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	The Irish Famine A video I made with a partner for school... about the irish famine "genocide"...
	CCWZ #2 - The Great Hunger A brief history of how the Irish came to Boston, and a look at Boston's two memorials for the Irish Potato Famine. Zina brings you to St. Peter's Church for a unique look at the yearly tradition of the Famine Mass and the Blessing of the Potatoes. A brief history of how the Irish came to Boston, and a look at Boston's two memorials for the Irish Potato Famine. Zina brings you to St. Peter's Church for a unique look at the yearly tradition of the Famine Mass and the Blessing of the Potatoes. Features music from the PodShow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at music.podshow.com. Links: http://www.saint-peter-parish.org - St. Peter's Church, Cambridge, MA 02138 http://www.galenfrysinger.com - Photos of Boston Irish Famine Memorial
	287. The Fields of Athenry (Pete St. John) This song, about the Great Irish Famine (1845-1849), was written in the 1970s and tells of a prisoner who is sent to Botany Bay for stealing food to feed his family. Trevelyan, the supposed victim of the theft, was a senior British civil servant who believed the potato famine occured for the purpose of "controlling excessive population", and, therefore, made little attempt to respond effectively, underestimating its severity in his reports to the government and overestimating the problems that could arise in actually assisting the starving. Apparently corn was imported from America for famine relief and some was stolen from its storage place in Cork. In fact it was meant for seed and too hard to mill for flour, so it was only suitable for gruel. The song was first recorded by Danny Doyle, and has since been recorded by many artists, including Paddy Reilly, Ronan Tynan, James Galway, the Dropkick Murphys and Serbian band, Orthodox Celts. I'm not sure why, but the song has become associated with various football clubs, including Celtic and Liverpool.
	100 Meals Learn what it means to be hungry. Learn what it means to be really hungry. And then think about it.
	Ireland's Holocaust History of the Irish Starvation The start of immigration or eviction? During the period 1845 to 1850, blight swept over the potato crops in Northern Europe. The people of Ireland, who were forced to rely on this source for almost all of their nutritional needs, suffered far more than their neighbors who had other foods available to them. The Great Hunger in Ireland triggered by the failure of the potato crop in 1845 led to the single greatest loss of life in Europe between the Napoleonic Wars and World War I. It was a human tragedy of appalling dimensions. The real tragedy is that this so-called "Irish Potato Famine" never should have occurred. At the VERY LEAST one and a half million Irish starved to death and another million were forced to emigrate, food was being forcibly exported from the Island by its foreign rulers - food sufficient to feed the people several times over. This period represented the blackest days of Irish history. The years 1995-2000 represent the Sesquicentennial of this tragedy where twenty-five percent of the population of Ireland either died of starvation or were forced to flee their homeland. Thousands upon thousands of them set sail in "coffin ships" and never arrived at their destination. Those who did manage to survive the arduous journey, found less than a welcome on these shores. In the words of Peter Quinn: "The Irish were swiftly identified in the popular mind with poverty, disease, alcohol abuse, crime and violence - all the enduring pathologies of the urban poor. Indeed, the level of social turmoil that followed the Irish into America's cities would not be seen again for another century, until the massive exodus of African Americans from the rural South to urban North." May the all rest in peace R.I.P
	City of Chicago by Cristy Moore The story of Irish immigration after the great potato famine of 1847
	Kilrush/Miltown Malbay,County Clare. http://www.setdancingnews.net/wcss/wcsst.htm Two towns in West Clare steeped in Traditional Irish Music. Pre-famine Clare - Society in Crisis by Flan Enright Introduction Widespread poverty usually causes social tension, crime and sometimes violence. There is no scarcity of evidence about the extent or severity of poverty in pre-famine Clare. Outbreaks of distress, lawlessness and violence at that time indicate particularly severe periods in what turned out to be a long era of misery. Some of the causes of this hardship are easy to see while some are quite complex. For example, too many people were over-dependent on the potato as a staple food. When it failed, famine quickly followed. Cause and effect are obvious in this case. What is not so clear is how so many people came to be permanently in such dire need and why society seemed incapable of helping them. This essay looks at some of the evidence connected with poverty and violence in pre-famine Clare and attempts to discuss underlying causes. The need for Employment The population of Clare doubled in the fifty years before the famine. It stood at 286,394 in 1841, almost four times the current total. These were divided into 48,981 families, and apart from a small number of professional people and craftsmen, all of them earned a livelihood from the land. The great challenge of that time was the provision of food and work for such a teeming population. As in contemporary society, people at that time may be divided into employers and employees. Most of the big employers before the famine were the landlords. They employed a permanent male and female staff for indoor and outdoor work on their estates. For example, there was a permanent staff of 34 at Butlers of Castlecrine in this period, but many additional people were needed during busy times of the year. One of Clare's problems was a scarcity of these very magnates who were able to generate so much wealth. William Smith O'Brien, an M.P. for Ennis for a time, drew up a list of Clare landlords. He counted 90 resident gentlemen and 63 non-residents. Of particular significance was his discovery that the non-residents owned about half the land of the county. Most of these absentees employed agents to collect their rents, but the money was generally spent elsewhere. This was a big loss to Clare. The resident gentlemen were more than just landlords. They actually carried on the work of local government and industrial development. They were people of capital who spent most of their wealth locally. They built roads and bridges, and even towns and villages. Sixmilebridge, Newmarket-on-Fergus and Kilrush are examples of places developed by the initiative of local resident landlords in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Clare had scarcely half the resident landlords it could have had and that meant less development and less permanent employment. The 1841 Census further revealed that the county had only 1052 farms of more than 30 acres. The large tillage farms had considerable employment potential, especially at sowing and harvest time. However, many large holdings belonged to graziers who needed only a few herdsmen. 80% of all farms were between one and fifteen acres in size, and even with the most intense cultivation could hardly be expected to employ more than a family or two throughout the year. The real hardship cases were among the 22,000 families that had no land of their own. It is hardly an exaggeration to say that half the people of Clare, the landless labourers, subsisted under a spectre of poverty that was a direct result of a gross shortage of work. This situation arose from developments in the Irish economy outside their control.
	Fanfare for the Common Man - Ellis Island Fanfare for the Common Man is one of the most recognizable pieces of 20th Century American classical music. One of composer Aaron Copland's most popular works, the fanfare is a short piece scored for brass and percussion written in 1942 for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra under conductor Eugène Goossens. The fanfare is written for the following instruments:four french horns (in F) three trumpets (in B♭) three trombones tuba timpani bass drum tam-tam or gong Goosens had suggested titles such as Fanfare for Soldiers, or sailors or airmen, and he wrote that "it is my idea to make these fanfares stirring and significant contributions to the war effort...." Copland considered several titles including Fanfare for a Solemn Ceremony and Fanfare for Four Freedoms; to Goossens' surprise, however, Copland titled the piece Fanfare for the Common Man. Goossen wrote "Its title is as original as its music . . . Ellis Island, at the mouth of the Hudson River in New York Harbor, is the location of what was at one time the main entry facility for immigrants entering the United States; the facility operated from January 1, 1892 until November 12, 1954. It is situated in Jersey City, New Jersey and New York City. 12 million immigrants were inspected there by the US Bureau of Immigration (Immigration and Naturalization Service). After 1924 when the National Origins Act was passed, the only immigrants to pass through there were displaced persons or war refugees. The Immigration Act of 1924 restricted immigration, changing the quota basis from the census of 1910 to that of 1890, and reducing the annual quota to some 164,000. This marked the end of mass immigration to America. The main function of Ellis Island changed from that of an immigrant processing station, to a center of the assembly, detention, and deportation of aliens who had entered the U.S. illegally or had violated the terms of admittance. The buildings at Ellis Island began to fall into disuse and disrepair. Today, over 100 million Americans can trace their ancestry to the immigrants who first arrived in America through the island before dispersing to points all over the country. Ellis Island immigrants attaining success in America include: Lucky Luciano, Bob Hope, Irving Berlin, Knute Rockne, Claudette Colbert, Chef Boyardee (Ettore Boiardi), Erich von Stroheim, Bela Lugosi, Felix Frankfurter, Father Flanagan, Charles Atlas, Isaac Asimov, the Trapp Family Singers, Ezio Pinza, Arthur Murray and Max Factor. Timeline 1915-1924. The first great wave of immigration begins, bringing 5 million immigrants between 1815 and 1860. 1820: The U.S. population is about 9.6 million. About 151,000 new immigrants arrive in 1820 alone. 1825: Great Britain decrees that England is overpopulated and repeals laws prohibiting emigration. The first group of Norwegian immigrants arrive. 1846-7: Crop failures in Europe. Mortgage foreclosures send tens of thousands of the dispossessed to United States. Irish of all classes emigrate to the United States as a result of the potato famine. 1848: German political refugees emigrate following the failure of a revolution. 1875: First limitations on immigration. Residency permits required of Asians. 1880: The U.S. population is 50 million. More than 5.2 million immigrants enter the country between 1880 and 1890. 1882: Chinese exclusion law is established. Russian anti-Semitism prompts a sharp rise in Jewish emigration. 1890: New York is home to as many Germans as Hamburg, Germany. 1891-92 Congress adds health qualifications to immigration restrictions. Ellis Island opens. 1894-6: To escape Moslem massacres, Armenian Christians emigrate. 1897: Pine-frame buildings on Ellis Island are burned to the ground in a disastrous fire. 1900: The U.S. population is 76 million. More than 3,687,000 immigrants were admitted in the previous ten years. Ellis Island receiving station reopens with brick and ironwork structures. Bureau of Immigration is established. 1900 - Most Italian immigrants took their first steps on U.S. soil in Ellis Island. In the 1880s, they numbered 300,000; in the 1890s, 600,000; in the decade after that, more than two million. By 1920, when immigration began to taper off, more than 4 million Italians had come to the United States, and represented more than 10 percent of the nation's foreign-born population. 1910: The Mexican Revolution sends thousands to the United States seeking employment. 1914-8: World War I halts a period of mass migration to the United States. 1921: The first quantitave immigration law sets temporary annual quotas according to nationality. Immigration drops off. 1924: This marked the end of mass immigration to America. The National Origins Act establishes a discriminatory quota system. The Border Patrol is established.