Post by earl on May 8, 2009 13:33:59 GMT
WASP,
If you actually look at the link, the original source is from the 1800's and it directly quotes from parliamentary records of the time and clearly shows that rather than advancing the 'uncivilised people of Ireland', they hampered them, including your ancestors to a point as to actually totally destroy industries.
This is what helped the migration of Ulster Scots to America. And when the British government tried to pull the exact same stunt on them again over there, well, you know what happened.
Do you not consider this evidence enough to show that Ireland and all who lived here was indeed deliberately hampered from advancing their respective industries?
If you actually look at the link, the original source is from the 1800's and it directly quotes from parliamentary records of the time and clearly shows that rather than advancing the 'uncivilised people of Ireland', they hampered them, including your ancestors to a point as to actually totally destroy industries.
This is what helped the migration of Ulster Scots to America. And when the British government tried to pull the exact same stunt on them again over there, well, you know what happened.
Do you not consider this evidence enough to show that Ireland and all who lived here was indeed deliberately hampered from advancing their respective industries?
In the year 1750 heavy taxes were laid on the
import to England of sail-cloth made of Irish hemp,
contrary, of course, to the express stipulation of 1698.
An address presented in 1774 to Lord Harcourt, the
Viceroy, by the Irish House of Commons thus de-
scribes the effect of this measure : " They had been
confined by law to the manufacture of flax and
hemp. They had submitted to their condition,
and had manufactured these articles to such good
purpose that at one time they had supplied sails for
the whole British navy. Their English rivals had
now crippled them by laying a disabling duty on
their sail-cloths, in the hope of taking the trade out of
their hands, but they had injured Ireland without
benefiting themselves. The British market was now
supplied from Holland and Germany and Russia,
while to the Empire the result was only the ruin of
Ulster and the flight of the Protestant population to
America."
import to England of sail-cloth made of Irish hemp,
contrary, of course, to the express stipulation of 1698.
An address presented in 1774 to Lord Harcourt, the
Viceroy, by the Irish House of Commons thus de-
scribes the effect of this measure : " They had been
confined by law to the manufacture of flax and
hemp. They had submitted to their condition,
and had manufactured these articles to such good
purpose that at one time they had supplied sails for
the whole British navy. Their English rivals had
now crippled them by laying a disabling duty on
their sail-cloths, in the hope of taking the trade out of
their hands, but they had injured Ireland without
benefiting themselves. The British market was now
supplied from Holland and Germany and Russia,
while to the Empire the result was only the ruin of
Ulster and the flight of the Protestant population to
America."