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Brilliant thread about the history of solidarity between Ireland and the Choctaw Nation.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2058050593139089899.html
https://www.choctawnation.com/about/history/irish-connection/
Picture is of the Kindred Spirits memorial in Cork.
#SolidarityIsBeautiful #AnGortaMór #TrailOfTears #History #LandBack
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I liked this episode a lot, I thought it captured the multi-factored deterioration of the language playing out over a couple of hundred years.
While #AnGortaMór / #IrishFamine is one of the pivotal events behind the collapse of the language, it is far from the only factor
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I'll end this here at the bombed out St Lukes Church, home to the official #liverpool #AnGortaMór memorial.
The memorial remembers the millions who died or were forced to flee Ireland. This site honours their memory and acknowledges Liverpool’s role.
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Helping took many forms, including the fight for workers' rights. Born in Liverpool to Irish parents, James Larkin took the resilience of the docks and the navvies and forged it into a global labor movement. James Larkin represents the shift from the Irish being a community that needed help, to a community that led the charge for justice and equality for all workers.
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The survival of the Irish in Liverpool wasn't just down to luck; it was due to the tireless work of reformers. Kitty Wilkinson, the "Saint of the Slums" from Derry, pioneered public washhouses to fight the cholera that thrived in cellar dwellings. Agnes Jones arrived later to reform the brutal workhouse infirmary, bringing nursing care and dignity to the city's most vulnerable.
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Sadly, for many the escape from #Ireland presented different horrors of hunger, illness and poverty that were still too much to escape from.
Those who died in the Workhouse or the slums with nothing were often buried in unmarked communal pits. This plaque stands as a late but necessary recognition of their existence—ensuring that those who were nameless in death are finally remembered.
Ar dheis dé go raibh a n-anamacha
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Many brought their faith with them. Ireland was still strongly catholic.
The 1850s marked a shift from survival to visibility. Following the Catholic Emancipation and the restoration of the hierarchy in England (1850), the Irish community began to assert its presence.
This is St Patrixks church and predates the emancipation as the oldest catholic church in Liverpool, built in 1822.
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For many, they weren’t so lucky. Poverty, hunger and destitution were rampant. It's no surprise that during the Famine, Liverpool had the largest workhouse in the world. Thousands of Irish families were forced here, enduring institutionalised hardship and the intentional breaking up of families just to receive a bed and a meager meal. It was a site of immense suffering on an industrial scale.
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There was then also education and learning. This is Pleasant Street School built in 1818 for the growing city needs.
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Those lucky enough found work, but it wasn't easy, Thousands found work as "navvies," performing the back-breaking manual labour required to dig canals and build the railways.
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It’s early and cold. But I’m spending today walking the #Liverpool Irish Famine Trail, tracing the footsteps of the 1.3 million people who arrived here during #AnGortaMór
I’ll post much of it here, so join me on the journey. -
Another fascinating Free State podcast from Joe Brolly and Dion Fanning. This time with historian Padraic X Scanlan from University of Toronto about the Great Hunger/An Gorta Mór. Well worth a listen for anyone interested in Irish/Imperialist history.
#Ireland #IrishHistory #JoeBrolly #AnGortaMór #PadraicXScanlan #UniversityOfToronto
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This is absolutely fascinating, and deeply moving: donations from First Nations to Ireland during the Great Famine extended well beyond those well-known acts of generosity from the Choctaw and Cherokee Nations - from many Nations across both the so-called US & Canada.
"Indigenous Canadian famine aid was 'hidden in plain sight'"
https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2025/0317/1502457-canada-ireland-famine/
h/t @faduda
#Mohawk #Haudenosaunee #Chippewa #Delaware #Wyandotte #Mississauga #Ojibwa #Choctaw #Cherokee #Ireland #AnGortaMór #StPatricksDay
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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
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On the 9 September 1845 the Dublin Evening Post officially reported that the Potato Blight had arrived in Ireland. The disease had previously been reported in Belgium, but this was the first time that it had been spotted in Ireland. It is thought that the first outbreak of Blight may have occurred in Waterford, though there is no concrete proof that it had not previously been unreported elsewhere.
#Ireland #IrishHistory #AnGortaMór #Famine #PotatoBlight #Waterford #Belgium #OnThisDay
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In 2017 a monument was erected in Midleton which paid tribute to the kindness shown by the Choctaw Nation in Ireland's time of need.
In 2022 Irish lacrosse team pulled out of World Games and offered spot to a Native American team in recognition of the Choctaw donation. 2/2
https://www.irishcentral.com/news/irish-lacrosse-team-world-games-native-american
#Ireland #IrishHistory #ChoctawNation #GreatFamine #AnGortaMór #Midleton #Cork
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On 23 March 1847, the Choctaws Nation took up a donation, raising approximately $170 ($5,000 in today's money), and sent it to the town of Midleton, County Cork for famine relief.
The donation came shortly after the Choctaw Nation had embarked on the Trail of Tears and the selfless nature of the gesture has created an everlasting bond between Irish and Native American people. 1/2
#Ireland #IrishHistory #ChoctawNation #GreatFamine #AnGortaMór #Midleton #Cork
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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
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On the 9 September 1845 the Dublin Evening Post officially reported that the Potato Blight had arrived in Ireland. The disease had previously been reported in Belgium, but this was the first time that it had been spotted in Ireland. It is thought that the first outbreak of Blight may have occurred in Waterford, though there is no concrete proof that it had not previously been unreported elsewhere.
#Ireland #IrishHistory #AnGortaMór #Famine #PotatoBlight #Waterford #Belgium #OnThisDay
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An Gorta Mór was a military, political and social construct - a tinder box created by 250 years of domination by the Crown.
Plenty of evidence that it was a happy coincidence for many who benefitted financially, or saw it as 'God's judgement' on the Irish.We are the only country in the world with a population that is lower now than it was in 1850.
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The 'Irish Potato Famine' is a total misnomer. It's an injustice to all the victims. Every Irish person who believes in truth, justice & fairness should challenge that term every time it's used.
'An Gorta Mór' is literally & culturally a more appropriate name for the catastrophe. -
In 2017 a monument was erected in Midleton which paid tribute to the kindness shown by the Choctaw Nation in Ireland's time of need.
In 2022 the Irish lacrosse team pulled out of the World Games and offered spot to a Native American team in recognition of the Choctaw donation. 2/2
https://www.irishcentral.com/news/irish-lacrosse-team-world-games-native-american
#Ireland #IrishHistory #ChoctawNation #NativeAmericans #GreatFamine #AnGortaMór #Midleton #Cork
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On 23 March 1847, the Choctaws Nation took up a donation, raising approximately $170 ($5,000 in today's money), and sent it to the town of Midleton, County Cork for famine relief.
The donation came shortly after the Choctaw Nation had embarked on the Trail of Tears and the selfless nature of the gesture has created an everlasting bond between Irish and Native American people. 1/2
#Ireland #IrishHistory #ChoctawNation #NativeAmericans #GreatFamine #AnGortaMór #Midleton #Cork
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Interesting:
“The use of a longitudinal database of Famine immigrants who initially settled in New York .. indicates that the Famine Irish had far more occupational mobility than previously recognized. Only 25% of men ended their working careers in low-wage, unskilled labor; 44% ended up in white-collar occupations of one kind or another—primarily running saloons, groceries, and other small businesses.”
Via:
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/01/saturday-assorted-links-389.html
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CW: Generational trauma, the latest Swedish famine (1860s)
@MarthaCrimson An important thread on Swedish 19th-century famine which will be instantly relatable to Irish folks in general and the Mastodaoine here in particular.
#Famine #GenerationalTrauma #Sweden #Ireland #AnGortaMór #Mastodaoine -
If you can donate, maybe Ireland can again show support to First Nations, as we did during the pandemic to support Hopi & Navajo, in response to the support our ancestors received from the Cherokee during the Great Famine?
Where possible, perhaps we can also support the Lakota in their time of need, in the grip of freezing temperatures:
https://friendsofpineridgereservation.org/organizations/organizations-firstfamiliesnow/
#Ireland
#MastoDaoine
#GreatFamine
#AnGortaMór
#Lakota
#Hopi
#Navajo
#Cherokee
#MutualAid
#First Nations
#Indigenous
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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