Informed me of your interest in making a film on Ireland’s history; that you seek artifacts from Ireland’s past.
My personal library includes some significant works.
Attached is my (copyrighted) map of Ireland that sheds some never-previously-published light on Ireland of 1845-1850.
Also in my possession is a book given to my parents upon their marriage in 1928. It is “Ireland in Pictures” by Finerty.
It contains photos of July 1888 evictions by Kilrush area landlord Vandeleur assisted by armed members of the constabulary led by Inspector Lapdell, and by soldiers of the Royal Berkshires, and 3rd Hussars.
Copies of some of the photos are in my book; “Ireland 1845-1850: the Perfect Holocaust, and Who Kept it ‘Perfect’.” The evictions were of the families of Thomas Considine and Padraig Carrig, both in Tullycrine, Kilmurry. That photo shows the arrival of evictors, their ladders and battering ram on a cart, etc. Another photo is well-known; of the Considine family’s furniture outside with constables standing alongside. A photo of Matias Magragh shows him and his wife in front of their collapsed house in Kilfearagh. Oddly enough, the photos were taken by tourists from the States. The Clare Co. Council evidently have a copy of the same photo book.
The last few copies of the 4th Ireland printing of my book are available from Josephine Hayden in Dublin.
I just got an enthusiastic reply back.
This might be a fulfillment of your hopes for a film.
Will keep you informed.
Thanks for your e-mail today. It would be wonderful if a film were made based on your well-researched book with the maps of the many grave sites of the victims of the Irish Holocaust (1845-1850). The truth of the Irish Holocaust has been covered up by historians who favored England, and regrettably some of the cover-up historians were Irish. Your research will make a great film because of all the detailed facts documented from the British Archives. I saw the movie, “Black 47”, a few years ago. It was based on the Irish Holocaust but it could have been more vivid in telling the atrocities of 1847, when millions perished from starvation, and millions emigrated to the USA, Canada,
and Australia. The truth of the Irish Holocaust needs to be publicized world-wide.
Directly below is a response from about potential prospects for a film.
He has been calling for a film for so long that I thought it appropriate to mention to him the possibility of your making one.
He is the recently retired founding P.P. of Our Lady of Lourdes, Venice, Florida. We started corresponding when he contacted me after reading my book.
Please don’t feel under any pressure. If it works, it works. It is pleasant to even contemplate a film that would vindicate the millions who were murdered, and have been slandered in death ever since.
Our attempt to vindicate them is what impels us to fulfill the urgent requests of locals (who are too fearful of gov’t to do so themselves) to install monuments over their mass graves.
Thank you for sending on these emails and materials.
I’m based in Dublin, Ireland, at this moment, and this is my permanent base.
Our project, has taken shape with support from Screen Ireland, which brings specific resource constraints.
This is why, we’ll conduct several interviews to Netflix standard, and being to develop the story on screen.
At present, our focus is opening the story with Frederick Douglass, and his first voyage to Ireland in 1845.
When Douglass reaches Youghal Co. Cork, the story opens into a second arch, on themes of Slavery, Colonialism and Science.
Ideally, in time, we’ll develop with US partners, and/or a main streamer. We’re seeking to build a longer timeframe into the project from circa 1534-1950, so and add some contemporary themes.
Works I’ve researched to date, Colum McCann ‘Transatlantic’, Jerry Mulvihill ‘The Truth behind the Irish Famine’ and that of Prof. Christine Kinealy. Gerard McCarthy also runs a ‘famine’ exhibition.
One of the posing questions, will be how did Ireland reach a point where so many natives were dependent on one sustenance.
It’s almost amazing to think, we grow up never questioning this, and we see very little to trigger our curiosity.
Efforts of late have started to see a shift in thinking, Arracht and The Hunger, being a feature film, and documentary.
We will begin to focus our filming on the foundation of the story, slavery and colonialism.
Through this, we’ll seek to build up the understanding as to who landlords, their leases, built a military presence in Ireland.
Getting to the point, where in 1838 the Poor Act Law and poor/workhouses were built all across Ireland.
I’ve yet to find if there’s any other theory of how the Potato was infected, there were scientific advances in vaccination for Smallpox, and a greater understanding of decease that perhaps we realize of this time.
Either way, the military structure, the land confiscation, the evictions, the scale of this, along with withness accounts, I’m seeking to build upon.
We will give every section of the project energy and time, and we’ll see how this is all edited to tell a more expansive story.
Hopefully, also, we’ll attract a larger production to support perhaps a docu-series.
For now, this might not be the film or motion picture you thought it might be, but, we’ll be aiming the project a unique audience in some respects, and our focus is to be honest with our choice of wording and examination of this time.
Arracht
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYmZ8mPrm5A
The Hunger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upBdImBa94A
Tragic to acknowledge, your film, as currently molded, is part of the permanent, genocide-concealment program of the Irish gov’t.
Frederick Douglass is a very good start, but your involvement of two main, gov’t-approved history-concealers (Mulvihill and Kinealy) speaks for itself.
What you claim to be exploring as some kind of “mystery” is readily available at Britain’s National Archives (and transcribed into my “Ireland 1845-1850: the Perfect Holocaust, and Who Kept it ‘Perfect'”).
Regarding your “…where so many natives were dependent on one substance.” please be aware that the Ordnance Survey maps of Ireland were completed in 1845. They show, that while Ireland starved, the following NON-POTATO food-processing plants were operating in Ireland on Irish-produced food crops: 1,984 grain kilns, 1,935 grain mills, 555 flour mills, 136 grain-using breweries and 74 ditto distilleries, 62 threshing mills (though flails were the usual means), 948 livestock pounds, 45 woolen mills (mutton and lamb), 43 windmills (more grain) and abundant town markets of dairy and poultry products and “shambles” (butcheries).
The landowners (with robbery-based land titles) of Ireland until the 1900-1910 above-market (but compulsory) buyout by the British government were essentially all English. This is no secret. See Bateman’s 1878 “The Great Landowners of Great Britain and Ireland.” They were also “gentlemen” (defined then as one who does not engage in physical work).
You are with the rearguard defending a long-standing lie.Your letter of today that also indicates gov’t funding, makes it clear that the official betrayal of the Holocaust’s Murdered Millions has not ended.
Attached below are “Victoria’s 1st Council,” “I ,II, III & Notes,” and “Ireland’s Largest Landowners.”
They are sent to you along with my map to be exhibited with this correspondence later, in a freer Ireland.
They will constitute additional evidence that your cover-up film’s funders, promoters, and participants, were not innocent.
With no animosity, but with true sympathy
P.S.: And thank you, for your active support of a truthful version of history. These are not the kind of people you had expected. Do not despair.