To put paid to your attempts to smear those of us who blame Britain - this is my note on the song, John Mitchel, for the CD, 'From Puck to Appleby - written about nine years ago.
It makes quite clear my views on Mitchel's hypocrisy.

"Mitchel, an Irish revolutionary, was a strong advocate of a peasant led rebellion to establish independence for Ireland. In 1848, he was found guilty of treason by a "loaded" jury, and sentenced to fourteen years transportation to Australia. Five years later he escaped from Tasmania and managed to make his way to America. Ironically, while there he became a leading supporter of slavery and the southern cause. He returned to Ireland in 1875, where he became Member of Parliament for Co. Tipperary.
We also recorded this from Wexford Traveller 'Pop's 'Johnny Connors who says he first heard it as "The Convict's Chain" played on the pipes by his grand-uncle Johnny Doran, the legendary travelling piper"

Very interesting posting pdq, though I'm not sure of its relevance.
I trust you are not attempting to show the brutal inhumanity of shipping out weak and ill famine victims to a place unable to cope with them
Jim Carroll