tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post6324326435564128247..comments2024-03-29T11:20:48.180+00:00Comments on Rosa Rubicondior: A History of Ireland - 1. Celts, Vikings and NormansRosa Rubicondiorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-7667085712938198842012-06-26T19:18:50.436+01:002012-06-26T19:18:50.436+01:00I can understand your concern that people might le...I can understand your concern that people might learn the truth of what other sanctimonious bigots did to people in earlier times when they weren't constrained by decent humanist laws like nowadays in civilised countries.Rosa Rubicondiorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06063268216781988588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-60763748291502854652011-09-08T20:51:49.992+01:002011-09-08T20:51:49.992+01:00I can see you're a history buff Rosa. The powe...I can see you're a history buff Rosa. The power with how history is determined, is the ones telling that story. I can see why you frantically want to show history, from your perspective.D. A. N. https://www.blogger.com/profile/11745259115723860852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7583674511519808833.post-24428548498461324962011-08-29T23:49:20.148+01:002011-08-29T23:49:20.148+01:00I wonder how a map of England in 1300 would look. ...I wonder how a map of England in 1300 would look. I guess the (French) Normans would have owned a similar amount, or probably more.<br /><br />That helps me to realise that everything the English have been blamed for in Ireland was really the fault of the French all along.<br /><br />Incidentally - whatever happened in previous centuries might have been genuinely unpleasant, but the ordinary people of England suffered similar privations at the hands of their 'lords and masters'. <br /><br />I don't feel that I am personally to blame for any of it any more than I personally get the credit for the abolition of slavery. (I went to the same school as William Wilberforce.)Plasma Engineerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02891736950166421184noreply@blogger.com