[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Ironic that it was the fanatical adherence to free-market capitalism that led to the disaster in the first place....

[MadMitch]

Rangers and Celtic, the Bigot Brothers, make so much money out of promoting sectarianism that nothing will be done. You only have to see the stuff they come out orange tops and t-shirts about terrorists.

[wideawake]

Ironic that it was the fanatical adherence to free-market capitalism that led to the disaster in the first place....

Hmmm. So you're saying that phytopthora infestans was spontaneously created by an open market in goods and services - or, more succinctly, you're telling us that you're a complete idiot.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Not so. The British government put so little value on the Irish that they exported grain (oats and wheat) from Ireland without doing anything else to give relief to the population. This is not free market capitalism; this is Stalinist style Ukrainian famine promotion.

The British considered the Irish as talking monkeys and their literature and cartoons of the time reflect this.

I am descended from the earlier migration of the religious wars. I don't excuse what the British Government did.