Westprog wrote:
jl wrote:
...
Manufacturing, farming, and the
monies being made out of harvesting the peat bogs were main
causes.
(Alas Bord Na Mona, so much for greed). Blaming the British,
(English) is merely being paranoid and specious. Britain had more
than enough forests of her own to build all the ships she wished!!

As far as I'm aware Britain got most of it's marine supplies from
the
Baltic countries - that trade certainly is mentioned quite
frequently
in various history books.

I wonder if anyone wrote a poem or song about Irish trees being cut
down. That would be interesting.

They did. I tried posting a link to it several times and for some
reason the posts got lost.

It's called "Bonny Portmore" and if you Google that you will find a
number of references. If you go to Youtube and search on it you'll
find a number of performances of it, and it's also a staple in the
"Highlander" movies and TV series.

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