On the trip I was with my buddy is an Anglophile and we had a lot of debates about the English. He accused me of being too hard on them. He was also surprised by how much lingering anti-British sentiment is still in much of Ireland. It’s true the English have a lot of great culture and history. From a relatively small country to build a World spanning empire is unparalleled. That doesn’t mean we can’t ignore how they did a lot of terrible things not just what Oliver Cromwell did but things like the Opium Wars, exporting food out of Ireland even as the Irish starved, the Amritsar massacre, and to this day refusing to give back priceless antiquities to Greece and many other countries. There is a good reason why someone with ancestry from Hong Kong can find historic cause with someone with ancestry from Scotland, Ireland, Kenya, New Zealand, Jamaica etc.. to complain about the English.
At that time Ireland was a new country and had no interest in getting involved. Many Irish had been conscripted and fought and died in WWI. Thousands of Irish still volunteered to fight and help the Allies in WWII still
You mentioned irish bread yesterday or so.... If you want the easiest Irish soda bread recipe (no equipment required other than hands), I can find it and post it 1 kind of four Another kind of flour Some Guiness Oats Other stuff It's ****ing delicious....butter? cream cheese and salmon?
Are you Irish, Buck? That advice is amazing. I'll have to try it. They should use that in their ads. Do they still have ads? Anyway, the first woman in the following 137-hour YouTube video is a true patriot. I mean really, they should canonize her. Her house should be a shrine to the faithful. Seriously, you can probably smell Irish Spring from 3 miles away as you approach that house.
Technically we all do. But your sentiment didn’t seem to matter much to the English while they were ****ing with Ireland for about 800 years.
I saw that. Since I got back I’ve been dealing with CoVID (Irish COVID) and have been watching her series while stuck inside.
