The Famine

[Plebian]

Many chapters of this book were deleted by the publisher so as to not cause offence and to achieve a wider circulation. Why?

The truth of the Irish Holocaust is forbidden to be disseminated. The most you get on the matter nowadays is a collection of political misfits assembling annually in commemoration of the 'hunger' in one of the most isolated places one can imagine in the aptly named STROKEStown, Co Roscommon.

This was the book that i was actually thinking of , it pulls no punches .


Ireland's welcome to the stranger ... - Google Books

[Fantasia]

This was the book that i was actually thinking of , it pulls no punches .


Ireland's welcome to the stranger ... - Google Books

It pulled no punches but pulled a number of chapters.
Irish Holocaust denial ought to be a crime.

[WTHanley]

The people just rushed at the food and threw it in their mouths? In a soup kitchen? Or a poor house? Do you have any idea of how regimented poor houses were? Nobody did any rushing at anything. And the image of Quakers being over run by starving people, before they could get the meal in their cauldrons would be comical - if it weren't for the fact that people like you actually seem to believe in these fantasical scenarios.

Cael

I wasnt there and either were you.

I was referring to a book I read 6 years ago, I dont remember the exact details.

I'm interested in information.

You've brought no information to this thread.

As for the 'people like you' comment...

the funny thing is, that there people with all sorts of extreme views on this site....extreme capitalist views, extreme socialist views, extreme right wing, extreme left wing, extreme catholic, extreme atheist....

what unites them all is the conviction that they and only they are right, and that the rest of us thicks are well....just thicks....

[Munnkeyman]

It pulled no punches but pulled a number of chapters.
Irish Holocaust denial ought to be a crime.

You should make a case to the U.N. so as not to veer too far from the topic of the thread.

[Fantasia]

You should make a case to the U.N. so as not to veer too far from the topic of the thread.

i believe in the interest of humanity that the UN should be disbanded

[Kev408]

Some entertaining stuff here from our former resident Pinko Cael.

[ruserious]

Some entertaining stuff here from our former resident Pinko Cael.

You are actually so petty that you would go away and look up this thread just to get mine zooed. Sad man.

[Kev408]

Omg, Ruserious. First of all I was only slagging you about wanting to start mega-threads. You do but there's no harm in that. Secondly, one of the biggest complaints users make is that people dont search before posting (although for newer members history topics should probably be revisited with new threads like your one). Thirdly, I was searching for the name of a book I recommended in another Famine thread so I could mention it in yours when Cael's name caught my eye. People seem to miss him so I thought newbies might like to read him.

[Kev408]

Btw the book is A History of Ireland 1800-1980 (I think it's titled) by Alvin Jackson. Great read.