Dam Irish

Very nicely done, the Republic's video about the "unnatural" things mankind has done to the Colorado river (AZ Republic,  10/29/18).   I'm surprised, though, that the Republic didn't blame the Irish for the mayhem, as it often has (eg, Ed Montini and Clarence Page's "The Irish Should Remember" essays).   The dam McMani lit the fuse on this mayhem when McManus, Seyfert & Co. built the Croton Dam so New York City would have clean water to grow and stop its cholera epidemics.   The dam Irish who started this mayhem were abetted by Dennis Hart Mahan who taught America's engineers how to build railroads, canals and dams.   William John Murphy hired the dam Mexicans (who via their Spanish ancestors are a lot more Irish than Elizabeth Warren is Native American) who built the canals that made Phoenix possible.   Maybe we should blow up the damn dams and return the desert to it natural state ... but what would we do with all the dam people living in Phoenix and Southern California who need the dam water to live.