thurs. 17 mar., 2016: gaelic st. padraic’s day remembrances (& history lessons): Give us This Day our Daily Curse

GAELIC IRISH:  an Gorta Mór  ‡

GAELIC IRISH:  Droschshaol  ‡‡

  ‡)  Lit.,  “the Great Hunger”  —  the Irish Potato Famine, resulting in mass famine & starvation & a diaspora to the Canadian Maritimes, Borstern, & New Amsterdam & points beyond,  between 1845 & 1852;   later a reason & rallying cry for the (re)birth of the Irish Nationalist movement ;

‡‡)  Lit.,  “the Bad Times”  —  the Irish Potato Famine  —  see above;  also,  may more or less commonly refer to the Cat-licker/Protsky civil wars in Northern Ireland & some of the collateral damage in other parts of the UK,  dating from the 1970s through to the 1990s.

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