andygardener Posted December 8, 2012 Share Posted December 8, 2012 Is there an out sectarian the people who live in Ulster competition on tonight? You should be ashamed of yourselves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janie48 Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 Oh no we didn't! The problem is that some of the Irish until recently were too aware of their history and had difficulty moving on and putting the past behind them,but its a shame that so many English people are ignorant about Irish history and appear to be unaware about centuries of our Country's involvement in Ireland's history? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SevenRivers Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 Not specifically Glaswegian but their ancestors were mainly from that area of Scotland. Search for "Ulster Scots" if you want to know more details. I didn't ask where their ancestors were from. I asked if they are from Glasgow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kernal Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 The problem is that some of the Irish until recently were too aware of their history and had difficulty moving on and putting the past behind them,but its a shame that so many English people are ignorant about Irish history and appear to be unaware about centuries of our Country's involvement in Ireland's history? The potato famine has already been proven to be a conspiracy theory! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janie48 Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 The potato famine has already been proven to be a conspiracy theory! Thats ridiculous over a million people died of starvation because of the famineI believe around that number emigrated to the USA,but hundreds more died on the crossing. Where is the proof you are on about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kernal Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 Thats ridiculous over a million people died of starvation because of the famineI believe around that number emigrated to the USA,but hundreds more died on the crossing. Where is the proof you are on about? Yes, but the English were not to blame. The conspiracy was that the Irish said that they were! Nowt to do with us! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janie48 Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 Yes, but the English were not to blame. The conspiracy was that the Irish said that they were! Nowt to do with us! The English in general wern't to blame but the English ruled the whole of Ireland at the time,so when the Irish didn't get the help they needed they blamed the English,more so because of most the English ruling classes who owned the great estates in Ireland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andygardener Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 The English in general wern't to blame but the English ruled the whole of Ireland at the time,so when the Irish didn't get the help they needed they blamed the English,more so because most of the English ruling classes who owned the great estates in Ireland. Bless you, you're a good hearted decent person Janie, but the "person" you're talking to has a complete match linguistically and stylistically with our resident troll. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Focusnow Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 Yes, but the English were not to blame. The conspiracy was that the Irish said that they were! Nowt to do with us! There wasn't a famine as such. Food was still being shipped to England.. when the potato crops failed the Irish couldn't afford anything else and that's where the famine started.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
altus Posted December 9, 2012 Share Posted December 9, 2012 I didn't ask where their ancestors were from. I asked if they are from Glasgow. I was just putting taxman's comment in context in case people wondered why he said what he did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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