Famine - Sinéad O'Connor.mp3

[00:18.221]OK, I want to talk about Ireland
[00:20.546]Specifically I want to talk about the "famine"
[00:23.190]About the fact that there never really was one
[00:26.966]There was no "famine"
[00:28.472]See, Irish people were only allowed to eat potatoes
[00:31.176]All of the other food, meat, fish, vegetables
[00:33.856]Were shipped out of the country under armed guard
[00:36.300]To England while the Irish people starved
[00:39.500]And then, on the middle of all this
[00:41.641]They gave us money not to teach our children Irish
[00:44.562]And so we lost our history
[00:47.140]And this is what I think is still hurting me
[00:50.017]See, we're like a child that's been battered
[00:52.443]Has to drive itself out of its head because it's frightened
[00:55.153]Still feels all the painful feelings
[00:58.212]But they lose contact with the memory
[01:00.876]And this leads to massive self-destruction
[01:03.311]Alcoholism, drug addiction
[01:05.566]All desperate attempts at running
[01:08.195]And in its worst form becomes actual killing
[01:11.551]And if there ever is gonna be healing
[01:13.734]There has to be remembering and then grieving
[01:16.383]So that there then can be forgiving
[01:18.828]There has to be knowledge and understanding
[01:21.805]
[01:23.171]All the lonely people
[01:28.427]Where do they all come from
[01:30.739]
[01:32.445]An American army regulation
[01:34.216]Says you mustn't kill more than 10% of a nation
[01:37.661]'Cause to do so causes permanent "psychological damage"
[01:40.577]It's not permanent, but they didn't know that
[01:43.123]Anyway, during the supposed "famine"
[01:45.625]We lost a lot more than 10% of our nation
[01:48.365]Through deaths on land or on ships of emigration
[01:51.011]But what finally broke us was not starvation
[01:53.653]But its use in the controlling of our education
[01:56.168]Schools go on about "Black 47"
[01:58.862]On and on about "The terrible famine"
[02:01.513]But what they don't say is in truth
[02:04.362]There really never was one
[02:05.501](Excuse me)
[02:06.027]All the lonely people
[02:08.129](I'm sorry, excuse me)
[02:10.717]Where do they all come from
[02:13.853](that I can tell you in one word)
[02:16.498]All the lonely people
[02:21.410]Where do they all belong
[02:25.733]So let's take a look, shall we
[02:28.175]The highest statistics of child abuse in the EEC
[02:31.391]And we say we're a Christian country
[02:33.965]But we've lost contact with our history
[02:36.417]See, we used to worship God as a mother
[02:39.133]We're suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder
[02:42.029]Look at all our old men in the pubs
[02:44.797]Look at all our young people on drugs
[02:47.191]We used to worship God as a mother
[02:49.496]Now look at what we're doing to each other
[02:52.617]We've even made killers of ourselves
[02:54.927]The most child-like trusting people in the Universe
[02:57.974]And this is what's wrong with us
[03:00.384]Our history books, the parent figures lied to us
[03:03.178]I see the Irish as a race like a child
[03:05.896]That got itself bashed in the face
[03:08.656]And if there ever is gonna be healing
[03:11.156]There has to be remembering and then grieving
[03:14.004]So that there then can be forgiving
[03:16.355]There has to be knowledge and understanding
[03:19.144]
[03:20.362]All the lonely people
[03:25.432]Where do they all come from
[03:31.029]All the lonely people
[03:36.154]Where do they all come from
[03:39.055]
[03:40.329]JOHN HUME'S VOICE:
[03:41.445]We stand on the brink of a great achievement
[03:46.001]In this Ireland there is no solution
[03:48.671]To be found to our disagreements
[03:50.383]By shooting each other
[03:53.585]There is no real invader here
[03:57.449]We are all Irish in all our
[03:59.767]Different kinds of ways
[04:02.640]We must not, now or ever in the future
[04:06.052]Show anything to each other
[04:07.656]Except tolerance, forbearance
[04:10.358]And neighbourly love
[04:11.981]
[04:21.086]MAN'S VOICE:
[04:21.335]Because of our tradition everyone here
[04:24.520]Knows who he is and what God expects him to do
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