> The British took all our trees to build their navy Not only that, they took our young men to fight in their colonial armies; and deracinated the educated to

> The British took all our trees to build their navy Not only that, they took our young men to fight in their colonial armies; and deracinated the educated to serve as middeling officials in their colonial governments! Anyway, I'm being ironic, the Irish were part of the colonial project as much as working class factory workers were in Manchester were.