beatonna:

A new comic!  It’s about some Irish Americans who invaded Canada in the 1860s and 70s.  Which we have heard about in Canada, but I am not sure how far that one travelled. Click!

I decided to change the name of comic #364, I’ll just give you a brief explanation. In North America, events of the 1860s/70s wherein Irish Americans invaded Canada are called the Fenian Raids.

Like so.

It’s in the textbooks. You get a history book sometime in high school and open it up and there it is, “Fenian raids.” And that’s the only time you ever hear the word Fenian over here, if people say it, they’re talking about some very specific people in the 1860s/70s who called themselves that. Can’t say it comes up in conversation much.

Across the ocean, the word means something more, and worse, which I didn’t really get the full understanding of until the comic went up - then, of course, people will point things out to you. Still I left it, because I figured maybe it was complex enough to embody a bunch of meanings, including the one I knew. But that doesn’t really matter, does it? I don’t think so. Who cares if people in North America are unoffended if other people are?  That’s basic decency math.  Anyway I really should have done it sooner, I’m sorry I didn’t do it right away.