Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Irish Immigrants

in America during the 19th Century:

"Putting them on a boat and sending them home would end crime in this country.'"

How times have changed...some 3 million (est.) will watch Saint Patrick's day parades across the country today. A huge number of pints of green beer will be hoisted and for a day, everyone wants to be Irish. By the way, they don't do this in Ireland.

2 comments:

  1. It's not necessarily well understood on this side of the water that, to the Irish immigrant, America was more a land of exile than promise.

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  2. No, it was certainly not a place of refuge. They were hated at every level of society...and now we can't think of a policeman without thinking that, surely, his name is O'Reilly or O'Malley or...

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