Well I'm glad we are agreed - I exhausted myself typing all that because I rarely get all wound up enough to vent my thoughts lol!
By the way ... just for the record ... The Irish Problem WAS a Catholic -v- Protestant situation. The English did, indeed, invade Ireland but there were already Protestants and Catholics there. The English were called into Ireland by the Protestants who lived there.
What happened was that Catholics had their land (if they owned any) taken from them and as such weren't allowed to vote in any elections and couldn't alter the 'regime'. So that it DID become political.
Don't quote me chapter and verse on this lol. I would have to go back and check my facts, but I think that is basically the history.
My mother's side of the family are Irish - I was brought up with Rebel songs and tales of the English 'Black & Tans' (Victorian days) murdering the Catholics and sharing the land out to the Protestants etc.
Well I'm glad we are agreed - I exhausted myself typing all that because I rarely get all wound up enough to vent my thoughts lol!
By the way ... just for the record ... The Irish Problem WAS a Catholic -v- Protestant situation. The English did, indeed, invade Ireland but there were already Protestants and Catholics there. The English were called into Ireland by the Protestants who lived there.
What happened was that Catholics had their land (if they owned any) taken from them and as such weren't allowed to vote in any elections and couldn't alter the 'regime'. So that it DID become political.
Don't quote me chapter and verse on this lol. I would have to go back and check my facts, but I think that is basically the history.
My mother's side of the family are Irish - I was brought up with Rebel songs and tales of the English 'Black & Tans' (Victorian days) murdering the Catholics and sharing the land out to the Protestants etc.