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The Great Irish Famine is one of the most important events in the history of Ireland. 00:00:09
It's a key event that took place in the 19th century, in the 1800s, 00:00:28
and it also changed the relationship between Ireland and Great Britain. 00:00:32
They had had a bad relationship with them, but since then it has become even worse. 00:00:37
It also has had a great impact in the future history of Ireland, 00:00:44
and it's probably one of the causes why Ireland is an independent country today. 00:00:48
And also, it's a very controversial topic because people nowadays, 00:00:53
mostly historians, still discuss towards then this crisis was made worse 00:00:58
by the way the British government reacted. 00:01:03
Now, we are going to talk about the causes of this horrible event 00:01:11
and they are very complicated and historians will talk about many different causes but we are going 00:01:20
to focus on two or three things the most important is probably the unequal distribution of land 00:01:26
the island have been colonized by by the british the english and scottish and that means that 00:01:35
rich people from great britain had taken all the land basically all the land was theirs and 00:01:44
the irish people have become poor peasants poor workers that didn't have their own land they had 00:01:52
to work very hard for the british british land owners the owners of the land to grow different 00:01:58
crops for them so they could send them abroad sell those crops and earn lots of money 00:02:06
And that means that the Irish farmers, the Irish families have very little land, very small plots of land to grow their food. 00:02:12
And that is going to connect with the second cause that brought about this horrible, this dreadful and terrible famine. 00:02:22
The idea is that when you have so little land to grow all your own food, you need to use a crop that is very productive to give food to your whole family. 00:02:32
and the Irish people were using the potato 00:02:41
and a specific variety called the Irish Lamper. 00:02:44
And it was a very productive type of potato 00:02:47
and it could give lots of production to feed, 00:02:49
to give food to the whole family. 00:02:52
But the problem is when you rely on just one crop, 00:02:54
when you just have one crop to give food to everybody, 00:02:58
if there's a problem with that crop, 00:03:01
like a disease, something goes wrong 00:03:03
and kills that potato, everybody will die. 00:03:05
And this is what happened. 00:03:08
There was a kind of disease, an illness called the potato blight, that was a type of mouth, that killed all the potatoes and therefore people didn't have enough food to eat. 00:03:09
And also, this is not a ghost, but we're also going to talk about how the British government tried to pass some pieces of legislation, to pass some laws to help people, but they were very inefficient and that made things even worse. 00:03:23
Now we are going to start talking about the development of the famine. 00:03:40
The catastrophe started in 1845 with a little mole. 00:03:53
A mole is like a type of fungus called Phytophthora infestans. 00:03:59
And this mole created that disease that we have talked about before called the potato blight. 00:04:03
And this is something that kind of kills the potatoes while they are in the ground and they haven't been picked up by the farmers. 00:04:10
So this potato blight started to kill all the potatoes and then people started to have not enough food to eat. 00:04:16
This catastrophe, anyway, could have been avoided if both the Irish and British government had acted in a better way. 00:04:26
But the British government, what they tried to do was to try to force the Irish landlords 00:04:35
to provide some help to the poor tenants that didn't have enough money to buy other food 00:04:42
than the potatoes that had died in their gardens. 00:04:49
But what these landlords made instead of that, they have started to evict. 00:04:55
Evict means kind of kick out someone who is living in your house. 00:05:02
So they have started to evict the tenants. 00:05:06
Tenant means someone who lives in your land and you are renting that land to him. 00:05:10
And they have started to expel these people and to kick them out into the streets. 00:05:17
And also at the same time, the Irish rich people were exporting food. 00:05:22
They were selling food to other countries while people in Ireland were dying of hunger. 00:05:30
Then the harvests of the year 1846 and 1847 were also horrible. 00:05:38
And many more people were being evicted, were being kicked from their houses, from their land. 00:05:45
And they were losing their jobs and nobody, a lot of people didn't have enough money for food. 00:05:53
The worst year was the year 47 to 48, where like crowds of people were already walking from town to town and from village to village trying to get some food. 00:05:57
And they could only find some money or some food working in something called workhouses that were like some dreadful or horrible places where they would give you some food or some money. 00:06:11
But in exchange, you have to work for the whole day in horrible conditions as if you were a slave. 00:06:24
Then finally, things started to become better and the British government started to realize that they have made a series of very big mistakes. 00:06:31
And they have started to create soup kitchens to feed people. 00:06:43
Soup kitchens are the equivalent of the Spanish comedores sociales. 00:06:47
there are places where you can cook food for people that don't have enough money to pay for 00:06:52
it and you just give it for free but it was too late and lots of people had already died 00:06:59
the consequences the consequences were terrible today historians estimate that about 1 million 00:07:04
people probably died because of this famine if we think about how small the population of ireland 00:07:22
was at the at that moment it was probably about 15 percent or even more of the total population 00:07:29
of the time it also had a great impact in the irish language because some of the regions that 00:07:35
were more affected were like poorer regions that were in the west and it was the places where 00:07:41
people still speak gaelic that is the original irish language that was almost lost as a consequence 00:07:46
and now the majority of Irish people speak English due to that reason. 00:07:53
And it also created a large emigration to both the United States and the UK. 00:07:58
That's why we have so large communities of Irish people 00:08:04
in places like New York or Boston, etc., or in cities like Liverpool. 00:08:09
Also, this crisis created a hatred towards the British authority 00:08:13
that still persists and still many Irish people hate the British government and the British institutions. 00:08:18
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Idioma/s:
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Autor/es:
Alberto Aranda Cordero
Subido por:
Alberto A.
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Fecha:
21 de septiembre de 2021 - 18:57
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