It's that StPatricksDay time of year again when we reflect on 'The Real Irish-American History They Don't Teach You in School'
Sadly, most corporate textbook-producers are no more interested in feeding student curiosity about the poverty and inequality that drove the famine than were British landlords interested in feeding Irish peasants.Author's note on the following essay which has been re-posted for many years at Common Dreams as a St. Patrick's Day tradition:When the next freeze or fire or pandemic or hurricane hits us, vulnerability will determine who gets to live, and who will die, and how.
The shape of the wound of famine was British colonialism and the capitalist system, which prized profit over the Irish poor. See our role play, “Hunger on Trial,” which can bring this insight to life in the classroom — and help students consider the roots of today’s unnatural disasters. Yet there is no shortage of material that can bring these dramatic events to life in the classroom. In my own high school social studies classes, I begin with Sinead O’Connor’s haunting rendition of “Skibbereen,” which includes the verse:The landlord and the sheriff came, to driveAnd that’s another reason why I left old, devotes a flat two sentences to “The Great Potato Famine.” Prentice Hall’sfails to offer a single quote from the time.
Nor do these texts raise any critical questions for students to consider. For example, it’s important for students to learn that the crop failure in Ireland affectedthe potato — during the worst famine years, other food production was robust. Michael Pollan notes in, “Ireland’s was surely the biggest experiment in monoculture ever attempted and surely the most convincing proof of its folly.
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