#greatfamine — Public Fediverse posts
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How an 1847 Choctaw donation to Ireland now funds students through @UCC scholarship
Historic act of generosity during the Great Famine continues to shape cultural ties and educational opportunities nearly two centuries later
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight/arid-41813261.html
#Choctaw #GreatFamine #mastodaoine #UCC #Cork #solidarity #generosity
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"Padraic Scanlan’s Rot: A History of the #IrishFamine doesn’t seek to overturn this consensus but Scanlan’s central claim is in some ways an echo of Mitchel’s: although #Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, it was, he writes, ‘imagined, governed and exploited in strikingly colonial ways ... The famine – a complex ecological, economic, logistical and political disaster – was a consequence of colonialism.’ "
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n21/niamh-gallagher/carrion-and-earth
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"Padraic Scanlan’s Rot: A History of the #IrishFamine doesn’t seek to overturn this consensus but Scanlan’s central claim is in some ways an echo of Mitchel’s: although #Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, it was, he writes, ‘imagined, governed and exploited in strikingly colonial ways ... The famine – a complex ecological, economic, logistical and political disaster – was a consequence of colonialism.’ "
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n21/niamh-gallagher/carrion-and-earth
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"Padraic Scanlan’s Rot: A History of the #IrishFamine doesn’t seek to overturn this consensus but Scanlan’s central claim is in some ways an echo of Mitchel’s: although #Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, it was, he writes, ‘imagined, governed and exploited in strikingly colonial ways ... The famine – a complex ecological, economic, logistical and political disaster – was a consequence of colonialism.’ "
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n21/niamh-gallagher/carrion-and-earth
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"Padraic Scanlan’s Rot: A History of the #IrishFamine doesn’t seek to overturn this consensus but Scanlan’s central claim is in some ways an echo of Mitchel’s: although #Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, it was, he writes, ‘imagined, governed and exploited in strikingly colonial ways ... The famine – a complex ecological, economic, logistical and political disaster – was a consequence of colonialism.’ "
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n21/niamh-gallagher/carrion-and-earth
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#UncivilizedMedia | A History of Forced Starvation, Explained
a #documentary by Tala Kaddoura
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgBCgLF7890
#film #courtMétrage #Gaza #GazaGenocide #GazaFamine #Palestine #Ireland #GreatFamine #IrishFamine #Namibia #HereroAndNamaGenocide #WarsawGhetto #Holocaust #colonialViolence @film @palestine @israel
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#UncivilizedMedia | A History of Forced Starvation, Explained
a #documentary by Tala Kaddoura
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgBCgLF7890
#film #courtMétrage #Gaza #GazaGenocide #GazaFamine #Palestine #Ireland #GreatFamine #IrishFamine #Namibia #HereroAndNamaGenocide #WarsawGhetto #Holocaust #colonialViolence @film @palestine @israel
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#UncivilizedMedia | A History of Forced Starvation, Explained
a #documentary by Tala Kaddoura
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgBCgLF7890
#film #courtMétrage #Gaza #GazaGenocide #GazaFamine #Palestine #Ireland #GreatFamine #IrishFamine #Namibia #HereroAndNamaGenocide #WarsawGhetto #Holocaust #colonialViolence @film @palestine @israel
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#UncivilizedMedia | A History of Forced Starvation, Explained
a #documentary by Tala Kaddoura
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgBCgLF7890
#film #courtMétrage #Gaza #GazaGenocide #GazaFamine #Palestine #Ireland #GreatFamine #IrishFamine #Namibia #HereroAndNamaGenocide #WarsawGhetto #Holocaust #colonialViolence @film @palestine @israel
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"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/
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"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/
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"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/
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"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/
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#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
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#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
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#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
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#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