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From: "Rick A. Francis" <>
Subject: Re: [Cork] Famine or Holocaust
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 20:34:07 -0500
References: <F221xtniFKULPEhGD1X000005d1@hotmail.com>


Molly, That is your opinion and I would fight for you to have the right to
it. I also have mine as many others hold to same opinion as I. Regards,
Rea Nonsense is not a fact. It is an emotional rebuttal.
----- Original Message -----
From: Molly Harrington <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 12:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Cork] Famine or Holocaust


> All due respect Mr. Francis, but this is utter nonsense. The potatos were
> brought from the States, and the crop was introduced to most of Europe
> including England. The potatos in England and the rest of Europe suffered
> the same fate as the potatos in Ireland. The reason the
> impact was greater in Ireland, is that the tenant farmers and their
families
> depended almost entirely on the potato crop for subsistence.
> This was an unforseen complication of tenant famers subdividing their
meager
> land holdings. In the matter of the famine, the English government can be
> accused of bigotry, incompetence, and gross neglect ... but genocide is
> taking things to a ridiculous extreme.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Molly Harrington
>
>
> >From: "Rick A. Francis" <>
> >Reply-To: "Rick A. Francis" <>
> >To:
> >Subject: Re: [Cork] Famine or Holocaust
> >Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 11:32:36 -0500
> >
> >Adition: And it was directly intended for a *genicide* result. This
is
> >known by all scholars of the times. Rea
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: Rick A. Francis <>
> >To: <>
> >Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 11:28 AM
> >Subject: Re: [Cork] Famine or Holocaust
> >
> >
> > > 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
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > 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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