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To: the scotsman
Dont make me laugh.

You dare laugh at the privation of an entire nation and death of 1.5 million souls, while the remainder of Europe suffered no diminution in lifestyle. And yes, the Lords and Ladies responsible feasted on Irish livestock. Your denial is detestible.

95 posted on 12/29/2011 6:23:34 AM PST by frithguild (Restricting access to capital - Liberalism: The sharpest tool of big business.)
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To: frithguild
And yes, the Lords and Ladies responsible feasted on Irish livestock.

If that's your issue, then just say so at the beginning of the thread. I'm sure there are 100 other things we can find wrong with the world of 1845 that also have little to do with WWII.

96 posted on 12/29/2011 6:30:34 AM PST by palmer (Before reading this post, please send me $2.50)
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To: frithguild

Firstly, my paternal great-great-great grandmother’s family, who were Protestant Ulstermen and women of Scottish descent (the family had emigrated from Lowland Scotland to NI in the early 1600’s), returned to Scotland in 1850 BECAUSE of the Famine.

So dont dare tell me that I am laughing at anything.

Secondly, there is no denial. What I am doing is to rightly criticise your ludicrously simplistic version of the Irish Famine. To say Britain ‘feasted’, when most of Britain in that time were poor people who had little to eat themselves, is laughable, and shows you have no knowledge of Britain or Ireland.

You probably think I cant access the internet without permission from the Queen. And that I know Sean Connery and Paul McCartney personally. Or that the Irish wear kilts and DO live in little bog huts on windy moors.


102 posted on 12/29/2011 9:12:50 AM PST by the scotsman (I)
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