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I’m super excited to read this book, but can we please stop calling it a famine? It was a genocide committed by England against the Irish Catholic population of Ireland.
— Oct 25, 2025 06:56AM
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Who could expect more from the English, wrote an Irish nationalist, given that England had spent the previous several centuries ‘robbing, ravishing, murdering, exterminating, exiling, torturing, starving, and brutalizing the Irish period.’
Genocide genocide genocide
— Oct 25, 2025 08:02AM
Genocide genocide genocide
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“Part of the problem was that many British leaders doubted they ought to be helping the Irish at all. These Englishman thought island was overpopulated and the famine was how ‘an all-wise Providence had decided to remedy the situation.”
Genocide genocide genocide.
— Oct 25, 2025 08:00AM
Genocide genocide genocide.
