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and the people in Ireland themselves were just starving.
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They were dying in the fields.
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They were ending up in London living with other Irishmen,
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which is not surprising,
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maintaining these kinds of patterns by county, Cork, and all this.
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The Catholic Church was terribly, terribly important in their lives.
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It was terribly important as a means of charity and all this.
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But what it meant for the upper classes
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is that the unwanted other, Catholic--remember in 1798
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they tried to ally with the French.
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What happens in World War I?
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Roger Casement, who is an Irish militant