Ireland - for beachpsalms

[megglesmcgoo]

What a week to be writing about Ireland? Three people needlessly killed for this dreadful word once again in the North. It was like time-travelling back to my childood except that the news didn't wash over me as the then almost daily occurence did. And I felt a great, great anger at those people who gave me a childhood filled with reports of

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[garpu]

Hm, interesting...I guess I'm starting to see the US as deeply flawed, but I'm not sure there's enough of a critical mass to fix what's broken. During the last months, there was still 23% of the population who thought Bush was doing a good job, for instance. I wish I could talk to my family, who left that part of the world to see what their reasons were for leaving in the first place.

[megglesmcgoo]

Poverty

[garpu]

True...

[beachpsalms]

I read Derek Lundy's book on (Northern) Ireland last year, and he wrote from an Irish/Canadian perspective (family and occasional residency in both places) - it was hugely eye opening for me.

One of the things I noticed, were how so many of the place names I recognized, because they are the names of the towns and villages around me in Ontario. And it gave me the context for the emigration here.

The shooting this week was awful. And thank God it is no longer a daily occurence.

[megglesmcgoo]

Yeah don't you live in Listowel or something like that? Canada would be a place that had a lot of working-class Protestant immigrants, like the North, so the name structure makes sense.