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From: "Rick A. Francis" <>
Subject: Re: [Cork] Famine or Holocaust
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:28:55 -0500
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This is the potato famine I believe. I read and later saw on tele that the
potatoes were know to be blighted and sent directly to the Irish by the
English. Yes it was a form of *germ warfare* just as insidious as anything
we have this day. Regards, Rea Scott Allen Mason
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From: Donnacha O'Briain-De Grant <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 8:15 AM
Subject: [Cork] Famine or Holocaust


> Some time ago I was loudly criticised in this and other forums for
proposing
> the idea that the Famine was a genocide comparable to the Holocaust.
>
> Well waddya know? I now learn that this precise theme had already been
> adopted as a formal curriculm item by the New Jersey Commission on
Holocaust
> Education on September 10th, 1996, for inclusion in the Holocaust and
> Genocide Curriculum at the secondary level.
>
> Find out more at http://nde4.nde.state.ne.us/SS/irish/irish_pf.html
>
>
> Donnacha
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