Ship surgeons spurned famine and convict Irish
New papers give details on life aboard emigrant ships
Published Monday, October 4, 2010, 8:15 AM
Updated Monday, October 4, 2010, 8:31 AM
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Dublinjas | Oct 05, 2010, 12:23 AM EDT
I Don't see the English doing any more harm to this Nation than the present Govt has done. There will be many many people in Ireland very grateful to Great Britain before too too long for jobs a livelihood Training and a roof over their heads, Unless of course you happen to be one of those Fireside Republican Rednecks who use terms like West Brit and who contribute to the likes of Noraid to murder innocent people in Northern Ireland and keep terrorism going for another thirty futile years, Does that sound like you Sirpeat, Did you not know that "Sir" Was an English term for a person Knighted by a Royal Personage like the Queen for example...
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Dublinjas | Oct 05, 2010, 12:00 AM EDT
And what are ya gonna do about it @Sirpeat
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sirpeter | Oct 04, 2010, 05:43 PM EDT
@DublinASS..Famine and Convict ships!! and you expect these poor and downtrodden people to behave in a normal way?
On every ship on a long journey at that time in history you had surgeons you dipstick.They were there to treat the crew as well,on such a hazardous journey.The poor in Ireland under English rule were in a pitiful state,ALL the lower class in Ireland were walking a fine line between life and death.Irish women at that time might have been ignorant due to lack of education,but they were far from stupid.As the other fool doctor Thomas s Bell said,The Irish were despondent,what did he expect on these coffin ships.Every page of English rule in Ireland is one of horrific injustice and real ignorance.Then in 2010 you read a post with the same stupidity from West Brit DublinAss and you realize they haven't gone away.Your kind are the on going blight in Ireland.
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Dublinjas | Oct 04, 2010, 02:54 PM EDT
HEH give your heads a Shake, If the English had been totally Bad and Evil why did they bother to have Surgeons onboard to tend to these so called Victims, I am sure there must have been some rare sights coming out of the Bog lolol.
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manhattan | Oct 04, 2010, 01:51 PM EDT
I dare any other nationality to compare any suffering to what the Irish famine victims suffered. Those surgeons had the same attitude of the English of that day. No compassion,total denial of what they did to that island. And when they got here to New York and Boston they found the same people in charge with the same hate for the Irish as there cousins in England. Tony Blair was the only English person in power to apologize. But it will never happen again.
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Lorcan31 | Oct 04, 2010, 11:00 AM EDT
It is shameful articles like this that will cement the English in history as one of if not the most hated people's on the planet !
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