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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (91523)12/24/2004 6:59:27 AM
From: Tom Clarke  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
Priests had nothing to do with the starvation. Food was plentiful in Ireland in 1847. There was an abundance of every crop except the potato, but Britain insisted that Ireland's harvests should continue to be shipped out of the country. The British saw an opportunity to obliterate Gaelic Irish culture once and for all. The blight offered a final solution to the Irish problem. Charles Trevalyan, the government official in charge of relief operations said as much. He said the Irish should be left to "the operation of natural forces." The British treasury was closed to the dying Irish, it was up to the landed gentry to provide relief. Which of course made the Act of Union an absolute joke.

To speak of oppressive priests is really missing the point....
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