Quinnipiac’s Dr John Lahey’s historic famine tribute

The truth will be exposed some day.

What is Quinnipiac's purpose, and yours, if not to cover up a genocide? The playwright you so effusively praise is clueless about a core fact of potato cultivation. To see if a potato crop has been hit by blight nobody pulls up stalks. Blight hits before the potatoes begin to form on root nodules. Blighted stalks die before potatoes have formed. It first appears on the underside of the leaves and the sides of the stalk stems and spreads throughout the potato stalks. Is there any deed as vile as covering up a genocide while posturing as a concerned historian? Minimal research would yield the truth that, of the 137 regiments that comprised Britain's then-empire army, that gov't, to remove Ireland's abundant food at-gunpoint, deployed 69 of them to Ireland, slightly more than half.

methinks this guy might be a closet ethnic empathist, eh???

God Bless John Lahey, his success and the fact that he never forgot what happened to his family. I have to look up Camp in Kerry as I don't know where that is. We love to watch the St. Patrick's parade from upstate NY and am so thankful to him, Ford Motor Co and NBC. We consider the famine a "genocide" as the Irish were put off their rightful lands and food was being shipped out of Ireland, but that is semantics. It is so wonderful that this awful history has been kept alive so it won't happen again. One thing many people don't know about is that many of the starved people in the Kerry, Cork area passed on a debilitating chromosome disorder to their offspring. The starved person given sustenance would recover but his offspring's chromosomes would be changed. The medical people in Kerry and Cork are still coping alone with this disaster. The Netherlands received a huge grant from the "John and Catherine MacArthur" fund to study Chromosome changes in their WWII population, but the medical people in Kerry and Cork are dealing with this dilemma all alone. Many thanks to John for his tremendous success and all he had done to remember the forgotten, innocent souls who were left to starve.