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Chris Fogarty ✒ Words of the President of Ireland are reported (Irish Times; May 17, 2021) with the banner headline; “British ‘policy of non-intervention’ was a key factor in Irish Famine.”

Britain’s contemporaneous (1845 through 1850) hand-written WO 379/7, “Disposition of the Army” records (photocopies in my possession) refute President Higgins. They show that, far from a policy of “non-intervention,” Britain massively intervened in Ireland throughout 1845-1850; that it took more than half (67 regiments) of Britain’s empire army (of 126 regiments and two sub-regimental brigades) to enforce the removal of Ireland’s abundant foods to the ports for export.

The commander-in-chief of the sixty-seven food removal regiments throughout those six years was General Sir Edward Blakeney. In 1849, as General Blakeney and his troops neared successful completion of mission, Queen Victoria conferred on Blakeney an Order of the Bath.

Are the Irish government unique on Earth in concealing a genocide of their own people?

⏩ Chris Fogarty is author of Ireland 1845-1850: the Perfect Holocaust, and Who Kept it ‘Perfect’.

Concealing A Genocide

Chris Fogarty ✒ Words of the President of Ireland are reported (Irish Times; May 17, 2021) with the banner headline; “British ‘policy of non-intervention’ was a key factor in Irish Famine.”

Britain’s contemporaneous (1845 through 1850) hand-written WO 379/7, “Disposition of the Army” records (photocopies in my possession) refute President Higgins. They show that, far from a policy of “non-intervention,” Britain massively intervened in Ireland throughout 1845-1850; that it took more than half (67 regiments) of Britain’s empire army (of 126 regiments and two sub-regimental brigades) to enforce the removal of Ireland’s abundant foods to the ports for export.

The commander-in-chief of the sixty-seven food removal regiments throughout those six years was General Sir Edward Blakeney. In 1849, as General Blakeney and his troops neared successful completion of mission, Queen Victoria conferred on Blakeney an Order of the Bath.

Are the Irish government unique on Earth in concealing a genocide of their own people?

⏩ Chris Fogarty is author of Ireland 1845-1850: the Perfect Holocaust, and Who Kept it ‘Perfect’.

Chris Fogarty Ireland 1845-1850 Irish Famine

2 comments:

  1. Christy Walsh6:52 PM, May 22, 2021

    Chris, Your historical knowledge seems to be an inconvenient truth that generations of Irish leaders have tactfully sidestepped.

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  2. chris3:20 PM, May 23, 2021

    Such ethnocide was evidently known even then to be a vast crime. Evidence of such official awareness is Queen Victoria’s knighting of William Wilde for his concealment of that for which she had “honoured” Blakeney. Wilde achieved concealment of that 1845-1850 Holocaust as Commissioner of the 1851 Census of Ireland. The 1851 census is some fifteen times larger than the 1841 census. All of its additional words serve only to promote “famine,” blame the Irish, and to conceal, deny, misrepresent, misattribute, mislead, and understate the actual murder toll. Wilde omits all mention of the 67 British regiments and their mission in Ireland. His official “starvation death toll” is “17,220” and is included in his 1851 census of Ireland. Meanwhile, Wilde’s wife, the immortal “Speranza,” was exposing and championing what he was concealing.

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