Comments on: Harvey Norman Insults Ireland's Famine Victims

By: William

William — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 04:59:25 +0000

christy @ 127…have you done any research on the famine?.Do you know which section of Irish society suffered during it and do you know which section of Irish society profited from it (and no by and large it was not the ascendancy as many of them went broke).Here is a hint, check out the Irish strong farmers and merchants also check out the origins of the term Gombeen man.As for it being "genocide" well look at it this way, if the English wanted to commit genocide on the Irish they had the power to do so and there was nothing there to stop them, so how come Ireland is still full of Irish then?.

By: lapsedmethodist

lapsedmethodist — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:20:34 +0000

Neither did the English as it happens. Another urban – or should that be rural ? – myth.

By: Bock

Bock — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 20:13:49 +0000

No point shouting at me, Christy. I didn't do it.

By: christy smyth

christy smyth — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 19:52:14 +0000

get your facts right it was GENOSIDE .at that time ireland was exporting vast amounts of food to feed britans ar mies all over the empire. famine is when their is no food available

By: brendan kinsella

brendan kinsella — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:53:16 +0000

the inglish started the first concentration camp in the world and 6.000 women and children died in south africa.- and in 1847 half a million irish people were evicted from their homes the aims of the brits was the first start of ethnic cleansing. how do you think that they got their empire. one could go on talking about the brits and i;s all bad . what about the zulus. bren

By: Fuck Harvey

Fuck Harvey — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:18:29 +0000

Gerry Harvey's having a sook here in Australia now, he's come out in the last few days and claimed that it's "Un Australian" to shop online and it's distroying Australian jobs.

However, most of the shit that this cunt sells is made in Chinese sweatshops and imported.

Harvey Norman's not seen a cent of my money for a very long time – and it's not about to change soon.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 11:46:46 +0000

I will definetly boycote Harvey Normans after his insensitive ignorant and even racist comments! Am sick of comments been made about the famine. In Secondary school i did a history project on the great famine and did lots of research even then i could see it was English imperialism that caused it ! Am sick of intellectuals and commoners( Harvey convict Norman) commenting on the famine without actually knowing the facts! The jews had their Holocaust but no one dare blame them or make such insensitive jokes /comments. disrespectful to victims and Irish people.

By: lee

lee — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 03:12:43 +0000

Valiant, are you for real? How is this relevant?

By: Valiant

Valiant — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:18:10 +0000

A little told truth is that when the Irish immigrants got to the US they faced massive discrimination from the Know Nothings—the Irish were excluded from schools, politics and the professions of law and medicine

What did the Irish do?

They built their own school and University system and in a few generations took over politics, law and medicine on the East Coast at first—without any affirmative action.

That which does not kill you makes you stronger–I guess–

By: Bock

Bock — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:33:11 +0000

Damn. Another failure.

(By you, to understand what a famine is).

How are things over there in Oz, Phil?