Irish insulted in major Washington museum exhibit claims scholar

@ANGLO NORMAN ....AND I HAVE ONE WORD FOR YOU .. STOP STALKING EVERY COMMENT I POST ON HERE ... ITS GETTING VERY BORING YOU TAKING ME UP ON EVERYTHING I TYPE ... DONT YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO DO AT 2AM IN THE MORNING ?

BUT I HAVE ONE WORD FOR YOU AND THATS "THE GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT" Not only can you not figure out the capslock thing but you have turned four words into one lol

@@@@@IrishRyan | Feb 11, 2013, 11:56 PM EST MATE DONT GET YOUR 'PADDY; KNICKERS IN A TWIST DEAR :) YES IM VERY AWARE YOUR IRISH BUT I HAVE ONE WORD FOR YOU AND THATS ' GOOD FRIDAY AGREEMENT' ... YES I AM IRISH YOU SILLY MAN ... IM AS IRISH AS YOU ARE MATE AND MY HALF MY FAMILY ARE ENGLISH .. LET ME SEE WHEN YOU SIT HOME EVERYNITE DO YOU WATCH BRITISH TV ? DO YOU SHOP IN TESCO AND WHEN THERES A HUGE RECESSION LIKE WE HAVE DO YOU GO WORK IN LONDON LIKE THE MILLIONS OF OTHER IRISH INCLUDING MYSELF DID.. I LIVE IN CORK AND RIGHT NOW WE ARE 'SWAMPED WITH EASTERN EUROPEANS ..1 IN 4 POLISH NOW ON IRISH DOLE ..AND WE ARE RUN BY THE GERMANS AND BRUSSELS SO WHEN I HEAR NATIONALIST / GERRY ADAMS SEIN FEIN PEOPLE LIKE YOU .. I WANT YOU TO 'STAND UP MATE' AND PUT YOUR TIME AND ENERGY INTO WHATS HAPPENING IN 2013 AND COME OUT OF YOUR TIME WARP CAVE.. CAUSE ALL PEOPLE LIKE YOU DO IS GO ON AND ON AND ON AND ON ABOUT THE 'PAST' AND PEOPLE LIKE YOU PLAY ON AMERICANS & THEIR TIES TO THEIR PAST ANCESTARY WHICH YOU AND I KNOW MOST OF US COULDNT CARE LESS ONCE THEY COME OVER AND SPEND THEIR $$$ AND GO HOME AGAIN !!! MATE DO YOU OWN A SOUVENIR SHOP IN KILLARNEY OR DO YOU RUN A B&B UP BY SHANNON AIRPORT ;-) ..WAKE UP AND GET REAL U SILLY MAN!!

When you cap your are yelling if you can't play nice remove yourself from here

Not your son; way too old. Check your facts on the blight.

Smyrnian- I look at the facts but you call it racism, how lazy of you son.

Anglophile - your racism is getting in the way of your education and judgment. 'So called blight'? This is well known and proven. Enlighten yourself.

It's instructive to check out the catalog for this farce. There is no mention of mass murder and massacre (e.g Smerwick, Rathlin Island etc.). Instead, the catalog speaks of "scuffles'. Are these curators total nuts? The English invader slays hundreds of surrendering Irish and their allies and it is a "scuffle"? And the catalog goes on to say that the exhibition will "Investigate the political struggles of the period and the ways in which English and Irish cultures influenced each other". Utter fools. Irish culture did not influence English culture. Indeed as early as Shakespeare we can see anti-Irish racism at work. Others, such as Spenser wanted to exterminate all the Gaelic Irish. And this is what the nuts who organized this nonsense mean by Ireland "influencing" England? There is not the slightest evidence of interest on the part of English colonists in Irish culture at this time, a big contrast to the Spanish in Latin America. Let's demand that this farce be closed down now.

During that so-called blight 52% of the landlords were Irish Catholic. Why couldn't the peasants get together & fish & hunt for food? Where was the beloved Catholic Church that time? I'm sure the Vatican wasn't short of a bob that time either.

this little piece has got me more angry than almost any other piece of i have ever read.The brutality and evil of british conquest ,planting,and evil administration and attempted genocide will never be forgotten and utter crap like this rewritten propoganda should be challenged,refuted,and exposed for the fictitious lying propoganda IT IS.

this little piece has got me more angry than almost any other piece of i have ever read.The brutality and evil of british conquest ,planting,and evil administration and attempted genocide will never be forgotten and utter crap like this rewritten propoganda should be challenged,refuted,and exposed for the fictitious lying propoganda IT IS.

So Stevenstar spent a whole year in 'America' ! Clearly he has vast and wide ranging experience of American culture ascacresult.He does not even understand that 'America' (by which I assume he means the U.S.) is not a homogenous society hence people's ethnic background lies in another country hence the affiliation with Ireland, Italy, Germany etc. a great many Americans grew up with their grandparents language, cooking, social norms etc. which they naturally identify with. Get a life and an education Stevenstar. I am Irish born and live in the US and you are very wrong.

StevenStar and the British might not "get on like a house on fire" if he were to make a visit to the Folger Library. Folger Library staff are the caretakers -- a lot like high priests -- of invaluable historical British manuscripts. These cultural artifacts are precious to them. People who say that Americans have no appreciation for past cultures have never met an American librarian. Don't expect any accurate cultural memory or historical criticism from the Folger Library. What they do is more like worship.

Stevenstar, your not Irish, anyone with half a brain would say your actually either a british loyalist pretending to be irish or your justt a west brit of some sort but anyway stevestar, i AM irish and i say to you to keep YOUR NOSE out of irish affairs. Americans, especially Irish Americans has been irelands only one and true friend through the centuries and our cousins in america are more than welcome in ireland, so stevenstar, keep your nose out of Irish-American affairs. As for this article, this is sickening, i've done alot of studying into history and without a doubt the TRUE and ACCURATE picture of irish-british history must be painted because the british must be held accountable for their crimes, not only in ireland but in other places too. Im not "backward" or looking back into the past but rewriting history is something which should never be done, the british have to be seen for what they are and what they are are what they themselves opted to make themselves, no one esle. The "Irish Famine" for example, is a lie, it wasnt a famine, it was a Genocide. Only one crop failed and that was the potato which the irish were reduced to living on soley for centuries due to, once again, the british.

More devilish misinformation from the Anglo-American empire, nothing new here, really. Once again, IrishCentral.com has used the word "Famine" to describe the period in the 19th Century when Ireland was rich in grain, meats, fish, vegetables, dairy, etc...that's far from a "famine." Shameful speak. And to the blighter who's talking trash about culture in America in comments below, please do visit the City of New Orleans, and you will perhaps change your tune, for while there are many violent, ignorant, and despicable people in the USA, the same is true of all places, it seems to me. Peace, and come to New Orleans sometime, and you'll see yerself some culture, that's for sure. (And there's good eats at The Irish House on St. Charles, too).