The "Irish" and "European Union" Question
Article by WN.Correspondent Dallas Darling. Even now, as some of Ireland’s leaders and the European Union are imposing harsh austerity measures on their nation, which are being met by tens of thousands of protesters and civil unrest; it is reminiscent of the “Irish Question.” Starting in the 1100′s, the English implemented a millennial age-old conquest against Ireland, taking possession of much of its fertile farmland and denying the Irish of many basic human rights. But Irish political nationalism and economic independence could not be controlled. Even the Great Hunger of the 1800′s, which one visitor described as “…six famished and ghastly skeletons, to all appearances dead, were huddled…
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