Did you watch last Wednesday evening's "Faces of America," hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.? [Yes, Dr. Gates is an exceptional author and scholar, but in this program he wears the hat of host, not genealogical researcher.] I'm referring to the section pertaining to the Irish Catholic genealogy of political satirist (and devilishly handsome) Stephen Colbert. Some may know him from the television program "The Colbert Report." Although my personal study of Irish history predominantly emanates from books, museums, and archival repositories, lately its been enhanced by some rich TV programming. This was the first time that I heard anyone publicly elucidate a documented list of pound upon pound of food resources that the English exported, congruently with Irish Catholics starving to death. Starving to death. This fact is one of the reasons I personally object to perpetuating the misnomer today of the term "famine," in the context of Irish Catholics circa 1845. [The term famine denotes a near complete loss of crops and animal sources of food, initiated by some act of nature, as resulted from h Hurricane Katrina.] It would be as politely and inaccurately naming of the atrocities of Jewish concentration camps, something as non descriptio as The Transported Jewish. The first time I learned of English exportation of Irish-grown foodstuff and Irish-raised meats, was at New York City's Hunger Memorial, on Vesey Street in south western Manhattan. There displayed are excerpts from primary sources, and quotes from eyewitnesses, who headlined the human disregard and abuse of Irish Catholics, similar to the castration of Jewish life some hundred years later. A trip to Strokestown, Ireland and a tour of "The Famine Museum," increased my loyalty to my beloved, brave Irish Catholic ancestors. The turning point occurred when I viewed two pieces of ephemera: the so called soup pot, and a car jack like tool, that was specifically invented to break the internal framing of Irish homes, so that those evicted had no sheltering home. 'Tis true, Irish there now are not keen on discussing that era of their history, nor continuing to lay blame at the foot of that Pilate of Irish history. "What's in a name?" Plenty. Barb NYC Researcher IHR, GGG