Originally Posted by
Pennylane
Well i sincerely hope they are WW .. But i seem to remember an incident in Northern Ireland , not so long ago , it was the same year my little girl started school , 2001 i think it was , the Protestants would'nt let they little Catholic kids walk through their area to get to school .. But in saying that , i thought the Catholic parents were just as bad for putting their little children through a terrifying experience , when they could so easily have taken another route .
With all due respect, we are not Irish. I personally have Irish connections from the famine which is now getting on for 200 years ago. We have just discovered that part of our family date from 1557 in the Lake District. We are mixed like the rest of Liverpudlians, with Irish way down the list. I do not consider myself Irish in any way whatsoever. I have no connections with Ireland.
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That island, which most is a foreign country and not even in the British Commonwealth, has a troubled past and present. As one Irishman said to me, "the Irish have a problem with Christianity". It is not our business in Liverpool to engage in it. No more than us engaging in the problems of other countries. And although Ulster is officially in the UK, it is realistically not. Look at the politics of the place. The Labour Party is not even set up there and they are the ruling party in the UK. It is different, it is not the same as us. Ulster is a foreign country inside the UK - still a colony in effect.
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