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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (22128)	8/16/2001 6:25:16 AM
From: thames_sider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

The looked at the British as being ... an invading colonial power. As indeed we were (or had been 2-500 years earlier, anyhow). But it doesn't alter the fact that their previous nationality was British, rather than Irish; indeed there was no Irish nation as such until years later... Allegiance surely would have been Irish; but not 'citizenship'. Incidentally, my understanding of the potato famine is that it was not caused by the British, nor spread, nor intentionally exacerbated... but feel free to point me to research proving otherwise, or showing what could have been done (bearing in mind the realities of who ruled, their mindset, and their interests - the rich have rarely gone through voluntary deprivation to aid others...).