Charles Treveleyan was a senior English civil servant in the administration of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in Dublin Castle during the 1850’s. Trevelyan famously said, about “an Gorta Mor” (The great hunger) that it was, “the judgement of God sent as a calamity to teach the Irish a lesson”.
It wasn’t. It was an act of deliberate genocide, depopulation and dispossesion of an entire people.
The population of this island declined by half in a period of 5 years. Ireland was producing enough food to supply more than five times it’s population.
The truth is that the Irish people had been dispossesed of their land and were eating what little they could grow on the scraps they had left while absentee landlords grew fat on their exports of lamb, beef, wheat and barley on the land they had seized.
The Irish people lived on Potatoes. An imported crop with which they had no choice but to subside upon.
This was very close to the words of Oliver Cromwell when he massacred many thousands in Drogheda during his particular invasion of Ireland.
Cromwells quote was that it was “the righteous judgement of God upon the barberous wretches”
Charming.
So, although the above is historical, why is it still relevant today?
The answer is simply because there are some who, to this day, still hold such views.
I think many people here will recall Suella Braverman’s reference to starving the Irish people.
I certainly will never forgive or forget it.
I’m genuinely amazed that British people are accepting the right wing rhetoric that purports to speak for them. I’d personally be astounded if such talk pretended to speak on my behalf. Where are their true voices? Is everyone terrified in the south east of England of the Daily Mail and the Telegraph opinion writers?
Perhaps I’m Naive. Perhaps it’s a good thing that I’m an Irishman. Perhaps disagreeing with idiocy isn’t any harm, perhaps being in a republic is a massive relief, ye know, we’re all equal and if anything is to change, we all get to vote on it, as equals, including our head of state, mad I know.
The title of this post referred to a particularly unpleasant individual linked here. I play and sing traditional Irish songs, this one refers to him.
"We in coming days may be" 
We recently had the spectacle of Treveleyan’s great, great grand-daughter ‘virtue signalling’ as she left the BBC in Washington, to head up a ‘Charity’ pushing for reparations to be made to the descendants of African slaves. The Treveleyans have promised to throw in € 500k to wash away the sins.
Lucky for their bank accounts, that they have no intention of making reparations to the Irish, upon whom their relative inflicted racist and sectarian genocide under the false cloak of Liberal free market economics.
Seemingly, she differentiates between the family’s crimes against humanity in their private profiteering capacity and the far greater crimes against humanity, committed in public office.
It’s a rare talent to be able to rinse away the guilt of millions of starved Irish men, women and children, with a twist of logic and then present yourself as a saviour of the oppressed.
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