases. 20% of people in the state were not even born here. Through border mismanagement we're adding on something like the population of Limerick City yearly. There is no hope of keeping up with schools places, hospital beds, sewerage capacity etc. so we are digging a dreadful hole for ourselves going towards 2040. What crisis do people in power require to cop on? That count of 'empty' homes involves a huge amount of holiday homes, a right afforded to ordinary people even in the most niggardly misery of Soviet Union. Anyway, homes are required for our own youth in the coming decades. How foolish to give over housing stock now to any old opportunist flotsam and jetsam.

      @gearoiddom@gearoiddom4 ай бұрын
    • ​@@LeonVEKHLeon, three times or more you dogmatically stated that immigration is not the problem. Please open your eyes when you are out shopping, 10% of the population are visibly non-European, and another 20% are not Irish or British, the numbers of these foreign immigrants is rising quickly! Every Western country is having its identity, culture, sovereignty, and homeland quietly stolen from them by a government that puts destructive mass immigration as its longterm priority, even above the democratic will of the people. I think that you are not Irish and want to reassure yourself by diverting attention away from the immigration crisis.

      @noeldoyle4501@noeldoyle45014 ай бұрын
  • I live in Ireland and I tell you its very hard to go anywhere in Ireland without seeing a house

    @alii303@alii3034 ай бұрын
  • Ireland is not empty. There are 5.5 million people on a relatively small island. England /Wales is very over populated, Holland is also densely populated..

    @dechannigan2980@dechannigan29804 ай бұрын
    • Yes exactly we are well over the five million mark and climbing

      @margaretmorrissey4540@margaretmorrissey45404 ай бұрын
    • Well we can take up to 22million and feed ourselves into the bargain .

      @paulmcgorian5712@paulmcgorian57124 ай бұрын
    • 22? Ah shtop 😅

      @markphillips2571@markphillips25714 ай бұрын
    • If you are talking about the island of Ireland (as you are) the population of Ulster needs to be added, so 5.5 + 1.9 = 7.4 million i.e. roughly what it was before the famine. Despite Ulster having 2 of the most densely populated counties on the whole island it is still only 50% of England's population density.

      @asanulsterman1025@asanulsterman10254 ай бұрын
    • @@paulmcgorian5712 If the EU says you can take 22 million then that's the plan.

      @asanulsterman1025@asanulsterman10254 ай бұрын
  • Ireland is far from 'empty'. I'm British and I love visiting Ireland. If I wanted to live there then buying a property would be very expensive. I have Irish friends who used to live in Dublin but it became so expensive to live that they moved outside of the city to commute in.

    @andyhinds542@andyhinds5423 ай бұрын
    • And we always you

      @wolfthequarrelsome504@wolfthequarrelsome5043 ай бұрын
    • It is empty though, population is only 5.5 million .. about the third of Londons population

      @EpicAelflaed@EpicAelflaed3 ай бұрын
    • London/Population: 8.982 million (2019) @@EpicAelflaed The population of Ireland 7,185,600 (2023 estimate) if you mean the Republic of Ireland in 2024 is 5,089,478, a 0.64% increase from 2023. Either way maths is not your strong point! As Ireland has over 60% of the London population, and more than Wales or Scotland.

      @JamJam0189@JamJam01893 ай бұрын
    • @@JamJam0189 yes I was referring to the republic which is projected in the next year or so to be over 5.3 million so I said 5.5 as we are still at the beginning of 2024. Also I was comparing it to London which has a far larger population than the whole of Ireland. And before you send another ‘rude arrogant’ text - I am referring to London and Greater London population. I thought the Irish were friendly? You know - a thousand welcomes

      @EpicAelflaed@EpicAelflaed3 ай бұрын
    • You're reference to London and Ireland in the original message came across as you mocking Ireland and the low population. I thought the Irish were friendly, they are but forgive me I'm not Irish I'm one of those English straight talking people, my great grand parents moved from Ireland years ago I've been to Ireland many times since being very young and like it.@@EpicAelflaed

      @JamJam0189@JamJam01893 ай бұрын
  • While people died of hunger there was more than enough food being produced in Ireland to feed everyone. But deliberate British policy insisted on exporting it to Britain. At least a million people died the horrible death of starvation. In London it didn't really matter. They were just peasants. And in the main, the culprits, apart from British policy, were landlords,: those who had taken over Irish land and reduced the people to reliance on the potato to keep alive. But then the potato crop failed over several years and pitiless slow murder of a people was the result. Irish hearts still go out to the Choktaw Nation for the assistance they, in their own distress, gave to the starving Irish. It is hard not to see the Great Famine as the uncaring failure of Britain to save the lives of those it ruled. Indeed there are those in Ireland who see it as a casually and cynically exploited natural disaster that conveniently got rid of a lot of undesirables - Irish people - in what became a convenient genocide. Genocide is a harsh word. But what do you call callously letting a million people die and forcing another million to flee to escape death. by starvation. The final outcome is telling. A population of 8,000,000 in 1840 was reduced at the time of my birth (1943) to 4,000.000. So it is not acceptable simply to gloss over the matter and say that the Irish relied on the potato without saying why this was so, and why food was being exported in the face of mass starvation.

    @xotan@xotan4 ай бұрын
    • Funny how the report didn't mention that. The Ottomans also helped the Irish during the famine.

      @mirowestmaas4566@mirowestmaas45662 ай бұрын
    • ​@@mirowestmaas4566look at it again it mentioned them but never told the full story, the sultan tried to donate 10,000 pounds but the British government refused to accept it as queen Victoria had only gave 1,000 and they didn't want to embarrass her so they only accepted 1,000 😡

      @jerrymyphone5849@jerrymyphone58492 ай бұрын
    • @@jerrymyphone5849 wow thanks very interesting. I did think 1000 was a bit low.

      @mirowestmaas4566@mirowestmaas45662 ай бұрын
    • The most telling thing is when we hear that 4 ships of grain where sent by the Ottoman Sultan but the British stopped them. One only got through. Imagine being in the British Navy and ordering the ships to return. For me that's a picture of hell.

      @elauadeinsf@elauadeinsfАй бұрын
  • My daughter has gone to live in Dublin....from Birmingham City UK....she loves it 6 mins from beach... and now expecting a little irish baby...xxx

    @eileencorcoran3090@eileencorcoran30904 ай бұрын
    • Dublin is going to be like Birmingham uk very soon with the immigrants you’re receiving

      @EpicAelflaed@EpicAelflaed3 ай бұрын
    • You mean she’s expecting a baby - we are aware she will be born in Ireland My daughter was born in England though I wouldn’t say we’re expecting a little English baby 😂 too funny 🤣

      @EpicAelflaed@EpicAelflaed3 ай бұрын
    • Lol

      @Kk-bq8sw@Kk-bq8sw3 ай бұрын
    • @@amoxzi Though it is weird. If I posted on social media that I’ve just had a daughter - then posted “a little English baby” they would ask why I had to add that part in. People never say “I’ve just had a little Sudanese baby” or I’ve just had “a little German baby”. It’s something we never hear because it makes no sense to. Yeah a very odd thing to say. Why didn’t she just say “a little bundle” or something like everyone else? What does an Irish baby mean? Lots of babies are born in Ireland and the parents are from different countries

      @EpicAelflaed@EpicAelflaedАй бұрын
  • I live in in Ireland and hardly anybody has a holiday home the only people that do is the government

    @nendoroiddancing7361@nendoroiddancing73613 ай бұрын
  • Ireland's population has increased by 20% in the past 10 years, mostly through migration and immigration.

    @brianbozo2447@brianbozo24474 ай бұрын
    • And asylum seekers, fakeugees, scammers etc.

      @Scotia6261@Scotia62612 ай бұрын
    • Yes it's the worst plantation in irish history passing the Ulster by far

      @IrelandAbu@IrelandAbu2 ай бұрын
  • Under any such video , where the famine is mentioned, there inevitably are comments from Brits getting defensive. Look, the blame isn't against the people themselves but the government in Westminster. in those times Do remember that the ruling classes had millions of English, Scots and Welsh living in grinding poverty too, even at height of the empire. An empire that was largely built on hundreds of thousands of British military casualties while a relative few actually benefitted. The British authorities also didn't cause the potato blight. It was something that happened across Europe. But the catastrophic consequences in Ireland were down to discriminatory laws that resulted in so many people becoming dependent on that one crop. Remember too, that in the 1840's, Ireland was actually a part of the UK (or was supposed to be) yet quite clearly was treated differently. Again, ordinary British folk are not being blamed as their own forefathers struggled with oppressive laws that crushed workers rights and true democracy.

    @chelseacharger@chelseacharger4 ай бұрын
    • Bravo for a factual comment. The British Government PLUNDERED and colonized many countries. They were eventually eradicated from America and India, but the Irish are still struggling to be free of that burden. A shame too because Ireland is a beautiful country, quite capable of standing on their own.

      @kristinebailey6554@kristinebailey65544 ай бұрын
    • we love the ottomans and Choctaw in Ireland

      @wolfthequarrelsome504@wolfthequarrelsome5043 ай бұрын
    • The Irish, Scottish and Welsh won’t have heard what you have said. You’re English and therefore to be blamed for your past countrymen’s behaviour - and they require apologies from the English - our answer - I will apologise to ‘absolutely’ no one

      @EpicAelflaed@EpicAelflaed3 ай бұрын
    • @@EpicAelflaed I'm Irish. And as I said, it's the past actions of the government that have been criticised, so apologies are neither asked or expected from ordinary folk..

      @chelseacharger@chelseacharger3 ай бұрын
    • Discriminatory laws that caused dependence ? Not really . The biggest factor was the size of the average Irish family.Growing a population from 2m to 8m in a short time.The result was inability to feed people at a time of famine. ... The English provided many thousand of tons of aid.Shipswere constantly passing taking food one way and peoplr the other my Family were part of that The common idea that the English government was to blame was all part of the Irish authorities off loading some of the blame.

      @GrenvilleP710@GrenvilleP7103 ай бұрын
  • Had no idea Choctaw Nation and Ireland had a connection!!

    @wailingalen@wailingalen7 ай бұрын
    • Yes and during the recent C19 pandemic when we were suffering on the Navajo Nation to get water and other basic supplies, Ireland made much appreciated donations.

      @19erik74@19erik747 ай бұрын
    • @@19erik74 We respect the native american nations a lot and we see that they suffer from the US government negligence.

      @robsmithadventures1537@robsmithadventures15377 ай бұрын
    • There was a lot of Irish and Scottish and Welsh slave traders,in fact per head of population those countries combined had more slavers than England.

      @mjh5437@mjh54374 ай бұрын
    • Going back most countries had slaves

      @noelfleming3567@noelfleming35674 ай бұрын
    • ​@@mjh5437what is a "slaver" - and why were the English so bad at it?

      @paulduffy4585@paulduffy45854 ай бұрын
  • We have mass imigration but no affordable housing we have a huge problem incoming. The gov are obsessed with asylum seekers and are trying to spread them all across the land. The people are getting annoyed with it all and there will be big trouble.

    @andrewmoran357@andrewmoran3574 ай бұрын
    • Sure Ireland has had the highest number of Migrants in all of Europe, are the Irish all going to go back home?

      @georgebarnes8163@georgebarnes81634 ай бұрын
  • Actually, Ireland is FULL. I can easily believe that saying Ireland is "empty" here is actually propaganda to support the argument for unrestrained immigration.

    @easttowest7839@easttowest78393 ай бұрын
  • I’m 52 and population has increased by 2 million people since I was 9.😮 🇮🇪

    @dazza9859@dazza98594 ай бұрын
    • Look at the figures in the latest NDP which was released by the government to little fanfare during the panic and confusion of the so-called pandemic. 😩☘

      @brackloon4584@brackloon45843 ай бұрын
  • Very well put together, I enjoyed it. On the Turkish Sultan who donated £1000, he actually donated a lot more but because his original amount was more than Queen Victoria had donated, he was advised to downscale it so not to insult the monarch..

    @johnpower9550@johnpower95507 ай бұрын
    • Yes, I read about that whilst doing my research! Very interesting...

      @FactVoyageChannel@FactVoyageChannel7 ай бұрын
    • What the same Ottoman Turks who massacred hundreds of thousands Armenian Christian’s ?

      @Stand663@Stand6634 ай бұрын
    • Local flag of Drogheda had an Islamic crescent in it as an honor to the sultan.

      @tedcrilly46@tedcrilly464 ай бұрын
    • *has

      @tedcrilly46@tedcrilly464 ай бұрын
    • People forgot the Barbary slave trade very quickly. The whole of Europe, had the potato blight, food was hard to get. There was a lot of food sent by the British Government maze from the new world, soup kitchens. The way the law was in Ireland-the local land owner had to pay for the poor, in his parish. That's why they had to sell their grain to England. The potato famine was complex, a lot of BS talked about it as it was used as propaganda to stir up anti British hate.

      @catfootball592@catfootball5924 ай бұрын
  • Far less controversial than the other comments I've read is the undeniable beneficiaries of it all - the United States and Canada. The contribution of Irish immigrants and their descendants to both nations cannot be overestimated. Nor can the opportunities both nations have afforded people of Irish origin. Often the best things happen for the wrong reasons.

    @BlueBaron3339@BlueBaron33394 ай бұрын
  • The little natural ice age mentioned from the 1300s to the 1800s is important in understanding how the slight global warming since the mid 1800s , is not "man-made". The IPCC only counts from the mid 1800s and onwards. Several regions in Scandinavia were colder than usual in october and parts of september this year btw according to scientific data. The media tried to say otherwise

    @KibyNykraft@KibyNykraft5 ай бұрын
    • from 1300's to 1800's was before the Industrial Revolution. Man made global climate change has occurred since then. What you say makes no sense (but you already knew that)

      @updistant705@updistant7054 ай бұрын
    • KibyNykraft Great comment and true, the fake health emergency and fake climate emergencies are being used by those behind the UN as a means for them to take the world for themselves with mass Genocide planned.

      @elliegreen4738@elliegreen47384 ай бұрын
    • Ridiculous statement there are 8 billion people on the planet today. During their time they were probably about 450 million people on the planet. You guys just don’t stop with this ridiculousness that don’t have an effect on the climate and today’s day and age, sit down buddy.

      @jgg59@jgg594 ай бұрын
    • What bullshit, have a look at the graph that he showed at 3:10. The big spike on the right is natural??? Keep your head buried in the sand.

      @markreid1932@markreid19324 ай бұрын
    • What point are you trying to make? Nobody claims man made climate change predates the Industrial Revolution!

      @donfalcon1495@donfalcon14954 ай бұрын
  • I was at the Manchester children's hospital few years ago and met a wonderful Irish nurse she told me how life was difficult in Ireland eventually she chose to move to the uk 🇬🇧 just hope ireland as a nation can do well they are wonderful human beings

    @waqasahmad8015@waqasahmad80156 ай бұрын
    • hahahahaha,I`m Irish and I assure you there`s lots of really terrible Irish people too🤣

      @mjh5437@mjh54374 ай бұрын
    • Speaking of childrens hospitals, Ireland has one of the most expensive in the world. That doesnt mean its one of the best, just one of the most expensive. Its our Berlin airport, one of those money pit projects that just wont win.

      @tedcrilly46@tedcrilly464 ай бұрын
    • @@tedcrilly46 thank you for your kind information

      @waqasahmad8015@waqasahmad80154 ай бұрын
    • The North has wonderful human beings the south not so.

      @catfootball592@catfootball5924 ай бұрын
    • ​@@catfootball592 Yes, all those DUP Neanderthals with their bonfires and effigies - good people.

      @spencerburke@spencerburke4 ай бұрын
  • Thank you for this overview! I look forward to more of it.

    @clairejeannette8454@clairejeannette84543 ай бұрын
  • the very next video being suggested to me on the right hand side of screen is "ireland is full"

    @lancehobbs8012@lancehobbs80123 ай бұрын
  • A well put together video, and you got the pronunciation of Drogheda pretty much spot on!

    @TheHorsebox2@TheHorsebox24 ай бұрын
  • Interesting video. Emigration to North America is frequently mentioned in videos and books on the Irish Potato Famine, but many more emigrated to Great Britain at that time, (source: "The Great Hunger. Ireland 1845-1849" by Cecil Woodham-Smith. Chapter 11.) The reason is pretty obvious when you think about it.

    @daviddavis7710@daviddavis77104 ай бұрын
    • There was never an actual famine in Ireland. Masses of food were produced in Ireland and exported. The poor were just left to starve.

      @denisescally7090@denisescally70904 ай бұрын
    • @@denisescally7090 Quite right but my point is also correct. Between 1845 and 1850, many more Irish people migrated to Great Britain than to America to escape starvation.

      @daviddavis7710@daviddavis77104 ай бұрын
    • @@daviddavis7710 I'm Irish descent living in Scotland. Certainly a lot of us about 👍

      @denisescally7090@denisescally70904 ай бұрын
    • @@retiredbore378 You're old enough to have a dictionary. You're old enough to know better. Look up famine - it won't say anything about politics.

      @straighttalking2090@straighttalking20904 ай бұрын
    • @@retiredbore378 What a presumptuous bore you are (of course that could mean anything in your mindscape). So you 'knew development aid workers'.. is that an an attempt to impress or hold some relevance? You're 'old enough to have studied economics' - wow! What does that make you.. 16? You are a perfect example of how talk can be meaningless. You need more than a decent dictionary. Oh and as for disasters - I lived through two.. but what would you know.

      @straighttalking2090@straighttalking20904 ай бұрын
  • The revised census of 1841 was more like 8.8 million and the probable real population in 1846 was 12.5 million...

    @danocinneide1885@danocinneide18854 ай бұрын
    • Agree with your figures. Census were unreliable and Children aged 5 and under were not counted. This whip through Irish history portrayed a very mild version of what occurred. They were purposely starved to death. They needed the land, it's what is underway today. The template of what was done to cleanse a people have and is being used by tyrants today.

      @mojophe1617@mojophe16173 ай бұрын
    • No evidence to support your assertion. You seriously think that the population could increase by 3.7 million in 5 years? Give your head a wobble

      @jaynekirsopp7123@jaynekirsopp71233 ай бұрын
  • And guess who is going to make the population swell again.

    @valiantval6539@valiantval65394 ай бұрын
    • Abdabs & Afros...And they already have.

      @mjh5437@mjh54374 ай бұрын
    • @@mjh5437 Irish Gypsies are worse

      @foxgirl1822@foxgirl18224 ай бұрын
    • Blacks Asians and Brazilians

      @MICHAELCAMPBELL69@MICHAELCAMPBELL694 ай бұрын
    • @@MICHAELCAMPBELL69😂 Read the latest census. Making stuff up is all you have.

      @ClannCholmain@ClannCholmain4 ай бұрын
    • @@ClannCholmain People imported from 3rd world countries.

      @jasonknight5863@jasonknight58634 ай бұрын
  • Ireland suffered terrible famines, but the population has recovered. Scotland also suffered massive depopulation. When I visited Ireland I noticed the population is fairly evenly distributed, whereas in Scotland 80% of our country is basically empty and still in decline, the Scottish people having been marginalised from their land into the cities.

    @McConnachy@McConnachy4 ай бұрын
    • there is a video on scotland's emptiness on the channel too! :)

      @FactVoyageChannel@FactVoyageChannel4 ай бұрын
    • @@FactVoyageChannel I saw it and got a heap of abuse from English nationalists, 😂 but thanks, it was worth it

      @McConnachy@McConnachy4 ай бұрын
    • population hasnt recovered..pre famine the population was 8 million

      @laoch5658@laoch56583 ай бұрын
  • Hogwash.... Ireland has enough people for its size and geographic structure. There is a type of celebration for Ireland reaching a 5 million population milestone, and with asperations for the population to go on increasing, mainly driven by immegration The last time the population reached such heady numbers resulted in the people living in sod walled cabins in the bogs and hills, with pigs in the kitchen to keep them warm

    @themadfarmer5207@themadfarmer52074 ай бұрын
  • The British obviously did not cause the potato blight but they did cause the famine by “confiscating” all other crops grown and exporting them to England so the Irish had nothing left to eat.

    @niallwalshe4473@niallwalshe44732 ай бұрын
  • I dont your ordinary Paddie has any grief with sharing the space with other nationalities,they were even curious about other cultures,and supporting at all times the "underdog".However,the totally irresponsable behaviour of the people in power in induntating the country without any forseen plan how to integrate the hordes arriving,unfortunately has changed that because people have become confused by this treccerous behaviour

    @antaibhshaglas3737@antaibhshaglas37374 ай бұрын
    • There are simply FAR too many coming in. It's as simple as that. We are a hair's breath away from completely losing our country. If it keeps going thus, in 20 years Ireland will NOT be Irish any more. It will be just another landspace filled with ghettos of ethnic clumps who do not mix nor want to mix, all living on minimum wages, keeping the billionaire classes in absolute power. There will be no middle class.

      @Sionnach1601@Sionnach16014 ай бұрын
  • I keep seeing KZhead videos of Irish people saying Ireland is full.

    @Paul-eb4jp@Paul-eb4jp4 ай бұрын
    • It's not really full though, more so just broken like its healthcare which has been in tatters for over a decade now but groups are trying to accuse migrants for that despite the fact migrants make up a lot of healthcare staff - there's a ton of empty houses in the countryside that are just left forgotten, more like owned by older people that passed on and are now owned by their children or family that live elsewhere or abroad.

      @eireraid9816@eireraid98162 ай бұрын
    • And Irish politicians actually standing in parliament telling the Irish people that they need to admit their "white privilege"!!!!!! The country was almost third world until the end of the 20th century.

      @m.p.7075@m.p.70752 ай бұрын
  • The 8 million number is probably not accurate given that the census takers couldn't document the whole country, the actual population size before the famine was probably closer to 11 million.

    @Ionlytellthetruth@Ionlytellthetruth6 ай бұрын
    • It is veery likely that the census was incomplete.

      @noelpucarua2843@noelpucarua28434 ай бұрын
    • No wrong!

      @catfootball592@catfootball5924 ай бұрын
    • Church records

      @colincampbell4261@colincampbell42614 ай бұрын
    • There is absolutely no evidence to support your assertion. To suggest that the census was out by three million is a nonsense. The Catholic Church also kept scrupulous records of their parishoners.

      @jaynekirsopp7123@jaynekirsopp71233 ай бұрын
  • Ireland's full , we need affordable housing , hospitals,schools, and care services for our own people. Charity begins at home. Food has to be grown , wake up , our woke politicians are a disgrace. Vote no no , then vote them out.

    @banglabanger3300@banglabanger33002 ай бұрын
  • It wont be empty for much longer with all the illegal immigrants that are now turning up😢

    @sparkesman1980@sparkesman19804 ай бұрын
    • It's up shit creek

      @geoffowens9770@geoffowens97704 ай бұрын
    • ‘illegal immigrants’ 😂

      @ClannCholmain@ClannCholmain4 ай бұрын
    • @@geoffowens9770it’s never been better.

      @ClannCholmain@ClannCholmain4 ай бұрын
    • ​@@ClannCholmainnearly a quarter of the population has no Irish heritage, will be closer to 50 % in another 20 years, and u think that's a good thing?!

      @hector7187@hector71873 ай бұрын
    • @@hector7187 and there are about 100,000,000 people who identify as Irish diaspora. Article 2 of the Constitution of Ireland states: ‘The Irish nation cherishes its special affinity with people of Irish ancestry living abroad who share its cultural identity and heritage.’ Get a life.

      @ClannCholmain@ClannCholmain3 ай бұрын
  • with the most expensive housing on the Planet, ireland is not empty. It is full.

    @frankthefrankly8055@frankthefrankly80553 ай бұрын
  • This is actually true. All Irish people were wiped out by an ultra-specific plague last Tuesday. There are now absolutely no human beings in Ireland at all.

    @hugojames85@hugojames854 ай бұрын
    • You are right on the wrong premises. Ireland is, indeed, uninhabited. All Irish people have died 150 years ago. Those calling themselves "Irish" today are transients: they only pass through the country in cars and never feel Ireland on their skin.

      @brexitgreens@brexitgreens4 ай бұрын
    • I was there on a Thursday and it looked fine to me 😊

      @blaircorral8158@blaircorral81583 ай бұрын
    • @@blaircorral8158 So where da hell did they get this story from? And don't tell me that people on KZhead are lying sacks of shit who are pushing a crypto-fascist agenda. I mean, are they? ARE THEY?

      @hugojames85@hugojames853 ай бұрын
  • Uneatable lightly potato blight infected potatos can become distilled into vodka. Same goes with barley. People saved from the crops what they could by means what they had.

    @mikavirpiranta7552@mikavirpiranta75524 ай бұрын
  • The largest island in Europe where most of the United Kingdom resides is called Great Britain.

    @albertnash888@albertnash8887 ай бұрын
    • That's right Albert! (pats head) Now go out and play!

      @ikigai47@ikigai474 ай бұрын
  • I live in red ! As do hundreds of thousands of my fellow Irish citizens. Where did you get this information and coloured graphics ???

    @martinafitzgerald1610@martinafitzgerald16102 ай бұрын
  • Over 5 million died in the great starvation, not 1 million as reported in mainstream.

    @flynnjp19@flynnjp194 ай бұрын
    • Which mainstream are you talking about ?

      @sarahann530@sarahann5304 ай бұрын
    • @@sarahann530 All mainstream including education system and news media

      @flynnjp19@flynnjp194 ай бұрын
    • @@flynnjp19 What evidence do you have to back up your claim ?

      @sarahann530@sarahann5304 ай бұрын
    • @@sarahann530 a friend of mine thoroughly researched this topic, by accident as he was originally researching his ancestry,, and wrote a book, "The Perfect Holocaust"

      @flynnjp19@flynnjp194 ай бұрын
    • @@flynnjp19 Provide links to the source material your friend found so we can independently verify . Just because your friend wrote a book means little . There are books written by people saying the World is flat . Provide evidence

      @sarahann530@sarahann5304 ай бұрын
  • Ireland traditionally had a population density similar to that of England which means today there should be at least 30 million Irish living there but it's less than a third of that.

    @damionkeeling3103@damionkeeling31035 ай бұрын
    • and yet we have the "Gerremow!" idiots.

      @trishloughman5998@trishloughman59984 ай бұрын
    • For the famine that never was there was enough food exported to feed everyone up to 26 million in fact that's why we're refer to in as An Ghota Mhór or the great hunger

      @IainMcGirr@IainMcGirr4 ай бұрын
    • EXPORTED TO ENGLAND

      @noelfleming3567@noelfleming35674 ай бұрын
    • @@noelfleming3567 WTF are you on about?

      @catfootball592@catfootball5924 ай бұрын
    • The food was not taken by Britain, but exported by Irish landowners. The subtle change in wording lends itself to propaganda.

      @A190xx@A190xx4 ай бұрын
  • hi im your 5000th sub from before congrats on 11 thousand youve grown so much

    @jakeconnah@jakeconnah7 ай бұрын
  • Well narrated, in fact well done all 'round~! We live and learn, no? Thank you ...

    @johnhough7738@johnhough77384 ай бұрын
  • It's well populated now the government is importing silum sequels since 2010 there coming in by the plane load and se🤔🤔

    @patrickjordan7670@patrickjordan76704 ай бұрын
    • Immigration will ruin your culture Patrick.

      @harveyneedleman817@harveyneedleman8174 ай бұрын
    • True but Irish Gyspies are much much worse then any of them and multiplying at a crazy rate while the regular population shrinks.

      @foxgirl1822@foxgirl18224 ай бұрын
    • Ireland is up shit creek

      @geoffowens9770@geoffowens97704 ай бұрын
  • I didn't know about the 18th century famine, thank you for this.

    @kareliask@kareliask6 ай бұрын
    • It was not a famine. It was a genocide. We had plenty of food, but the brits stole it

      @antokent@antokent6 ай бұрын
    • It was more than a famine, it was Cromwellian in nature

      @malahammer@malahammer4 ай бұрын
    • Were you born yesterday? 😆

      @mjh5437@mjh54374 ай бұрын
    • @@mjh5437 Are you a dickhead? See, we can all ask questions.

      @kareliask@kareliask4 ай бұрын
    • @@malahammer OMG! only the Irish suffered in history? Things were tough for everyone! As an Irish Protestant whose family had to move from Co Kerry in the 20s. I think Cromwell did a good job in Ireland considering there was 4 separate armies in a constant war. He brought peace. The whole of Europe was at war over religion!

      @catfootball592@catfootball5924 ай бұрын
  • At 0:30 the island is called Great Britain not United Kingdom.

    @MatthewTheWanderer@MatthewTheWanderer3 ай бұрын
  • Go away , we're full .

    @andygaffney8352@andygaffney83524 ай бұрын
  • Everyone seems to forget that it was the Americans who sold them blighted potatoes. That blight also hit the rest of Europe but was not as damaging as the rest of Europe had a more diverse agriculture. Land had been repeatedly subdivided due to the population going from 3 to over 8 million in around 55 years. This caused a focus on potatoes, esp in the West, due to its nutritional value and ease to produce esp on low grade land. It was a disaster waiting to happen. Recently Dublin based historians are revisiting the complex reasons for the famine.

    @eleveneleven572@eleveneleven5723 ай бұрын
    • Need to get a better understanding of the disease.As descendants of potatoes who shifter to the best potato growing area in the world in 1850s and continued to grow potatoes in perfect soil and rainfall.With the right foggy atmosphere and humid conditions you still got blight here.Then the fungus was in the soil for years.Dispute that it was imported with seed but caused by replanted seed potatoes from crops grown in same soil year after year.Small plots of land dictated this problem.

      @johnkelly313@johnkelly3132 ай бұрын
  • The Genocide started in 1845 and is described in this video as a Famine,How can a country exporting vast amounts of corn and meat be described as suffering from Famine?

    @andrewdunne1735@andrewdunne17353 ай бұрын
  • Please use the accurate and now accepted term, there was never a "famine" it was an early example of ethnic cleansing and one of the first acts of genocide.

    @joelyons886@joelyons8866 ай бұрын
    • What a nasty bacteria.

      @FiveLiver@FiveLiver4 ай бұрын
  • Quite interesting. As a United States citizen with Northwestern European, Scottish, Welsh, Irish ancestry these videos fill a gap in my history. Thank you 🙋🏼

    @MrKim-kv2vv@MrKim-kv2vv8 ай бұрын
    • 😂 obsessed

      @LLUUAA444@LLUUAA4447 ай бұрын
    • Dude, you are a native American United States National, not just a United States citizen. The word 'Native' is a cognate of the word 'Nation' (from 'Natio'), which together relate to their derivative form 'Nationality (Nation-ality). These words all relate as cognates derived from the same etymological link. So if you were born in the USA, then of course you actually are a native of that nation. The word 'Ethnicity' is the cultural component of one's native nationality, so for example your native Yank (American) accent and dialect is of course an irrefutable part of your ethnic (ethnicity) heritage. The word 'Heritage' relates as a cognate to the words 'Inherit' and 'Inheritance', and this means things that you acquire from birth or when a certain age of maturity is reached, so as an native/ethnic Yank, you inherited your native default USian citizenship as part of your inheritance. Many Americans struggle with these terms and don't understand quite what they actually mean, and often conflate terms to mean the same thing, like 'race' with 'ethnicity', 'Native' with 'Indigenous' and even 'Nationality' with 'Citizenry'. Nationality and Citizenry are two entirely different things, Nationality is non-plural and singular and is a personal part of one's native identity, while citizenry is a 'status' and therefore a more public form of identity as you share it with other people who are natives of the land or not, so all natives are citizens but not all citizens are necessarily natives. However unlike a foreign immigrant, you did not need to be 'granted' your citizenship like a foreign immigrant (someone with a different national origin from you) did, as you inherited that by default as part of your inheritance as an American, and therefore you have American heritage. So you are American by native Nationality, American by ethnicity and American by heritage therefore.

      @Allapa-im9jr@Allapa-im9jr6 ай бұрын
    • Welsh not "Welch"

      @mjh5437@mjh54374 ай бұрын
    • @@mjh5437 Thank you🙋🏼

      @MrKim-kv2vv@MrKim-kv2vv4 ай бұрын
    • @@Allapa-im9jr Ummmm, ok🤷🏼

      @MrKim-kv2vv@MrKim-kv2vv4 ай бұрын
  • Ireland is changing by the day. And not in a good way

    @geoffowens9770@geoffowens97704 ай бұрын
  • Wonderful upload thanks. Quite a few free settlers went to Australia during the 1840's and became spud farmers. Koroit, Victoria, Australia still grows best 🥔's. Some of families dropped the O & Mc of their surname. For eg, The O'Dwyer became Dwyer and the O'leary's became Leary's. McNeil might be simply Neil. Handy to know that if you're working on a family tree🧐

    @ralsharp6013@ralsharp60133 ай бұрын
  • Because the weather is terrible. Was there in the middle of summer, the temperature never went above 20c! And it was cloudy alot too.

    @user-lf2ov1eu9y@user-lf2ov1eu9y4 ай бұрын
    • Still love the nation tho

      @user-lf2ov1eu9y@user-lf2ov1eu9yАй бұрын
  • thanks for all the support on the channel recently, if there's any topics you'd like me to talk about, let me know :) if you want to watch more videos, click here : kzhead.info/channel/PL5XZu9RA6aDVDVnCkVjen4dtkbOYkEB99.html

    @FactVoyageChannel@FactVoyageChannel8 ай бұрын
    • Maybe do a video on the history of Crimea?

      @ScotlandBallYT@ScotlandBallYT8 ай бұрын
    • Also Great video! I really enjoyed it! I hope you blow up one day!

      @ScotlandBallYT@ScotlandBallYT8 ай бұрын
    • thank you sir! hopefully one day :)@@ScotlandBallYT

      @FactVoyageChannel@FactVoyageChannel8 ай бұрын
    • The temperance movement is totally irrelevant to the topic at hand.Downright disrespectful as it conveys the idea that the irish were responsible for their ills due to lack of moral fibre.Not to say the temperance movement was not important my father and his brother were life long members of the Pioneer Total Abstinence Association,but i failed to see what relevance it has to the depopulation of ireland.Other organisations had more of a profound impact on the morale ,such as the gaelic league,the GAA,and the abbey theatre than the temperance movement even then the relevance to the topic at hand is questionable but much less so as they were key to the present political framework of the Island.

      @gallowglass2630@gallowglass26307 ай бұрын
    • The UK isn't an island great Britain is the island.

      @briancohenthepfjmassive.4769@briancohenthepfjmassive.47695 ай бұрын
  • Today most of Ireland's food production is for export no different to the famine really and will likely be repeated again.

    @robert6106@robert61065 ай бұрын
    • Irish people are not dependent on potatoes anymore so please explain ?

      @sarahann530@sarahann5304 ай бұрын
    • @@sarahann530 Most of Ireland's land is used for livestock production, the bulk of which is for export. It was the sale of food on the open market that was the nail in the coffin for many when the potato crop failed. Today Ireland south and north can't even house the population in the good times, what do you think will happen when bad times hit in the future?

      @robert6106@robert61064 ай бұрын
    • @robert6106 When the bad times hit people will emigrate like they did before. During the famine the land was owned by the English and they exported their crops . If you are worried about starving in the bad times I suggest you learn a skill of value now .

      @sarahann530@sarahann5304 ай бұрын
    • @@sarahann530 I'm not worried about that, just pointing out historical parallels with today, rather striking when you think about it.

      @robert6106@robert61064 ай бұрын
    • @robert6106 Ireland is an Independent Country today with an educated workforce and an open economy ,what parallels do you see with the 1800s Ireland ?

      @sarahann530@sarahann5304 ай бұрын
  • Took the pledge when I was 12 was completely forgotten about a few short years later for a long time this video just reminded me of it🤦🏻‍♀️😂😂

    @starmon763@starmon7634 ай бұрын
  • Good video!!

    @tomsurrey2252@tomsurrey22524 ай бұрын
  • i really want Ireland to recover from that famine 😩😩

    @b4rvyy.1@b4rvyy.17 ай бұрын
    • I really want us to aswell

      @AndrewBoland-ju4ls@AndrewBoland-ju4ls7 ай бұрын
    • @@AndrewBoland-ju4ls ?

      @b4rvyy.1@b4rvyy.16 ай бұрын
    • Sure Ireland isn't a bit empty it's just an illusion

      @Cianthebean@Cianthebean5 ай бұрын
    • ​@@CianthebeanFilling with Muslims as we speak. Then the population will soar.

      @vickyingramnymann8543@vickyingramnymann85434 ай бұрын
    • It's getting full now look around u 😮😮

      @noelfleming3567@noelfleming35674 ай бұрын
  • I moved to rural Ireland from the uk ,in a quiet rural part of the west coast,been here 2 years,and love it.

    @user-ku2sf2lv2k@user-ku2sf2lv2k2 ай бұрын
  • This vid glosses over the refusal of the English to help the Irish during the famine of 1841-1842, even to the effect of removing the scarce food still available and prohibiting other nations to offer relief to the Irish. It is at par with the death camps in the South African desert during the Boer Wars, later known as "concentration camps" in Nazi times.

    @charlesvanderhoog7056@charlesvanderhoog70563 ай бұрын
  • The reason why the Irish was so dependent on the potato is because the indigenous Irish were pushed off the Midlands, which has the best farming. That was all owned by absence heat landlords. The only things that Irish could grow on their soil on the West Coast were potatoes.

    @jgg59@jgg594 ай бұрын
  • Working as doctor in republic and later northern ireland I was made aware of many stories about the suffering of irish people by english and unionist population .I am an absolute outsider in both religious and ethnic terms but it is hard to deny the suffering of irish people at so many levels and over such a prolonged preriod.

    @muhammadurrehman4221@muhammadurrehman42214 ай бұрын
  • Can confirm I live in the Red Area ,not sparsely populated at all,rural but like most neighbours live maybe 20/30 metres apart

    @michaelstanbrook7194@michaelstanbrook71943 ай бұрын
  • Came to Ireland about 25 years ago since then immigrants and refugees overwhelmed Irish population. Unavailability of housing is a bigger problem for everyone. Brining more people in will create larger cities and much loved emerald Isles might disappear gradually.

    @PhilShnider@PhilShnider3 ай бұрын
    • Can you not see the irony in what you're saying? You an immigrant are criticising other immigrants coming here 🤦

      @FionanOMurchadha@FionanOMurchadha3 ай бұрын
  • My island is not empty. It's full, it's a rainy cold island you guys wont like it here

    @7jonny77@7jonny773 ай бұрын
    • You have palms in some parts of your island. It rarely snows...you can golf year round. Tell me how this all sucks? I live in Canada, we lose 5 months a year to winter in some places

      @marklittle8805@marklittle88052 ай бұрын
  • Dump the EU pronto.

    @Wanamaker1946@Wanamaker19463 ай бұрын
  • Some very strange claims here . Ireland empty ?? Heaps of empty houses ?? Seriously ?? Our goverment would be delighted if the housing situation was anything like this . We're bursting at the seams here given our lack of hospitals etc .

    @michaelgray7768@michaelgray77684 ай бұрын
  • Correction: the United Kingdom is not an island. It's a country that includes England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, and more. Great Britain is an island, the largest of the British Isles.

    @chesshooligan1282@chesshooligan12823 ай бұрын
    • To the Romans, Britania consisted of England and Wales only. It did not include Scotland (and wouldn`t have mattered if it had) and it certainly did not encompass Ireland. So Britain is part of an island and not an island in itself. So, the British Isles can only mean islands that are part of England or Wales, like the Isle of White for example. Of course, if Taiwan is not part of China, then England`s provenance over the isle of White is at best, a matter of opinion.

      @biulaimh3097@biulaimh30973 ай бұрын
  • In recent times, Ireland is far from empty. Just like Great Britain, thanks to "asylum seekers", the island north & south has been inundated with immigrants. Contrary to what you say, there is a serious housing shortage - particularly in the cities - which has been worsened by these new arrivals, as have the health services, schools, etc. This situation will only get worse, unless there is a curb on immigration, as the increasing world population seeks to move to "wealthier" (aka better benefits) countries.

    @bazthejazz@bazthejazz4 ай бұрын
    • It didn't take long for the first dogwhistler to appear in the comments. We wouldn't have a health service without migrants, and our economy would revert to its pathetic performance in the 50s

      @dlogan3099@dlogan30994 ай бұрын
    • Immigration has added to Ireland and will keep doing so, just as Irish emigrants have added to their new homeland. Government neglect of housing problems is a more serious problem.

      @Caambrinus@Caambrinus4 ай бұрын
    • ​@@Caambrinus Why must the Irish wait for the government to do something for them? Are they babies? They clearly are. I've recently tried to buy bricks at B&Q. They were out of stock. Sums up what's wrong with this island.

      @brexitgreens@brexitgreens4 ай бұрын
    • OP is a perfect example of delusional Irish thinking. Reality: there's no place in Western Europe more empty than Ireland.

      @brexitgreens@brexitgreens4 ай бұрын
    • It's a powder keg waiting to go off

      @geoffowens9770@geoffowens97704 ай бұрын
  • Some of Irelands biggest towns are in the Red area

    @ciaran6309@ciaran63093 ай бұрын
  • the ottoman's sent 10,000 not 1,000. which was refused and not alowed by britain on the grounds it was insulting for anyone to offer more than the Queen who only gave 2,000.

    @johnmitchell4043@johnmitchell40434 ай бұрын
  • i was your 6000th sub!

    @jakeconnah@jakeconnah7 ай бұрын
    • why thank you sir!

      @FactVoyageChannel@FactVoyageChannel7 ай бұрын
    • congrats on 450 mroe subs@@FactVoyageChannel

      @Classicofficegaem@Classicofficegaem7 ай бұрын
  • The Temperance/priest thing you tacked on at the end was all a bit random

    @CormacMaher@CormacMaher7 ай бұрын
    • There`s a lot of quite ignorant generalisations in this.

      @mjh5437@mjh54374 ай бұрын
    • It did draw attention to the vast amounts of money spent on alcohol that could have been used to buy food though

      @jaynekirsopp7123@jaynekirsopp71233 ай бұрын
  • 7:18 It's not Dya - Spora, it's Dai - ASpora

    @fredjimbob2962@fredjimbob29624 ай бұрын
  • Quick polite correction - The island of Ireland is not to the west of the island of the UK, it is the island of Great Britain.

    @simonbarter326@simonbarter3263 ай бұрын
  • Very well done.

    @dannyhughes4889@dannyhughes48893 ай бұрын
  • This is the single best video summarising Irish history I've seen ever on KZhead (and I've seen a lot) - it's short, accurate and balanced. Great job!

    @Whelknarge@Whelknarge4 ай бұрын
    • It is unbalanced and inaccurate (see my comment above).

      @Caambrinus@Caambrinus4 ай бұрын
    • Thank you! I really enjoyed researching this video.

      @FactVoyageChannel@FactVoyageChannel4 ай бұрын
    • And let me guess - you're Irish - right! That's why you can't see the glaring falseness in this video. You are suffering from bias confirmation which is why you won't believe what I'm saying.

      @straighttalking2090@straighttalking20904 ай бұрын
    • @@Caambrinus I'd go further and say it is deliberately false and anyone who doesn't believe this should get out an atlas and fact check the first 45 seconds (which is as far as I could put up with it's propaganda (I can't believe anyone could be so wrong so I am assuming it's deliberate misinformation).

      @straighttalking2090@straighttalking20904 ай бұрын
    • It's totally inaccurate!!!

      @jeremyfoster6942@jeremyfoster69424 ай бұрын
  • Two corrections. The British evicted the Irish when they couldn’t pay rent. These unfortunate people were given a meal a day but made to construct roads and other civil works to get this meal. In short they were used as a slave labour. Thousands of Irish worked lived and died at the side of the road. The British then presented this food distribution as “famine relief” to the rest of the world. The ottoman sultan donated 10,000 pounds towards famine relief. This was rejected because, despite plundering the wealth of the world, the murderous Victoria donated only 2000 pounds. As this looked very bad for her the British reduced the sultans donation to 1000 pounds. These are important facts that show the deliberate murderous intent of the British towards the Irish.

    @briankelleher2156@briankelleher21564 ай бұрын
    • Where did the Sultan get the money? Plunder and enslavement!

      @nickjung7394@nickjung73944 ай бұрын
    • @@nickjung7394 the sultan had no financial, military or political interests in Ireland. I don’t pretend know where he got his money from but he was willing to share the modern equivalent of millions to help a nation that he had absolutely no connection to. That’s the polar opposite of what the British did.

      @briankelleher2156@briankelleher21564 ай бұрын
    • @@nickjung7394he also sent three ships of food. Only one got through the British blockade.

      @briankelleher2156@briankelleher21564 ай бұрын
    • @@briankelleher2156 Just the usual British bashing from feins. The Potato blight affected the whole of Europe. The Sultan wasn't the only one to set up aid. Britain set up soup kitchens and aid. It's funny that we forget the barbary slave trade so quickly.

      @catfootball592@catfootball5924 ай бұрын
    • @@briankelleher2156 Excuse me? The British send a lot of aid. The potato effected the whole of Europe it was nearly 200 years ago. It was a very different world. Mostly the Potato famine has been used to generate anti British hate for the republican movement, an excuse for their murdering!

      @catfootball592@catfootball5924 ай бұрын
  • both my parents took the pledge when they were just teenagers. never had a drop!

    @myralewis3944@myralewis39442 ай бұрын
  • You forgot the imiigration to BOston, Massachusetts.

    @lindanorris2455@lindanorris24555 ай бұрын
  • A very interesting & informative video, you have got another subscriber, today's population are not having large families, this could also add to the decline in the population, for instance my maternal grandmother had 13 children, my paternal grandmother had 9 children, my mother had 9 children, you would be hard pushed to find couples today, married or not having a large family, it takes two wages coming into a home these days.

    @irishravr632@irishravr6324 ай бұрын
    • Informative? And you are Irish? Maybe there is something true about those jokes people make about the Irish. In the first forty three seconds he claims the Island of Great Britain is the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland is a country! You can't be that uneducated that you can't see how wrong that is. Can you?

      @straighttalking2090@straighttalking20904 ай бұрын
    • @@straighttalking2090 I'm well aware Northern Ireland is not a country, I don't need a geography lesson from a smart arse like you.

      @irishravr632@irishravr6324 ай бұрын
  • My ancestors (All!) left Ireland in the 1860's, and Thank God they did!

    @AlphonsodeBarbo@AlphonsodeBarbo2 ай бұрын
  • If lack of food was such an issue during the great famine how come alcohol was so readily available. Just asking......

    @andymoore9977@andymoore99773 ай бұрын
  • @23:00 There was not “colonial rule” at the time of the Famine. Ireland was an integral part of the United Kingdom. The Irish Parliament, which had existed since before 1300, had voted itself out of existence in 1800 in favour of representation in the Westminster Parliament.

    @TP-om8of@TP-om8of4 ай бұрын
    • And, of course, the Irish colonised what is now Scotland. Way of the world, it seems!

      @nickjung7394@nickjung73944 ай бұрын
    • Nice to see comments from those that read proper history and not the propaganda.

      @A190xx@A190xx4 ай бұрын
    • The Irish Parliament - which consisted of how many Irish members?

      @spencerburke@spencerburke4 ай бұрын
    • @@spencerburke All of them were Irish; about 300 in the House of Commons.

      @TP-om8of@TP-om8of4 ай бұрын
    • @@TP-om8of The parliament in Dublin represented the English in Ireland. For most of its history it excluded Gaelic members and Catholics. You might as well say the Generalgouvernement für die besetzten polnischen Gebiete was a Polish parliament.

      @spencerburke@spencerburke4 ай бұрын
  • Nonsense......ireland has a house shortage.....there's plenty countryside remote houses.......but their too expensive for a lot of irish to buy ....even a small country cottage will set you back 250,000 euro...!

    @lightningspirit2166@lightningspirit21663 ай бұрын
  • Thank you.

    @MazzaEliLi7406@MazzaEliLi74064 ай бұрын
  • The temperature graph shows the medieval warm period as a period of declining temperatures, very strange maybe it should be the medieval cooling period.

    @iancampbell6925@iancampbell69253 ай бұрын
  • My British (maternal) family relocated to Nova Scotia and Newfoundland from Britain. The women, it is ALWAYS the women who turn their backs on others. My (paternal) British family did everything thye could to help others. I grew up in total racism towards other races from the maternal line, NOT from the British (paternalL line!

    @lindanorris2455@lindanorris24555 ай бұрын
    • Despite this video showing you otherwise?

      @Richard1A2B@Richard1A2B4 ай бұрын
    • @@Richard1A2B The video was the normal anti British rubbish to be honest. The BS about the potato famine is mostly told by fein scum, to justify their hatred of England. It a more complex issue than... blame the British narrative.

      @catfootball592@catfootball5924 ай бұрын
    • Not a feminist, I take it.

      @hollyharps@hollyharps4 ай бұрын
  • Isn't it strange to talk of grain prices when people were starving to death. Tons of food was exported from Ireland while people were dying. The land was controlled by wealthy English landlords. The people were not allowed to hunt or fish. They were effectively slaves, living in dire poverty. Why else would they depend on one crop for sustenance? So climate and blight were major factors but since England still profited, while the Irish starved, blame can't be overlooked. Ireland isn't empty by the way, and you won't find abandoned land there. You will find expensive land.

    @hughoconnor8769@hughoconnor87694 ай бұрын
    • Money talks and always will ,if anything can be sold for more elsewhere it will,that's the way the EU works

      @sopissedoff@sopissedoff4 ай бұрын
    • Yawn Yawn! the same old BS straight from the IRA propaganda play book. The reason the IRISH landlords (yes some owned estates in England too, but not many!) sold their grain was: In Ireland the law for the poor had not changed for centuries. It's your responsibility as the landlord to give money to the poor in your parish. The Landlords had to sell the grain to get this money. However, facts don't make anti-British morons, to do your biding!

      @catfootball592@catfootball5924 ай бұрын
    • The term English and British is disingenuously changed by some historians. The landowners were almost exclusively Irish, but a greater proportion were Protestant rather than Catholic, so termed "English as in Church of England or Anglican. It was the British (all 4 nations) that undertook the greatest efforts and eventually resolved the famine by over-rulling the Irish landowners.

      @A190xx@A190xx4 ай бұрын
    • It would be interesting to hear someone better versed on the historical facts than I am, debate you on this. I would question the Irishness of the landed gentry as opposed to the labouring tenants. Whatever their original heritage, they had the backing of the British Empire. As you say decisions were made across the water. While the subject was being debated in parliament, counting the cost to the English taxpayer, people were eating grass in a vain attempt to stay alive. Those who got the 'opportunity', boarded sickness-ridden "coffin ships" across the Atlantic. Not much credit due for letting an eight of the population starve to death. @@A190xx

      @hughoconnor8769@hughoconnor87694 ай бұрын
    • @@A190xx They followed British policy. 5/8 of the british army were stationed on the island over the 4 years with the sole purpose to ensure food extraction. Over 1 million cow, sheep and pig were taken off the land in that time. They call it a famine to cover up the truth. This video is far from factual. Most Irish dont even know a fraction of what really happened having been taught a watered down British white washed version of what they created. Irelands problems ultimately stems from the balls of king henry.

      @VincentBlackLightning@VincentBlackLightning4 ай бұрын
  • Anyone who thinks that a famine killed millions in Ireland, needs to read the Perfect Holocaust, by Chris Fogarty, The Food was removed at gunpoint by the British Army, dont believe me , he has a full breakdown of British units in Ireland at the time, fully corroborated and documented.

    @paulk9306@paulk93062 ай бұрын
    • It's in our Irish history books , well know fact. The brits try to hide. What they did to Ireland is unforgivable cowardly b..t..ds

      @jacquelinegosnell5340@jacquelinegosnell53402 ай бұрын
  • situated off the west coast of the united kingdom? WRONG! it's situated off the west coast of great britain. the united kingdom includes northern ireland.

    @aethellstan@aethellstan4 ай бұрын
  • Put more succinctly, and traditionally: 'God sent the blight, English sent the famine'

    @michaelcostello6019@michaelcostello60197 ай бұрын
    • Thank you for your Italian point of view.

      @FiveLiver@FiveLiver4 ай бұрын
    • America sent the blight England set barley

      @philipsmith530@philipsmith5304 ай бұрын
  • Bullshit. The red areas are rather heavily populated with small family owned farms. Only a relatively few remote and mountainous regions are genuinely uninhabited. I know. I live in Ireland.

    @emmetsweeney9236@emmetsweeney92364 ай бұрын
  • I have a workhouse 290m away from my home

    @nojus_Avation@nojus_Avation6 ай бұрын
  • You speak of the thermometer being invented by Fahrenheit and then vive the temperatures in celsius which does not have as many points and most of us in the U.S. do not use, much preferring the Fahrenheit.

    @marktapley7571@marktapley75712 ай бұрын
  • My name originates from Ireland and i live in Scotland. I like Ireland and this KZheadr is very high quality.❤

    @fruitkittyshorts@fruitkittyshorts6 ай бұрын
    • Wow, thank you!

      @FactVoyageChannel@FactVoyageChannel6 ай бұрын
    • Alot of Irish immigrated to scotland.

      @Ionlytellthetruth@Ionlytellthetruth6 ай бұрын
    • You must be of the County Cork kittyshorts clan :)

      @malahammer@malahammer4 ай бұрын
    • ""very quality"??..... You can`t even speak English lol

      @mjh5437@mjh54374 ай бұрын
  • Its not fuckin empty its poxy full, and there's a housing crisis, go and ask me bollox

    @paulgorman1305@paulgorman13057 ай бұрын
    • Ireland is full, too much immigration.

      @iainpattison903@iainpattison9034 ай бұрын
    • @@iainpattison903 Irish just wanted to drain profit from emmigrants and have no responsibility. No investment. No plans. Like public transport in Dublin, outdated, unreliable, with not enough capacity, but more people who needs it = more money. Let make most country for sheep to graze, this is genius plan.

      @luciamacakova7516@luciamacakova75164 ай бұрын
    • English please…

      @jasonknight5863@jasonknight58634 ай бұрын
    • @@jasonknight5863 ok stay away how about that, you understand that don't you

      @paulgorman1305@paulgorman13054 ай бұрын
  • Yes and our overlords only allowed this type of patato to be grown ,knowing how susceptible it was to cold and frost.😮😡🤬.barstewards.

    @billytollerton4220@billytollerton42202 ай бұрын
  • first settlers in Ireland thought it was cold and at first uninhabitable so they called it HIBERNIA, like as in winter animals Hibernate. there is a Scottish football team in Edinburgh called 'Hibernians' closely linked to Irish history. at the same period of time Scotland was called CALEDONIA. wales was CAMBRIA and England was ALBION. just some history for you.

    @peterwhitaker4038@peterwhitaker40384 ай бұрын
    • The Romans called Ireland 'Hibernia'. We have no idea what the first settlers called the island. No one even knows what language they spoke.

      @brendansweeney5644@brendansweeney56444 ай бұрын
    • @@brendansweeney5644 The Celts never wrote anything down. The whole Irish culture was invented by rich Dublin Victorians

      @catfootball592@catfootball5924 ай бұрын
    • It is still uninhabitable. There are no people living here. Irish winter is one long cluster storm from October until mid-May. Those called "Irish" are actually transients: they only pass through Ireland in cars and they never experience real Ireland.

      @brexitgreens@brexitgreens4 ай бұрын
    • @@catfootball592 But you say they were never Celts - get your story right. The Irish was actually a great centre of learning - and led to the Irish saving Western civilisation. They wrote plenty down.

      @johnpatrick5307@johnpatrick53074 ай бұрын
    • @@brexitgreens well it’s cold 95 % of the year, no summer to speak of and rains and is cloudy about 300 days per year on average.

      @jasonknight5863@jasonknight58634 ай бұрын
  • We are praying for you. How dare the government allow danger and stress to be imposed on a small village population. The Irish people must unite.

    @user-ps2jb5wj6h@user-ps2jb5wj6h4 ай бұрын
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