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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 ✒ News Letter readers suggest that I reply to its publication of Dr. Birnie’s comments on the article that began: “Joe Biden: ‘My ancestors left Ireland because of what the Brits had been doing.’”

Dr. Birnie imputes error to President Biden, he repeats the “famine” story we were all taught in school, and writes “… more should have been done.” 

A question: More what? Ireland was starved by 67 named British army regiments; ought 77 have been deployed? Davitt, et al. reported it as “Holocaust.” Starting on May 4, 1846 until November 19, 1855 the Cork (now Irish) Examiner newspaper reported it as “Holocaust.” (“Genocide”was coined post-WW2.)

From the start of 1845 to the end of 1850 the British government ordered into Ireland more than half (67 regiments) of its 128-regiment empire army. Their mission was the removal of Ireland’s abundant food crops to the ports for export. Commander-in-Chief of mission from start to finish was General Sir Edward Blakeney on whom, in 1849, Queen Victoria conferred an Order of the Bath. 

The quantity of forcibly removed edibles is readily ascertainable in that era’s editions of The (London) Times, the Limerick Intelligencer, etc. The volume of non-potato foods produced by the Irish are indicated by the following processors: 1,935 grain mills, 1,984 grain kilns, 555 flour mills, 136 grain-using breweries, 74 grain-using distilleries, 62 threshers (though flails were more common), 948 livestock pounds, 45 woollen mills (mutton and lamb), 43 windmills, butter markets, and “shambles” (butcheries), etc. (Precise location of each available upon request.)

During those years, and until 1900-1920, Ireland was owned by English landlords. The Irish were their tenants-at-will. The army was deployed only where the English-led constabulary and landlords’ militias encountered resistance to the food removal. Though, for example, the 68th of Foot was deployed briefly as far north as Ballycastle, the constabulary and landlords’ militias usually managed to extract the food crops in what is today’s Northern Ireland. During the first quarter of 1847 (numbers are approximate):

Antrim: Its 604-strong (520 pvts.) militia was HQ’d in Belfast. Commander; the Marquis of Donegal residing in London. Adjutant Col. Carrothers.

Armagh: its 640-strong (520 pvts.) was HQ’d in Markethill. Commander; the Marquis Acheson residing in Gosford Castle, Markethill. Adjutant Biford Woodhouse.

Derry: its 755-strong (650 pvts.) County Londonderry militia was HQ’d at Londonderry. Commander; Sir R.A. Ferguson, Bar’t, residing at The Farm, Londonderry. Adjutant __ McClintock.

Down: its 453-strong (390 pvts.) The Royal South Downshire was HQ’d at Hillsborough. Commander; The Marquis of Downshire, residing at Hillsborough. Adjutant __ Hodgson.

Fermanagh: its 453-strong (390 pvts.) Co. Fermanagh militia was HQ’d at Enniskillen. Commander; the Earl of Enniskillen residing at Florence Court Demesne, Florencecourt. Adjutant Wm. Corry.

Tyrone: its 755-strong (650 pvts.) Royal Tyrone militia was HQ’d at Caledon, near the post town of Caledon, Co. Tyrone. Adjutant; William Lundie.

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

More What?

Chris Fogarty challenges what he sees as the distortion of the historical record on Ireland in the 1840s. 

Yesterday I asked Editors: “In the interests of truth regarding the 1845-1850 genocide of Ireland will your news organ publish a letter from me?” I sent it to The Irish Echo, The Irish American News, The Pensive Quill, historyireland.com, Author Ed Moloney, the American Irish Historical Society, The New York Times, and The Irish Times. I included some background data. 

Having a rough idea as to the extent of news media corruption my inquiry is an attempt to determine its actual extent. Today, The Pensive Quill, alone, has replied, positively; thus establishing its bona fides. I will soon name all repliers and non-repliers. 

The letter for which I seek publication starts here:

Will we allow Ireland to remain unique on Planet Earth; the only nation with a government that officially conceals a genocide of its own people by a foreign power? Will our news media continue to conceal the fact that the murder of some 5.2 million innocents required the deployment into Ireland of more than half (67 regiments) of Britain’s 130-regiment army?   

Prof. Christine Kinealy, through her many “famine” books, and through approval by corrupt academia and news media, leads the Anglo-Irish campaign to keep the “Irish Famine/Gorta Mor” lie alive. As shown here-below, her modus operandus includes not only total concealment of the food removal but also deliberate falsifications of the record (to which falsifications Irish academia acquiesces). Here are two examples of Kinealy’s fabrications:

1)      In her gushingly-approving review of Cormac O Grada’s The Great Irish Famine book in Fortnight magazine (April, 1990), Kinealy attributed to:

myths and misunderstandings the stories of ships full of grain leaving Ireland, of overcrowded famine graveyards, of callous landlords … which have been passed glibly from generation to generation.


Kinealy still conceals the genocidal actions of Ireland’s then-landlords (English) and glosses over the Holocaust mass graves that dot the map of Ireland, but she has been forced to cease concealing the fact that a torrent of Irish grain was exported while Ireland starved. 

2) As part of her officially-lauded career, Kinealy also deliberately falsified a crucial utterance by Lord Clarendon, Britain’s Viceroy in Ireland. In Clarendon’s letter (July 5, 1847) to British Prime Minister Lord John Russell he wrote:

Sir Edward Blakeney says that the Country (sic) is tranquil, and if it were not for the harrassing (sic) duty of escorting provisions the troops would have little to do.

On page 119 of her A Death-Dealing Famine, Kinealy quoted that sentence but omitted its first four words; “Sir Edward Blakeney says…” making the sentence seem to be Clarendon’s own opinion instead of what it was, Blakeney’s statement. Once one knows that “Sir Edward Blakeney” is General Sir Edward Blakeney, the commander-in-chief of the sixty-seven regiments in Ireland throughout their food removal mission in 1845 through 1850, one understands that Kinealy HAD to “disappear” General Blakeney because his very existence and mission refute and expose her genocide-concealing, fraudulent career.  

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

A Crucial Utterance

Chris Fogarty takes issue with a book on the Irish "Famine".

A Short History of Ireland’s Famine

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