Ironic Irishman.
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tempest2003 — 18 years ago(June 22, 2007 06:17 AM)
From 1649 to 1652, one-third of the population of Ireland was destroyed.FACT!!!!!
Even English historians say, 660,000 Irish people were killed, Twenty thousand Irish boys and girls were sold into slavery to the West Indies. The Irish peasant farmers that survived were forced to pay rent to their usurpers. Once prosperous home grown industries were also destroyed because they competed with British factories.
so its all just a huge coincidence Oliver Cromwell was there between those times right??? -
Sid-Blitzen — 18 years ago(June 25, 2007 05:45 AM)
"You should be glad you're attached to us because anywhere else you would have been permanently annexed centuries before"
Er, why should we be happy about getting annexed by anyone? Irish anti-Englishness is a result of English anti-Irishness. -
aengusbrady — 18 years ago(October 05, 2007 11:07 AM)
the scatty little comments left by cromwell's descendants contained in this thread bear an echo of his deathstalk through timehe is to the Irish of that era and this, what 20th Century Europe's dictators are to vast swathes of Europe.
Britains tyrnanny was defeated and its Empire shattereda crappy Commonwealth of pomp is all the Brits have to celebrate - pathetic -
Gaodhal — 16 years ago(October 26, 2009 05:08 PM)
"Ireland should try looking at other Empire's history and then think how lucky they are to even exist. If Britain was anything like France, Russia, Germany, Turkey, etc Ireland would probably be a Bosnia."
Sorry Professor but your knowledge of history is lacking.
There are few cases in the history of imperialism in Europe to match the violence, destruction and degredation which the Irish suffered under English rule. Murder, pillage, sackings, rape, ethnic cleansing, plantation, slavery, degredation and destruction of culture and language, the introduction of religious strife which plagues Ireland to this day, penal laws, famine etc etc etc.
A record which would shame the Ottoman Turks.
Repugnant as foreign rule is we would have been better off under virtually any other country in Europe.
Compare the experience of any other ocupied nation - the Bohemians under Austrian rule or the Finns under Swedish then Russian control. Even the Greeks under Muslim Turkish domination came out of it better than Ireland.
As the most supremely arrogant and self-righteous crowd of people on the face of this planet I would never expect anything approaching a recognition of this, much less contrition, from you but the simple, plain FACTS of history will always remain unchanged.
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llareggub — 16 years ago(March 14, 2010 06:05 AM)
"Britains tyrnanny was defeated and its Empire shattereda crappy Commonwealth of pomp is all the Brits have to celebrate - pathetic"
The tyranny (Might be worth using a spellchecker if you are functionally illiterate, like most Bogtrotters) of British Democracy has been defeated by being the only standard of government to which the entire world aspires. The Empire was shattered in it's magnificent resistance to Fascism, Nazism & Japanese Militarism, all at once. Those of us in the Crappy Commonwealth are proud as punch to have stood beside The Empire from the beginning of that mighty fight for liberty. The Yanks didn't have the guts until later, the Bogtrotters never had the guts. No-one can ask Harris now, but I suspect his playing a complex character like Cromwell was the beginning of the journey that led to his renouncing the IRA after Harrod's; and realising the enormous debt the Irish, indeed the entire world owes to British governance.
I am proud to be an Aussie, but I am even more proud to be part of that great family, the Crappy British Commonwealth, the name being first used by a strange, misguided but brilliant Englishman- Oliver Cromwell. -
Ironman54 — 15 years ago(February 24, 2011 07:30 PM)
"The Yanks didn't have the guts until later"
Now you've gone too far 'roo bugger.' The Yanks' have more balls than anyone on the planet and have stuck their neck out to help weaker nations time and time again. Did you forget about Chamberlain ? Or WW I ? 'Peace in our time' wasn't exactly a call to arms now was it ? Just WTF are you talking about ?
"I am proud to be an Aussie" And I'm proud to be an American - with good reason so screw you jerk, there was no need to hit on us here.
Oh, btw, thanks for your contributionPaul Hogan, shrimp on the barbecue and the f'ing boomerang.
I'd tell ya to fly the f off on a boomerang but it would only bring you back (instead of to the Aborigines). ESAD.
No offense to the brave Aussies who fought in WWII and 'Nam - this joker has just pssed me off. -
English_Tory — 12 years ago(August 18, 2013 12:29 PM)
The Irish victimhood mentality rears its head again.
Ireland wasn't a 'occupied' nation, infact, it wasn't a 'nation' at all until Henry VIII incorporated Ireland as a kingdom in 1542. All Irish lords, whether Gael or Anglo-Norman, recognised the suzerainty of the King of Ireland, which also happened to be the King of England (and later Scotland). Please try and leave your vapid Gaelic nationalism at the door.