1845 - 1852 THE IRISH FAMINE

[TOMO 28,071]

11 minutes ago, WILF said:

Mate, it’s a national pastime…..there’s a whole museum near me devoted to it, there’s walks you can follow that trace the routes peasants took to the docks and so to the coffin ships, like a hundred mile pathways…..in a way I quiet like it that they are so connected to their history. 
 

Have a look for the big graveyard, I think it’s cork way, there’s like a whole town buried in a massive pit  in the middle of this ordinary local graveyard…..I’ll try and find what it’s called.

When you learn about it all you understand why it’s a big deal. 

Yeh of course learning the history and seeing bits of it are fascinating....but being angry about something that happend 200 year ago is silly

[scotty12 3,414]

5 minutes ago, TOMO said:

Yeh exactly...if it was now you would be f****d off...not something 200 year ago

How recently ago was the British army occupying Ireland ?  It’s no something you just forget about and shake hands and move on especially if you’ve lived in the thick of it 

[TOMO 28,071]

2 minutes ago, scotty12 said:

How recently ago was the British army occupying Ireland ?  It’s no something you just forget about and shake hands and move on especially if you’ve lived in the thick of it 

Hold on...we are talking about the tata famine....not the "troubles "...

So let's stay in context 

[WILF 49,206]

13 minutes ago, TOMO said:

Yeh of course learning the history and seeing bits of it are fascinating....but being angry about something that happend 200 year ago is silly

A million dead and a million had to emigrate…..you don’t forget that in a hurry mate 

[scotty12 3,414]

9 minutes ago, TOMO said:

Hold on...we are talking about the tata famine....not the "troubles "...

So let's stay in context 

But that’s the thing it’s all context for them you can’t just say it was a different British establishment 200 years ago and other different one 100 years ago and then another different one 20/30 years ago. No matter what happened or when it happened it all adds fuel to fire they have every right to be bitter. 
 

 

I always see the British public as the spoiled school kids the wars are always on different shores and the minute there’s any terrorist attacks in Britian the public squeal like pigs but these other countries have had to deal with this stuff day in day out on a daily and then when it’s done just to get on and forget things like it  ever happened. 

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[Pardus 1,483]

16 minutes ago, scotty12 said:

But that’s the thing it’s all context for them you can’t just say it was a different British establishment 200 years ago and other different one 100 years ago and then another different one 20/30 years ago. No matter what happened or when it happened it all adds fuel to fire they have every right to be bitter. 
 

 

I always see the British public as the spoiled school kids the wars are always on different shores and the minute there’s any terrorist attacks in Britian the public squeal like pigs but these other countries have had to deal with this stuff day in day out on a daily and then when it’s done just to get on and forget things like it  ever happened. 

Wind it in or else I'll go all Longshanks on your ass!

[Aled 550]

3 hours ago, NEWKID said:

Shane knew how to write a lyric 

Yes he did i agree i love his songs BUT  this song was written by Phillip Chevron! (The Pogues rythm guitar player) 

[NEWKID 28,136]

2 minutes ago, Aled said:

Yes he did i agree i love his songs BUT  this song was written by Phillip Chevron! (The Pogues rythm guitar player) 

Great knowledge mate, I never knew that...cheers..

[paul sr 917]

1 hour ago, WILF said:

A million dead and a million had to emigrate…..you don’t forget that in a hurry mate 

People say the British were responsible for  AN GORTA MOR .  it was the elites in Britain that were responsible, in the same the elites today  are responsible for  a lot of the problems in the world .

 

 

[Francie, 2,682]

1 hour ago, scotty12 said:

But that’s the thing it’s all context for them you can’t just say it was a different British establishment 200 years ago and other different one 100 years ago and then another different one 20/30 years ago. No matter what happened or when it happened it all adds fuel to fire they have every right to be bitter. 
 

 

I always see the British public as the spoiled school kids the wars are always on different shores and the minute there’s any terrorist attacks in Britian the public squeal like pigs but these other countries have had to deal with this stuff day in day out on a daily and then when it’s done just to get on and forget things like it  ever happened. 

There still here,no change just different name,an still bitter an predijuice to irish.

The ruc are scum,I spied them pulling up in there armoured car a while back an chatting to 9 an 10 year old waines the rats,I walked over an they seen me coming an jumped in car an drove away,the waines told me they were asking were so a so lives an asking who lives with them.

Funnily enough I was in my muckers car couple days later,an they pulled him over looking insurance etc

I noticed the wee prick who was chatting to waines an I called him up an said I seen you chatting to young children ya dodgy c**t,he tried to deny it but realised I was the boy who walked over,I said you were seen an what kinda a man are you ya weirdo chatting to young children,he tryed to get my details to swerve the topic I said hi I'm a passenger yer getting f**k all,your being watched,stay away from the children.

Accountable to no one they are

 

[Francie, 2,682]

They always try an interrogate the waines,happened before

[WILF 49,206]

1 minute ago, Francie, said:

They always try an interrogate the waines,happened before

 

3 minutes ago, Francie, said:

There still here,no change just different name,an still bitter an predijuice to irish.

The ruc are scum,I spied them pulling up in there armoured car a while back an chatting to 9 an 10 year old waines the rats,I walked over an they seen me coming an jumped in car an drove away,the waines told me they were asking were so a so lives an asking who lives with them.

Funnily enough I was in my muckers car couple days later,an they pulled him over looking insurance etc

I noticed the wee prick who was chatting to waines an I called him up an said I seen you chatting to young children ya dodgy c**t,he tried to deny it but realised I was the boy who walked over,I said you were seen an what kinda a man are you ya weirdo chatting to young children,he tryed to get my details to swerve the topic I said hi I'm a passenger yer getting f**k all,your being watched,stay away from the children.

Accountable to no one they are

 

To be fair mate, that’s not the sole preserve of the RUC, all cozzers are or used to be at that.

[Francie, 2,682]

Just now, WILF said:

 

To be fair mate, that’s not the sole preserve of the RUC, all cozzers are or used to be at that.

Wilf the young fellas collect pallets for the annual bonfire,assumption of Mary,the ruc torture them an take them of them an Harras them an even arrest some of them,even tho the pallets are given by business.

But the protestants are allowed to have a big bonfire with no bother from the ruc,they've actually took the pallets of the young fellas an put them in back of armoured land rovers an drove over the bridge to waterside an dropped them of,just sectarian scumbags

[WILF 49,206]

14 minutes ago, paul sr said:

People say the British were responsible for  AN GORTA MOR .  it was the elites in Britain that were responsible, in the same the elites today  are responsible for  a lot of the problems in the world .

 

 

As I said before mate, the history of Ireland and its relationship with England and Scotland which eventually ends up at the hunger and beyond is a brilliantly interesting subject, it ranges to Scotland and leads into the history of the clans and the border revers which I’m not that up on.

My pal @THE STIFFMEISTER has an incredible knowledge of the history of the borders and Scotland and how that led clans and warlords to Ulster…..which all ties in again.

Our shared history of these isles, for good and bad, is second to none in my opinion. 

[WILF 49,206]

2 minutes ago, Francie, said:

Wilf the young fellas collect pallets for the annual bonfire,assumption of Mary,the ruc torture them an take them of them an Harras them an even arrest some of them,even tho the pallets are given by business.

But the protestants are allowed to have a big bonfire with no bother from the ruc,they've actually took the pallets of the young fellas an put them in back of armoured land rovers an drove over the bridge to waterside an dropped them of,just sectarian scumbags

We prefer to call it liberating pallets from republican captivity pal ! lol 

Joking aside, I’m sure you’ve been seeing that all your life, I doubt it shocks you that much anymore mate.