http://gopetition.com/signatures/stop-the-irish-government-from-using-the-f-word.html Online petition signatures en-us Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:06 UTC GoPetition RSS Feed Generator Copyright 2026 GoPetition https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/24431656?utm_medium=rss Fri, 11 Aug 2023 04:47:49 UTC 24431656 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/24395221?utm_medium=rss Sun, 12 Mar 2023 12:49:22 UTC 24395221 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/24368308?utm_medium=rss Thu, 29 Dec 2022 09:30:58 UTC 24368308 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/24213419?utm_medium=rss Cease the "famine/Gorta Mor" cover-up. It was perpetrated by 67 regiments of Britain's 126-regiment army. (Led by General Sir Edward Blakeney for all six years). Learn the facts, at Britain's National Archives or from my book; "Ireland 1845-1850: the Perfect Holocaust, and Who Kept it 'Perfect'."

]]> Thu, 27 Jan 2022 05:45:43 UTC 24213419 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/24207570?utm_medium=rss I am an American of primarily Irish descent. My family emigrated from County Cork in the 1850s or so to Boston. They sought to escape induced starvation to find freedom and opportunity. Irelands language - referring to a genocide as a famine - is Orwellian and self deceptive. Please stop trying to please the zBrits and Americans as it won’t work. Call the great hunger by its accurate name: a genocide
Kind regards,
Peter G Erickson, PhD

]]> Fri, 31 Dec 2021 03:13:40 UTC 24207570 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/24177409?utm_medium=rss The history has been continuously written by the English but the truth cannot be allowed to remain hidden with the acquiesce of the Irish !

]]> Tue, 14 Sep 2021 05:55:38 UTC 24177409 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/24163268?utm_medium=rss Wed, 1 Sep 2021 07:34:12 UTC 24163268 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/24054828?utm_medium=rss Recognition now.

]]> Mon, 8 Mar 2021 03:06:04 UTC 24054828 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23774490?utm_medium=rss Great Hunger more accurately reflects the situation. My ancestors came to N. America as a result and suffered short life spans for 2 generations after.

]]> Tue, 28 Jul 2020 06:24:57 UTC 23774490 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23464226?utm_medium=rss Change this misnomer to what it really was, the theft of Irish foods going to England. It was basic murder by neglect as well as thievery.

]]> Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:04:38 UTC 23464226 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/23202846?utm_medium=rss Thu, 8 Aug 2019 12:37:34 UTC 23202846 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22981178?utm_medium=rss stop using the f word as a cover up

]]> Thu, 11 Apr 2019 09:31:37 UTC 22981178 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/22841325?utm_medium=rss Wed, 20 Feb 2019 11:12:12 UTC 22841325 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21617365?utm_medium=rss Wed, 30 Aug 2017 10:46:09 UTC 21617365 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/21436071?utm_medium=rss Fri, 16 Jun 2017 09:16:56 UTC 21436071 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/20865473?utm_medium=rss Mon, 7 Nov 2016 10:46:30 UTC 20865473 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/20858740?utm_medium=rss Sat, 5 Nov 2016 08:29:28 UTC 20858740 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/20858672?utm_medium=rss Sat, 5 Nov 2016 07:43:43 UTC 20858672 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/20858521?utm_medium=rss Hunger, not famine.

]]> Sat, 5 Nov 2016 05:34:56 UTC 20858521 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/20858492?utm_medium=rss Sat, 5 Nov 2016 04:45:37 UTC 20858492 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/20350831?utm_medium=rss Tue, 13 Sep 2016 09:51:09 UTC 20350831 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/20257010?utm_medium=rss Mon, 29 Aug 2016 11:14:38 UTC 20257010 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19915998?utm_medium=rss My Kenny family came to Canada in the early 1850's from County Wicklow.

]]> Sat, 16 Apr 2016 10:04:33 UTC 19915998 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19827567?utm_medium=rss Stop changing history to suit an agenda. Let the truth stand so we learn not to allow cruel people from doing it again.

]]> Sun, 20 Mar 2016 10:36:05 UTC 19827567 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19827201?utm_medium=rss I am an Irish citizen living in America and I love my country and that word isnt right to be used as part of our history.

]]> Sun, 20 Mar 2016 02:46:04 UTC 19827201 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19825886?utm_medium=rss Sat, 19 Mar 2016 07:03:46 UTC 19825886 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19825745?utm_medium=rss There is and has been a wealth of misinformation about this tragic and outrageous period of Irish history - please stop reinforcing this with the fallacious terminology of 'famine'. There was no such thing.

]]> Sat, 19 Mar 2016 04:40:42 UTC 19825745 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19824004?utm_medium=rss Due to the great hunger both of my maternal great-grandparents as young and alone singles (20-ish) emigrated to the USA and thrived.

]]> Fri, 18 Mar 2016 08:14:09 UTC 19824004 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19798189?utm_medium=rss This part of Irish history has to be properly acknowledged accurately for what it was. A specific policy of the then British Government to starve the Irish people. And their successful and fraudelent campaign to designate it a "Famine" due to the failed potato crops, rather than the denial of other available products which would have prevented many deaths.

]]> Tue, 8 Mar 2016 01:56:34 UTC 19798189 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19796817?utm_medium=rss Tue, 8 Mar 2016 03:08:41 UTC 19796817 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19744101?utm_medium=rss I have read this very fair and balanced view...and agree whole heartedly.

]]> Tue, 16 Feb 2016 06:46:03 UTC 19744101 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19598349?utm_medium=rss Tue, 12 Jan 2016 02:57:53 UTC 19598349 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19453282?utm_medium=rss Wed, 11 Nov 2015 05:15:46 UTC 19453282 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19445274?utm_medium=rss Sun, 8 Nov 2015 09:04:01 UTC 19445274 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19440683?utm_medium=rss Sat, 7 Nov 2015 10:05:14 UTC 19440683 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19437416?utm_medium=rss Fri, 6 Nov 2015 05:52:19 UTC 19437416 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19429364?utm_medium=rss The victims of this genocide should be remembered with respect by not calling it a famine

]]> Mon, 2 Nov 2015 05:51:09 UTC 19429364 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19411638?utm_medium=rss Sat, 24 Oct 2015 12:15:04 UTC 19411638 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19408158?utm_medium=rss Thu, 22 Oct 2015 12:30:30 UTC 19408158 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19407042?utm_medium=rss Thu, 22 Oct 2015 01:20:23 UTC 19407042 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19406972?utm_medium=rss It is time for the Irish Government to form a commission to investigate the 1840's in Ireland. Starvation must be one of the cruelest way to die, especially when there was enough food in the country to sustain the people. I feel the pain of my mothers family, 3 generations later, two parents perished and a child is buried on Grosse Ilse, making their way to some hope of survival in Upper Canada, but they must have been very strong to endure. Many of them did and we have so many Irish decendents in Ontario and across Canada. Although the stories of our parents were few, they infused a discomfort with the British Empire of the day which will burn until a full acknowledgement of their actions will be defined as what it was. Genocide. The British Government were responsible for killing by the way of starving over a million Irish Catholics, the food, other than potatoes flourished and was shipped away. Nothing was to get in the way of Free Trade. It is time for acknowledgement and apologies for the crimes against humanity that the British Government bestowed upon the Irish People, my people, lest we forget.

]]> Thu, 22 Oct 2015 12:13:02 UTC 19406972 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19406916?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Oct 2015 11:23:52 UTC 19406916 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19406717?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Oct 2015 09:53:59 UTC 19406717 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19406550?utm_medium=rss I have been saying it for years.

]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2015 08:04:38 UTC 19406550 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19406317?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Oct 2015 05:57:21 UTC 19406317 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19406152?utm_medium=rss The Great Genocide?

]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2015 04:37:10 UTC 19406152 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19405937?utm_medium=rss Start teaching the truth. Respect our dead

]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2015 02:24:15 UTC 19405937 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19405877?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Oct 2015 01:50:37 UTC 19405877 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19405870?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Oct 2015 01:44:26 UTC 19405870 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19405838?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Oct 2015 01:29:25 UTC 19405838 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19405692?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Oct 2015 11:32:31 UTC 19405692 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19405657?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Oct 2015 10:59:48 UTC 19405657 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19405647?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Oct 2015 10:51:31 UTC 19405647 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19405435?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Oct 2015 08:42:41 UTC 19405435 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19405250?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Oct 2015 06:51:26 UTC 19405250 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19405093?utm_medium=rss Wed, 21 Oct 2015 05:34:36 UTC 19405093 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19404833?utm_medium=rss it was intentional starvation. it was cruel and unforgivable.

]]> Wed, 21 Oct 2015 03:16:29 UTC 19404833 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19404359?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 09:51:05 UTC 19404359 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19404230?utm_medium=rss Please refer to this period as The Great Hunger or An Gorta Mór, which are much more accurate in describing the situation.

]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2015 08:17:21 UTC 19404230 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19404223?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 08:09:53 UTC 19404223 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19403983?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 04:53:02 UTC 19403983 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19403954?utm_medium=rss A famine it was not. A travesty of poor judgment and indifference it certainly was. In addition there were those for whom a greater good was served by ridding the country of people of a certain class. Shame on them all.

]]> Tue, 20 Oct 2015 04:34:38 UTC 19403954 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19403905?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 04:02:47 UTC 19403905 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19403724?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 02:29:59 UTC 19403724 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19403452?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 12:04:05 UTC 19403452 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19403390?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 11:25:28 UTC 19403390 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19403196?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 09:35:03 UTC 19403196 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19403195?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 09:34:13 UTC 19403195 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402609?utm_medium=rss Tue, 20 Oct 2015 01:20:38 UTC 19402609 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402412?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 10:07:01 UTC 19402412 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19402327?utm_medium=rss Maith thu! Eire Abu!!

]]> Mon, 19 Oct 2015 09:18:22 UTC 19402327 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401930?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 04:42:28 UTC 19401930 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19401741?utm_medium=rss Mon, 19 Oct 2015 03:09:59 UTC 19401741 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19379349?utm_medium=rss Fri, 9 Oct 2015 05:31:07 UTC 19379349 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19379256?utm_medium=rss Fri, 9 Oct 2015 04:00:58 UTC 19379256 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19378975?utm_medium=rss Fri, 9 Oct 2015 11:33:42 UTC 19378975 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19377161?utm_medium=rss I think the truth of the British taking everything of value from Ireland, should be published. My father was asked to join the British Army during the First World War and he would be given his a free state at the end. It didn't happen but he was injured and collected a pension until he died at 96.

]]> Thu, 8 Oct 2015 04:24:34 UTC 19377161 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19374259?utm_medium=rss Wed, 7 Oct 2015 11:16:07 UTC 19374259 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19373009?utm_medium=rss This time in Ireland should be called, "The Irish Holocaust". There was no famine. There was a direct plan to get rid of the Irish, starting with Queen Elizabeth I. This needs to be acknowledged. It is long over due.

]]> Wed, 7 Oct 2015 12:07:17 UTC 19373009 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19372404?utm_medium=rss my grand parents would have been born just after the great hunger, but no word of mouth was ever passed down, but that is not so strange when u consider the british had their hands on our throats for seventy odd years after that,even to this day most Irish people do not want to talk about it,

]]> Tue, 6 Oct 2015 05:25:18 UTC 19372404 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19372143?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Oct 2015 02:42:22 UTC 19372143 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19372077?utm_medium=rss I have researched my Irish family history. They came from the Fitzwilliam Estate in County Wicklow in 1848, arriving in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada via a ship called the Star. Upon arrival in Canada, the eldest died of typhus. They lived in shanties for a year, then emigrated to Maine, where they worked in the ironworks and housekeeping. My great-great grandmother died a poor woman living on the charity of her children and others. Her descendants managed to work and provide for themselves, eventually becoming educated and more prosperous.

]]> Tue, 6 Oct 2015 02:13:06 UTC 19372077 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19371955?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Oct 2015 01:24:32 UTC 19371955 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19371868?utm_medium=rss It is important to remember this time in history for the future generations to understand the full complexity of the situation.

]]> Tue, 6 Oct 2015 12:42:14 UTC 19371868 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19371740?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Oct 2015 11:49:54 UTC 19371740 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19371512?utm_medium=rss It was racism. The English hated the Irish. They may haveused smoke and mirrors but it was genocide.

]]> Tue, 6 Oct 2015 09:54:13 UTC 19371512 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19371227?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Oct 2015 08:34:45 UTC 19371227 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19371143?utm_medium=rss According to the Pocket Oxford Dictionary (that's the OXFORD dictionary!; NOT Webster's or the American Heritage editions!), "famine" is defined as follows: "extreme scarcity, esp. of food".
Since we know, definitively, that there was not a "scarcity of food", but only a scarcity of a single crop, then the word "famine" does not apply and should not be applied to that period of Irish history from 1845 into the 1850's.
Fact: tons of food were being exported out of Ireland during this time!
Fact: only the peasantry were adversely effected by the mammoth failure of the potato crop.
Fact: that same peasantry represented an overwhelming majority of the population and were, themselves, overwhelming Catholic.
Fact: an absentee, British government and gentry, who were almost entirely protestant, at the very least allowed a single crop failure to result in the deaths, emigration and still more deaths of millions of Irish people. (Arguments can & have been made that, at several levels, it became a matter of policy to take advantage of this "situation", at the disadvantage of the Irish Catholic peasant!)
Conclusion: do I have to spell it out for you or can you figure it out on your own?!

]]> Tue, 6 Oct 2015 08:05:48 UTC 19371143 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19371097?utm_medium=rss When we, in the NH House memorialized the 150th yr of the "An Gorta Mor" we did call the period exactly that way and discussed the amounts of food shipped out of Ireland

]]> Tue, 6 Oct 2015 07:41:22 UTC 19371097 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19370619?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Oct 2015 05:21:55 UTC 19370619 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19370591?utm_medium=rss Tue, 6 Oct 2015 05:04:49 UTC 19370591 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19364635?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Oct 2015 04:08:57 UTC 19364635 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19364235?utm_medium=rss A famine it was not....An Gorta Mór

]]> Sat, 3 Oct 2015 11:28:09 UTC 19364235 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19363961?utm_medium=rss Sat, 3 Oct 2015 08:22:07 UTC 19363961 https://gopetition.com/signature/locate/19352070?utm_medium=rss Calling it "The Potato Famine" is insulting. That's basically saying that our ancestors weren't smart enough to grow anything but potatoes.

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