Like england wer in charge ov ireland for 800 years and causedThe Great Famine.
2006-09-25 06:18:29 · 23 answers · asked by rbrthynes 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Just a second - the great famine...that was 1840! Methinks are are large parts of the world that have fair reasons to hate England - but they have grown up. As we're still immersed in class, could be we hate each other even more than the current 'evils' the media spreads before us.
2006-09-25 07:10:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No. It's history now and people must move on. Yes terrible things happened in Ireland. In the 1800's there were actually three famines at a time when they were still exporting grain to England and many thousands died.
Unfortunately too few Irish people actually know the history of the 800 years. I'm sure if they did and realised the wrongs that had been committed they'd realise that peace and reconciliation is the only way forward.
2006-09-25 13:29:05 · answer #2 · answered by bob kerr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The novel "Redemption" by Leon Uris helps to explain this. The movie "Michael Collins" is also worth seeing, and is pretty much a documentary. It shows British armored cars driving into a soccer stadium and machine-gunning peaceful Irish Catholics during the game.
I don't believe that the Catholic Irish (that were persecuted and murdered by England ever since Henry the Eighth defied the Pope over his "right" to marry, divorce, and murder his wives) really HATE the English, but they are rightfully a bit leery of them. What I saw in modern Ireland was peace and relative poverty in the Catholic south and west, and threatening murals painted on the exterior walls of the Protestant terrorist "Ulster Defense Movement" meeting hall in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2006-09-25 13:44:36 · answer #3 · answered by senior citizen 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Nope...the Catholic Church has used The Famine for over 100 yrs as a means to attack the UK Govt. Why believe a bunch of child molesters? Ireland for the Irish, not the Papists!
2006-09-25 18:14:28 · answer #4 · answered by Pretorian 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
here's a couple of reasons:
1, One word OPPRESSION it goes right back to when we owned our land by right and not with his lordships permission and at his fancy to be driven out and their homes burned when they couldn't pay the tax's on the size of their Windows.
2, the famine started with a potato blight but that in its self wouldn't have been to serious but for the fact that it was our ancestors main source of food because every thing else the we were growing was being shipped of to England, game, trees for ships, our woodlands were cut down, the rivers were watched by watch towers but any way I could go on and on about it but why don't you make your own mind up read so books about the history of Ireland ( documentations) the only thing i can say for real is that I am from the north of Ireland, born and raised in south armagh I've grown up at the end of the troubles , I've seen the change in Newry town the in Crossmaglen which has a hotel in the square now! the watch towers are coming down there will always be an anger at the English for what they did but time may heal the old wounds I can't say for sure kid-o.
2006-09-25 13:56:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I thought Potato Blight caused the Famine!
2006-09-25 13:23:27 · answer #6 · answered by Martin N 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes they were treated like animals. The British would hang them for fishing when they were starving from famine. The British took the food during the famine and sold it for profit in Europe. Cromwell vowed to hang every Irishman from every tree in Ireland. He almost succeeded by didn't want to go to the west of Ireland since he didn't think the land was worth the trouble. The Irish could be hanged for fishing, hunting, speaking Gaelic, hording food,etc..It was illegal to worship except for the Kings Church. they could own no land, it was illegal to learn to read, they could own no livestock, they were tenant farmers at best and were at the whim of the British land owners and Scotch Presbyterian overseers. They and their children were often thrown out of their meager cottages in the dead of winter for failure to meet the quotas. Prior to 1921, in winter the dead were a common site lying by the sides of the roads dead of hunger and freezing weather. All they owned was the few clothes on their backs and not a scrap of food. Of my grandfather's family two wives were laid to rest and of 10 children only one survived the famine.
2006-09-25 13:48:23 · answer #7 · answered by Rja 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no why would they many Irish people live in England and vice versa. If anything the Irish have a great relationship with the british
2006-09-25 13:23:32 · answer #8 · answered by BaconBits 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's the breaks in history.
I'm of Scottish decent. And I guess I could say the same thing. My 7th g-grandfather, Angus McDonnell, came to America in 1745 because his life was on the line if he were found. But, men do things for evil reasons, but God can use them for good. Your hate is your hate and will only harm you. Let it go and live.
2006-09-25 13:23:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about having a right, but only a few of us actually do.
We hate the "idea" of England, though we are always prepared to like any likeable English person.
2006-09-25 19:37:25 · answer #10 · answered by haggesitze 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋