FROM Chris Fogarty’s book Ireland 1845-1850: The Perfect Holocaust And Who Kept It “Perfect:”

What England extracted from its colonies varied from country to country. In addition to usurping the land for distribution to its Crown- connected undertakers, it also looted the colony’s other resources. For example, from Australia from 1851 through 1862, after the easiest gold was gone, 21 million additional ounces of gold were taken into the British Government’s Gold room in Melbourne. Fertile Ireland’s main resource was the human energy that produced a torrent of agricultural products. The Irish were made tenants on their own land, and forced to pay rents that consumed most of their year’s labor. With force supplied by the British army, Irish output was commandeered by English landlords (many if not most absentees) on the basis that the English, not the Irish, owned the land on which it was produced.

The Holocaust of 1845-1850, the start of which was officially confirmed by British Viceroy Heytesbury in Dublin on November 3, 1845, did not occur in isolation. You will soon see that it was no “one- off” event. This chapter will show that the Holocaust was just another stage in a lengthy genocide that varied only in its intensity. It included the looting of national resources, part of permanent British policy in its colonies. Ireland’s fertile soil, benign growing conditions, and productive cultivators, made its rich agricultural and pastoral output the target of that looting. You will see that the Holocaust was England’s third peak of homicide in Ireland; having been preceded by those planned and implemented first by Elizabeth I and later by Oliver Cromwell all within a generally genocidal policy. The English in Ireland, referred to as “the Ascendancy,” stripped the Irish of their property and legal personhood, with all that that entails. It legally barred them from essentially all livelihoods except those which primarily benefited England and the Ascendancy. For a very long time under English rule the murder of any Irish man, woman or child did not involve the law, as the law applied to persons and the Irish had been stripped of legal personhood. For the Irish the law existed only to legally murder, to punish, to rob, or otherwise deprive them; never to protect. To Queen Anne is attributed: “The purpose of the penal laws is to render the Irish fit only to hew wood and draw water.” One may wonder how the English in Ireland managed to overcome the island’s overwhelming majority who were Irish. The answer, of course, is the British army which was always available with the latest weaponry, and the English latifundists (hereinafter “landlords”) in Ireland promptly formed their own private armies. These private armies, over time, became county militias; but each remained headed by an infamous landlord (see Exhibit C3).

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