A beautiful and stunning portrayal of the truth behind the "potato Famine." It certainly was not the lack of potatoes that killed the Irish. It was a genocide perpetrated by the English. The beautiful Irish with their Celtioc/Viking blood would not give their Island to the Anglo-Saxon barbarians who starved them off their land but to whom the Irish would Never surrender. One quarter of the Irish population was systematically exterminated by the English. The English never pay for their genocides as every other country was forced to do. See some other brilliant films by the bright Irish: The Secret of Kells, SOng of the Sea, The Secret of ROan Innish, The Rock, In Bruges, In America, among so many others. The Celtic Irish music is so beautiful as is the arquitecture of the country, such as Northern Irlenad's beautiful orignial aesthetically pleasing cottages.