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To: metmom
"Dingle and Derry are where exactly?"

Dingle is in extreme southwest Ireland, Derry (known to the Brits and Londonderry) is in the extreme southeast.

If you don't believe that (Protestant) government sponsored terrorism took place in Ireland then you are sorely ignorant. In 1800 the population if Ireland was nearly 9 million, fifty years later it was a third of that. Over 2.5 million died of starvation or starvation related diseases and 3.5 million migrated. All of this at a time when Ireland was exporting food from Protestant owned farms. Laws prevented Catholics from acquiring land or owning businesses. Even the fish in the rivers and ocean were declared property of the state and fishing was a capital offense.

In the midst of the famine many Irish were turned out (evicted from farms their ancestors had owned) so that the land could be converted to exportable cash crops. Their descendants still wander the roads of Ireland and are known simply as "Travelers".

It was ethnic cleansing on a on a major scale, but largely ignored because the victims were merely Catholics. Leon Uris, a WWII marine hero and Jew, wrote the remarkable novel "Trinity" about this era. While fiction, it is highly factual and reading it would do you a lot of good.

2,751 posted on 04/28/2010 11:01:34 PM PDT by Natural Law
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To: Natural Law; metmom; count-your-change; Alex Murphy; 1000 silverlings
Over 800,000 Tutsis (primarily Protestant) were murdered in a matter of weeks by the Hutus (primarily Roman Catholic.)

Where's the outcry for this travesty?

2,757 posted on 04/28/2010 11:12:44 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Natural Law

I didn’t think Dingle and Derry were American.


2,759 posted on 04/28/2010 11:13:55 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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