Eve’s Reviews > The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845 - 1849 > Status Update

I guess let this radicalize me *instead of sending me into despair.

Seriously it gives me the reactions I had about the hate crimes against pulse nightclub & qclub. The feel of it being *my* people strikes me odd though.

Far back enough in my family tree when in USA the irish & English eventually had kids so... WTF. It feels like fucking a misogynist

Also how the fuck were the priests allowed to be this mouthy?

Chapter 8 just got started @ 5:48:32

Also at the end of chapter 7, Trevelyan showed his ass & gave up on feeding West Ireland, let alone East Ireland. the people are rebelling for scraps like wild dogs. A worker (working for relief money) died of starvation because the intensines were empty except for some canbage etc, the coroner blamed the relief program.

So far the focus is on the policies instead of the gore

Mr Huison reported how the guards/cops protecting the export depots had to go out into the fields because the people we're cutting the traces of the horses in order to prevent grain from wing exported

Food riots are less organized & shorter in duration [5 skulls] than more organized political action

I then wrote down a long passage for later citations. I'll need to start a separate doc even data table for uprisings

2/2

Something about time to use home produce, something about the towns needing to combine in odder go take produce away from liverpool, something about expecting a jobs program, but the economy not really allowing, there being too many applicants, and the wages being too damn small to buy the corn meal.

Also this famine is a lesson about the dangers of monocrops

Some landlords do abolish rent but it's not universal

The part about UK Empire knowing more about far away colonies than Ireland & further being incompetent about the production of corn is a mood. Reminds me of how some activists from ACT UP talked about the CDC boards being the charlatans behind the curtain of the Wizard of oz

1/2

Basically in 1846 the Irish weren't able to purchase the food on the "freemarket" because the English/British out bid them & went protectionist on them. The dude in charge got a pay raise, but even he was like this process will not work. Only 2000 tons of corn for 9 million people for a 3+ month supply during winter... Yeah, it was obvious ppl were about to die b/c a pound a day of startch can't feed hard laborer