I liked this episode a lot, I thought it captured the multi-factored deterioration of the language playing out over a couple of hundred years.
While #AnGortaMór / #IrishFamine is one of the pivotal events behind the collapse of the language, it is far from the only factor
"Padraic Scanlan’s Rot: A History of the #IrishFamine doesn’t seek to overturn this consensus but Scanlan’s central claim is in some ways an echo of Mitchel’s: although #Ireland was part of the United Kingdom, it was, he writes, ‘imagined, governed and exploited in strikingly colonial ways ... The famine – a complex ecological, economic, logistical and political disaster – was a consequence of colonialism.’ "
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n21/niamh-gallagher/carrion-and-earth
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Seems the shock of the ten or thirty or sixty deaths of Palestinian children, women, old people and innocent people every day from Israel's genocide in Gaza is meant to count for nothing according to the cops and British government.
Starmer's gov is complicit in mass murder. Let's call that out as not "modern British".
#UncivilizedMedia | A History of Forced Starvation, Explained
a #documentary by Tala Kaddoura
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgBCgLF7890
#film #courtMétrage #Gaza #GazaGenocide #GazaFamine #Palestine #Ireland #GreatFamine #IrishFamine #Namibia #HereroAndNamaGenocide #WarsawGhetto #Holocaust #colonialViolence @film @palestine @israel
"British authorities regarded #Ireland’s misfortunes as evidence of the country’s incurable and willful medievalism [...] But as Scanlan is at pains to point out, the famine was in fact the result of forces within high #capitalism that were entirely modern [...] 'an unintended consequence of the increasing integration of global commerce.' "
Review of Padraic X. Scanlan's Rot: An Imperial History of the #IrishFamine
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/irish-famine-rot-scanlan/
🔴 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 📖 **Rot: A History of the Irish Famine**
Kirkus Reviews
“_Scanlan neatly chronicles the history of England’s ever-growing Protestant financial exploitation over the “uncivilized” Catholic Ireland’s poor and their tenant farms._”
🔗 https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/padraic-x-scanlan/rot-2/.
#Read #Nonfiction #History #Ireland #Éire #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #GB #IrishFamine #Colonialism #Book #BookReview #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#LettersAndPolitics | The #IrishPotatoFamine and its Consequences
guest: Padraic X. Scanlan, author of Rot: An Imperial History of the #IrishFamine
https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-march-19-2025/
#GreatFamine #Ireland #IrishHistory #imperialism #BritishImperialism #colonialViolence #famines #books @histodons @bookstodon @ireland
Guest: Padraic X. Scanlan is an associate professor at the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and the Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Slave Empire, Freedom’s Debtors, and his latest, Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine.
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