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In the News (Tue 22 Dec 09)

  
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Irish Economic Consciousness and the Famine It is perhaps one of Ireland's greatest misfortunes that the philosophy of economic freedom was largely ntroduced into Ireland by of Archbishop Richard Whately.
The economics of the new Irish nationalism that developed can be neatly characterised in the words of Thomas Boylan and Timothy Foley: "All versions of nationalism attacked free trade, laissez-faire, the doctrine of the sanctity of the market mechanism and the utilitarian philosophy which underpinned political economy.
Indeed Irish nationalist intellectuals were willing to cling to the interventionist components of their platforms even at the cost of alienating the industrial north-east of Ireland.
www.angelfire.com /emo/skies   (6443 words)

  
 Holocaust (disambiguation)
Because the term "Holocaust" is so closely tied in contemporary times to the Jewish experience at the hands of the Nazis, use of it in other contexts may be seen by some as controversial or even offensive.
Similarily, the Asian Holocaust can be used to describe the mass murder of over 15 million civilians and POWs (including deaths due to Unit 731) in China, Korea, Indochina, Philippines, Dutch East Indies and the rest of the Pacific islands by the Imperialist Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War 2.
The term Hiroshima Holocaust is used to describe death of at least 140,000 civilians as the direct effect of nuclear bomb dropped on the city of Hiroshima and 130,000 who died due to damages from radiation.
www.mcfly.org /wik/Holocaust_(disambiguation)   (1313 words)

  
 Ireland's OWN: History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
What is certain in regard to the Irish population at the time of the famine is that it was a great handicap, in that family sizes were large, leaving life extremely difficult and death quite likely.
The length of a land lease between landlord and tenant was at the discretion of the landlord.
And it is believed to have contributed to the backwardness of Irish agriculture at the time and, on the larger scale of things, contributed to the poverty suffered by the tenants at the time.
irelandsown.net /holocaust.html   (2489 words)

  
 Irish Holocaust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
If, by the inauguration dates, the British government has ended its Irish genocide's final vestige in the Six Counties, has released all Irish political prisoners and repents publicly of its centuries of genocide and torture in Ireland it would make national forgiveness possible, and English Cabinet ministers could be invited.
Your pamphlets are contradicting my Irish Potato Famine display inside!" Her Irish Holocaust Cover-up tour of the US was fronted in Chicago by the Irish Consul, the AOH, Catholic priests, et al.
Irish Teachta Dala (M.P.) Avril Doyle recently promoted that "famine" lie across the U.S., including at Notre Dame U. The Brit/Irish government got massive space for her on National Public Radio, Irish-American radio, and mainstream and Irish-American newspapers.
home.comcast.net /~irishholocaust/Irish_Holocaust/English_Pages/ch7_whatwemustdo.htm   (1297 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Holocaust (disambiguation) Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Used alone, as in "The Holocaust", it invariably refers to the Holocaust of Jews, Poles and other minorities during World War II (the terms Jewish Holocaust and Gypsy Holocaust can also be used more specifically, though both "holocausts" occurred at the same time and place).
Because the term "Holocaust" is so closely tied in contemporary times to the Jewish experience at the hands of the Nazis, though, use of it in other contexts may be seen by some as controversial or even offensive.
The term Irish Holocaust is sometimes used to describe the deaths of at least a million Irish during the Great Irish Famine (1845 - 1850) when, over four successive growing seasons, the potato crop failed, and Irish farmers had neither food to eat or money to purchase any.
www.ipedia.com /holocaust__disambiguation_.html   (1283 words)

  
 Toll Of The Irish Holocaust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Irish academia shuns and slurs Tom Gallagher's Paddy's Lament and Englishwoman Cecil Woodham-Smith's The Great Hunger for mentioning the Food Removal.
She allocated only half a page to the core facts of the Genocide; the food removal data, while using some two hundred pages to describe British government "relief measures" as if they were something other than cosmetic exercises; a cover-up.
Though many Holocaust Irish, like many, say, Auschwitz Jews, took deadly advantage of their own weakest, neither the Irish nor Jewish communities had hand or part in the conceiving and planning of the genocides from London and Berlin; respectively.
home.comcast.net /~irishholocaust/Irish_Holocaust/English_Pages/ch5_tollofholocaust.htm   (784 words)

  
 The Great Irish Famine
Irish intervention on behalf of the Stuarts was to be made impossible forever by reducing the Catholic Irish to helpless impotence.
Irish linen manufacturing met with the same fate when the Irish were forbidden to export their product to all other countries except England.
Irish sailors who mutinied to help their countrymen were flogged unmercifully, and "ironed" together with handcuffs, thumbscrews and slave leg bolts.
www.nde.state.ne.us /SS/irish/irish_pf.html   (16021 words)

  
 Free Northern Ireland
Irish Organization that supports freedom for all those living in Northern Ireland.
Both the Irish and American citizens want to live peacefully, enjoy life and their friends and family and together practice their religious freedoms.
A large portion (48%) of Irish are still living in 2005 under the British Government's heel of oppression in Northern Ireland subject to constant attacks from British Loyalist Terrorists.
www.noraid.com   (1656 words)

  
 Anam Ceilteach ~ An Gorta Mór ~ The Irish Holocaust
I suppose these are the same people who would emphatically declare that the Jewish Holocaust never occurred....Beware historical revisionists who will try to convince you that this was a 'natural' disaster.
Under the British system of rule, Irish Catholics were forced to hand over the crops they grew as payment of their rent to the English landlords; they were permitted to keep only their potato crop.
Irish Famine of the 19th Century (now regarded as a genocide)
www.geocities.com /grainnelass/hunger.html   (482 words)

  
 Irish FAQ: The Famine [6/10]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
From: irish-faq@pobox.com (Irish FAQ Maintainer) Sender: cpm@enteract.com (Christian Murphy) Newsgroups: soc.culture.irish Subject: Irish FAQ: The Famine [6/10] Summary: an gorta mór Date: Mon, 08 Nov 1999 02:10:02 GMT Message-ID: Archive-name: cultures/irish-faq/part06 Last-modified: 7 Oct 99 Posting-Frequency: monthly URL: http://www.enteract.com/~cpm/irish-faq/ Part six of ten.
More Irish died in the Famine of 1845 to 1849 than in any war before or since.
The best estimates (based on census data from 1841 and 1851, as well as other figures) are that around one million people died, or one out of every nine inhabitants.
www.faqs.org /faqs/cultures/irish-faq/part06   (2375 words)

  
 Royalty.nu - The Royal History of Ireland - Irish Royalty
Wars of the Irish Kings by David W. McCullough covers a thousand years of struggle, from the age of myth through the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Irish Kings and High Kings by F. Byrne.
The "Prophecy of Berchan" is a medieval verse history of the kings of Ireland and Scotland between the ninth and 11th centuries.
Brian Boru: Emperor of the Irish by Morgan Llywelyn is a young adult version of Lion of Ireland.
www.royalty.nu /Europe/Ireland/index.html   (2499 words)

  
 Irish Holocaust Denial - Louth Irish Social Forum - Indymedia Ireland
Over-dependence on the vegetable caused devastation when the 1845 crop failed, but now over-production and the dominance of imported processed potatoes is troubling the industry again.
Irish peasants even had to pay for the right to collect seaweed (rack) for use as fertiliser.
Unless otherwise stated by the author, all content is free for non-commercial reuse, reprint, and rebroadcast, on the net and elsewhere.
www.indymedia.ie /newswire.php?story_id=68770   (942 words)

  
 The Twilight Lords : Elizabeth I and the First Irish Holocaust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A gripping chronicle of the ferocious twenty-year struggle between the English monarch and the feudal lords of Ireland.
Irish lords didn't help the matter by catering to Elizabeth's enemies.
The author presents a fair and balanced account of the Irish wars between the 1560s and 1603.
www.textkit.com /0_1570983763.html   (379 words)

  
 Irish History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A group of experienced Irish sailors and mountaineers attempted to retrace the footsteps of the epic journey made by Ernest Shackleton in 1915.
Who were the first Irish to land on the American continent and the time of their arrival are perhaps matters of conjecture rather than of historical proof; but that the Irish were there almost at the beginning of the colonial era is a fact support by historical records.
Irish History on the Web is NOT another "links" page, but instead provides a unique resource for anyone interested in learning about or researching a wide variety of Irish history topics.
www.users.bigpond.com /kirwilli/history/history.htm   (3382 words)

  
 Insight on the News: You say potato, and they say Holocaust - comparing Irish potato famine to the Holocaust - The Last ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Holocaust was Hitler's inhuman policy to eradicate Jews in Germany and from his Thousand-Year Reich.
Well, even the semi-informed are aware that the history of England and Ireland is one of savage conflict, and that misgovernance and even malevolence frequently have punctuated the sad chronicle of those two lands.
It is a bold leap, nevertheless from there to accusing the English of causing an Irish "Holocaust" -- which is to say, making death a deliberate policy of state.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1571/is_n9_v13/ai_19194789   (858 words)

  
 Ethnic Cleansing by William Hughes, former Solictor General for the City of Baltimore
One of its earliest racist laws, enacted in 1367, was the "Statute of Kilkenny." It prohibited intermarriage between the British and (Gaelic) Irish under penalty of death.
The Irish peasant farmers that survived were forced to pay rent to their usurpers.
The memory of the holocausts under Elizabeth I and Cromwell have been forever seared into the psyche of the Irish race.
www.artbabyart.com /article/ethniccleansing.htm   (2379 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Irish famine of 1847 and 1848, when harvests failed and more than 3 million Irish died or were forced to emigrate, is one of the signal events of Irish history.
The reason the Irish famine struck so hard, " Gráda argues, is that the Irish food supply was already tenuous; dispossessed from their land and made to rely on a single crop, the potato, the tenant agriculturists of Ireland simply had no resources or stores on which to fall back.
Better yet to read "Irish Holocaust Graves: 1845-1850;" a pamphlet recently adopted as history course material by some eighty colleges and universities across the U.S. and Ireland.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0691070156   (746 words)

  
 INAC History-An Gorta Mor
The Irish Holocaust, an artificial famine created by the English parliament's economic policy and their domination of Ireland, was the greatest social catastrophe of 19th-century Europe.
An easy crop to grow, it was palatable and nutritious for man and beast and rapidly established itself as the principal food of the Irish poor and the one or two livestock they kept to pay their annual rent.
Responding to the usual impatience with the affairs of Ireland on the part of the British middle and upper classes, and to the declining sympathy for the starving which was replaced by the cultural stereotyping of the Irish, the legislators removed the financial "burden" of famine relief from the English electorate's shoulders.
www.koepp-berlin.de /mjk/mickc/tiphunger.html   (5251 words)

  
 The Wild Geese Today -- The Story of Erin's Exiles
Within the procession were banners from numerous AOH groups and Irish county associations; one group dressed in fl, portraying immigrants from the Hunger years, carrying a sign which said, "Famine Victims Fate" followed by a fl coffin.
As the Irish Brigade Association was honoring Civil War nurse,Sister Mary Grant, recently in New York City, another Irish-born "Angel of the Battlefield" was being honored at Mount Moriah Cemetery in Philadelphia.
Mary Brady was the wife of prominent attorney there and the founder, together with some of her friends, of the Ladies Association for Soldiers Relief which visited sick and wounded soldiers in the hospitals of Philadelphia.
www.thewildgeese.com /pages/commemor.html   (2647 words)

  
 Anti-Irish Sick'os and More
STANFORD UNIV. RACISM & NI In a game against Notra Dame they gave vent of their hate by mocking the Irish Holocaust, that and more, they were allowed to ridicule the Irish people.
These morons do not realize that were it not for the contribution of the Irish the USA would not exist.
Sinn Feiners on the other hand, are painted as being in league with the devil.
www.angelfire.com /ny/border/sickos.html   (356 words)

  
 Anthropology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Outlines in Irish History: 800 Years of Struggle (Detroit: Connolly Books, 1995).
The American Irish and Irish Nationalism (Scarecrow Press).
Irish Settlement Patterns in the Great Lakes Region.
www.lib.siu.edu /projects/irish/anth95.htm   (262 words)

  
 RootsWeb: GENIRE-L IRISH AMERICAN'S UNITE FOR THE VICTIMS OF "THE IRISH HOLOCAUST"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Maybe the Irish could stick together just long enough to do this job.
The Irish, the second largest ethnic group in the U.S. should not be
IRISH AMERICAN'S UNITE FOR THE VICTIMS OF "THE IRISH HOLOCAUST" by John D Mallon< >
archiver.rootsweb.com /th/read/GENIRE/1997-12/0882299066   (471 words)

  
 S&C Enterprises
Our most recent offering, The Irish Holocaust, traces the history of Ireland from the Stone Age through 2002, particularly detailing the search for peace in Northern Ireland and linking current events and attitudes in Ireland to their historical roots.
The hand-bound edition of The Irish Holocaust is a sensual feast for the true book lover.
Informative appendices, including a list of the 100 most common Irish surnames, and Irish-related websites and magazines are included.
www.masontxcoc.com /member/scenter   (436 words)

  
 Éire Shaor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Éire Shaor (Free Ireland) is an ongoing Web-based project dedicated to the traditional Irish Republican goal of a 32-County Irish Republic free of British imperialism and opposed to the Good Friday Agreement.
Support is given to any organisation which is fighting for a 32-County Irish Republic free of British imperialism and is opposed to the GFA.
You cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom.
morrigan.net /eireshaor   (701 words)

  
 THE BLANKET * Letters
See www.irishholocaust.org to learn which Brit reg't starved your relatives.
First use of "Holocaust" for the Nazi one was in the mid-1960s.
First use of it for 1845-50 Ireland was in 1847 (Cork Examiner) and about 1898 (Michael Davitt's published works).
lark.phoblacht.net /cfltrih.html   (163 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Robert Whyte's 1847 Famine Ship Diary: The Journey of an Irish Coffin Ship: Books: Robert Whyte,James J. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
This item is not eligible for Amazon Prime, but over a million other items are.
Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (Oxford Paperbacks) by Kerby A. Miller
Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory (Princeton Economic History of the Western World) by Cormac O'Grada
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1856350916?v=glance   (460 words)

  
 Related Readings
Orser, Charles E., Jr., Vessels of Honor and dishonor: The Symbolic Character of Irish Earthenware.
Danaher, Kevin, The Hearth and Stool and All!: Irish Rural Households.
Aalen, F. A, Kevin Whelan, and Matthew Stout, editors, Atlas of the Irish Rural Landscape.
www.ilstu.edu /~ceorser/Related.htm   (774 words)

  
 RecBooks
Morgan Llywelyn is the reigning queen of Irish historical fiction, and we recommend anything written by her.
MacManus honors the true origins of the Irish people by including the stories of Irelandâs ancient gods, goddesses and heroes along with the more accepted historical data.
No Irish library is complete without books on the Irish Holocaust, also known as the Great Famine.
www.finnmaccool.com /RecBooks.htm   (1870 words)

  
 Eyes On Ireland - Irish Links Hybernia Celtic handmade photos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Irish Holocaust - The resilient Irish nation didn't starve because of potatoes.
Official records of the time show that homegrown livestock, poultry, dairy, fish, and grains, enough to feed millions, was warehoused and then exported from Ireland at gunpoint.
Irish Artists A great website displaying the works of Irish Artists and Designers.
www.irishphotos.com /links.html   (415 words)

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