pumpkinstrokemarrow

Further to Mr Trollope, it has now dawned on me, that for a humane and decent chap who knew a fair bit about Ireland and the Irish, it was odd that he did not feel the need to make any comment on the famine which preceeded the publication of his Irish book on the Finn by some 20 years. All very liberal and saw the need for something to be done, but in due course, when the time was right, and without any apparent understanding of the depth of feeling of the Irish poor - that is to say most of the Irish.

I am reminded of the invisibility of the Palestians to those of my parents' generation, also humane and decent chaps, who admired the Israeli endeavour. Who thought that blooming deserts and kibbutz were the bees knees - without seeming to understand that the land in question was neither desert nor deserted.