Paul Burke wrote... "The Irish are still in possession of most of their land..."

Paul, my Irish great grandparents had their land taken away by the British. The oppression finally drove them from their native parish to immigrate to the US in the 1880's. They grieved the loss. They did not want to leave their own country. The installed landlord was oppressive and they left to survive, but they had to give up the land their ancestors had for hundreds of years. My relatives continue to go back and visit the town we came from, grieving the loss of our native home. Millions of native Irish families were driven from Ireland and are not "still in possession" of their land.

The native Americans are still having to deal with what happened to their land, I agree, a sad legacy of broken promises.