Re: Lack Of Trees In Irish And British Countrysides

Westprog wrote:
> jl wrote:
> ...
>>> Manufacturing, farming, and the
>>> monies being made out of harvesting the peat bogs were main 
>>> causes.
>>> (Alas Bord Na Mona, so much for greed). Blaming the British,
>>> (English) is merely being paranoid and specious. Britain had more
>>> than enough forests of her own to build all the ****ps she wished!!
>
>> As far as I'm aware Britain got most of it's marine supplies from 
>> the
>> Baltic countries - that trade certainly is mentioned quite 
>> frequently
>> in various history books.
>
> I wonder if anyone wrote a poem or song about Irish trees being cut
> down. That would be interesting.

They did.  I tried posting a link to it several times and for some 
reason the posts got lost.

It's called "Bonny ****tmore" and if you Google that you will find a 
number of references.  If you go to Youtube and search on it you'll 
find a number of performances of it, and it's also a staple in the 
"Highlander" movies and TV series.

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