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		<title>By: Grzegorz Kolodziej</title>
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		<dc:creator>Grzegorz Kolodziej</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2016 13:57:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought that the Wicklow accent was the most intelligent sounding accent in Ireland because every sentence is a question ;-)

When performed by a group of teenage boys, it is also the most irritating for the same reason, especially when trapped on a bus stop with them.  

The most beautiful Irish accent? How can it be other than Donegal? It&#039;s also the easiest to put on, while Kildare, for a change, is so difficult to put on because it is so flat - a Kildare guy who had lived in London for decades told me that Kildare people lose their accents in London the fastest - do not know if that&#039;s true, but I cannot imagine an adult Cork person losing his accent any time soon).

A girl called MegsMcCafferty twitted (on September 26, 2014):

&quot;I wish I could hear my Donegal accent so I could get why everyone loves it so much&quot;

lol]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I thought that the Wicklow accent was the most intelligent sounding accent in Ireland because every sentence is a question ;-)</p>
<p>When performed by a group of teenage boys, it is also the most irritating for the same reason, especially when trapped on a bus stop with them.  </p>
<p>The most beautiful Irish accent? How can it be other than Donegal? It&#8217;s also the easiest to put on, while Kildare, for a change, is so difficult to put on because it is so flat &#8211; a Kildare guy who had lived in London for decades told me that Kildare people lose their accents in London the fastest &#8211; do not know if that&#8217;s true, but I cannot imagine an adult Cork person losing his accent any time soon).</p>
<p>A girl called MegsMcCafferty twitted (on September 26, 2014):</p>
<p>&#8220;I wish I could hear my Donegal accent so I could get why everyone loves it so much&#8221;</p>
<p>lol</p>
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		<title>By: Truthist</title>
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		<dc:creator>Truthist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2016 07:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank u Deco.

It was from www.henrymakow.com that I first learned of Edward Bernays.

Why don&#039;t u write a book specifically on &quot;The Institutional State of The Irish State&quot; ?

It should sell like hot cakes.

Warning ; Do not approach a City Partnership or Enterprise Board or Enterprise Ireland if u have an idea of real merit ;
incl.
Expose on &quot;The Institutional State of The Irish State&quot;
[ I.S.I.S. ( Real ; Not the False Flag creation of N.A.T.O. ]
or
[ I.S.T.I.S. ( Lest the False Flag Proxy be aggrieved at ur breach of their Copyright ]
[

Internet Blog will always be more ephemeral than the book.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank u Deco.</p>
<p>It was from <a href="http://www.henrymakow.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.henrymakow.com</a> that I first learned of Edward Bernays.</p>
<p>Why don&#8217;t u write a book specifically on &#8220;The Institutional State of The Irish State&#8221; ?</p>
<p>It should sell like hot cakes.</p>
<p>Warning ; Do not approach a City Partnership or Enterprise Board or Enterprise Ireland if u have an idea of real merit ;<br />
incl.<br />
Expose on &#8220;The Institutional State of The Irish State&#8221;<br />
[ I.S.I.S. ( Real ; Not the False Flag creation of N.A.T.O. ]<br />
or<br />
[ I.S.T.I.S. ( Lest the False Flag Proxy be aggrieved at ur breach of their Copyright ]<br />
[</p>
<p>Internet Blog will always be more ephemeral than the book.</p>
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		<title>By: Truthist</title>
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		<dc:creator>Truthist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2016 06:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Adam,

I very much enjoyed learning of ur soccer career in Hungary.

Have u an explanation why Hungary &amp; so many other southern European nations try to play soccer more artistically than the Irish ?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Adam,</p>
<p>I very much enjoyed learning of ur soccer career in Hungary.</p>
<p>Have u an explanation why Hungary &amp; so many other southern European nations try to play soccer more artistically than the Irish ?</p>
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		<title>By: Truthist</title>
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		<dc:creator>Truthist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2016 06:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Very notable about &quot;wild child&quot; &quot;out-spoken&quot; etc. Geldof is that he was very meek when he went to the special place that gets out the deckchairs &amp; wine &amp; eateries for to enjoy the &quot;mowing of the lawn&quot; on the pretext of what the special place&#039;s controlled opposition did ;
&quot;By Deception so shall they make War&quot;.

http://www.inminds.com/article.php?id=10546

But, Geldof is always totally disrespectful to the totally benign creed of the majority of Irish.
Geldof is disingenuous.
And, he has feathered his own nest with ablomb.

Peruse the Links from the following search terms inserted into Google ;
geldof AND the money from live aid

https://www.google.co.th/?gws_rd=cr&amp;ei=KwcCV6DQG46hugScjqvQDA#q=geldof+AND+the+money+from+live+aid

Another individual on the same sectarian agenda is actor &amp; the stupid-person&#039;s favorite notion of an intellectual ; Stephen Fry.
A celebrity whom RTE no doubt has paid handsomely for his interviews where he then insults the license payers.
Have a look at what thecolemanexperience.wordpress.com has to say about the bould Stephen Fry.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Very notable about &#8220;wild child&#8221; &#8220;out-spoken&#8221; etc. Geldof is that he was very meek when he went to the special place that gets out the deckchairs &amp; wine &amp; eateries for to enjoy the &#8220;mowing of the lawn&#8221; on the pretext of what the special place&#8217;s controlled opposition did ;<br />
&#8220;By Deception so shall they make War&#8221;.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.inminds.com/article.php?id=10546" rel="nofollow">http://www.inminds.com/article.php?id=10546</a></p>
<p>But, Geldof is always totally disrespectful to the totally benign creed of the majority of Irish.<br />
Geldof is disingenuous.<br />
And, he has feathered his own nest with ablomb.</p>
<p>Peruse the Links from the following search terms inserted into Google ;<br />
geldof AND the money from live aid</p>
<p><a href="https://www.google.co.th/?gws_rd=cr&#038;ei=KwcCV6DQG46hugScjqvQDA#q=geldof+AND+the+money+from+live+aid" rel="nofollow">https://www.google.co.th/?gws_rd=cr&#038;ei=KwcCV6DQG46hugScjqvQDA#q=geldof+AND+the+money+from+live+aid</a></p>
<p>Another individual on the same sectarian agenda is actor &amp; the stupid-person&#8217;s favorite notion of an intellectual ; Stephen Fry.<br />
A celebrity whom RTE no doubt has paid handsomely for his interviews where he then insults the license payers.<br />
Have a look at what thecolemanexperience.wordpress.com has to say about the bould Stephen Fry.</p>
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		<title>By: Truthist</title>
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		<dc:creator>Truthist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2016 05:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is much more to Geldof than the MSM tell us.
And, Geldof does not play with an honest deck.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is much more to Geldof than the MSM tell us.<br />
And, Geldof does not play with an honest deck.</p>
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		<title>By: Adam Byrne</title>
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		<dc:creator>Adam Byrne</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2016 01:25:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Geldof doesn&#039;t know his arse from from his elbow. Total bluffer.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Geldof doesn&#8217;t know his arse from from his elbow. Total bluffer.</p>
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		<title>By: Tony Brogan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tony Brogan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2016 00:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[the English official and renowned poet Edmund Spenser wrote &quot;They are all papists by profession but in the same so blindingly and brutishly informed that you would rather think them atheists or infidels&quot;. In a &quot;Brief Note on Ireland,&quot; Spenser argued that &quot;Great force must be the instrument but famine must be the means, for till Ireland be famished it cannot be subdued. . . There can be no conformitie of government whereis no conformitie of religion. . . There can be no sounde agreement betwene twoe equall contraries viz: the English and Irish&quot;

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Irish_sentiment]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>the English official and renowned poet Edmund Spenser wrote &#8220;They are all papists by profession but in the same so blindingly and brutishly informed that you would rather think them atheists or infidels&#8221;. In a &#8220;Brief Note on Ireland,&#8221; Spenser argued that &#8220;Great force must be the instrument but famine must be the means, for till Ireland be famished it cannot be subdued. . . There can be no conformitie of government whereis no conformitie of religion. . . There can be no sounde agreement betwene twoe equall contraries viz: the English and Irish&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Irish_sentiment" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Irish_sentiment</a></p>
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		<title>By: joe hack</title>
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		<dc:creator>joe hack</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2016 00:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There must still be a hangover of Stockholm syndrome in black rock college. Today we get  murdocks mate Geldof comparing ISIS with Pearse and Co. Then I came across the above by William&#039;s  thanks for invading killing,  starving and raping the Irish.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There must still be a hangover of Stockholm syndrome in black rock college. Today we get  murdocks mate Geldof comparing ISIS with Pearse and Co. Then I came across the above by William&#8217;s  thanks for invading killing,  starving and raping the Irish.</p>
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		<title>By: Tony Brogan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tony Brogan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2016 23:47:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How does one gain self respect if foisted with this attitude.

Along with his Victorian themes, Kingsley also projected Victorian attitudes about race. Indeed, he once wrote to his wife, describing a visit to Ireland, &quot;I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles of horrible country. I don&#039;t believe they are our fault. I believe there are not only many of them than of old, but they are happier, better, more comfortably fed and lodged under our rule than they ever were. But to see white chimpanzees is dreadful; if they were black, one would not feel it so much, but their skins, except where tanned by exposure, are as white as ours.&quot;[4]

Westward Ho!--Charles Kingsley]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>How does one gain self respect if foisted with this attitude.</p>
<p>Along with his Victorian themes, Kingsley also projected Victorian attitudes about race. Indeed, he once wrote to his wife, describing a visit to Ireland, &#8220;I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw along that hundred miles of horrible country. I don&#8217;t believe they are our fault. I believe there are not only many of them than of old, but they are happier, better, more comfortably fed and lodged under our rule than they ever were. But to see white chimpanzees is dreadful; if they were black, one would not feel it so much, but their skins, except where tanned by exposure, are as white as ours.&#8221;[4]</p>
<p>Westward Ho!&#8211;Charles Kingsley</p>
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		<title>By: Tony Brogan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tony Brogan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Apr 2016 23:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1os231/why_did_the_british_treat_the_irish_so_badly/

Malone. … My father died of starvation in Ireland in the black ’47. Maybe you heard of it?
Violet. The Famine!
Malone (with smouldering passion) No, the Starvation. When a country is full of food, and exporting it, there can be no famine. Me father was starved dead; and I was starved out to America in me mother’s arms. English rule drove me and mine out of Ireland . …

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903)

Comments of the Duke of Wellington (1830)

Politicians were well aware of the underlying causes though they did nothing to tackle them. For example, on 7 July 1830 the Duke of Wellington wrote:

I confess that the annually recurring starvation in Ireland, for a period differing, according to the goodness or badness of the season, from one week to three months, gives me more uneasiness than any other evil existing in the United Kingdom.

It is starvation, because it is the fact that, although there is an abundance of provisions in the country of a superior kind, and at a cheaper rate than the same can be bought in any other part of Her Majesty’s dominions, those who want in the midst of plenty cannot get, because they do not possess even the small sum of money necessary to buy a supply of food.

It occurs every year, for that period of time that elapses between the final consumption of one year’s crop of potatoes, and the coming of the crop of the following year, and it is long or short, according as the previous season has been bad or good.

Now when this misfortune occurs, there is no relief or mitigation, excepting a recourse to public money. The proprietors of the country, those who ought to think for the people, to foresee this misfortune, and to provide beforehand a remedy for it, are amusing themselves in the Clubs in London, in Cheltenham, or Bath, or on the Continent, and the Government are made responsible for the evil, and they must find the remedy for it where they can—anywhere excepting in the pockets of Irish Gentlemen.

Then, if they give public money to provide a remedy for this distress, it is applied to all purposes excepting the one for which it is given; and more particularly to that one, viz. the payment of arrears of an exorbitant rent.

However, we must expect that this evil will continue, and will increase as the population will increase, and the chances of a serious evil, such as the loss of a large number of persons by famine, will be greater in proportion to the numbers existing in Ireland in the state in which we know that the great body of the people are living at this moment. [Wellington to Northumberland, 7 July 1830, in Despatches, vii 111–2; repr. in P. S. O’Hegarty, A history of Ireland under the Union (London 1952) 291–2]

The political culture of the time encouraged philanthropy, and charitable organisations were founded in Britain to help the Irish poor, whose miserable plight was described by writers and travellers such as Walter Scott (1771–1832), Gustave de Beaumont (1802–66), J. G. Kohl (1808–78, a German geographer and traveller, writing in 1843) and Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59, a French traveller and political analyst, writing of his visit to Ireland in 1835). Above all, Irish landlords were exhorted to do their duty by the poor. Some did, and spent substantial sums of money to help distressed areas. Many did not.

The Government’s reaction to the crisis was slow. Food continued to be exported from Ireland and arrangements for the importation of other foods were not effective. Rev. Dr McEvoy, parish priest of Kells, wrote in October 1845:

On my most minute personal inspection of the potato crop in this most fertile potato-growing locale is founded my inexpressibly painful conviction that one family in twenty of the people will not have a single potato left on Christmas day next. Many are the fields I have examined and testimony the most solemn can I tender, that in the great bulk of those fields all the potatoes sizable enough to be sent to table are irreparably damaged, while for the remaining comparatively sounder fields very little hopes are entertained in consequence of the daily rapid development of the deplorable disease. With starvation at our doors, grimly staring us, vessels laden with our sole hopes of existence, our provisions, are hourly wafted from our every port. From one milling establishment I have last night seen not less than fifty dray loads of meal moving on to Drogheda, thence to go to feed the foreigner, leaving starvation and death the sure and certain fate of the toil and sweat that raised this food. For their respective inhabitants England, Holland, Scotland, Germany, are taking early the necessary precautions—getting provisions from every possible part of the globe; and I ask are Irishmen alone unworthy the sympathies of a paternal gentry or a paternal Government? Let Irishmen themselves take heed before the provisions are gone. Let those, too, who have sheep, and oxen, and haggards. Self-preservation is the first law of nature. The right of the starving to try and sustain existence is a right far and away paramount to every right that property confers. … [The Nation, 25 October 1845; repr. in P. S. O’Hegarty, A history of Ireland under the Union (London 1952) 293]

The English did not look after the Irish and the Irish did not look after their own. It was every man for himself and by the sounds of it, it still is. Sad.]]></description>
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<p>Malone. … My father died of starvation in Ireland in the black ’47. Maybe you heard of it?<br />
Violet. The Famine!<br />
Malone (with smouldering passion) No, the Starvation. When a country is full of food, and exporting it, there can be no famine. Me father was starved dead; and I was starved out to America in me mother’s arms. English rule drove me and mine out of Ireland . …</p>
<p>George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903)</p>
<p>Comments of the Duke of Wellington (1830)</p>
<p>Politicians were well aware of the underlying causes though they did nothing to tackle them. For example, on 7 July 1830 the Duke of Wellington wrote:</p>
<p>I confess that the annually recurring starvation in Ireland, for a period differing, according to the goodness or badness of the season, from one week to three months, gives me more uneasiness than any other evil existing in the United Kingdom.</p>
<p>It is starvation, because it is the fact that, although there is an abundance of provisions in the country of a superior kind, and at a cheaper rate than the same can be bought in any other part of Her Majesty’s dominions, those who want in the midst of plenty cannot get, because they do not possess even the small sum of money necessary to buy a supply of food.</p>
<p>It occurs every year, for that period of time that elapses between the final consumption of one year’s crop of potatoes, and the coming of the crop of the following year, and it is long or short, according as the previous season has been bad or good.</p>
<p>Now when this misfortune occurs, there is no relief or mitigation, excepting a recourse to public money. The proprietors of the country, those who ought to think for the people, to foresee this misfortune, and to provide beforehand a remedy for it, are amusing themselves in the Clubs in London, in Cheltenham, or Bath, or on the Continent, and the Government are made responsible for the evil, and they must find the remedy for it where they can—anywhere excepting in the pockets of Irish Gentlemen.</p>
<p>Then, if they give public money to provide a remedy for this distress, it is applied to all purposes excepting the one for which it is given; and more particularly to that one, viz. the payment of arrears of an exorbitant rent.</p>
<p>However, we must expect that this evil will continue, and will increase as the population will increase, and the chances of a serious evil, such as the loss of a large number of persons by famine, will be greater in proportion to the numbers existing in Ireland in the state in which we know that the great body of the people are living at this moment. [Wellington to Northumberland, 7 July 1830, in Despatches, vii 111–2; repr. in P. S. O’Hegarty, A history of Ireland under the Union (London 1952) 291–2]</p>
<p>The political culture of the time encouraged philanthropy, and charitable organisations were founded in Britain to help the Irish poor, whose miserable plight was described by writers and travellers such as Walter Scott (1771–1832), Gustave de Beaumont (1802–66), J. G. Kohl (1808–78, a German geographer and traveller, writing in 1843) and Alexis de Tocqueville (1805–59, a French traveller and political analyst, writing of his visit to Ireland in 1835). Above all, Irish landlords were exhorted to do their duty by the poor. Some did, and spent substantial sums of money to help distressed areas. Many did not.</p>
<p>The Government’s reaction to the crisis was slow. Food continued to be exported from Ireland and arrangements for the importation of other foods were not effective. Rev. Dr McEvoy, parish priest of Kells, wrote in October 1845:</p>
<p>On my most minute personal inspection of the potato crop in this most fertile potato-growing locale is founded my inexpressibly painful conviction that one family in twenty of the people will not have a single potato left on Christmas day next. Many are the fields I have examined and testimony the most solemn can I tender, that in the great bulk of those fields all the potatoes sizable enough to be sent to table are irreparably damaged, while for the remaining comparatively sounder fields very little hopes are entertained in consequence of the daily rapid development of the deplorable disease. With starvation at our doors, grimly staring us, vessels laden with our sole hopes of existence, our provisions, are hourly wafted from our every port. From one milling establishment I have last night seen not less than fifty dray loads of meal moving on to Drogheda, thence to go to feed the foreigner, leaving starvation and death the sure and certain fate of the toil and sweat that raised this food. For their respective inhabitants England, Holland, Scotland, Germany, are taking early the necessary precautions—getting provisions from every possible part of the globe; and I ask are Irishmen alone unworthy the sympathies of a paternal gentry or a paternal Government? Let Irishmen themselves take heed before the provisions are gone. Let those, too, who have sheep, and oxen, and haggards. Self-preservation is the first law of nature. The right of the starving to try and sustain existence is a right far and away paramount to every right that property confers. … [The Nation, 25 October 1845; repr. in P. S. O’Hegarty, A history of Ireland under the Union (London 1952) 293]</p>
<p>The English did not look after the Irish and the Irish did not look after their own. It was every man for himself and by the sounds of it, it still is. Sad.</p>
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