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Calm down! Just because the Irish didn't have Robin Hood doesn't mean they can't have myths!

Not surprisingly, there are few contemporaneous songs about the famine. To expect songs written later to do other than reflect the folk memory is foolish. Uncritical condemnation of the "oppressor" is no different from the uncritical condemnation of the "bosses" in agitprop left-wing songs or of immigrants in the song discussed in the "BNP song" discussed in another thread.

If you want historical truth (or at least an attempt at it), study history. If you want emotional truth (warts and all) - listen to the songs.

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