An exposé of the Irish famine (book review) … further illustration of how genocide is not new, and how the victors write our histories … a must read. I encourage you to sub to Unbecoming’s excellent substack. EWNZ

From From Unbekoming @ substack

By Chris Fogarty – 30 Q&As – Unbekoming Book Summary

For over 170 years, the world has been told that Ireland suffered a natural famine between 1845 and 1850 – a tragic tale of potato blight and a foolish population’s over-dependence on a single crop. This story, taught in universities, memorialized in museums, and repeated in countless history books, has one fundamental problem: it’s a deliberate lie. Christopher Fogarty’s “Ireland 1845-1850: The Perfect Holocaust and Who Kept it ‘Perfect’” demolishes this narrative with military deployment records, shipping manifests, and Ordnance Survey maps that reveal what actually happened. While only the potato crop failed, Ireland continued producing massive quantities of grain, cattle, dairy, and other foods – all of which were removed at gunpoint by 67 British Army regiments, approximately half of Britain’s entire military force, and shipped to England while the producers starved. The death toll wasn’t the officially claimed 21,770 but approximately five million people, half of Ireland’s population.

The evidence Fogarty presents reads like a prosecutor’s case file. He names every British regiment involved, tracking their movements through Ireland’s 32 counties via National Archives records. He identifies General Sir Edward Blakeney as the Commander-in-Chief who orchestrated this operation from before 1845 through after 1851 – a man Queen Victoria honored with the Order of the Bath in 1849 as he neared completion of his genocidal mission….

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The book title:

“Ireland 1845-1850: the Perfect Holocaust, and Who Kept it “”Perfect.”

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