Irish Holocaust
Ireland's Holocaust of 1845-50 was one of history's greatest crimes. Its toll was well over five million innocents comprising the most gaelic, least anglified, of the people. Their bones are strewn in mass graves across Ireland. They are also along the routes fled by the desperate starvelings - the canal tow-paths and roads to Dublin, in and around England's cities especially Liverpool; also along the routes to and sites of Australian death camps, along the sea floor below the coffin-ship routes to Canada and the U.S. and along the shores of both and of the St. Lawrence river. Untold thousands were cremated at home by neighbors who, upon finding the entire family perished, would torch the thatch rather than risk contagion.
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Only During the past two decades have growing numbers of newly-undeceived persons begun to speak for the murdered dead. Thus, its millions of victims are, at long last, being publicly vindicated by the truth of what actually occurred - the Food Removal - the at-gunpoint removal of Ireland's abundant foods by seventy-five British army regiments. (To learn which regiment starved your relatives see my irishholocaust.org and click on its map.) |
The Cover-Up had been essentially total**. For more than 150 years until about 1997, its universal, official label was "Irish Famine" (frequently including "Potato"). It was taught as such in all schools.That label, "famine," obviously could not survive the growing awareness of the Food Removal. For example, a Cause of Death listed as "Asphyxiation" or "Lack of Oxygen" must be replaced by "Strangulation" upon discovery of a perpetrator. Otherwise one becomes complicit in a cover-up, especially if one is already in progress.
November 3rd has become Irish Holocaust Commemoration Day. It was on that date in 1845 that an alarmed group of twenty-two Irish notables visited Lord Heytesbury, Britain's envoy in Dublin, urging him to avert the growing calamity; to close Ireland's ports against removal of its food. He ignored their pleas and read to them from his prepared reply of two components; 1) he expressed no intention of stopping or slowing the food removal but did cast doubt upon the extent of the resultant hunger, and 2) spoke of one crop only - the potato. He then showed them the door.
Thus, November 3rd is the anniversary of two commemorated events; 1) the official start of the Holocaust, and 2) the start of the cover-up of the Food Removal and of the "famine"*** story.
To Honor the Starvelings we promise to never forget, to erect memorials over their mass graves and to do all in our power to stop governmental policies of genocide. We also commemorate the beginning of the cover-up, observing how covering up genocides tends to ensure more of them. We also discern how the cover-up could not have succeeded without corrupting the language. Thus, indispensable to the genocidists were the false and diversionary insertion of words such as "Famine," "Great Hunger," "Gorta Mor," and "potato," It was these words, used in this context despite the Food Removal, that, even today, serve abettors of the cover-up, whether they intend it or not. |
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* "Holocaust" has precedence. In 1847 the Cork Examiner newspaper described it as such. So did others, incuding Michael Davitt in his two-volume works published about 1899. I remember that it was in the 1960s that Shoah publicizers adopted "Holocaust." Author Norman Finkelstein confirms this in his writings.
** Liam O'Flaherty's "The Famine" and Woodham-Smith's "The Great Hunger..." both briefly mentioned the at-gunpoint food removal.
*** Phytophthora infestans destroyed potato crops everywhere, but had no effect whatever upon Ireland's abundant livestock, poultry, grains, meal and flour, vegetables, fruits and dairy products. It was the at-gunpoint removal of these that created the genocide.
For further information on the Irish Holocaust visit www.irishholocaust.org
