#greatfamine — Public Fediverse posts
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If we fail to stop the Epstein Gang’s war on Iran and Lebanon, millions of people in South Asia and Africa could die from famine.
Anyone who has contributed to this conflict in any way shares responsibility for the resulting deaths.
#Asia #Bangladesh #India #GreatFamine #UsPol #Trump #Israel #Iran
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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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🌾 Famine. Rain. Desperation.
In 1315, Europe’s golden age drowned in endless storms and died of starvation
Discover how the Great Famine of 1315 reshaped the medieval world and began the Crisis of the Late Middle Ages on our latest #podcast episode
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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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“The question of intentionality and the way that hunger was used during the Irish famine has some parallels to the fact that the Israeli state and the clearly fascistic and genocidal elements within it viewed October 7 as an opportunity to carry out a long-term objective.”
Irish historian Fearghal Mac Bhloscaidh
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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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Heritages of Hunger
"Een hongersnood is zo vergeten, zelfs een in Nederland"https://www.radboudrecharge.nl/nl/artikel/een-hongersnood-is-zo-vergeten-zelfs-een-in-nederland #NWA #GreatFamine #Holodomor #Finland #Gaza #Sudan #Yemen
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@FascistCentre the Irish blood in me will never forget how they use food as a weapon.
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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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A Brit writes:
British-Irish relations have a long and complex history, but we should not allow ourselves to be so dazzled by this magnificent Star of St Patrick that we are blind to the negligence and narrow mindedness of Victoria in regard to Ireland. These unpleasant and destructive attitudes are exemplified by her behaviour during the Famine .
https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/history/queen-victoria-irish-famine
#UKHistory #BritishHistory #IrishHistory #GreatFamine #QueenVictoria 3History
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I'm always baffled that The Irish Times, RTÉ books programmes, etc don't give big publicity to the fascinating Dublin publisher Phaeton. Here's one of their books - a #Hungarian writing about Ireland in 1837, just before the #GreatFamine http://phaeton.ie/ireland.html @bookstodon
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One of the things people said about the #GreatFamine was "They're on an island surrounded by seas full of fish! How stupid do they have to be to starve!" Then the Quakers did a study and found that the shoals had moved and were now shoaling off the Dogger Bank, far from the shores of #Ireland. But now we're going to kill the fish altogether #ClimateCrisis
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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 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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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
#Native