Maybe they were too busy boiling the spuds.
we now import spuds?????????????????????????????????????????
Westside.
I didn't attend either
They should not be invited ..
It would be like a murderer being invited to his victims anniversary mass...
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
Oscar Wilde
One of the first to help where in fact English ie the Quakers,we didnt help ourselves ,large beef and grain farmers where still exporting right throughout the famine ,it wasn't just the English that where following the"laissez faire" model of economics,lets stop looking back with green tinted glasses
a thousand kisses deep..
There was no need for anybody go hungry when you could beat a sheep to death and then eat it.....................the problem was that our ancestors were more interested in shagging the poor beasts than eating them.
Not too complimentary a remark there mate, but hey , a smart move would be to kill 2 birds with one stone and shag em to death then eat them.
(re :ancestors , are you confusing the Irish with the Welsh by any chance?)
Who gives a fuck about a famine that happened in the 1800's.
Mary Mac a lease + a minister is in NYC on a four day jolly to commemorate the "Famine".
You can be assured that they will be very well taken care off by our American cousins.
If she concentrated on the people who are actually alive in Ireland at the moment on the dole who are finding it hard to run a house and feed their nippers today than people who are dead 150 years it would be time and money better spent.