I too agree with you Mick but robust discussion should not contain elements of personal abuse. The angst that people feel about these horrors sometimes spills into invective.

I sometimes feel like an apologist for being English (and Welsh but mainly english) because there isn't a solitary thing I can do about the Great Hunger except say I am sorry it happened. I wasn't there, neither were my Parents or Grandparents (who were welsh in any case). This frustration at feeling accused of something most decent people find abhorrent sometimes make me very angry, not at the accuser but at the situation of having no control of events that happened before I was born. I (usually) chose not to enter the discussion arena in case this frustration spills into my posts as it did from other posters on this thread.

Don't forget but forgive.

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