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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 570055, member: 780"]
Let me see if I have this straight.
 
You wear Orange on St Pats and you really understand why the color is so offensive to the Irish and  bring up the name of the arch-enemy of Catholic Ireland. I'll give you an "A" for your knowledge of history and for sticking to your ethnic guns.  Most are clueless. But you actually get it.
 
But then you say you stroll into Coleman's to help celebrate St. Pats. Do you see the contradiction in this?
 
I guessing your intention is to just have some fun assuming that no one is serious about any of this Green vs. Orange stuff anyway. And I can sympathize with that.
 
But if you really understood the history, I don't think you'd be quite so flip. The English occupation of Ireland has been as brutal as any in history. The mass immigration of the Irish in the 18th C. was caused, they say, by the Potato Famine. And that's true. But there was plenty of other food being grown there. Guess where it was shipped to. The English literally starved the Irish to death.
 
People say that one of the problems with the US is that we don't know our own history. In Ireland, I sometimes think that history is all they know. Ask any Irish kid over 12 what the Battle of Boyne (1690) was. (Your boy, William of Orange was in it). I'll bet the kid knows.
 
As a matter of principle, I try not to offend people when I understand what I am doing.
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