[Mick]

Seriously? ND still won't let Stanford's band play there because of that issue?  I was at that game and it was before the stadium renovation, over 10 years ago!  Don't they realize everyone associated with that performance is gone?  Stanford shouldn't allow ND's band (or any school's band for that matter) in its stadium if the Stanford band isn't allowed to play in other stadiums.

Well...over a million died of starvation or of famine-induced disease and over a million emigrated from Ireland (including my forebears on both sides), which lost a little more than 1/4 of their population.  At the same time, their British overlords expropriated 6 million pounds a year in rents, taxes and foodstuffs (thank you, Corn Laws!).  By 1900, Ireland's population had fallen to 4.4 million, or about half of what it was in 1840,.  England & Wales' population had doubled in that same period, from 16 million to 32 million.  Some commentators claim that England pursued a genocidal policy as described by the 1948 Hague Convention.

So a school with a Fighting Irish mascot will be a wee bit sensitive about it.

[Mick]

Seriously? ND still won't let Stanford's band play there because of that issue?  I was at that game and it was before the stadium renovation, over 10 years ago!  Don't they realize everyone associated with that performance is gone?  Stanford shouldn't allow ND's band (or any school's band for that matter) in its stadium if the Stanford band isn't allowed to play in other stadiums.

Well...over a million died of starvation or of famine-induced disease and over a million emigrated from Ireland (including my forebears on both sides), which lost a little more than 1/4 of their population.  At the same time, their British overlords expropriated 6 million pounds a year in rents, taxes and foodstuffs (thank you, Corn Laws!).  By 1900, Ireland's population had fallen to 4.4 million, or about half of what it was in 1840,.  England & Wales' population had doubled in that same period, from 16 million to 32 million.  Some commentators claim that England pursued a genocidal policy as described by the 1948 Hague Convention.

So a school with a Fighting Irish mascot will be a wee bit sensitive about it.