... blessed by the Anglican Church, the Catholic Irish where left to farming and providing manual labor to an industrializing nation on the other side of the Irish Sea. In his book, Paddy's Lament, Thomas Gallagher recounts one of history's most tragic events to be bestowed on the people of Ireland in the mid-19th century. A story unfolding the horror of an ... sea, and abroad is a reprehensible mark in history. England's motivations in what was referred to as the "Irish Question" is akin to a system of passive genocide. Thomas Gallagher, in his book Paddy's Lament, sheds light on one of th...

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