Don't forget the murdering Vikings ! I now live near the battered ruins of the ancient monastic settlement of Clonmacnoise. It really amazes me that the people of Clonmacnoise will to this day, blithely and shamelessly drive Swedish Saabs and Volvos, eat Danish bacon and Norwegian Gravalax after what the Vikings did to us ! And they have the cheek to call themselves Irish ! Thank God we have true Irish across the water who will never let us forget our history ;>) Good job the Romans never invaded Ireland or I'd have to give up Pasta ! Stuart www.irelandandirish.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "MK Douglas" <rkdoug2000@yahoo.com> To: <irish-american@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 11:48 PM Subject: Re: [IRISH-AMER] Cromwell,we learnt it at school so it must be ................... OK--so the friars that Cromwell, in his own words, delighted in killing were in the royalist army? I was so unaware of that. Reilly is not an historian, he is a newpaper columnist with an ax to grind. And just who published his book? Oh, and of course the Penal Laws never ever existed. kathleen ====Irish American Mailing List===== Add/check your surname to the Irish-American mailing list Surname Registry at: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRISH-AMERICAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message