Quote Originally Posted by MMI View Post
Thank-you, den. I think this survey of Irish history confirms the assertions I have made that the Irish have always been the cause of their own problems (with a couple of exceptions in 16th/17th centuries) and it fell to Britain to keep the different factions apart.
Amazing. I often wondered exactly what the term "invincible ignorance" meant, and now I have a perfect example. Anyone who can read a fifteen-hundred-year catalogue of invasions and oppressions and conclude that it was all the victim's fault is totally impervious to facts.

To mention only one example, did you miss the point that the reason there are "different factions" in Northern Ireland is because we put them there?

(I'm reminded of the character who declared in all seriousness that the Troubles could be solved if the Irish Catholics would only "go back where they came from.")