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"R"

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Date Posted: 20:59:17 08/13/02 Tue
In reply to: "D" 's message, "Note" on 20:55:41 08/13/02 Tue

>In the Preface, the following is written.
>
>"This is a story involving the survivors of the
>O'Kelleher family's children, after they were beaten
>and driven from their homes in 1649, as a result of
>the barbarous and treacherous actions of Sir Oiver
>Cromwell's British army 'the butchers of Ireland' and
>the O'Kelleher's deportation to the British West
>Indies as 'slaves'. This story is based on an
>historical event.
>
>The characters are fictionalized. While the story
>has a background in fact, it is a fictional accounting
>of what took place to the O'Kelleher family, who were
>forced to leave Ireland.
>
>Lawrence Kelleher"
>
>While it is a fictionalized account, I have never
>accepted the idea that the Irish who were deported
>were ignorant theives and criminals, with little worth.
>
>That is the English report. My own family, late
>1700's all the way through to the Great Genocide, in
>1845-51, were educated businessmen. I also suspect
>that those boys and girls taken from the Workhouses
>and transported to the British West Indies were
>victims of the British need for sex victims.
>
>But...that is just my opinion.
>
>Richard

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