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lostinstrangeworld
21-08-2008, 05:49 AM
Ok, I want to talk about Ireland
Specifically I want to talk about the "famine"
About the fact that there never really was one
There was no "famine"
See Irish people were only ALLOWED to eat potatoes
All of the other food
Meat fish vegetables
Were shipped out of the country under armed guard
To England while the Irish people starved
And then on the middle of all this
They gave us money not to teach our children Irish
And so we lost our history
And this is what I think is still hurting me
See we're like a child that's been battered
Has to drive itself out of it's head because it's fightened
Still feels all the painful feelings
But they lose contact with the memory
And this leads to massive self-destruction
Alcoholism drug action
All desperate attempts at running
And in it's worst form
Becomes actual killing
And if there ever is gonna be healing
There has to be remembering
And then grieving
So that there then can be forgiving
There has to be knowledge and understanding
An American army regulation
Says you mustn't kill more than 10% of a nation
'Cos to do so causes permanent "psychological damage"
It's not permanent but they didn't know that
Anyway during the supposed "famine"
We lost a lot more than 10% of a nation
Through deaths on land or on ships of emigration
But what finally broke us was not starvation
But it's use in the controlling of our education
School go on about "Black 47"
On and on about "The terrible "famine""
But what they don't say is in truth
There really never was one
So let's take a look shall we
The highest statistics of child abuse in the EEC
And we say we're a Christian country
But we've lost contact with our history
See we used to worship God as a mother
We're suffering from post traumatic stress disorder
Look at all our old men in the pubs
Look at all our young people on drugs
We used to worship God as a mother
Now look at what we're doing to each other
We've even made killers of ourselves
The most child-like trusting people in the Universe
And this is what's wrong with us
Our history books the parent figure lied to us
I see the Irish
As a race like a child
That got itself bashed in the face
And if there ever is gonna be healing
There has to be remembering
And then grieving
So that there then can be forgiving
There has to be knowledge and understanding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZCe8Fw8vyM

orbandsceptre27
23-08-2008, 12:10 AM
Yes, the role of the famine cannot be underestimated in Irish history. It`s impact could be felt not only on this island but much further afield (US, UK and Australia).

In my opinion, the Irish diaspora reaches as far back as "The Flight of the Earls in 1607". The exodus of the old Gaelic families (led by Hugh O`Neill and Rory O`Donnell signalled an end to the old Brehon/Celtic way of life in Ireland. After loosing "The Nine Years War" the most Gaelic province on the island, Ulster, went on to become the most Anglesised. The Plantation of Ulster was much more successful than those of Laois/Offaly and Munster, paving the way for a massive divide up north which has never fully been resolved.

The famine of the 1840`s could have been prevented. To put it into context, there was a population of eight million people on the island in 1840. Presently, in the county of Leitrim (the most sparsley populated county in the country) the population stands at a little over 20,000. Just before the famine there were over 200,000 people recorded in the census for Leitrim. The population of the island today is something close to five million. During the famine roughly one million people died of starvation and disease and one million fled the country. It is estimated that Ireland would have a population in excess of 30 million people today but for the events of the 1840`s.

You have a lovely style of writing lostinstrangeworld - perhaps you were a Gaelic bard at one time, who lamented the passing of the Gael. :)

I don`t believe anything can be gained however from focusing too much on the past, as long as we learn from it! Otherwise we continue to play the victim card. As David Icke so rightly points out, we are divine consciousness having a human experience. My Irishness always comes second to this. Irish, French, English, Scottish, Welsh, American etc. - the powers that be want to keep us divided in our thoughts, actions and how we view the world around us while they move stealthlike to bring their "order out of chaos," they`re NWO. We must acknowledge the similarities we share, instead of the differences if we want to succeed. We`re only here for a very short time...... lets make it count!

lostinstrangeworld
23-08-2008, 03:08 AM
You have a lovely style of writing lostinstrangeworld

Credit goes to Sinead O'Connor. :o

:p

orbandsceptre27
23-08-2008, 09:24 PM
I better not give up the day job just yet :o :D.

I never read the title lol, just from the first line down - should have gone to Specsavers I hear you say! I read some of your previous posts and you are quite poetic, but that`s still no excuse for not reading what was in front of me!

I`ll just put my shades on and hope no one notices me for the evening lol. :cool: :)