TsarReedDec 9
The Famine graveyard and memorial in Donegal Ireland. Including the plaque honoring the contribution of the Choctaw Nation during the famine. (An incredible story!) #donegal #ireland #irishfamine
Paria sans portefeuilleNov 14

"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

#GreatFamine #IrishHistory #colonialism #books @bookstodon

Niamh Gallagher · Carrion and Earth: Ireland’s Great Famine

Although Ireland had endured earlier famines – including one in the 1740s that, proportionally, claimed more lives...

London Review of Books
7sleepersmusicNov 7
#TIL: "In 1847, the #Choctaw nation of Oklahoma made a donation of $170 to help people suffering thousands of kilometres away in the #IrishFamine. The gift would be worth tens of thousands of dollars in modern terms. (...) The Choctaw's heartfelt donation was sent to Midleton in County Cork, #Ireland, providing much-needed relief." #History #NativeAmerican https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg3zvq3vz8o
Eternal Heart: Choctaws unveil sculpture dedicated to Ireland

Choctaw leaders have unveiled a sculpture in Oklahoma dedicated to its people's connection with Ireland.

Show threadskuaOct 3

@Geri
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".

#OpiumWars #IrishFamine #Colonialism

Paria sans portefeuilleAug 5, 2025

#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

How Colonizers Force Starvation — Then and Now

YouTube
Orla de DíezJun 6, 2025
Alex de Waal: one of the most under-appreciated aspects of starvation is how it causes social trauma and stigma that can last for generations. Starving people break taboos and are then treated as second-class citizens. We saw this with the #Irishfamine.
(via Heidi Matthews on X)
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/when-hunger-is-a-weapon/id1439621628?i=1000710982439
When hunger is a weapon

Podcast Episode · Front Burner · 2025-06-03 · 40m

Apple Podcasts
Paria sans portefeuilleApr 8, 2025

"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/

#GreatFamine #books @bookstodon @histodons @ireland

What Caused the Irish Famine?

A new book offers a comprehensive and heartbreaking account of the most terrible catastrophe to befall Ireland in the modern era.

The Nation
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋Mar 31, 2025

🔴 🇮🇪 🇬🇧 📖 **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

ROT | Kirkus Reviews

What was the true cause of Ireland's deadly disaster?

Kirkus Reviews
Paria sans portefeuilleMar 20, 2025

#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

The Irish Potato Famine and Its Consequences | KPFA

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.

KPFA
N-gated Hacker NewsMar 10, 2025
🍀🤔 Ah yes, the Irish Famine: a delightful cocktail of laissez-faire economics and a dash of imperial neglect—because who needs food when you've got "beliefs" to keep you warm? Thank you, New Yorker, for reminding us that market forces and #apathy make for timeless tragedies. 📉🥔
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/03/17/rot-padraic-x-scanlan-book-review #IrishFamine #LaissezFaire #EconomicHistory #MarketForces #TimelessTragedy #HackerNews #ngated
“Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine,” Reviewed

Fintan O’Toole on a new book by the historian Padraic X. Scanlan about the potato blight, its death toll, and the response by England.

The New Yorker