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Subject: Re: [S-I] Black-Irish
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 02:55:51 +0000 (UTC)
In-Reply-To: <016601c9eed9$700b4330$0302a8c0@Annandale>


>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Cliff. Johnston" <>
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>Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 7:23:19 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
>Subject: Re: [S-I] Black-Irish

>Aye, you can trust an Irishman/woman about Irish history, but you have to
>check all sources on Scots history as too many modern Scots have been fed a
>drivel of English-slanted history for far too long... ;-)

Amen!!

If you dig below the surface apparently the version of Irish history taught by the Christian Brothers is not too well respected either. Of course the cherry tree story (George Washington) apparently never happened either. You go to college to unlearn everything they taught you wrong in school....doesn't seem sensible to me.

Linda Merle

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