You could say if there hadn't been empires of France, uk and Spain ireland would still be full of people instead of them all buggering off to the US also just think about all the descendants of the slaves in the USA that have a far better life than the black natives that are still in Africa should they feel shame because they have a better life than those left in Africa?
Humans have always killed each other it's called evolution and survival of the fittest, its one reason we have the modern trappings of life instead of living in caves still, we all benefit from that and you need to remember that while some brave Irish fought against Germany YOUR country took the cowards way out and claimed to be neutral, had it not been for the british empire and then the Russians and finally the US we would all be speaking German now, had the Empire not existed in 1939 we may well have not held out
Funny. I’m just watching a documentary about an iconic photograph of working men, sitting on a steel beam, high up in the Rockefeller building in NY, during its construction. See link below.
There was no record kept of who the men were, and in the nineteen nineties there was a concerted effort to get them identified. Eventually most were, and inevitably some were Irish immigrants, doing deadly work, to try get a better lives for their families.
The nephew of one of the men was interviewed. Excellent chap, who had taken huge interest in the photograph, and consequently in the history of the time, both in Ireland and New York.
Asked, when and why his uncle had left for America, he had great detail. The uncle (man on the beam), as a young lad was standing outside his house in a small village Shanaglish Co Galway. His mother was sitting outside also, with his six month old brother in her arms. Two Crossley tenders of British troops drove through the village on their way back to their barracks in Galway. The soldiers opened fire, killing the mother and baby. They drove back to barracks. Nobody ever was held accountable. The young lad was seriously traumatised and subsequently emigrated to NY.
Did you mention the word coward?.....