📖 Ancient Restoration

Ireland starved because its food, from 40 to 70 shiploads per day, was removed at gunpoint by 12,000 British constables reinforced by the British militia, battleships, excise vessels, Coast Guard and by 200,000 British soldiers (100,000 at any given moment).

Potato blight, "phytophthora infestans", did spread from America to Europe in 1844, to England and then Ireland in 1845 but it didn't cause famine anywhere. Ireland did not starve for potatoes; it starved for food.

The Trevelyan quote is... “The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people.”

One Trevelyan story and one quote suffice. “British Coastguard Inspector-General, Sir James Dombrain, when he saw starving paupers, ordered his subordinates to give free food handouts. For his attempts to feed the starving, Dombrain was publicly rebuked by…

Charles Trevelyan, the key figure in the British government, had foreshadowed the deadly policy in a letter to the “Morning Post”, after a trip to Ireland, where he heartily agreed with the sentiment that there were at least a million or two people too many…

Charles Trevelyan, the key figure in the British government, had foreshadowed the deadly policy in a letter to the “Morning Post”, after a trip to Ireland, where he heartily agreed with the sentiment that there were at least a million or two people too many in the benighted land and that the eight million could not possibly survive there. “Protestant and Catholic will freely fall and the land will be for the survivors.” Shortly after, he was in charge of a policy that brought that situation about.

Long before they had also installed a British local majority in the North of Ireland. Every possible effort by local organizations to feed the starving was thwarted and frustrated by a British government intent on teaching the Irish a lesson and forcing market…

The method of the imperialist is to indirectly control what they cannot own, & to destroy what they cannot control. They could'nt control the people of Ireland, so set out to destroy the populace.

The method of the imperialist is to indirectly control what they cannot own, & to destroy what they cannot control. They could'nt control the people of Ireland, so set out to destroy the populace.

Weary men, what reap ye? "Golden corn for the Stranger. "What sow ye? "Human corpses that await for the Avenger. "Fainting forms, all hunger-stricken, what see you in the offing? "Stately ships to bear our food away amid the stranger's scoffing." There's…

Britain, Rothschild and the Great Irish Starvation: A Thread

Britain, Rothschild and the Great Irish Starvation: A Thread