
Appointive Plane
The Blindboy Podcast
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Alcoholism and Ireland, That's Not a Myth
Systemic oppression into the law was written. Incredibly deeply oppressive laws against irish catholics rite from he 16 hundred up unto the seventeenn nineties. Catholics were forbidden from holding uf a firearm. You couldn't have a gun to defend yourself. Catholics couldn't inherit land from protestants. How catholic passed land? If a catholic did head land, how they passed that unte offspring was p i could go on and on. Extreme, extreme oppression, which then led the groundwork for the famine. Alcoholism and ireland, that's not a myth. We we have had serious problems with drink going back undreds of years. And it's no surprise
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