New evidence shows Turkey delivered food to Ireland during the famine

So the Turks helped the Irish out. And I bet there'll still be yanks on here insulting Turkish people who live in Ireland.

PittsburghKid, if your ancestors starved to death you wouldn't be here, duh! Tayandcrank, old sow yourself.

seanomelbourne, Aussie Brit, you Aussies were right there fighting in the British Army in WWI. You wouldn't know that becuase you never finished secondary school. All you can do is bash others, call yourself an idiot.

WoundedKnee/GeorgeDillon, you're the fool, and racist, ignorant, bigoted garbage. The tens of thousands of Irish in the British Army in WWI are being remembered and will never be forgotten. You're ignorant of that becuase you live in the US and know nothing about Ireland or our history. We will never forget the tens of thousands of heroes who fought for Ireland's freedom in WWI despite the likes of you railing against it. We'll do as we choose.

7 million people survived the Famine, the majority of them stayed in Ireland. Those of you claiming no food was given to the Irish people are just plain wrong. There were also some excellent estate owners who fed their tenants and many of those owners lost their estates because they couldn't continue to afford to do that. Your regurgitating the same old bias shows how limited your knowledge is.

LOL What a Crock of BS. Anyone who knows British History aka the Crown, Knows the only people they care about is themself we Irish were always treated as Rubbish and Sub Humans by the Brits.Thank God my Great Grand Parents Came to America.

Do you lot really think that money and the boatloads of food were given to the starving people, it would have been loaded straight onto the British ships heading back to Britain. It was genocide.. when in a few short years thousands upon thousands of walking skeleton figure's roamed the country roads starving and dropping like flies. Ask yourself why did they take the crops from the Irish as men, women and children lay dying on the roads ? Yet people from the other side of the world tried to help them. As for the Irish joining the British army, months ago the government mentioned about two thousand, now the molehill has become a mountain by some who know frig all about us. AngryPaddy get rid of the Paddy, you are definitely not Irish. GoergefrigginDillon go straighten out your own country where they are killing each other in schools and shopping malls every week, and no terrorists involved. You always sound so sick with jealousy of the Irish people. Tá tu amháin buachaill tinn bulai

Coming soon the tale of the good ship St.Patrick that didn't sail to aid the victims of Armenian genocide.

(…more) The friend’s son went on to tell me that a football club in Turkey called Trabzonspor is a sister club with DUFC and both wear the same colour jerseys (claret and blue) and there is a similarity in Trabzonspor’s logo or badge with DUFC’s – a modern take on or look of a Star and Crescent. So there you have it, according to my football friend: the Star & Crescent of Drogheda has nothing to do with Turkish ships arriving with food relief during An Gorta Mór. Or is it not so? Why would DUFC and Turkish club Trabzonspor have similar connections both alleged to be related to the Famine? I think there’s more to Antoinette’s story above and the friendship between Irish and Turkish people than meets the eye – perhaps more proof of British denials?

Being a soccer fan, a good many years ago I heard that the logo, or badge, of Drogheda United Football Club (DUFC) contained a Star and a Crescent reputedly taken from Drogheda’s alleged association with a delivery of food to Drogheda Port by Ottoman Turkish ships during the Famine years. Some year’s later still, the son of a friend of mine played for DUFC and I asked him about the Star & Crescent logo. He gave me a longwinded answer which basically said “Not so”. It seems the badge is taken from Drogheda Town’s ‘royal’ charter given by some English King many centuries ago. He told me the same logo or badge of a Star and Crescent appears on the jersey of English soccer club, Portsmouth FC (which I never knew). This arises from another English King giving the town of Portsmouth its ‘royal’ charter. Both kings had similar logos apparently. (More…)

Nice try, but my ancesters still starved to death.

Fairplay to them. BYthebay, we hope you get a job soon, all that idleness is making you a bitter old sow

With the aid of “Our Gallant Allies in Europe” as was said in those far off days when True Irishmen and women had enough of being Serfs and fought and died for freedom and liberty. Those Gallant Allies were Germany and Turkey. Both nations had shown nothing but good will towards Irish people over the centuries. Looking back now it was absolutely absurd that Irish men would take up arms in 1914 to kill Germans and Turks at the behest of the very nation that enslaved us. Those who did kill Germans and Turks were Serfs of the British Empire.

Go fishing angrypaddy you might catch a cold.

I read an article sometime ago about a Turkish ship docking in Ireland to off load genocide relief and the Turkish captain was confused wanting to know why a ship was been loaded with food bound for England.I believe this particular ship may have docked in Waterford.Bythebay is an escaped village idiot.