[arista]

George III (George William Frederick; 4 June 1738 – 29 January 1820)
was King of Great Britain and of Ireland
from 25 October 1760 until the union of the
two kingdoms on 1 January 1801, after which he
was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and Ireland until his death in 1820


A better time for Ireland
under our Nice Care.

Much better days for Ireland

We had the World's Biggest Empire.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_III



If I had a Time Machine
I would go back to that time


King George III was featured CNN HD.
A New book is out.

[Niamh.]

Stop baiting Arista

[arista]

Originally Posted by Christmas Neeve

Stop baiting Arista

Its not that kind of thread

[Alf]

King George III was mad. He was mentally ill.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Alf

King George III was mad. He was mentally ill.

No he was Bi Polar.
So had breakdowns later in life.

[LeatherTrumpet]

I heard you could leave your door unlocked at night and there were fields, as far as the eye could see.

[smudgie]

Indeed..if you were an English Lord of the manor.
The Irish fought and died for their independence, so it must have been a very harsh life for them. Especially with the potato famine, and nobody looking after the starving population.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Nana Christmas

Indeed..if you were an English Lord of the manor.
The Irish fought and died for their independence, so it must have been a very harsh life for them. Especially with the potato famine, and nobody looking after the starving population.

Yes Great Days.



But 1845 to 1852, Potato Famine
was Terrible and after King George III

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)

[Niamh.]

There was never a "famine" in Ireland let's get that straight. Better under British rule my arse, the British government killed a million Irish people by starving them

[LeatherTrumpet]

Yes Potato blight caused the Irish famine

nasty disease

also affected Europe

[joeysteele]

I'm sure the Irish would never agree with this.
Absolutely and perfectly right they would be not to agree too.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by All The Jingle Ladies

Yes Potato blight caused the Irish famine

nasty disease

also affected Europe

There was plenty of food in Ireland during the Potato blight

[arista]

Originally Posted by Christmas Neeve

There was never a "famine" in Ireland let's get that straight. Better under British rule my arse, the British government killed a million Irish people by starving them

That's real sad.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Christmas Neeve

There was plenty of food in Ireland during the Potato blight

no Ireland exported it all to the UK

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by All The Jingle Ladies

no Ireland exported it all to the UK

Ireland was ruled by Britain so Britain exported it out of Ireland, the land owners were British on stolen Irish land.

[Alf]

Originally Posted by Christmas Neeve

Ireland was ruled by Britain so Britain exported it out of Ireland, the land owners were British on stolen Irish land.

And now you're ruled by the EU.

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Alf

And now you're ruled by the EU.

bingo

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Alf

And now you're ruled by the EU.

They haven't starved us yet so that's a step forward anyway

[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Christmas Neeve

They haven't starved us yet so that's a step forward anyway

[thesheriff443]

You can’t change the past unfortunately

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

You can’t change the past unfortunately

you can remember it differently to suit a narrative though

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by All The Jingle Ladies

you can remember it differently to suit a narrative though

That's quite clear...

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by All The Jingle Ladies

you can remember it differently to suit a narrative though

True, but hate should not be handed down from generation to generation

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by thesheriff443

True, but hate should not be handed down from generation to generation

That's not what I'm doing here, my objection in this thread was based purely on the claim made that Ireland was in better hands when ruled by Britain and the claim that there was an actual famine in Ireland when there was not, there was plenty of food in Ireland at that time, the Irish people were starved by greedy mainly English landlords

[thesheriff443]

Originally Posted by Christmas Neeve

That's not what I'm doing here, my objection in this thread was based purely on the claim made that Ireland was in better hands when ruled by Britain and the claim that there was an actual famine in Ireland when there was not, there was plenty of food in Ireland at that time, the Irish people were starved by greedy mainly English landlords

I can see your point