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Thread #151520   Message #3728569
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
06-Aug-15 - 09:27 AM
Thread Name: Folklore/History: Irish Famine
Subject: RE: Folklore/History: Irish Famine
Jim, the Irish Times regarded the reviewer as appropriate, so what is your opinion worth?
You can not just dismiss all historians from British universities, except the ones you like.

I did not refer to the damning review anyway, just the quote of Coogan.
It must be true or Coogan would have had it taken down.

When this thread began, you refused to accept that there was any other legitimate view but yours.
You excoriated me for suggesting there was.
You raged at me for putting up a couple of quotes.

Now you can say,
"There are two views of the Irish Famine - one that it was a natural disaster in which nothing could be done and no blame can be attached - the "revisionist view you have been expounding since day one."

Your education is complete, but I never did "expound" either view.

My case was that there are two views. That not all historians agree your view.
You have now accepted it.

Moreover, both Kinealy and Coogan say that your view is a minority and long has been.

My case is more than proved.
Thank you.