• WabiSabiPapi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “…frustrated at Britain’s attempts to help Ireland during the Irish famine…”

    lol. was this written by an English aristocrat?

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      1 year ago

      It is a UK history site that open with this:

      Queen Victoria had a majestic sixty-three-year reign… (majestic despite 1-2 million irish starving to death, the majority a direct result of British government policy to use the famine to reform the Irish)

      So I don’t expect anything close to historical balance.