Born of Ireland on FB today. This history of ...'this kind of subjugation' seems to be comfortably relegated to what is referred to as the 'past'.....There was food, the land of Ireland is lush for growing all types of food. The staple diet of the people of the land, the indigenous to ireland, was the potatoe, when those crops failed in blight, famine was brought the people by the governing operatives that withheld any relief and continued to ship out all food in mercantile vessels, that continued to bring the governing operatives, the ugly and greedy wealth that was their glory and contained in the ships back to england. . While the indigenous people were staved to their knees, or to their deaths. Either way, control was observed and measured, like a science experiment, with hypothesis and variables, It parted the waters for its continuation into the ingenious modern methods we see today . Michaela. ....... sub·ju·ga·tion [ˌsʌbdʒʊˈɡeɪʃn] noun subjugation (noun) subjugations (plural noun) the action of bringing someone or something under domination or control: "the colonial subjugation of a country by means of brute military force""the fear of human subjugation by technology""conquests and subjugations that we think are long forgotten"

During the Great Famine, the British government refused to simply give starving Irish people food. ☘️ Instead, they were put to work building roads. Roads that led nowhere. Roads that served no purpose. Roads built by men, women, and children who were already dying, just to "earn" the relief they were given. These are known as the Famine Roads, and many of them still exist today, cutting across the bogs of Connemara and the west of Ireland, silent and forgotten. They are one of the most heartbreaking monuments in Irish history: proof of a policy that valued appearances over lives, and left a million people dead. The next time you walk a quiet road in the west of Ireland, it may have been built by your ancestors, with their last remaining strength. 🇮🇪