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   From: ciaran@nospam.net   
      
   Diarmid   
      
   Go raibh maith agat !   
      
   How many Celtic families and lives were destroyed or reduced to a misery   
   in this process ? Later they came up with a more final solution - round   
   them up and concentrate them "beyond the Pale" and later again send them   
   overseas to concentrations on board death ships and in colonies   
   stuggling for their very existence. How many more perished and were in   
   misery yet again ? Every time it was accompanied by convenient   
   "rewriting of history" and attempts to wipe out the Celtic culture and   
   language.   
      
   In my experience this continues today though at least in Tony Blair's   
   Britain we have the start of some decency and sympathy in treatment   
   towards the Celts (and in Spain towards our compadres in Galicia,   
   Asturias and Euskadi, though not so far in France towards Breizh and   
   that part of Euskadi that is in France). But go to the Outer Hebrides   
   away from the main towns and see for yourself - its a hard life still in   
   a bleak environment and on your way have a look at the "Stone Country"   
   of Harris where most of the Gaels were concentrated by the land   
   clearances to be forced to leave on death ships to death colonies -   
   there's still the economic disadvantage at play to this day - the   
   cringing speaking of English by all when only one person in a crowd   
   speaks it as their first language - same in Brittany in France with   
   French. The only independent Celtic nation, Eire, in contrast, now has a   
   standard of living better than Britain - this is obviously the only   
   acceptable path to follow for the Celtic nations - the economic success   
   of Eire shows the way forward in the EU for the oppressed Celtic   
   nations: "Northern Ireland" to join Eire, "Scotland", "Wales",   
   "Cornwall", "The Isle of Man" and "Brittany", to become the independent   
   EU member states of Alba, Cymru, Kernow, Mannin and Breizh !!!   
      
   BTW when I say "concentrated" I mean in the sense of a Nazi   
   concentration camp - an apt analogy to what has happened/is still   
   happening to many Celts.   
      
   Slan   
      
   Ciaran   
      
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