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Re: HELP NEEDED SUSTAINABLE LIVING IN IRELAND



On 26 Nov 1996 12:37:04 GMT, jcallan@tcd.ie (John Callan) wrote:


>Please, before insulting Irish people about the causes of the famine, do a
>little informed reading on the subject. It sickens me to think that there
>are people out there who believe that so many of my ancestors and
>compatriots left this country in the mid 19th century on the so-called
>'coffin ships' to a frightening, and mainly unforgiving place, simply
>because they were too lazy to incorporate different agricultural methods
>to feed themselves. Would you call the famine-stricken Ethiopians of the
>early 80's 'lazy'? Please be more aware of people's sensitivities in the
>future.

This is the purest invention.  There is no reference to or even
suggestion of "laziness" in any of my posts.  Nor is there any
suggestion of anything but sympathy for the victims of the potato
famine.  My only point was that it was an unproductive technology.
 
Everything els that people are attacking here is in the minds of the
attackers -- as can easily be seen by scrollig back to my posts,
immediately above.
 
                                                        -dlj.
 




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