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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
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Subject: Re: Re: American Official Detained, Searched & Interrogated in North Ireland
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Date: Tue, 19-Nov-85 10:05:22 EST
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> 	But when Britain took over Ireland (that is, after the more
> benevolent Anglo- Irish lords), they forced the population into poverty.
> They gave all the land to English landlords who extracted every ounce of
> wealth for himself, barely leaving anything for the Irish to survive on.
> The Irish literally went without shoes on their feet and with rags for
> clothes. They leived on meager supplies of food. Many starved. A Frenchman
> who had been visiting the US and saw the condition
> of the black slaves stopped by Ireland on his way back to France. He
> said that the Irish were even worse off than the slaves. That's pretty
> bad.

	Don't forget Cromwell. His sweep of terror, rape, pillage and
burn-to-the-ground tactics through Ireland makes Sherman in Georgia
look like a real piker. It's no wonder at all that the Irish hate the
English (ie, the Protestants).

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jcpatilla