Letters: Old colonial attitudes can be seen in the modern-day response to events in the Middle East

“The judgment of God sent the calamity to teach the Irish a lesson; that calamity must not be too much mitigated.” So said Charles Trevelyan, the chief British government official during An Gorta Mór, our Great Famine, in the 19th century.

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