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To: Olog-hai

Must’ve been a helluva famine or war or something in Ireland if 50,000 people suddenly need to go home today for funerals.


9 posted on 03/18/2016 12:24:37 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to to God!)
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To: Jim Robinson

“Must’ve been a helluva famine or war or something in Ireland if 50,000 people suddenly need to go home today for funerals.”

The Brits at them again? We’re gonna need reparations at some point. /s?

The Great Famine in Ireland began as a natural catastrophe of extraordinary magnitude, but its effects were severely worsened by the actions and inactions of the Whig government, headed by Lord John Russell in the crucial years from 1846 to 1852. A million died.

Altogether, about a million people in Ireland are reliably estimated to have died of starvation and epidemic disease between 1846 and 1851, and some two million emigrated in a period of a little more than a decade (1845-55).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/famine_01.shtml


17 posted on 03/18/2016 12:31:55 PM PDT by jessduntno ("Where the Hell do you put the bayonet?" - Gen. "Chesty" Puller, at a flamethrower demonstration.)
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To: Jim Robinson

“So, and what it’s about is all the Irish who are here — 50,000 who are here who can’t even go home for a family funeral because the law would not allow them to come back into the country”

Fact check on that, anyone? If Pelosi said it CAN’T be true. I’m sure an impartial interpretation-translation, will reveal it is (at best) a slimy leftist half-truth...


18 posted on 03/18/2016 12:32:03 PM PDT by heterosupremacist ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Jim Robinson

LOL Jim, now THAT is FUNNY!!!! I hadn’t heard of the famines but you are correct the MSM probaly just neglected to tell us about this !!!!


48 posted on 03/18/2016 12:58:28 PM PDT by Kit cat (OBummer must go)
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To: Jim Robinson

Maybe they all need to get gay-married too.


52 posted on 03/18/2016 1:04:53 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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