They immediately raised rents and also conducted mass evictions to clear out the estates in order to create large cattle-grazing farms. Between 1849 and 1854 nearly 50,000 families were evicted.

Honorable Irish people everywhere are commemorating Ireland's Holocaust of 1845-1850 by learning the truth of it. Thus, only dupes of British propaganda still refer to "The Irish Famine," as nobody died of lack of potatoes; but over five million Irish Catholics died of starvation or of malnutrition-induced disease when British troops removed their meats, grains, dairy products, etc. Britain could have removed food enough to sustain 13 million (but not 18 million) without starving Ireland.

Never forget those who died, and never forget who benefited from the deaths of so many millions of Ireland's people.

Sources:

http://www.irishholocaust.org

-Chris Fogarty

-Thom Hartmann

"We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose, to fight is to win." - P.H. Pearse.

Prince Joachim of Prussia youngest son of the German Kaiser prime candidate for both Padraig Pearse and Joseph Plunkett to take the throne of Ireland post-1916 and help re-establish a Gaelicised monarchy,

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Joachim_of_Prussia

The megalithic tomb of Newgrange in the snow and purple twilight.

Might be a bit late, but some Winter Solstice posts.

Newgrange, Ireland is older than the Pyramids and Stonehenge.

Every Winter solstice a beam of sunlight creeps up along the tomb’s passageway & illuminates the burial chamber, marking the turning of year and perhaps the rebirth of the dead. Over 5,000 years old.

Knockroe Passage Tomb, the 'Newgrange of the south' - Unique as it aligns with both the rising & setting sun on Winter Solstice. Lingaun, Co Kilkenny.

'A Frost Piece' by James Arthur O'Connor (1792-1841)

Born in Dublin he was one of Ireland's best known landscape painters.

Scene in County Wicklow

by James Arthur O'Connor, 1820.

Deep-red the bracken, its shape all gone -
The wild-goose has raised his wonted cry.

Cold has caught the wings of birds;
Season of ice - these are my tidings.

~Winter Tidings, 9th century Irish poem

The 1st of February marks the Celtic festival of Imbolc, meaning "to wash/cleanse" from the Irish verb "folcaim" [I wash]. Imbolc was originally a purification festival similar to the Roman Februa, a month-long period of sacrifice and atonement involving offerings to the gods.

The word Imbolc also means "ewes milk" owing to the return of fresh milk to the early Irish diet with the February lambing. The high fat content of sheep's milk brought great sustenance to the people of ancient Ireland.

1 Feb: Feastday of St Brigid (†524), abbess & founder of Kildare, one of three patron saints of Ireland. Her devotional names - 'lilium inter spinas' (a lily amongst thorns) - Muire na nGael (Mary of the Gaels).