Thanks for this important piece, JP. Horrifying that humans are still using the same awful tactics hundreds of years later. I appreciate learning more about Irish history after recently discovering my ancestors are from Ulster.
Thank you for sharing this with your readers; I had hitherto been quite unaware that Ireland had suffered more than one terrible famine.
After many centuries of conflict the Irish people have come ultimately to independence, and can govern their own country according to their wishes, being reconciled with their English neighbours who have a country of their own.
I doubt that such a reconciliation can ever happen between Israel and Palestine, where two peoples who hate each other have a claim to the same land, and both believe that the land belongs to them entirely and exclusively, and will never share it.
It is a very sad and depressing situation altogether.
This is essential reading to understand what is going on in the world today
Ultimately war is all about enriching the wealthy elite who care nothing about the general population.
Thanks for this important piece, JP. Horrifying that humans are still using the same awful tactics hundreds of years later. I appreciate learning more about Irish history after recently discovering my ancestors are from Ulster.
Thank-you for this. I didn't know about the Nine Years War.
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. Hegel got it in one!
Thank you for sharing this with your readers; I had hitherto been quite unaware that Ireland had suffered more than one terrible famine.
After many centuries of conflict the Irish people have come ultimately to independence, and can govern their own country according to their wishes, being reconciled with their English neighbours who have a country of their own.
I doubt that such a reconciliation can ever happen between Israel and Palestine, where two peoples who hate each other have a claim to the same land, and both believe that the land belongs to them entirely and exclusively, and will never share it.
It is a very sad and depressing situation altogether.
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