[RichInOC]

Dublin Repeals English Laws Designed To Curb The Irish

Heh. I thought they used the toilets like everybody else.

[Sonny M]

The overhaul of the Irish Statute Book has been initiated not only to remove relics of the past that are no longer relevant in modern Ireland but also to simplify the legal system for lawyers and the public.

I wish legislators across the country and throughout the nation would think like this.

[Incorrigible]

DeValera: "Burn everything British except it's coal!"

[BIGLOOK]

The draconian laws the English imposed on Ireland to keep the natives at bay are to be repealed hundreds of years after they were first put on the Statute Book.

Impeacht gan teacht ort!

[ChEng]

Most of these laws were put in place to counter the great Irish ability to assimilate all comers...After a generation or two, most of Cromwell's occupying forces were; marrying Irish, riding bareback, growing wild beards, singing Irish songs and speaking Gaelic and having a grand time....hardly suitable, hence the laws..Which were observed for less then the time that it took to compose them..This was most evident beyond, as opposed to, within the "Pale"...Hence the expression..

Sorry, the Pale being that small area of Ireland under total English control..

[reelfoot]

Éire go brách.

[ncpatriot]

Many of the old acts reflect England's determination to suppress Irish nationalism.

No wonder the Irish-Americans I know are patriotic.

[kstewskis]

"IT'S MY ISLAND!"