These people were not like the industrious, Protestant Scotch-Irish immigrants who came to America in large numbers during the colonial era, fought in the Continental Army and tamed the frontier. These people were not only poor, unskilled refugees huddled in rickety tenements. Even worse, they we...
SIDEwalks: When Irish America Opposed WarDeignan, Tom
So I've been to America. Besides ruining my 'I've never been to the US but I was in some state last night' joke it also impacted me in a few other ways. There are the obvious observations, such as everything being bigger, driving on the righthand side of the road etc., but the...
THE MYTH OF THE IRISH IRISH CATHOLICS IN AMERICA REMEMBER A TIME WHEN EMPLOYERS POSTED SIGNS THAT WARNED "NO IRISH NEED APPLY." BUT A RETIRED HISTORY PROFESSOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO, SAYS "BLARNEY!" - - NINA SIGNS WERE "AS REAL AS LEPRECHAUNS."RICHARD JENSEN...
Viewed from the overheated ideological landscape of America in 2024, Britain’s “Irish troubles” may look like an irrelevant, if faintly romantic, relic of the past: indistinguishable tribes of white people fighting over a rain-soaked island on the Atlantic fringe of Europe. On the other ha...
aIreland became so dependent on it that thousands of Irish people died of hunger when the crop failed during the"Potato Famine"of1845-6,and thousands more were forced to emigrate to America. 爱尔兰变得很依赖对此数以万计爱尔兰人民死了于饥饿在"土豆饥荒" of1845-6期间,当庄稼无法,并且数以万计多...
aHalloween, or Hallowe’en, is a holiday celebrated on October 31. Irish immigrants carried versions of the tradition to North America in the nineteenth century. Other western countries embraced the holiday in the late twentieth century. Halloween is celebrated in several countries of the Western ...
They waited on Scotts Quay along with over one hundred other Irish immigrants to board the two small boats, PS Ireland and PS America that would take them out to the ship. Margaret Rice had paid the White Star Line for 3rd class tickets for herself and her fiv...
The Sinking of the Titanic - Stories of People Who Died or Survived This Irish Couple Were 3rd Class Passengers and Died on the Titanic Children With TB Spent Years in Tuberculosis Sanatoriums An Irish Woman Living and Working in Australia in the 1960's...
social unit, unit - an organization regarded as part of a larger social group; "the coach said the offensive unit did a good job"; "after the battle the soldier had trouble rejoining his unit"9.home - an institution where people are cared for; "a home for the elderly" ...