Ethnic cleansing in Ireland in one form or another is the basis of British rule in Occupied Ireland dating back to 1169. The racist British laws of 1367 were called the “Statute of Kilkenny” prohibiting marriage between the British and Irish under pain of death. The British regarded the Irish as subhuman, indeed some still do and while forced emigration today is their form of ethnically cleansing neo-colonial Ireland, in the 1840's there was systematic calculated British organized Holocaust that created a "disappearance" of 6,257,456 Irish persons which British mentored revisionist historians, airbrushed from history down to a million to a million and a half in one of the greatest examples of history being written by the victors, to hide British genocide and their holocaust in Ireland
Since British war crimes against the Irish are so numerous and their crimes against humanity so frequent, it would require a library to record all of it properly. This article is but a brief summary. When the Briish Oliver Cromwell came to Ireland, he celebrated his carnage of ethnic cleansing from the start, with statements like, “It has pleased God to bless our endeavors,” as he finished the mass slaughter in 1649 of 3,552 Irish inhabitants, after his arrival at the seaport town of Drogheda, arrogantly further declaring, “I am persuaded that this is a righteous judgment of God upon these barbarous wretches.” The Drogheda massacre was just the start of a British policy of ethnic cleansing in Ireland. Cromwellian settlements followed with millions of acres of land, as in 26 percent of Down, 34 percent of Armagh, 38 percent of Monaghan being just an example of lands, re-allocated to English settlers. The owners of Irish birth were murdered or forced to Connacht in the west of Ireland, with the battle cry of, "to hell or to Connacht." where “they would starve to death.” Cromwell's biographer wrote, “by far the most wholesale effort to impose on Ireland the Protestant faith and English ascendancy.”
In just three years, one-third of the population of Ireland was destroyed with thousands of Irish boys and girls, sold into slavery in the West Indies. Irish peasants were forced to pay rent, with home grown industries destroyed, because they “competed with British factories.” The first holocausts under Elizabeth I and Cromwell are forever in the psyche of the Irish race, with Cromwell’s British thinking being, that Irish Catholics are “barbarous wretches” unfortunately, passing onto the British mindset. The British Parliament legitimized the crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing when it stated “The House doth approve the execution done at Drogheda, as an act both of justice to them and mercy to others who may be warned by it.”
When the forces of William of Orange won the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, it was followed by more confiscations of Irish land and the notorious “Penal Laws” of the late 1690s, with the stated intent, “The law does not presume any such person to exist as an Irish Roman Catholic.” Over time there were more failed, rebellions in Ireland. In 1845 the potato crop was blighted and a famine started which became the Irish genocide or holocaust in the manner of British management. Thomas Gallagher described this unspeakable British crime in Paddy’s Lament in the following manner. “A famine unprecedented in the history of the world, a chapter in human misery to harrow the human heart, was about to start, and even little children could see its quick, sure approach in the nakedly fearful eyes and faces of their parents.”
While, “Food, from 30 to 50 shiploads per day, was removed at gunpoint from Ireland by 12,000 British constables, reinforced by 200,000 British soldiers, warships, excise vessels, and coast guards... Britain seized from Ireland’s producers tens of millions of head of livestock, tens of millions of tons of flour, grains, meat, poultry and dairy products-enough to sustain 18-million persons.” While 6,257,456 Irish persons starved to death and some others emigrated, the British occupied and aggravated the situation in Ireland for profit, to prevent famine from potato blight in England and most of all to systematically proceed to ethnically cleanse Ireland of native Gaelic Irish people.
A British journalist of the time, Thomas Carlyle, boasted, "Ireland is like a half-starved rat that crosses the path of an elephant. What must the elephant do? Squelch it - by heavens - squelch it." "Total Annihilation;" screamed the Times leader of September 2, 1846 and its editor boasted in 1848 "A Celt will soon be as rare on the banks of the Shannon as the red man on the banks of Manhattan." On 23 March 1849 Villiers was awarded the order of the Garter by the queen of England for ethnically cleansing Ireland so effectively, departing from the usual practice, desired him not to surrender the insignia of the Bath, as he had so fully merited both distinctions.
Author Chris Fogarty placed the numbers “murdered at approximately just 5.16 million people, making it the Irish holocaust.” Distinguished legal scholars, like Professors Charles Rice of Notre Dame University and Francis Boyle, University of Illinois, believe that under International Law, the British pursued a barbarous policy of mass starvation in Ireland from 1845-50, and that such conduct constituted “genocide.” Generally speaking among objective historians, the net population-loss figure of 6,257,456 is not susceptible to any significant challenge, because it derived directly from the British government's own censuses for Ireland at that time which was considerably understated to equate the numbers who otherwise emigrated.
Based on reparations agreed after World War II, according to the Potsdam conference and subsequent reparations made by Germany for the smaller Nazi Holocaust, relative to Britain's Holocaust in Ireland and a US$350 billion calculation in Iraq, a figure of 6 trillion pounds sterling ($10 trillion), is a conservative figure for British reparations with regard to their Holocaust in Ireland. Irish citizens are still waiting for their Neo-colonial governments to take up the cause of the Irish people a the UN fro Holocaust reparations.
Sunday September 09, 2012 22:34
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16Dublin March to Free Marian Price
dublin / rights and freedoms / event notice Monday August 20, 2012 17:56 by Fearfeasa 2 comments (last - thursday august 23, 2012 23:02)
A March is being organized in Dublin on Sat. 15th September at 2 p.m. Starting at the Garden of Remembrance, to O'Connell Bridge and back to the GPO, where we will have prominent speakers and some music.
Join with us and call for Freedom for Marian Price agus support human rights for all political prisoners.
Mórshiúl i mBaile Átha Cliath chun Marian Price a shaoradh
dublin / rights and freedoms / event notice Monday August 20, 2012 17:39 by Fearfeasa
Tá mórshiúl á eagrú, oscailte don phobal, i mBaile Átha Cliath ar an Satharn, 15 Meán Fómhair ar 2 p.m. ag an nGáirdin Cuimhneacháin, síos go Droichead Uí Chonaill, agus ag leanúint go Ardoifig an Phoist, áit a mbeidh cainteoirí aitheanta agus ceol.
Bí ann agus tacaigh le saoirse do Mharian Price agus do Chearta Daonna gach príosúnach polaitiúil.
Bobby Sands
So what political organisation DO you belong to. FG? FF?
Because cynical political point scoring off the back of a dead man is even more despicable than the insensitivity you are blaming SF of here.
C'mon Teresa, tell us which scumbag political party you belong to.
Provisional is just another word for temporary.
And those who are part of the Gerry Adams' faction have made it clear, they no longer see themselves as militant Irish republicans.
Their ambition is to replace Fianna Fáil in every sense of the word, including making republicanism just an empty slogan to be used around election time.
Remember Martin McGuinness and his "West Brit" declaration, used to launch his presidential campaign.
It was a juvenile attempt to use the language of republicans to create the misleading impression that Provisional Sinn Féin was still part of the fight for Irish freedom.
The councillor complains at the end of his press release about those who "abuse the good name of Irish republicanism to further their own ends".
That's very much what Gerry Adams and his Armani Brigade are doing right now.
It might be a shock to a politico like yourself but most people are not involved in political parties. I am a former member of SF but like very many Republican minded people I could not stomach being part of SF any more. I'm what you could call jaded by political parties. Let SF work away to get their places at the tables of power, so what, but attacking grief stricken people in their hour of need, it really is disgusting. I believe you recognise it as disgusting also, don't you Freddy?
I believe that SF's showing in recent polls has gone to their heads, they now consider that the ordinary Republican people are surplus to requirement, now that they are getting support from former Labour supporters etc. SF should be wary of such arrogance, their new found support (if it exists outside polls) comes from very fickle sources.
The only 'political rats' in Ireland are those in Leinster House and Stormont. Feeding off the population, getting fat on other peoples work.
I am not aligned to any political party. However I am highly suspicious of posts like the one you put up which are in even worse taste than the SF remarks if they are exploiting a mans death to score political points. This kind of cynical behaviour is not unknown here.
If your post is genuine, fair enough. I must admit, It doesn't look like it is to me though. Too much glee in putting the boot in.
No matter how bad this SF statement was, in the south SF are still better than FF/FG/Labour in my opinion
(but I know that's not saying much!!). Mary Lou and Pearce Doherty have been a great addition to the Dail, even though they are somewhat powerless due to the whip system and large FG/Lab majority.
Might be nice to see you post something criticising FG/Labour too Teresa. Or is it just SF you put the boot in? If so then it's hard to see you as anything other than a party hack on "get the boot in" duty for your masters. If so, then using a mans death for this is even worse than what SF did.
Don't fall for it.
"Violent faction is rejected by community in Donaghmede" - Councillor Mícheál Mac Donncha
September 9, 2012
Commenting on the appearance of wall slogans and black flags in the area in connection with the funeral of a member of the so-called 'Real IRA', local Sinn Féin Councillor Mícheál Mac Donncha said:
“The murder of Alan Ryan was a shocking crime. All such murders and shootings are wrong and should stop. No grief should be visited on any other family and the community sympathises with all the bereaved.
“As a public representative I have to reflect the views of the local community and it has to be said that there is great resentment at attempts to portray the so-called 'Real IRA' as being supported by this community. Wall slogans and black flags cannot hide the fact that this violent faction is rejected by the community in Donaghmede and that they represent no-one but themselves. Equally, they are spurned by the vast majority of the nationalist community in the North on whose behalf they falsely claim to act.
“Genuine Irish republicans throughout the country totally reject the activities of this group and other such factions who abuse the good name of Irish republicanism to further their own ends.”
http://www.sinnfein.ie/contents/24385
He did no such thing. He condemned the RIRA and 32CSM. If the 32CSM have the support of the community then they can prove it by standing against Mac Donnacha in the local elections.
Having said that I regret the death of Alan Ryan, I think the armed struggle carried on by RIRA and others is futile. The PIRA at full strength couldn't beat the the British.
But Alan Ryan didn't live the life of a wealthy gangster, the crime correspondents make up lies and they spread them about Alan for years. I don't know the real story about money being extracted from criminals but if it was then it wasn't done for personal gain.
And troll or not the criticisms of Sinn Fein are valid, most of the decent activists left long ago. All they have left are a hotchpotch of careerists and hypocrites, just look at their weasel position on the property tax.
RIP Og.Alan Ryan
It's clear that for these people, war means the oppressed fighting back by killing the forces of the oppressor. If there are no, or few, armed actions by the oppressed, then there is no war.
In relation to this idea, I would like to quote from a recent document from the National Liberation Army, ELN, of Colombia, posted by Lugh:
However, we express again, we seek a peace that is elusive.
For the poor of Colombia, peace is social justice and equity, real democracy and sovereignty.
For the class in power, peace is different. The ruling class sees peace as a state of affairs which does not affect their economic and political interests, their power, their aspirations, as conceived within the capitalist system.
Its clear that PSF now has the same view of "peace" as the ruling class has i.e. the ability of capital to profit without effective resistance from its victims. The ELN knows that war is never begun and maintained by the oppressed. War is the instrument used by the ruling class to keep themselves in wealth and privilege. Capitalism, in itself, is war against the vast majority of the human race. This is an unrelenting war, which murders at least 40,000 people a day, through malnutrition, and 25,000 children a day from dirty water. To pretend that we have peace, or even a "peace process," is to join in that Holocaust.
For many years in Ireland, many Irish people got great entertainment out of reading the "War News" in An Phoblacht, or the gaudy reports in the bourgeois media. That entertainment is their idea of war. And when they are denied that entertainment, they think there must be peace. Real war is not entertaining. It is the grinding down of billions of people, day by day. It is a child vomiting up it guts because of the rat infested water it has been forced to drink. It is the despair of a mother watching her child die like this.
To enter into a "peace process" with the perpetrators of these crimes is obscene and criminal. Those who promote such a vile "peace" are nothing but the cowardly footmen of the ruling class, the Judas Goats, who lead the people to their annihilation.
However as someone who has all of my life, asserted the right of the Irish people to take up arms for justice, I believe that at thsi point in time, all paramilitary groups, including the paramilitary psni British police, stand in the way of the progress of the democratic will of the Irish people. I believe there is more than enough evidence out there, that the British secret services MI5 and MI6 have infiltrated to a considerable extent, all paramilitary groups and in so doing, control the sourcing and distribution of hard drugs throughout all of the island of Ireland. In so doing the British secret services, control almost every community in all of the island of Ireland, both from an intelligence perspective and with counter-revolutionary Kitsonian techniques.
A more sophisticated form of divide and conquer is the order of the day, the most recent example being Ulster on the Euphrates. These secret services aside from engineering fascist vigilante groups, are also capable engineering Mexican style tit for tat gang warfare on the streets of all Ireland with considerable bloodshed. The Dublin-Monaghan bombings and the systematic assassination of rights activists over the last fifty years, in both parts of Ireland, is evidence of their ruthlessness. They are more than willing to loose their own personnel and a few battles, to win their war as the Smithwick tribunal demonstrates.
Despite considerable ongoing censorship, I believe that with organized modern multimedia, it is now a good time, to test the phrase, 'the pen is mightier than the sword." The British are already hard at work on it from their base in Hollywood, daily churning out dis-information, character assassination and plain propaganda, alongside their mainstay of the BBC world service, capturing Irish minds and hearts for empire. Because of the extent of British penetration of para-military groups presently and the existence of modern multimedia possibilities, I genuinely believe that traditional Irish Republicans, are morally obliged to try all possible avenues other than paramilitary armed struggle. Fear now stalks the streets of both parts of Ireland because of paramilitary activity and a hard drug epidemic. In one Irish city alone over 200 young people have been ordered out at gunpoint, others shot dead and parents ordered to take their children fro knee capping. This is Irish fascism on a horrific scale and is barbarous. I also believe that like Portugal that drugs should be legalized in Ireland for transparency reasons and to eliminate British destruction of all Irish communities. The video included gives a brief explanation. The drug epidemic is a gift from heaven to those paramiltary police who who rule both parts of Ireland.