Posted on 08/16/2006 10:46:10 AM PDT by lizol
I'm getting married in Limavady next year. Fiance is from Fermanagh, but we found a beautiful resort in Limavady to have the wedding. Can't wait to go look at it when we are back there at Christmas.
Ooops! We seem to have touched a raw nerve in kellynla.
I was going to offer a few words about the matter in hand - Poles in Ireland, but we seem to have been hijacked.
True. I hate the way IRA propagandists use the Potato Famine as a political football.
He's completely mesmerised by Sinn Fein propaganda.
Good luck, elc! :D
I'm not going to even bother with some of these posts. Same crap, different day.
But, my fiance noticed that the on-line edition of his local rag (in Fermanagh) now has a Polish language section. He was shocked to see this. Not sure why with EU immigration polcies the way they are.
It's interesting that your posted article cites Marxist propaganda rags like the The Lumpen Times as if it were an authoritative historical source.
There might be a reason why The Irish Echo refused to run an article that was eventually run in The Lumpen Times - and the reason is probably that they didn't want to cheapen the quality of their publication by printing Stalinist claptrap as if it were true.
BTW, as an enormous fan of James Joyce I resent your source's attempt to illegitimately drag his name into this victimological folderol.
Vile, vile profanation of holy things for political purposes.
Hopefully the Poles can help re-evangelize Ireland.
Congratulations! I was only there once, in the early 1980's, but it's beautiful.
LOL, well said.
It's not the first time he has posted that map, either. It's from irishholocaust.org - I saw it linked on the Noraid website!
It makes a ridiculous claim that 5.2 million people died in the Famine!
I have to say that Ireland is too small a country to maintain its culture in the face of mass immigration.
Only 3.5 million people live in the Republic.
The EU has meant wealth, but it also will mean the disappearance of Ireland as a firm cultural center.
The 22nd century will see Irishness as a shared partial heritage among hundreds of millions of people, but full-blooded Irishness will be on its way out.
As the father of children who are half Irish and a quarter Polish, I am a bit wistful.
Yes - it's straight from Patrick Pearse's outlook - that psuedo-religious notion.
Sounds like Malcolm X's claim that more than 100 million Africans died in transit from West Africa to the US mainland during the 1700s.
Complete and utter balderdash.
Yeah, I've seen several newspapers with a Polish section. I'm not all that troubled with Eastern European immigrants - they are culturally compatible with Ireland.
My biggest problem wrt the EU's immigration policy is the Nice Treaty - Ireland has lost some control over it's immigration policy.
The Poles are here legally, others, such as Romanians, are not - it depends whether their native countries are EU members or not.
Malcolm X = Gerry Adams!
There is something wrong when a poster promotes that here as fact, even though it's from a completely unreliable source.
Shill springs to mind...
He has hijacked a lot of threads with his crap.
>>>A fully homogeneous Irish society has opened themselves for foreigners and it seems that Poles have found a common ground and language.<<<
Where did this writer get the idea that Ireland is a "fully
homogeneous society?" That is one thing it has never been. All sorts of people, including Viking invaders, wrecked Spanish sailors, and Norman conquerors have been fully integrated into Irish society within a generation of their appearance on Irish soil.
Welcome to the Poles! They are a good match, with their industriousness and their spirituality. Surely they will prove to be a good addition to the mix.
Thank you for educating people here about An Gorta Mor.
Cromwell, in particular, was very thorough in his extermination of the Irish People. He gave his soldiers orders to kill anything that moved, women, children, and babies included, because, said he: "Nits grow into lice".
Hitler made very similar statements about the Jews.
You need to read up on Irish History.
May I suggest Seamus Mac Manus's "The Story of the Irish Race" as a start?
It can be found in most libraries.
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