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The point again is as I said before - GET OVER IT. We have. We will never EVER trust the English but we will be good neighbours.
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Yeah, you surely do sound like it. :rolleyes:
I also wonder where you cite clearly dishonest statistics. Dishonest because you state 75 years on, 1912, the population decreased to X amount. What you failed to point out 94 years on that population has increased by perhaps a million, while the rest of the industrial worlds population has increased much more. This despite gaining independance in 1921, so in short I don't think that all of Irelands problems can be blamed on Britain. The USA for example in 1921 had a population of 108 million now it has 280 million. Britain saw an increase of 20 million, I could go on. Ireland despite being free of Britains baleful influence has not even nearly matched the growth of of most developed nations. Even Wales, which has always been very sparsely populated region doubled its population in the period of the late 19th century to the modern day, despite periods of mass emmigration during the period.
This would suggest to me that Irelands population troubles are as much due to physical geographical issues as they are to British policy towards Ireland in the mid 19th century.