Problems with the British also added to the impetus for Irish to emigrate, didn’t they?
I’m a sentimental sort I know, but I get tears when I remember the lyrics “Then I spoke to Napper Tandy, and he tuk me by the hand, ‘Must we ask a mother’s welcome of a strange but happy land? Where the power of England’s thralldom never shall be seen, and where in peace we’ll live and die, a wearing of the green.’”
Obviously speaking of America...
The gospel is what made it possible for America and now America has dropped the gospel on the floor. This cannot bode well. A society of mutual blessing is going to morph into one of mutual resentment.
No I am not Irish, I am of mixed Jewish and English background, the English side having rednecks in it.
Yes, Britain wanted the land for pastures and had to drive the people off (exporting crops from Ireland while the population starved). I can appreciate the English language passed down from the British (passed down to them from Germany/Saxons); in the end they went from dominating the world to playing second fiddle in the EU.
The US has certainly lost its way; now it is a low-rent imitation of European post-Christian liberalism (with high unemployment & taxes, low birthrate, mass immigration, and an entitled population)...