Our Government and Governments around the world, do not speak for the ordinary working people, they never have, it's a false myth.
Governments have always been pandering to groups that have the influence and cash.
Sooner we realise that if you don't have a million or billion in your bank account, you will not be taken seriously. Power and influence have it and you can join the club. Well the rest if you can get screwed.
Well i am proud to be Irish. Every nation has individuals who will screw over the next man/ or women to get ahead. Every Country on the planet has a good bad miserable history. At the end of the day. I'm proud of my heritage and what it has achieved and not achieved. When i see wrongs, i will declare it as a wrongdoing. As for British occupation. Well my uncle was killed in a conflict for being a catholic. I'd hold no ill feelings towards the British state for his killing. The conflict that once was, an internal matter between different peoples with different backgrounds and opposing religions and the British wanted out and they couldn't. They are stuck and probably will never leave Northern Ireland ever.
As for the famine.The British Empire has Blood on it's hands. We are not alone other nations suffered under the control of the British Empire. The British have been thought a different History to us, and it more and likely British schools do not teach or tell of wrongdoings that have happened. That is life.
England today is a different nation then it once was.We have mutual respect today. Which never existed before. The famine was a terrible and even though i say that. America, England, Australia and other nations have gained from the influx of the Irish during that time.Some of the greatest people that have lived have Irish Backgrounds. There would have been no band called the Beatles had John Lennon or Paul McCarthy ancestors not left Ireland to set up home in England. It's has been said that more the half the population of Liverpool have Irish roots.
What a misery if that never happened.
People might have disdain or like for Che Cuevara the Argentine Marxist revolutionary. The little known fact is his father had Irish roots and his father name was Ernesto Guevara Lynch. I could speak to more people. The Irish do have a terrible history, but I'm of the believe those people who left our island long ago left through misery and tragedy. Created History in other countries.
