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Originally Posted by Paul K
Now, while I do respect the opinions of others, that last part went a bit far. Oliver Cromwell murdered thousands of people and forced others into the poorest land in the country to make way for the british. British colonization is in fact one of the reasons for Ireland's current depraved state.
I should know, I live here.
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Yes, it was the English who stifled Ireland's economic potential in the Industrial Revolution as a peat covered basalt island fragment. If things had gone differently Ireland might have been the next Iceland or Faroes.