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To: thames_sider who wrote (22100)8/15/2001 10:33:18 AM
From: Neocon  Respond to of 82486
 
I am only interested in some heterogeneity. If you think that the Irish and Scots and English were culturally unified because they were under the Crown, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you......



To: thames_sider who wrote (22100)8/15/2001 1:14:39 PM
From: Lazarus_Long  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 82486
 
Ah - but at the time Ireland was ruled as part of the UK
Ah - but the Irish were not at all happy with that. Not as unhappy as they would become after the Brits intentionally almost let them starve to death, but still unhappy. The Irish were a major contingent in the American revoluionary army and happily so.

The looked at the British as being - guess what - an invading colonial power.