Monday 16 July 2007

“Looking for Jimmy”

...de Catholic.org:

"The author views the potato famine as one of the greatest disasters to strike Europe in its long history. The indifference of an alien administration only added to the suffering of the poor tenant class, who died by the thousands from hunger and disease. The ancient clan system was shattered and the Gaelic language, perhaps the oldest vernacular in Europe, was abandoned."

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