tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post5943053628079963785..comments2024-03-28T17:44:07.653+00:00Comments on TPQ: Booker's Dozen 📚 Hugh JordanAMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-56183938847761731092022-10-20T08:57:06.677+01:002022-10-20T08:57:06.677+01:00Simon, an insightful observation. I think it is im...Simon, an insightful observation. I think it is important to push back against the word police. As you indicate many people who believe it is genocide still use the word famine. Famines, as you assert, are not always natural. And in their usage of the term they are not implying a natural disaster nor are they siding with the British state depiction of it. They don't need some self-declared AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-28243672537966814552022-10-19T23:25:37.747+01:002022-10-19T23:25:37.747+01:00I understand the power of the use of language and ...I understand the power of the use of language and why people are annoyed when people use "the wrong word" to describe something but the extent of the shouting down baffles me. Words like Northern Ireland or North of Ireland, the Famine or the Great Hunger or neither of these just Genocide. I prefer the phrase Great Hunger. It was a famine, albeit one which was manufactured and managedSimonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15029656112153509987noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-83538146137617964352022-10-19T21:57:49.563+01:002022-10-19T21:57:49.563+01:00Their anger is an attempt to impose their view on ...Their anger is an attempt to impose their view on people who think differently. Everybody that claims to believe something claims that the facts support what they claim to believe. That applies as equally to evangelical Christians as it does to those who have been called famine fascists. People select the facts that suit their view and ignore the ones that don't. The view that the event was AMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-41474324896948928032022-10-19T19:27:07.565+01:002022-10-19T19:27:07.565+01:00William McIlvanney? Hugh McIlvanney?William McIlvanney? Hugh McIlvanney?Ramon the Wolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12405263818936229754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-69542458723323687932022-10-19T18:35:44.843+01:002022-10-19T18:35:44.843+01:00I can understand the anger and frustration that pe...I can understand the anger and frustration that people who accept the Genocide version of that time in our history ,I think the facts speak for themselves ,that shiploads of food was taken out of the country under armed gaurd ,the film Black 45 made a reasonable attempt at depicting that, what amazes me is that successive Irish govts and jurnos are willing to write of those deaths so long as itmartyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09814904389826171437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-59311714120385694772022-10-19T17:54:00.827+01:002022-10-19T17:54:00.827+01:00Smiling at that Marty - I know someone who insists...Smiling at that Marty - I know someone who insists on it being a genocide so goes on a rant against anybody who raises a query. A friend said to me not to waste time arguing with the "famine fascist"!! <br />There is an interesting discussion in academic and literary circles, as there should be. I'm interested (it is a passing interest, nothing else) in all manner of opinion. I haveAMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559413440743290550noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4807238897188927967.post-54713706325786204402022-10-19T14:54:43.648+01:002022-10-19T14:54:43.648+01:00Jordan like so many of his colleagues perpetuates ...Jordan like so many of his colleagues perpetuates the myth that there was a famine in the 1800,s ,there was a potatoe blight ,but an abundance of all other foods , hence as so many realists now call it as it was GENOCIDE ,,,martyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09814904389826171437noreply@blogger.com