[NOTE:
these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which
is the whole & compleat & total & entire point of insult & invective, obscenity
& blasphemy, & other political speech.]
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 Hamsterdam & 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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