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Old 11-25-2008, 03:52 PM
pgardn
 
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Originally Posted by Antitrust32
I believe the IRA vs England / Northern Ireland has more to do with England invading Ireland and basically making the population go from 8,000,000 to 1,000,000 (immigrating to the USA and dead from potato famine) and THEN England decided to keep the top part of Ireland...

Sure Irish are Catholics and English are Protestants but I dont believe the hatred is caused by the religion.
This is a long standing hatred that goes centuries back.
ONe could argue all this Protestant v. Catholic stuff goes
back to Martin Luther.
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