[2006alum]

[quote author=OutsiderFan link=topic=15914.msg176178#msg176178 date=1476669266]
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.
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I don't think that's it. The Potato Famine skit was from 1997 and the school-announced ban was set to go through 2000.

Also, the band's statement was a nice way of hoisting ND objectors on their own petard:

The statement said that the concept behind the show was not to insult Irish people but to ridicule Notre Dame's leprechaun mascot, which the band called racist. "We think it absurd that Notre Dame can claim a whole ethnicity as its mascot, and further characterize this ethnicity as belligerent: the Fighting Irish," the statement read. "Further, to represent the Irish, Notre Dame uses a leprechaun. Most Irish people we know are not, in fact, leprechauns."

[2006alum]

[quote author=OutsiderFan link=topic=15914.msg176178#msg176178 date=1476669266]
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.
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I don't think that's it. The Potato Famine skit was from 1997 and the school-announced ban was set to go through 2000.

Also, the band's statement was a nice way of hoisting ND objectors on their own petard:

The statement said that the concept behind the show was not to insult Irish people but to ridicule Notre Dame's leprechaun mascot, which the band called racist. "We think it absurd that Notre Dame can claim a whole ethnicity as its mascot, and further characterize this ethnicity as belligerent: the Fighting Irish," the statement read. "Further, to represent the Irish, Notre Dame uses a leprechaun. Most Irish people we know are not, in fact, leprechauns."