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Thread #15567   Message #3419611
Posted By: GUEST
14-Oct-12 - 09:13 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Bonny Portmore
Subject: RE: Origins: Bonny Portmore
To Malcom Douglas; what i've written is not "my ideas". It's what I found on the web. So why should it be anachronistic?
Why do you call what I write as "over romanticized?
Fact is that the dutch protestant Willem III van Oranje (King Billy) got King James of his throne and dislodged the catholics out of Northern Ireland. The protestants celebrate that victory each year with their Orange marches. Only the protestant Ivan Cooper organized a demonstration to release catholics from prison in Northern Ireland.
That was Bloody Sunday in 1972,during which 14 innocent peolple died. Only in the late nineties things really calmed down. That's not over romanticized that's history.
And yes as a dutchman I feel sorry that Willem van Oranje was responsible for violence that would last untill the late nineties.
As far as that matters I feel some responsibility and was trying to add some information to the history about Bonny Portmore. Looking at your "contribution" I see none of such, only you refering to John Bartlett. Do I take offence?? NO! I can only feel sorry for you that you appearently need to write things like that, not adding anything as information, on a site like this. I wish you good luck. You need it!