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Thread #151520   Message #3538424
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
17-Jul-13 - 08:51 AM
Thread Name: Folklore/History: Irish Famine
Subject: RE: Folklore/History: Irish Famine
But in this case it was you complaining of the slightly complete stuff, Keith. Though you used another term for it.

There were parallels between what happened in Scotland, both with the clearances and the potato blight, and it relevant to discuss that. But the same racist contempt for the Irish was not present.

And of course it wasn't present just in Britain - refugees who survived the jorney to America found it there to meet them - here's an American cartoon in the same tone as the one from Punch