Irish Famine international tribunal to take place at Fordham Law School – VIDEO

mairint.Google Irish slaves and see what happened to men women and children and why Irish slaves were sold off to the British colonies to depopulate the country of its spiritual people. Same as happened to native Americans etc. His story is always written by the victor and is very unreliable. Google 1172 Ireland and see where Pope Adrian 1V gave Eire and her people as slaves to King Henry 11.

the famine was partly due to the potato blight, but much more the result of English confiscation, control, and export for profit the rich harvest from the best Irish acres. Why is this still left out of the account so commonly???

Dano.We forgive ya Dano.We forgive ya.We forgive your gombeen Hiberno-English ancestors for doing the British bidding and taking the food from Irish children's mouths and putting on British ships. ;))

As long as the word famine is used it is a rewriting of history! One crop failed not all crops - as with the modern world the rich get richer and the poor get poorer!!!

Mairint – You seem to have quite a low ‘Amazement Threshold’, so I better warn you of a few more ‘Amazing facts’…the Heads of government of countries such as France, Holland and Belgium regularly ‘wine and dine’ each other, not to mention the Germans, after they spent centuries ‘beating the s***’ out of each other…the Norwegians actually talk to the Swedes, after years of colonisation…the Poles have just allowed the Russians to compete in a football competition, only twenty years after they finally left the country…not to mention how forgiving Black Americans seem to be after the way they were treated in those years after the famine…I even heard there was a massive Civil War over there, fought to keep them as slaves?...Amazing….

Interesting post mairint.

This is indeed good news that this international tribunal on the Genocide in Ireland will take place in Fordham law school in New York and not in Ireland or the UK. For starters the political elite in both countries would never have such a tribunal on the genocide that took place in Ireland and if they were to it would be watered down and justice would not be done and the truth would not be told. The native people of Ireland who suffered horrifically during those dark days deserve there day in court and its no matter it was 162 or 10 years ago. When the full truth is acknowledged then we can really move on as some might say.

bythebay may be afraid that her precious British friends will have their sensibilities upset by the only outcome of the tribunal and that is the deliberate attempt to commit mass murder.

michellus, Ireland lives in the present 21st century, not 162 years ago. Our best trading partner is the United Kingdom which is also a fellow member of the European Union. Move onto to more productive endeavors today and there is much to be done.

It would be good to assess the impact. Too often the cultural and political changes (including the Land League) among those left in Ireland that resulted from the Famine are neglected. It would also be good to study why so many Irish-Americans are now proud advocates of the laissez-faire capitalism that caused the starvation, since it was not the potato failure itself that did so.

A Kangaroo court with 80 whole supporters out to villify with the sole purpose of promoting bitterness and hatred. No concern about the over 8 million people in the US who go hungry every day. They have a disease eating at them causing nothing positive but wallowing in self-pity. No wonder the bars in the US are so popular.

SeamusMor -You and I don't always see eye to eye on everything ,but I agree with you 100% on this one!

Please join the Facebook site, Irish Holocaust - Push to Educate the Facts. Daily research is posted on the Irish Holocaust/Genocide of 1845-1852. Presently, there are 3X as many Americans as Irish on the site and would like to close that gap. Turkish support of Ireland with a gift of cash and three ship loads of provisions has been posted many times. There is a movie on the subject to be released soon. All religious denominations donated generously to mitigate the Irish plight. I would like see recognition of the working person who donated from their pay-packet...the dollar...every week...even when they were on the edge supporting their own family....that is true charity. Only by chance did I see a monument to the Irish dead with a commemoration stating what the mill workers in Lowell, MA sent to Ireland - $2,000. Again, please join us on Irish Holocaust - Push to educate the facts....Slainte, Mary Lou

Make the Queen eat potato soup when she visits.If there is a God,she will choke on it.

The video is indeed quite moving..I feel it would be more accurate if the generous donations of a NYC synagogue and the Turkish gov't were recognized.