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Making a Documentary on The Famine

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  • 04-11-2012 4:13pm
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    brosy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 65 ✭✭


    I'm currently doing my college dissertation as a radio documentary about An Gorta Mór, The Great Hunger.

    I've got a couple of angles already planned out regarding interesting people to interview, particular personal accounts and unusual stories etc.

    I'm wondering if any of you fine people with an interest in this period of Irish history would have any information on perhaps less well known stories or personalities from the period, or even characters around Cork or Ireland with a deep knowledge who might be open to an interview.

    Any help or discussion is greatly appreciated.

    Go raibh maith agat


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    El Guapo!
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    Potato.


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    B.A._Baracus
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    If you are making a documentary make sure to get footage of those statues by Custom House Quay in dublin.

    They are freaky :eek:

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/93/Famine_memorial_dublin.jpg


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    kneemos
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    Let them catch fish.


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    Beatles
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    An t-Ocras Mór


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    billybudd
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    At the time the Queen of England gave 10 times more in relief money than the catholic church.


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    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    An Gorta Mór, surely?


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    brosy
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    Paityn Handsome Whole-wheat wrote: »
    An Gorta Mór, surely?

    Christ I'm an eejit today.


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    4zn76tysfajdxp
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    brosy wrote: »
    Christ I'm an eejit today.

    Must be hungry.


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    mikemac1
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    The Sutlan of the Ottman Empire, something like that sent a ship or three with food and aid to the wee county, Drogheda to be exact

    And so Drogheda has a town crest with a star and a crescent on it

    Mary McAleese told this story a few years back

    But then some others said it was incorrect

    I don't mind, I like this story :)


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    Chucken
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    brosy wrote: »
    , particular personal accounts .

    Go raibh maith agat

    They'd all be fairly old at this stage...:confused:....or dead. Probably.


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    brosy
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    Chucken wrote: »
    They'd all be fairly old at this stage...:confused:....or dead. Probably.

    Perhaps my wording was not perfect here. I meant any particular poignant stories or accounts of various people who lived through it that has been documented. Anyone still alive from the Famine would be very old indeed.


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    mikemac1
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    It's a BBC production up on youtube

    Michael Kitchen is the main actor and is very good

    Well worth watching if you've a few hours to spare


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    brosy
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    ^^^^^Will definitely check that out. Always good to get a 'foreign' perspective


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    GRMA
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    Make sure you talk about the people sentenced to transportation for stealing food. One couple got twenty years for stealing turnips, I cant remember their names off of the top of my head though.


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    steddyeddy
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    billybudd wrote: »
    At the time the Queen of England gave 10 times more in relief money than the catholic church.

    She still gave feck all. They were both useless to us really.


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    Agricola
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    brosy wrote: »

    Go raibh maith agat

    agaibh ;)

    oh and other than being a twát, I can't help, sorry


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    Seaneh
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    OP.

    You misspelled "Genocide".


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    keano_afc
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    I havent checked, but make sure you post in the History and Heritage forum, for some serious answers.


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    GRMA
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    keano_afc wrote: »
    I havent checked, but make sure you post in the History and Heritage forum, for some serious answers.
    I wouldnt bother, theres no historians on there now. try this reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/IrishHistory It's far superior.


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    kowloon
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    Didn't some Americans (Native) send over aid even though they were pretty badly off themselves. Can't remember the details, but liked the idea.


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    Death and Taxes
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    mikemac1 wrote: »
    The Sutlan of the Ottman Empire, something like that sent a ship or three with food and aid to the wee county, Drogheda to be exact

    And so Drogheda has a town crest with a star and a crescent on it

    Mary McAleese told this story a few years back

    But then some others said it was incorrect

    I don't mind, I like this story :)
    That has been completley disproven, in fact there is no evidence that the Turks sent any help at all.


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    kylith
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    kowloon wrote: »
    Didn't some Americans (Native) send over aid even though they were pretty badly off themselves. Can't remember the details, but liked the idea.

    I think maize was sent from the States alright. It was called Indian Corn and made into Stirabout, IIRC.


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    LETHAL LADY
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    Pot-tae-toe the thing is Ireland had plenty of food at that time we just exported spuds.


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    ArtyM
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3gfjpcgZmw


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    phoenix999
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    WileyCoyote wrote: »
    That has been completley disproven, in fact there is no evidence that the Turks sent any help at all.

    Christine Kinealy a well known expert on the Irish Famine seems to disagree. Constantinople gave over £600 and the Sultan £1000. Worth in the hundreds of thousands at today's values:

    http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/Overseas_Aid

    http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/Private_Responses_to_the_Famine3344361812


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    Rhys Essien
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    OP,I dont know how much research you have done but this was Genocide of the Irish by the British.It suited the Brits to just call it 'The Famine'.There was a lot of food exported at the time.

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-great-irish-famine-was-genocide/18156

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:An_gorta_Mor.jpg


    There is also a great book here.

    http://corkuniversitypress.com/Atlas_of_the_Great_Irish_Famine_/357/


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    phoenix999
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    steddyeddy wrote: »

    She still gave feck all. They were both useless to us really.

    She did a lot more than you think:

    http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/Letter_of_Queen_Victoria


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    brosy
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    @Rhys, I am also of the opinion that it was a systematic genocide operating under the term of the Free Market or Laisse Faire economics. Thanks for links


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    phoenix999
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    As has been pointed out by some historians, one simply has to ask if the famine was occurring in Lancashire, England, would the Government have adopted the same policy? And the answer is always a big NO. But Ireland was out of sight and out of mind to the elite in London. Robert Peel tried his best to feed the starving and paid the price by being thrown out of office. Trevelyan was the real culprit and said it was 'God's judgement' on the lazy Irish. His policies led to huge loss of life.


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    Fr_Dougal
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    Do your own homework.


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