03-19-2021, 07:31 AM
In all the reading I've done about Ireland, I've never come across anything that says cows were sacred. Cows were valuable. They were a symbol of wealth. The greatest historic poem in Irish History, The Taín, was about a cattle raid where Cuchulain went into Connacht and stole Maeve's prize bull.
As for the Irish not eating cows and instead pork, well that's bullshit, too. The main diet of the Irish was potatoes because that was all they could afford. I could go into all the depredations the Irish tenant farmers suffered under that English landlords but that is a book unto itself. But at the time of the failure of the potato crops in Ireland in the 1850s, there was plenty of food being grown in Ireland. The only problem was that it was all being shipped to England. And since the Irish subsisted on potatoes and not much else, they starved and died.
As for the Irish not eating cows and instead pork, well that's bullshit, too. The main diet of the Irish was potatoes because that was all they could afford. I could go into all the depredations the Irish tenant farmers suffered under that English landlords but that is a book unto itself. But at the time of the failure of the potato crops in Ireland in the 1850s, there was plenty of food being grown in Ireland. The only problem was that it was all being shipped to England. And since the Irish subsisted on potatoes and not much else, they starved and died.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm