The Truth behind the Irish Famine a book review

THE TRUTH BEHIND THE IRISH FAMINE (3rd Edition) by Jerry Mulvihill a book review by J.C. Sullivan Author Frank Delaney once wrote "To have come from Ireland, no matter how long ago, is to be of Ireland in some part forever.” The Great Hunger (An Gorta Mor) is part of our Irish history. With firsthand oral and written accounts of those years, Jerry Mulvihill's third edition of The Truth Behind the Irish Famine infuses an authentic history of heartbreaking life and death. When I offered to review this book, I was unaware of the immensity of Mulvihill's research and work. His epic is a labor of love and I opine it has now become the primer and most comprehensive narrative of the Irish Famine. His research spans from ancient Ireland through post-famine years. In addition to numerous paintings and sketches not previously seen in the first two editions, the first-person oral and handwritten accounts of those years will stir your emotions. The author includes the observation of Englishmen in Ireland as early as 1783 with German Travel Writer Karl Gottlob Kuttner’s first-hand commentary: "As soon as certain Englishmen set foot in Ireland they obtain an air of importance that often contrasts quite ludicrously with the actual situation and circumstances at home. Full of base national prejudices they look at everything through tinted glasses, onstruct deficiencies and shortcomings where they find none and then admire their own perspicacity. Bursting with the idea of the real and true greatness of their own country, they think themselves as superior to each Irish individual as sees England as superior to Ireland" The attitude toward and treatment of the Irish only worsened as the famine did. In 1843, Charles Trevelyan who later became the English Relief Officer during the famine, claimed that assistance to the Irish was unwarranted as the famine was a "judgement of God" for the "perverse and turbulent character" of the Irish people. The Irish people, farmers with no crop and animal stock confiscated, were then expected to pay exorbitant rents. When unable to pay rent, families were evicted and their dwelling places destroyed. Josephine Butler, a social reformer, wrote in 1846 "Sick and aged, little children and women with child were thrust forth into the snows of winter. And to prevent their return their cabins were levelled to the ground and burned the few remaining tenants were forbidden to receive the outcast ... the majority rendered penniless by the famine, wandered aimlessly about the roads or bogs till they found refuge in the workhouse or the grave. " With the widespread land evictions came widespread criticism. In deense of the English, Lord Broughman made a speech on March 28, 1846 in the House of Lord stating that a landlord's right to do as he pleases was meant to teach and strong-arm tenants so as assure "that they have no power to oppose or resist." By 1847, eviction in Ireland became synonymous with extermination, according to Sidney Osborne, an English cleric, philanthropist, and writer. Jerry Mulvihill's anthology of historical writings and speeches meticulously illustrate and eloquently voices how Irish families were destroyed by the famine, of how their spirits were meant to be broken, of how suffering often ended in death, and of how these stories are very much a part of who we are. It is difficult to read and learn about the anguish our forefathers suffered at the hands of oppressors, yet it is our history and should be known among us. The collection of thoughts and feelings of famine writers and artists expressed within Mulvihill's work is powerful and can shake you to your marrow as well as increasingly awaken your identity. Mulvihill has dedicated himself to preserving our history and raising our consciousness. He wrote: "The Irish people who passed away during the famine have a story that needs to be told and fully understood. It is of the utmost importance that their suffering was not in vain. May they humble and remind us how fortunate we are today. Let them awaken us to the suffering that still exists within entire populations. They will never be forgotten." For inquiries visit www.jerrymulvihill.com. Sullivan, internationally-published, writes from Northfield Village, Ohio.

Masters of Deceit - an expose of International Communism.

 The Left controls Corporate Media aka Mainstream Media. You do realize that the majority of our nation’s populace form their World View solely from them.

I have tried for some time to find J. Edgar Hoover’s title “The Big Lie.” Perhaps memory is not serving me. Instead, from Alibris.com, I have ordered his ‘Masters of Deceit.’ It’s topic is the same. 

It would be good for the nation to read it as well. It doesn’t hurt for Americans of inquisitive mind to become aware of just what International Communism is. 

When the book arrives in the mail I will review and publish it here.

Our formerly straight-shooting FBI and the 2020 Presidential Election.

 It’s interesting to see the FBI Now jumping late into the 2020 Presidential Campaign. They have proclaimed Russia and Iran have compromised the American electorate. What utter nonsense to believe that they can convince us to change our mind. Hell,  our own Enemy of the People, the MSM, is doing that for them.

Communists have penetrated our MSM and the highest Offices of our nation.

Keep in mind that the FBI is rife with Obama appointees who keep scurrying to cover their collective asses. Extend that to the CIA and beyond. 

Censorship in America in late 2020

 Conservative Facebook and Twitter users found these social platforms to be THE place to express their collective thoughts and feelings. Now, with a laptop computer becoming a major story about Hunter Biden, these platforms are restricting the reporting of the story by its users. It’s  called censorship, exactly what government-controlled media in communist countries do.

After the election I opine the incoming DJT Administration will initiate anti-trust actions against them. Ohio’s “Ma” Bell telephone Co. was broken up by the Feds this way. I further believe the same is now destined to occur in 2021.

The radical Left is taking all the arrows from their quivers...all this because they never imagined DJT would be elected.  It’s called desperation because more rocks are being lifted to reveal what has been hidden for far too long. “The jig is up!”

Captain Clement Sulevane, CSA

In reading ‘To Appomattox, Nine April Days, 1865’, I found reference to Captain Clement Sulivane, CSA.

On page 110 -

Captain Clement Sullivan of the Local Brigade was sent by General Ewell to muster his troops, some of the clerks and convalescent soldiers, and to supply them with food and arms.  Sulivane worked all evening herding together all his men, but after hours of maddening effort he had fewer than 200 left from 1200. The battalions melted as fast as he assembled, for heads of departments, packing for flight, called all employees and sent sent them westward with trunks and boxes. The carriages and wagons were gone.

Page 128 -

In the flaming of the bridge, the shouting of the mob and the advance of the enemy, there was such confusion that no one knew which troops were the last to cross the bridge, but Captain Clement Sulivane saw General Kershaw at the rear of his South Carolina troops at about the time General Ewell and Haskell went over.

Kershaw tipped his hat to Suulivane, “All over, he yelled. “Goodbye. Blow her to hell.”

Sulivane watched his men throw lighted lighted faggots on the planks before they fell back.

Through Sullivan's Eye

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Call your Councilman or Councilwoman.