On Sun, Mar 30, 2003 at 01:25:47PM -0500, stuart wrote:
> On Saturday, March 29, 2003, Harmon Seaver came up with this...
> HS> Yeah, too bad they don't feel the same way about Ireland. The
> HS> Irish have been trying to kick the Brits out for what, 400 years?
> HS> At least.
>
> Apparently you know nothing of the history of Britain and Ireland.
No, I do.
>
> The story of Britain and Ireland is not simply one occupying another.
> The Irish are not one mass of people, they are two: Protestant and
> Catholic. Before they became a part of the Kingdom they were Catholic.
> After, many Irish converted to Protestantism.
IIRC, the protestants aren't Irish, they are Brits, the remainder of the brit
occupying forces. The Irish were essentially slaves of the brits for centuries.
But of course, the problems really pre-date all that, going back to when the
christer Romans came and killed off the Druids and Wiccans who wouldn't bend the
knee to conversion, as they did in the rest of Europe.
(snip)
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