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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=Koreanstudies@koreaweb.ws
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=choeyh@hawaii.edu
href="mailto:choeyh@hawaii.edu">choeyh@hawaii.edu</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, September 08, 2002 1:37
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [KS] History's twists: thoughts
on kwago ch'ongsan and the MOPE syndrome</DIV>
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FAMILY="SERIF"> As an Irishman, my 800 years of oppression
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FAMILY="SERIF">This is hardly a convincing argument....As a starter, there's
the glorious example of Napper Tandy, in his attempt at all out national
liberation not getting further than uninhabited Rutland Island, off
Donegal coast, with 30 (!) French soldiers...he got too inebriated to liberate
the land. Ever been to Donegal regions? I can imagine this great hero took to
the bottle, after topping off the encountered dereliction of the
land by considering how long it would take him to get to Dublin
succesfully with this mighty army of this...</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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FAMILY="SERIF">Or what about the Flight of the Earls? Or didn't the Irish
comply with the Treaty of Limerick and have 10.000 of their fighters take
service with Louis XIV, trumpeted as the Wild Geese? Didn't these valiant
Irish noblemen choose a life of luxury at French palaces, apart from going
into continental batlefields that should not have interested them? And isn't
it also true that deep into the 17th century there were plenty of
noblemen's mansions where Irish culture still flourished?...Yet, eventually,
without the Wild Geese they didn't stand a
chance...</FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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FAMILY="SERIF">And, as soon as his illicit love-affair was being revealed,
didn't the Irish let Parnell down, just for the sake of catholic holy
matrimony? </FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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FAMILY="SERIF">Worst of all: wasn't it an Irish nobleman who ushered the
English in, those famous 800 years ago? He wanted his wife back. <FONT
face="Footlight MT Light" size=2>So, as a result of this one Irish nobleman
wanting his wife back there's still no definitive peace and security in the
six counties of Ulster.</FONT>
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<DIV><FONT face="Footlight MT Light" size=2>The one thing that can be learnt
from this: there seem to be some nations in the world with
a very specific partiality towards their own history, even though
the facts are not at all kept from the general public. Yet, I have known
regular Koreans to admit that 1592 could have been avoided by Koreans
themselves. Which I'd deem to be the number one way to start coping
with a nation's history.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Footlight MT Light" size=2>Best,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Footlight MT Light" size=2>Lucas
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