[Irish_Thatcherite]

I don't recall a genocide in Northern Ireland, and the Famine wasn't genocide.

Go to somewhere else if you want to defend the IRA!!

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

I remember going to a pub down near the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge a year ago and reading an item in a Irish newspaper about the "Marching season."

The thing that struck me was a passage where it discussed who would be providing security for the peaceful counter-demonstrations among Roman Catholics.

It was supposedly members of the IRA.

Is it just me, or does that sound like an extraordinarily odd way of keeping the peace?

[vladimir998]

The Irish language was banned. The Catholic faith was illegal in the early modern period. The land of natives was stolen. The native population was beaten down, robbed, starved, and deported.

Not genocide? Close enough.

Ireland's population was cut in half in the nineteenth century. Nor genocide? Yes, all of those people were not murdered or starved. Most left to escape the poverty forced on Ireland by English law and brutality.