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Rambling | Report | 11 Sep 2017 12:17 |
But cousins are a different thing! once again I am wishing I had not started this genealogy lark, because once again I am being ear bashed by my 'found' cousin for being English and for the English having not apologised for 800 years of tyranny over Ireland. |
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Dermot | Report | 11 Sep 2017 12:39 |
History books cannot & shouldn't be rewritten. |
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SheilaSomerset | Report | 11 Sep 2017 12:51 |
Half the problems in the world seem to stem from people who can't 'let history be history'. |
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Rambling | Report | 11 Sep 2017 13:09 |
I don't want to argue with him, I have just told him to ask for an apology from the Normans as they are our mutual ancestors who invaded Ireland ;-) |
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SheilaSomerset | Report | 11 Sep 2017 13:27 |
I would add that the other half of the world's problems stem from people who don't learn anything from history :-D |
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Sharron | Report | 11 Sep 2017 13:36 |
When I had been a carer for several years and it was starting to take it's toll, I was contacted by a cousin I had not seen for something like fifty years. I could only get out occasionally and she lived close enough to meet one day when I was able to get away for a few hours. |
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Dermot | Report | 11 Sep 2017 13:47 |
A note in my very old history book published in 1885: |
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Rambling | Report | 11 Sep 2017 14:10 |
Not quite in the same vein Sharron, but a relative of mine by marriage visited when I was pregnant and caring for my mum, and proceeded to say how badly pregnancy was "taking it out of me" because I took a lie down for an hour while I was able to. I didn't bother to tell her that I already had heard the story of how when she was pregnant and evacuated to my mum's family during the war she spent most of her time lying down or being sick lol. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 11 Sep 2017 15:52 |
Nice one Dermot. :-D |
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Rambling | Report | 11 Sep 2017 16:10 |
JoyLouise, he lives in the Republic, in the same village as our ancestors, spends lots of time working over here in England, and in Europe, so is not so principled he won't set foot here on 'enemy territory' lol. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 11 Sep 2017 17:55 |
That's surprised me, Nyx, I automatically thought he was from NI. I have family connections to the Republic and none of them is like that. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 11 Sep 2017 19:09 |
I have some cousins I love, and one or two that I would rather be without! |
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Guinevere | Report | 13 Sep 2017 07:18 |
You are more patient than I am, Rose. I'd have told him to **** off and I'd have blocked him by now. |
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PatinCyprus | Report | 13 Sep 2017 07:35 |
I would say to him - history is history and we can't change it, please leave it in history as I find some of your comments very unpleasant. I'm afraid if you don't stop this unpleasantness I will block you - end of story. |
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Rambling | Report | 13 Sep 2017 11:43 |
Thanks for replies all. |
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Denburybob | Report | 13 Sep 2017 20:23 |
All of my paternal cousins are lovely. Some of us even holiday together. Mind you, the wife of one of them...... |