Ireland's population*
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Also massive cultural and linguistic loss. Prior to 1847 Ireland had millions of monoglot Irish speakers. Today there are less than 100,00 daily speakers of the language, none of whom (other than very young children) are monoglot. Ireland as it was died in An Gorta Mór.
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No such thing as irish famine it was genocide.
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I wish people trying to show how much they hate the English would stop wrongly calling the Great Famine a genocide. You either don’t understand history or what the word genocide means. The English were entirely to blame for the famine but doesn’t meet the definition of genocide
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Exactly right. Enlish policy in the late 16th and 17th Century, on the other hand, very much meets the definition of genocide.
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Definitely Cromwell started the genocide with mass murders of civilians in Wexford and drogheda. The Roots of the Famine were laid then with driving the Irish off the land. The famine itself was the result of previous genocide and racist English political decisions of the day
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Yup. I wish people would realise this and stop referring to the Famine as genocide.
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#notesfromtheechochamber Glad you found each other lads
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Sorry, boss. I forgot that everyone on Twitter has to be in a state of perpetual rage while disagreeing on every point about ever topic. Will try harder next time.
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Oh perlease they need to get over that already
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Sasanach detected.
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Sounds like someone who you’d see next Tuesday.
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The population back then was about 8 million. And they were ALL Irish, a lot of Irish speakers, who knew about Irish legends, Irish culture, Entire families who just wiped out. The current population is around 4 million and a lot of them are foreign.
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What has a portion of Ireland's population being of foreign descent got to do with this discussion?
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Because they aren't Irish.
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Take it being surrounded by water they could not have gone fishing????
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And the abject poverty they were kept in by English landlords meant they had neither the means nor education to go fishing. And not everyone lived near a coastline. Such a flippant observation
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It was clearly a snarky question and someone answered it.
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No not a snarky question at all. Seriously it was a genuine question as I just don’t know enough about this. Have read up some stuff and going to read more. What I have read so far is quite shocking to say the least.
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Go see the movie Black 47, finally a movie about this subject
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Can’t wait. Finally in the US and in Philly at
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Not yet, but getting good reviews from relatives and friends
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