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To: lizol
The amazing thing is that Ireland still has only half the population it had 150 years ago.
7 posted on 08/16/2006 10:55:12 AM PDT by wideawake ("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
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To: wideawake
The amazing thing is that Ireland still has only half the population it had 150 years ago.

We have the British to thank for that. The potato blight wouldn't have killed anyone except for the fact that the British forcibly exported the other crops leaving the Irish only potatoes to eat.

9 posted on 08/16/2006 10:58:05 AM PDT by Rytwyng (Only a Million Minuteman March can stop the Bush Border Betrayal!)
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To: wideawake

"The amazing thing is that Ireland still has only half the population it had 150 years ago."

We Irish have the genocide perpetrated by the Brits and propagandized as a "famine" to thank for that.


22 posted on 08/16/2006 11:11:06 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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