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Thread #151520 Message #3546579
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
07-Aug-13 - 11:10 AM
Thread Name: Folklore/History: Irish Famine
Subject: RE: Folklore/History: Irish Famine
But nowhere, except probably Tsarist Russia, was the droit du seigneur practised more openly and brutally than in Ireland. In Ireland the landed aristocrats were backed by the English army of occupation, and enjoyed the rights of conquerors as well as the old feudal rights of great land-owning aristocrats
"army of occupation" is Tosh.
It was one nation.
Half the army was Irish.