Lyn; Your opinion regarding the tasks associated with growing potatoes is Sent from Mail for Windows 10
From: EVELYN CARDWELL via CoTyroneList Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2018 7:54 AM To: CoTyroneIreland.com Mailing List Cc: EVELYN CARDWELL Subject: Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] A few thoughts on the Lt. Stother account Ron's description of the joys of planting and picking potatoes is an excellent record of the task and backache involved before mechanisation. If only more people would record their memories like this. However most people in early 19th century Ireland were only growing smaller quantities for the use of their families, perhaps an acre or two at most, and not on a commercial basis. With families to assist, it was not a particularly time consuming task, especially during the growing season in summer. Lyn; The insinuation of the opinion you expressed regarding those with an acre or two of potatoes is blind to the reality of life in Ireland for the majority of the population. Have you considered: the impact of the Penal laws, the absentee landlord system, political and legal systems designed to hold people down , etc, etc, etc. History is not something that we can pick and chose from to support our position. To do so is to build barriers and to carry into the future that upon which the sins of the past were founded. Regards; Patrick J. Logan (Lagan) Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Fri, 26 Oct 2018 at 19:01, Ron McCoy via CoTyroneList <[email protected]> wrote: _______________________________________________ CoTyroneList mailing list [email protected] http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/ (_internal_name)s
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