Britain’s Cover Up of the Genocide in Ireland

IrishHolocaust.org
04.03.2008

Is Britain’s cover-up of its 1845-1850 holocaust in Ireland the most successful lie in all of history?

Consider: why does Irish President Mary Robinson call it “Ireland’s greatest natural disaster” while she conceals the British army’s role? 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.

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) The attached map shows the never-before-published names and locations in Ireland of the food removal regiments (Disposition of the Army; Public Record Office, London; et al, of which we possess photocopies). Thus, Britain seized from Ireland’s producers tens of millions of head of livestock; tens of millions of tons of flour, grains, meat, poultry & dairy products; enough to sustain 18 million persons.

The Public Record Office recently informed us that their British regiments’ Daily Activity Reports of 1845-1850 have “gone missing.” Those records include each regiment’s cattle drives and grain-cart convoys it escorted at gun-point from the Irish districts assigned to it. Also “missing” are the receipts issued by the British army commissariat officers in every Irish port tallying the cattle and tonnage of foodstuff removed; likewise the export lading manifests. Other records provide all-revealing glimpses of the “missing” data; such as:

The Food Removal

From Cork harbor on one day in 1847 the AJAX steamed for England with 1,514 firkins of butter, 102 casks of pork, 44 hogsheads of whiskey, 844 sacks of oats, 247 sacks of wheat, 106 bales of bacon, 13 casks of hams, 145 casks of porter, 12 sacks of fodder, 28 bales of feathers, 8 sacks of lard, 296 boxes of eggs, 30 head of cattle, 90 pigs, 220 lambs, 34 calves and 69 miscellaneous packages. On November 14, 1848 3, sailed, from Cork harbor alone: 147 bales of bacon, 120 casks and 135 barrels of pork, 5 casks of hams, 149 casks of miscellaneous provisions (foodstuff); 1,996 sacks & 950 barrels of oats; 300 bags of flour; 300 head of cattle; 239 sheep; 9,398 firkins of butter; 542 boxes of eggs. On July 28, 1848 4; a typical day’s food shipments from only the following four ports: from Limerick: the ANN, JOHN GUISE and MESSENGER for London; the PELTON CLINTON for Liverpool; and the CITY OF LIMERICK, BRITISH QUEEN, and CAMBRIAN MAID for Glasgow. This one-day removal of Limerick’s food was of 863 firkins of butter; 212 firkins, 1,198 casks and 200 kegs of lard, 87 casks of ham; 267 bales of bacon; 52 barrels of pork; 45 tons and 628 barrels of flour; 4,975 barrels of oats and 1,000 barrels of barley. From Kilrush: the ELLEN for Bristol; the CHARLES G. FRYER and MARY ELLIOTT for London. This one-day removal was of 550 tons of County Clare’s oats and 15 tons of its barley. From Tralee: the JOHN ST. BARBE, CLAUDIA and QUEEN for London; the SPOKESMAN for Liverpool. This one-day removal was of 711 tons of Kerry’s oats and 118 tons of its barley. From Galway: the MARY, VICTORIA, and DILIGENCE for London; the SWAN and UNION for Limerick (probably for transshipment to England). This one-day removal was of 60 sacks of Co. Galway’s flour; 30 sacks and 292 tons of its oatmeal; 294 tons of its oats; and 140 tons of its miscellaneous provisions (foodstuffs). British soldiers forcibly removed it from its starving Limerick, Clare, Kerry and Galway producers.

In Belmullet, Co. Mayo the mission of 151 soldiers 5 of the 49th Regiment was to guard a few tons of meal from the hands of the starving; its population falling from 237 to 105 between 1841 and 1851. Belmullet also lost its source of fish in January, 1849, when Britain’s Coast Guard arrested its fleet of enterprising fishermen ten miles at sea in the act of off-loading flour from a passing ship. They were sentenced to prison and their currachs were confiscated.

The Waterford Harbor British army commissariat officer wrote to British Treasury Chief Charles Trevelyan on April 24, 1846; “The barges leave Clonmel once a week for this place, with the export supplies under convoy which, last Tuesday, consisted of 2 guns, 50 cavalry, and 80 infantry escorting them on the banks of the Suir as far as Carrick.” While its people starved, the Clonmel district exported annually, along with its other farm produce, approximately 60,000 pigs in the form of cured pork.

Irishmen and Irishwomen!

Never, ever, forget it!
As no Jewish person would ever refer to the “Jewish Oxygen Famine of 1939 – 1945″, so no Irish person ought ever refer to the Irish Holocaust as a famine..

Full Article:http://www.irishholocaust.org/

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13 Responses to Britain’s Cover Up of the Genocide in Ireland

  1. There is too much evidence, irrefutable evidence that the Irish people were starved to death.
    By the time 1845-48 arrived the Irish people were reduced to paupers who could do little for themselves by the Statues of Kilkenny and the Penal Laws previously imposed on the people of Ireland.
    What right has any man, any organisation, any Government to impose so many rules on people that brings a people to near extinction and then to withdraw the very food that a person needs to survive and live.
    No man, no organisation, No Goverment has been given that right nor should they.
    We are all on this planet to help one another, to work and live together in harmony.
    Do not let yourself be gulled by others into thinking that because a potatoe failed was the cause of a so many people dying in Ireland and on coffin ships on their way to other countries.
    We insult everyone of those people that died when we call that horrible time “a Famine”. There was no Famine.

  2. kevinodonovan

    hi you wont believe this but having a discussion on a river cruise in june i discussed this with some yanks now i never read any books etc or educated on this but i just asked them if you did not eat potatoes for the rest of your life would you starve !!!they were completly shocked why because i did not argue or give statistics ! keep the message SIMPLE and they will look it all up on internet . most people are used to us through our frustration and anger we try to force our history across . REMEMBER it is in the past we can not change it but we can make people aware that we are a unique nation who have gone and travelled around the world and we are welcome in every country BY THE WAY OUR PASSPORT is the most popular and can get you to places no other passport will get you [i believe]cheers kevin

    • brendan flynn

      Yes Kevein,
      I agree with your points. What needs to happen here is every Irish person needs to learn the facts and acknowledge what actually happened in Ireland in 1845-48. There is an onus of The Irish Government to publish the history of the era and ensure that it gets thought to all Irish students.
      It is part of the history of Ireland. Not a good part but a period that deserves the Truth to be written.
      Feeding Irish people with the scenario that people died because the potatoe failed has got to stop. Its an insulting to do so especially to the 1.5 million + who died throughout Ireland and on coffin ships on the way to USA Canada and other countries.
      Putting blame on those that allowed this to happen will achieve little. Those that read the facts will soon learn who were the perpertrators of Ireland’s Great Hunger. It is better that people find out the truth for themselves thana be told it. In that way it stays in the conscious much longer. One thing for sure…… Famine it never was.

      • Mary Lou McKeone

        Kevin and Brendan….Agree with you both.
        Brendan…I love your response. The Irish government has to be pushed to stating the truth. My ancestors did not die because they did not have a potato.
        Take care….ML

  3. kevinodonovan

    british government have their heads so far up their arses they will never know or admit the truth what the irish need to do is not have a grudge but never forget and know the enemy in other words get on with the future ireland .for our grand kids anger and resentments will only stagnate our growth as a nation . we have come a long way and only ourselves will **** it up .cheers kevin

  4. Linda Jane

    As a child I was never under any other impression other than this: Food was forcibly removed from Ireland, prior during and after the famine. The land belonged to English, Scottish and less frequently Irish landlords who, for the most part, were not entirely concerned with the Irish peasants or felt any obligation to assist them. Some believed the blight was an act of God, others believed it was not normal to interefere in such affairs, and fewer still made extraordinary efforts to highlight the cause in the English press. It is hard to understand it today but there was a genuine belief in inferiority of certain races. To fully appreciate this chapter in history, one really needs to look into the social differences between class and race and the attitudes of such, the age of imperialism etc. It is not something that can be studied in isolation.

    One question I have is about the Public Record Office. Are you referring to the Public Record Office in Ireland? This has been renamed the National Archives since 1988. I presume by “missing” there is an implication that there is a coverup in operation. I would like to hear more about this. In my experience anyone who misunderstood that chapter in history did so from buying badly researched books or having one attrocious history teacher. The details of the event were never suppressed from me.

  5. Phillip Conner

    I just recently got into an argument with a “fellow” American about this very issue. Of course I sided with the truth, and he sided with the Brits. I pointed out the fact that during this period in Irish History exportation of goods (foodstuffs) were at a high point in reletive Irish History, under armed guards even. With no regard for the starving Irish all over the island. He argued that the British government bought 1,000 pounds of Corn, and sent 100,000 “pounds” (currency) to help the struggling Irish people. I then pointed out that most of that money was collected by people around the world (US and Canada mostly) then given to those same lords that helped starve the Irish people. Of Course he was totally convinced the Irish people starved not because of the Brits but because of their own flawed laws. I Again pointed out that the Irish didn’t have power in the creations of their own laws, it was ruled over by the Brits. He went on to point to sources like Oxford which is a British ran university (duh! bias!). Although I am American I love my Irish Ancestry, and respect those that have and will stand up against the lies of this horrible part of history.

  6. Screaming Lord Such

    I see no mention here of the recent Irish bailout by the English tory government. Typical Irish would rather remember an event from over 150 years ago than something that happened just a few months ago. Get over it! I’m sure most normal English feel ashamed of what happened during the potato famine but if it wasn’t for the English your country would be broke again. It’s time to move on for gods sake.

    P.S. Your rugby team sucks also

    • Your presentation of ignorance somehow does not surprise me coming from an immature and mentally retarded(because of English inbreeding) supporter of English policy.

      If you had half a brain you would be able to deduce that the “bailout” of Ireland is just another way for the English to try to claim some form of financial ownership of Ireland’s future profits.

      Shame on you for trying to negate responsibility and insult the Irish who have to live with the oppression you so easily forget.

    • Anonymous

      What complete and utter ignorance. Shameful.

  7. Brendan

    Dear Lord Such and Such,
    You are the epitomy of your fellow country persons who suffer from severe cases of reality avoidence when the truth is before you. You either change the subject or throw irrelvant information into the pot to see if a change in ingredients will produce a different dish. Not so. Whats worse is you are an abject coward hiding behind a sham of a nickname. The thing about history is that it doesnt change. It is recorded for all. You can bark up any tree you like from here to eternity but the World and his aunt nows the disgusting behaviour of England towards Ireland during 1845-51 and for the last 900 years. The bully has been found out. The days of the penal laws, plantations, mass starvation, mass murder are over. We got your number.

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  9. calm down big guy its rugby

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