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    1. Re: [Irish Genealogy] Brief Overview of Irish History
    2. Nancy & Ted
    3. Thank you for this, Jean. I just rented the film, "The Wind that Shakes the Barley:" from Netflix. Very interesting, and poignant, about the Black and Tans period in Ireland in the early 1920s. My grandmother's brother, Padraic Boylan, was caught by the B&Ts, and tied behind a car and dragged along the road. He got loose and hid in the river most of the day. He got TB afterwards, and died. This film really helped me to understand that period, and how complex and sad the consequences, brother fighting brother. Nancy

    05/12/2009 03:48:53