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Britain's Holocaust In Ireland —by Peadar O'hAnnain I read with interest an "Article" in the Irish Post April 8 2000, in it  Dr Joseph Bradley reported the feelings of many Irish descendants in Scotland, in reference to the formation of Scotland's Irish Famine Commemoration. I for one would commend the Commemoration Committee in Scotland to erect a Memorial for Ireland's Holocaust. The Committee already has support from local politicians and is hoping the Irish Government will make a sizeable donation. I feel it would be much more notable if the British Government were pressed to erect a memorial in London, after all the murder of millions of Irish men, woman and children was in-fact, planned in London. There was potato blight in Ireland but never a Famine. One of the most successful lies in all of world history is Britain's cover up of its 1845-I850, holocaust in Ireland. The cover up is accomplished by the same British terrorism and bribery that perpetrated the genocide. The Irish media almost yearly have something to say about black 1845-1850, but fail to explain the facts re; Irelands holocaust. The Irish establishment is also afraid to speak out. Consider for a moment; why would Irish President, Mary Robinson call it  "Ireland's greatest natural catastrophe" when the famine was a result of calculated decisions by the British.  Potato blight (phytophthora infestans), did spread from America to Europe in 1844, to England, and then Ireland in 1845, but it did not cause famine anywhere.  Ireland did not starve for potatoes, as we are led to believe, Ireland starved for food. Ireland starved because its food from 30 to 50 ship loads per day was removed at gunpoint by 12,000 British constables and reinforced by 200,000 British soldiers, battleships, excise vessels and coast guard. Thus Britain seized from Ireland's producers, tens of millions of head of livestock, tens of millions of tones of flour, grains, meat, poultry and dairy products; enough food to sustain over 18 million. In 1845, Queen Victoria's economist, Nassau Senior, expressed his fear that the genocide as planned "will kill only one million Irish, and that would scarcely be enough to do much". Later an eye-witness urged a stop to the genocide-in -progress, and treasury Chief Charles Trevelyan insisted that all reports of starvation were exaggerated, until 1847 when he declared it over and refused entry to the American food ship Sorciere. Thomas Carlyle, influential British essayist wrote, "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 headlines of September 2' 1846; and in 1848 its editorials exulted "A Celt will soon be as rare on the banks of the Shannon as the red man on the banks of Manhatten" We are all led to believe that, one million Irishmen, woman and children died from famine and one million Irishmen, woman and children settled on far distant shores, mainly the USA the later being a correct assumption. But as for the millions who starved of hunger at the hands of the British, that's a very different story according to the Figures leaked out from the London records office. 5.16 million Irishmen, woman and children were murdered by starvation by the British Government. After the late year of 1845, saw the beginning of the removal of Ireland's food.  In 1846 the population was approx 1l,815,011. Assuming that the rate continued, the population in 1851, absent the starvation,  would have been approx 12, 809, 841.  However, the 1851 census recorded a population of 6,552,385; thus 1,000, 000 who successfully fled into exile and another 100,000 unborn between 1846 and 1851 due to malnutrition and induced infertility. Of the 100,000 who fled to Canada in 1847, only 60, 000 were still alive one month after landing. Among the 40,000 dead was Henry Ford's fathers mother who died en route from Cork or in quarantine in Quebec. Thus from 1845 through l850, 6,257, 456 "disappeared" the number murdered is approx 1.1 million fewer at 5.16 millions. Consequently, if Britain's census figures for Ireland are correct, the British Government murdered approx 516 million Irishmen, woman and children; making it the Irish holocaust. Weary men, what reap ye? "golden corn for the Stranger " What sow ye? "Human corpses that await for the Avenger" .  Fainting Farms, all hunger-stricken, what see you in the offing? "Stately ships to bear our food away amid the stranger's scoffing." There 's a proud array of soldiers - what do they round your door? "They guard our masters ' granaries from the thin hands of the poor". Pale mothers, wherefore weeping?-  "Would to God that we were dead.  Our children swoon before us, and we cannot give them bread!"  "We are wretches, famished, scorned, human tools to build your pride, But God will yet take vengeance for the souls for whom Christ died. Now is your hour of pleasure, bask ye in the world's caress; But our whitening bones against ye  will arise as witnesses. From the cabins and the ditches,  in their charred, uncoffined masses. For the Angel of the Trumpet  will know them as he passes. A ghastly spectral army before God we'll stand And arraign ye as our murders,  O spoilers of our land!". No Jewish person would ever refer to the "Jewish Oxygen Famine of 1939-1945". So nobody Irish ought ever, ever again refer to the "Irish Potato Famine". See Also: The Great Hunger: Famine or Holocaust? 32 County Sovereignty Movement  © Copyright 2001 Ireland's OWN © Copyright 2001 Page updated 18 Aug 2008 Ireland's OWN Logo by Eamann Website Design and Celtic Background by Míchealín Daugherty Copyright © 2008 Ireland's OWN All Rights Reserved.