On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, John Lacny wrote:
> Ireland, as we all know, was "the world's first colony."
Do you mean maybe the first British colony? Even dating that from 800 years ago, there were colonies millennia before that.
And if you want to call Ireland a colony from the moment of its invasion, then 200 years before, in 1066, Britain was a colony of France. And before that of the Danes, and before that of the Saxons, and before that of the Romans, and before that -- of the Celts.
Michael