[Stoat]

He said the club had also approached the police, asking them to issue a statement saying anyone caught singing it would be arrested.

BBC NEWS Scotland Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West Concerns raised over famine song

The complaint was made after Rangers' victory over Celtic last month

Hibernian FC - How does one complaint lead to this

Irish alarm over new sectarian song - Scotsman.com News

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Great Famine (Ireland) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Emigrants Leave Ireland, engraving by Henry Doyle (1827-1892), from Mary Frances Cusack's Illustrated History of Ireland, 1868

 

Starving_Irish_family_during_the_potato_famine.

[Stoat]

From the linked Wikipedia article:

 

"Ireland's Holocaust" mural on the Ballymurphy Road [2], Belfast. "An Gorta Mór, Britain's genocide by starvation, Ireland's holocaust 1845-1849."

 

.....the famine is still a controversial event in Irish history. Debate and discussion on the British government's response to the failure of the potato crop in Ireland and the subsequent large-scale starvation, and whether or not this constituted what would now be called genocide, remains a historically and politically-charged issue.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Blair issues apology for Irish Potato Famine

"The famine was a defining event in the history of Ireland and Britain. It has left deep scars. That one million people should have died in what was then part of the richest and most powerful nation in the world is something that still causes pain as we reflect on it today. Those who governed in London at the time failed their people." Mr Blair's words were welcomed by John Bruton, the Irish Prime Minister, who said: "While the statement confronts the past honestly, it does so in a way that heals for the future." Kathy Marks

[TigersEye]

If they’re that wimpy they probably shouldn’t be playing soccer. Someone might get kicked in the shin.

[Tax-chick]

Ireland ping! This is like the Irish version of singing “Dixie” at a game?

[Adder]

Oh for Pete’s sakes.

It was 163 years ago...can’t they find something else to be “oh-fended” about?

[rangeryder]

"AN IRISH diplomat has raised a complaint with the Scottish government over a song sung by Rangers fans at an Old Firm game. They were heard singing "The Famine Song" during the match at Ibrox a fortnight ago. It includes the line: "The famine is over, why don't you go home?", and refers to the Irish potato famine of 1845-49, in which more than a million people died."

One million starved to death, two million forced to flee to other nations, as the population of Ireland went from 8 milion to 5 million. It was essentially genocide, because while the Brit Queen and her loyal subjects did extremely little to help, they increased their military presence in Ireland to ensure that their grain exports weren't tampered with. The Irish couldn't eat the food they farmed. What was more important, after all, money for the Crown or the lives of these miserable "papists"?