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mitch96

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4. "The British subjugated the Irish for over a thousand years." And were complicit in murder during the manufactured

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Fri Mar 22, 2024, 02:00 PM

Mar 2024

potato famine. Yes the potato crop suffered but there was plenty of food in Ireland.
It was just "owned" by the landed British gentry .
While people were dying, the British were exporting Irish grain, peas, beans meat and honey to England. The history shows they only cared about them self and the profits they could generate...Uff
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"The British subjugated the Irish for over a thousand years." And were complicit in murder during the manufactured mitch96 Mar 2024 #4