Very nice to hear from you, Eeyore! I'm glad things have been going well with you and your family. As to your first question-
I did think I'd answered that in my very first sentences? My people come from the West, not from the North. I have, so far as I know, no connections at all there.
As to the second, there is peace now. It's just that there is not - yet - forgiveness or understanding. And I have no idea how long it might take to achieve. One thing - have you heard about Wolfe Tone? I think many things would have been different had he been victorious. The conflict in the North, at the bottom, really wasn't religious. It was a settler-colonial conflict. That the indigenous Irish were Catholic, and the settlers largely Protestant, made the conflict that much worse, though. You're right - it's always tragic when religion is made a cause for war.
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Date: 2013-05-30 09:18 pm (UTC)I did think I'd answered that in my very first sentences? My people come from the West, not from the North. I have, so far as I know, no connections at all there.
As to the second, there is peace now. It's just that there is not - yet - forgiveness or understanding. And I have no idea how long it might take to achieve. One thing - have you heard about Wolfe Tone? I think many things would have been different had he been victorious. The conflict in the North, at the bottom, really wasn't religious. It was a settler-colonial conflict. That the indigenous Irish were Catholic, and the settlers largely Protestant, made the conflict that much worse, though. You're right - it's always tragic when religion is made a cause for war.