Dia duit tá mé ar ais agus mothaím go maith faoi sin
hello i'm back and it's good to be back in this series of videos i'm going to share
with you some eolas information eolas on the effects of english colonialism on ireland
and where better to start than with the great famine an gorta mór the great famine so along
the way we're going to learn lots of gaeilge and lots of stair history stair na héireann history of
ireland stair na héireann the great famine was a period of mass starvation disease and emigration that
occurred between 1845 and 1852 a milliún that's a million people died and another milliún emigrated
but that being said it's difficult to get accurate numbers on how many actually emigrated
or how many died is deacair a rá it's difficult to say
bás agus imirce were the norm during this drochshaol bás is death and imirce is emigration
they were quite normal during this bad life drochshaol the bad life ach cad a tharla what happened
Tháinig an dubh ar na prátaí = the black came upon the potatoes
the potatoes became black due to blight which is a disease that made the potatoes inedible blight is dúchan
and inedible is nach féidir a ithe - impossible to eat
well before the 1800s the protestant english did not like the irish catholics
so they colonized the country and then they decided to kick the native irish
off their own land and then rented that same land back to them at an exorbitant
rent then just to be consistent they enforced a series of discriminatory and sectarian laws
that restricted the irish catholic's right to worship and own land these were collectively
known as the penal laws na péindlíthe the penal laws
agus mar sin de níos minice ná a mhalairt
because of that more often than not the irish farmer was reduced to small plots of
land where you could grow potatoes for maireachtáil subsistence the potatoes were a great crop
mar is féidir prátaí a fhás in aon áit because they could grow anywhere
they could even be grown in the bad soil in the west of ireland
ach ar an drochuair theip ar na prátaí but unfortunately the potatoes failed in 1845 because of the dúchan the blight
this róspléachas over reliance on the potato ultimately led to disaster anachain disaster anachain
join me next time as we explore what life was really like during the worst years of the irish famine
and we'll also take a look at the reaction of the british government
to ireland's darkest hour i'll see you then slán go fóill.