The Famine never happened

Sinead O’Connor, despite her own personal and very public  troubles, is an excellent lyricist.

Her 1994 song on the Famine outlines her thesis on how so many of Ireland’s problems today in terms of our high rates of alcoholism, drug addiction and child abuse harp back to our guilt over the famine when our political and religious leaders turned their back on the starving peoples.

The video is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZIB6MslCAo&ob=av2n

As a people, we have never really come to terms with the fact that so many Irish people were complicit in this terrible event that saw a million die from starvation and millions more forced to leave the country in search of a better life. The pain is still very raw.