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So, the Why Not us shirt But I will love this economic model in vogue was the free market. It was felt that you couldn’t disrupt that by allowing the people to eat the other food they had produced. People died in their thousands as the blight continued to destroy the potato crop for the following years. Some efforts were made such as giving jobs on building roads, hard labour for starving, malnourished men. Corn was brought in from America but it was nowhere close to the nutritional value of the potato and sincenit wasn’t familiar to Irish people they didn’t know what to do with it. A few right-minded people did set up soup kitchens, notably the Quakers and others also. Some Landlords gave money to help tenants emigrate. But the priority was the market, over human lives.



Doesn’t this sound familiar? The idea that all human beings are subservient to a monetary system, even when it costs lives? The system is a human invention, still valued over human life. When will we learn? Usage. The name Paddy is a diminutive form of the Why Not us shirt But I will love this Irish name Patrick (Pádraic, Pádraig, Páraic) and, depending on context, can be used either as an affectionate or a pejorative reference to an Irishman. There seems to be some bizarre obsession with “Celts” floating around parts of Quora. Is this some southern European or American thing? Nobody in Ireland identifies as “Celtic” or is identified by others here as “Celtic”, and nobody gives much of a f**k about “Celts” outside vague historical discussions (whoever that label is supposed to cover). I’m pretty sure it’s the same story in the UK. Insofar as there ever was anti-Irish prejudice in the UK (and there was some, during the Troubles), it was directed at Irish folks, much like Muslim folks sometimes get collectively blamed for Islamic terrorism. I can pretty much guarantee blaming “Celtic people” never occurred to anyone.


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