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    1. Re: [IRL-CAVAN] Whatever the colour
    2. pauline Gorman
    3. Just a suggestion - The history of the troubles, or whatever name you want to give it, in Ireland is a complex one going back to 1600s. Everyone involved has their own prejudices about it depending on which side of the fence they happen to be on. All I would say is that if you really want to try to learn and understand then you cannot do it by picking up snippets from a list . Get a good history book and study it. I recommend Robert Kee's Ireland - A History. It certainly taught me a great deal. We are all on this list because we have a common interest. We are a mix of people from 'both sides', historically but we still help each other when we can and long may that continue. I am lucky enough to live where nobody cares whether you are catholic or protestant.My children attend a catholic school which also has non- catholic children. I don't even know which ones are the non-catholics and I don't care. They are all just children. Let us all hope and pray that one day this can be the case in Northern Ireland too. God created all of us, and loves all of us equally. He wants us to love each other and that is what we need to be working towards. Pauline

    02/27/2004 03:40:29