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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: cosmicforce who wrote (95773)2/8/2005 10:22:43 PM
From: Grainne  Read Replies (4) of 108807
 
I have been fascinated by the Irish Potato Famine for a long time. My husband is from Northern Ireland, and we have a lot of books about it at our house. One thing many people don't know, though, is that it affected some parts of Ireland much more than others. His county, Country Tyrone, was not really hit hard. Of course it is a subject that brings up a lot of shame, and rage toward the British as well.

There is a novel I read by an Irish woman author, Nuala O'Faolain, that takes place in current day Ireland, but has a fascinating subplot running through it about Famine era Ireland. Her main character is a novelist writing a book about an upper class English woman whose husband owned property with tenant farmers living on it during the Famine, and the English woman falls in love with one of them. It sounds complicated, but is very rich and very good, and I heartily recommend it to get more of the color and feel of Ireland during that time:

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