"British authorities regarded #Ireland’s misfortunes as evidence of the country’s incurable and willful medievalism [...] But as Scanlan is at pains to point out, the famine was in fact the result of forces within high #capitalism that were entirely modern [...] 'an unintended consequence of the increasing integration of global commerce.' "
Review of Padraic X. Scanlan's Rot: An Imperial History of the #IrishFamine
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/irish-famine-rot-scanlan/
🔴 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 📖 **Rot: A History of the Irish Famine**
Kirkus Reviews
“_Scanlan neatly chronicles the history of England’s ever-growing Protestant financial exploitation over the “uncivilized” Catholic Ireland’s poor and their tenant farms._”
🔗 https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/padraic-x-scanlan/rot-2/.
#Read #Nonfiction #History #Ireland #Éire #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #GB #IrishFamine #Colonialism #Book #BookReview #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#LettersAndPolitics | The #IrishPotatoFamine and its Consequences
guest: Padraic X. Scanlan, author of Rot: An Imperial History of the #IrishFamine
https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-march-19-2025/
#GreatFamine #Ireland #IrishHistory #imperialism #BritishImperialism #colonialViolence #famines #books @histodons @bookstodon @ireland
🍀🤔 Ah yes, the Irish Famine: a delightful cocktail of laissez-faire economics and a dash of imperial neglect—because who needs food when you've got "beliefs" to keep you warm? Thank you, New Yorker, for reminding us that market forces and #apathy make for timeless tragedies. 📉🥔
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/17/rot-padraic-x-scanlan-book-review #IrishFamine #LaissezFaire #EconomicHistory #MarketForces #TimelessTragedy #HackerNews #ngated
What Made the Irish Famine So Deadly
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/17/rot-padraic-x-scanlan-book-review
#HackerNews #IrishFamine #DeadlyHistory #PotatoBlight #IrishHistory #NewYorkerArticle
An Drochshaol/An Gorta Mór reported was first reported on 22 December 1849. Bridget O’Donnel was a famine victim from County Clare whose story appeared in The Illustrated London News on 22 December 1849.
Evicted from her home while pregnant and sick with fever, O’Donnel endured a losing her child at birth and watching her thirteen-year-old son starve to death.
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/interview-grieving-irish-famine-mother
#Ireland #IrishHistory #AnDrochshaol #AnGortaMór #IrishFamine
Ireland's Famine museum unveils Choctaw Nation memorial in Roscommon
A life-sized sculpture commemorating the aid provided by the Choctaw Nation during the Great Hunger has been unveiled in Roscommon.
https://www.irishcentral.com/news/irelands-famine-museum-choctaw-nation-memorial
#famine #Ireland #IrishFamine #TheGreatHunger #roscommon #ChoctawNation #TheGift
5 countries that HELPED Ireland during the famine, RANKED 🌍🇮🇪
1️⃣ USA 🇺🇸: Over €400,000 in aid!
2️⃣ India 🇮🇳: Nearly €17,000 raised!
3️⃣ Caribbean Nations 🌴: Small nations, big hearts!
4️⃣ Ottoman Empire 🕌: Secretly sent food!
5️⃣ Britain 🇬🇧: Controversial but significant aid! Discover the full story here: 🔗https://www.irelandbeforeyoudie.com/top-5-countries-that-helped-ireland-during-the-famine/
If you want to go slightly deeper into the irish potato famine, there's this series of short videos:
Part 1: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=gAnT21xGdSk
2: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=E4Dc0ltgf3I
3: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=6DP8INm09nY
4: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=csNlKTRJiS0
5: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=iLlNAwyUFBs
Irish writer Tadhg Hickey makes an appeal to Irish Americans on behalf of the people of Palestine.
An Gorta Mór reported was first reported on 22nd December 1849. Bridget O’Donnel was a famine victim from County Clare whose story appeared in The Illustrated London News on December 22, 1849.
Evicted from her home while pregnant and sick with fever, O’Donnel endured a losing her child at birth and watching her thirteen-year-old son starve to death.
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/interview-grieving-irish-famine-mother
Black Rock land ‘crucial’ for memorial park, transferred to Irish community
The Anglican Diocese of Montreal is ceding the territory surrounding "Black Rock," the site of a mass Irish grave on Bridge Street, to the Montreal Irish Monument Park Foundation.
#globalnews #Canada #BlackRock #IrishFamine #massgrave
https://globalnews.ca/news/10034091/black-rock-land-crucial-for-memorial-park-transferred-to-irish-community/
Black Rock land ‘crucial’ for memorial park, transferred to Irish community
The Anglican Diocese of Montreal is ceding the territory surrounding "Black Rock," the site of a mass Irish grave on Bridge Street, to the Montreal Irish Monument Park Foundation.
#globalnews #Canada #BlackRock #IrishFamine #massgrave
https://globalnews.ca/news/10034091/black-rock-land-crucial-for-memorial-park-transferred-to-irish-community/
An old photo inspires Declan McSweeney to explore the history of the Irish Famine. Stories of human kindness add nuance to a great tragedy.
#IrishFamine #PotatoFamine
https://northwestbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/history/the-irish-famine-causes-impact-and-legacy/
@VannaBlack Also, it looks like this 2020 documentary, The Hunger, is about a time within this ~100 year period:
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13414418/
#thehunger #hunger #famine #irishfamine #potatofamine #landlords #capitalism #feudalism #democracy #evictions #irish #ireland #british #britain
Some Irish population density mapping by Alan Fernihough (QUB) for the #IrishFamine Project #demographics #population #IrishHistory
Florence Nightingale in Mike Davis's Late Victorian Holocausts:
.> The more one hears about this famine, the more one feels that such a hideous record of human suffering and destruction the world has never seen before..> — Florence Nightingale (1877)
.> The newly constructed railroads, lauded as institutional safeguards against famine, were instead used by merchants to ship grain inventories from outlying drought-stricken districts to central depots for hoarding (as well as protection from rioters). Likewise the telegraph ensured that price hikes were coordinated in a thousand towns at once, regardless of local supply trends.
.> Dissident journalists like William Digby in Madras... and the Bombay Statesman’s representative in the Deccan stirred troubling memories of the Irish famine as well as the #SepoyMutiny. In England, moreover, a group of old Indian hands and Radical reformers, including William Wedderburn, Sir Arthur Cotton, John Bright, Henry Hyndman and Florence Nightingale, kept The Times’s letters column full of complaints about #Calcutta’s callous policies.
.> Obdurate Bombay officials meanwhile continued to outrage Indians and incite charges of a cover-up in the press by refusing to publish any estimate of rural mortality. (Even Florence Nightingale was snubbed when she requested figures in early 1878.)
.> The bubonic plague came to Bombay in summer 1896 probably as a stowaway on a ship from Hong Kong. At the time, some scientists theorized that drought, as previously in southern China, was a critical factor in driving plague-carrying rats into more intimate commensality with human victims.36 Bombay, in any event, offered an ideal ecology for a pandemic: fetid, overcrowded slums (perhaps the densest in Asia) infested with a huge population of black rats. For years health officers had warned #British administrators that their refusal to expend anything on slum sanitation was preparing the way for an “epidemic apocalypse.” Florence Nightingale, in addition, had repeatedly crusaded against the city’s “phantasmagoria” of disease conditions, but the “European townspeople were united in blocking increased taxation to pay for new water and drainage schemes.”
.> The railroad system, meanwhile, consumed (to 1880) thirteen times as much investment as all hydraulic works. As the pro-irrigation lobby led by Sir Arthur Cotton and Florence Nightingale protested during the 1876–77 famine: “Now we have before our eyes the sad and humiliating scene of magnificent Works... that have cost poor India 160 millions, which are so utterly worthless in the respect of the first want of India, that millions are dying by the side of them.” ( #Gandhi, echoing this critique, would later denounce the railroads that “depleted the countryside of its [food] stocks and killed the handicrafts” as an underlying cause of #famine.)#India #Madras #FlorenceNightingale #Bombay #BubonicPlague #IrishFamine #Railroads #Telegraph #TechWillSaveUs?
#Bananas Threatened? Like in #BotanyofDesire, The #IrishFamine #Lumper
> The #kiwifruit is really threatened right now by a disease that is also taking advantage of the kiwi monoculture.
> The natural tendency in big business is to keep things simple, which is good because it keeps it cheap, but it hurts it in the end. It’s happening for grapes and olives as well. The other fruit companies should learn from the banana industry, except the banana industry hasn’t learned.
https://www.foodrepublic.com/2011/07/26/the-banana-problem/
