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Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:48:49 +0000, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
> 
> > Ireland specifically is a much smaller proportion of the world
> > population than it was in 1847, and, a historical anomaly, we've had
> > a few relatively good decades.
> 
> Point being, it's doing much better as part of the EU than it ever did
> under the thumb of the British, isn't it.
> 
> > 1800 was two hundred and twenty-six years ago.
> 
> The Europeans spent a lot of that time using their industrial
> superiority to bring the less-developed rest of the world under their
> thumb. That trend was only reversed beginning in the 20th Century.
>

The Republic of Ireland escaped from "under the thumb of the British"
100 years ago.

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