WI There Was No Emigration At Any Great Level From Ireland?

Maur

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I was bloody agreeing with you!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I said That killing 2,500 people (disease got the rest) is a crime and wrong and wiping out a culture is a separate and arguably worse crime and both can be placed at Britain's feet. FFS read what other people post before you comment attacking them.
Hmm. You did? Apparently not enthusiastically enough ;)

Must have been quite surprising to read my post, like totally random attack, if you were :D Oh well, i thought you were not.
 
Peat has a very low thermal value and probably isn't much use for energy production. We did have 1 coal mine at Arigna which was closed in the 1990s and it was said at the time of the closure the working conditions for the lads there were at victorian time levels !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Which is a disgusting reflection on sleeveen irish capitalism!
Sleeveen is Hiberno English for a stomach churning sly scumbag of a person!
What resources does/did ireland have vast fishing resources which were never exploited until joining the EU, when much of that resource was exchanged to placate farmers, who in the context of Ireland are usually the rednecks from hell! It's reckoned we gave up about 50 billion euros in fishing rights, and this is when 50 billion was a lot of money to join the EU.
Norwegian oil-gas experts are convinced there is oil-gas deposits deep in Irish waters which are now economicaly viable to exploit- perhaps 500 billion Euros worth.
Guarantee you, ordinary Irish workers will see no benefit from such exploitation, due to extremely high levels of corruption here. In fact one of the last exploration deals was signed off by a government minister who went on to become a justice minister and was subsequently jailed in a holiday camp prison for corruption, which apart from ending his political career had no long term consequences.
Politics as practiced here would make the old Ricky Daley blush!
My Op was on Irish emigration as a whole not just confined to the 1800s onwards, the irish particularily from the south east do go on long term fishing trips very often returning to what was called the land of fish -Newfoundland - from the 18th century for sure!
 
Without, Irish monks travelling, the spread of christianity or its retention in Europe might have been substantially different. Also Irish monks were by certain accounts the first settlers in Iceland!
Also without Irish missionaries - priests and doctors and nurses, the developing world might be in a different place right now - for better or worse, most probably worse!
BTW I was educated by Irish monks and they were for the most part grade A weirdos!
 
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