Think we're finished here Ter....
We really have been here a thousand times before - I'm not interested in reopening it with you

"is similar to comments I have heard from rich people in fundamentalist churches "
Trevelyan was a religious fundamentalist but his appointment gave Government blessing to is inhumanity
Large numbers of Irish people have always referred to The Famine as Ireland's Holocaust - the revelations rising from the awakened history after the 10th anniversary indicate that there is a foundation for that belief
Trevelyan's letter in full, (a large missal sent in two parts) was reproduced in Tim Pat Coogan's 'The Famine Plot' - a depressing and anger-making read but one of the most important ones of the deluge of works produced at the time.
Another religion-connected issue he dealt with was the 'Soupers' the Protestant schools that doled out food to starving children in exchange for them renouncing their religion
I can see one from our back window, referred to o - now in use for selling used cars and repairing punctures - never sure if there's a symbolic significance in that
Jim Caarroll