Posted on 08/13/2009 12:05:29 PM PDT by Nachum
Call it the third green wave. It is a much smaller migration than its predecessors - the historic westward flow that gave Boston its Irish identity, and then, in recent years, the return home of thousands of Irish emigrants seeking to ride the Celtic Tiger, the roaring Irish economy.
But now, with Ireland deep in recession, far deeper even than ours, thousands of its residents are again heading abroad; nearly twice as many people left Ireland in 2008 as four years earlier. And some of them are heading to the United States for the second time
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It’s MY ISLAND! Ping
Slainte!
THe Irish hate our guts. They can stay where they are.
“THe Irish hate our guts. They can stay where they are.”
these are the delights that vote Kennedy and Kerry into office time and again. Joy
50,000 illegal Irish here now, demanding Amnesty!
To my Irish ‘cousins’....go back home and clean up the mess you helped to create!
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2009/07/yes-thetowncrier-has-become-prejudiced.html
Irish Alzheimer’s.....when you only remember resentments
Funny link, rings true for some of my family, lol.
thanks for that :)
This song was written during the wave of Irish emmigration during the 80’s. (of which my wife was one)
The Pogues:
THOUSANDS ARE SAILING
The island it is silent now
But the ghosts still haunt the waves
And the torch lights up a famished man
Who fortune could not save
Did you work upon the railroad
Did you rid the streets of crime
Were your dollars from the white house
Were they from the five and dime
Did the old songs taunt or cheer you
And did they still make you cry
Did you count the months and years
Or did your teardrops quickly dry
Ah, no, says he, ‘twas not to be
On a coffin ship I came here
And I never even got so far
That they could change my name
Thousands are sailing
Across the western ocean
To a land of opportunity
That some of them will never see
Fortune prevailing
Across the western ocean
Their bellies full
Their spirits free
They’ll break the chains of poverty
And they’ll dance
In Manhattan’s desert twilight
In the death of afternoon
We stepped hand in hand on Broadway
Like the first man on the moon
And “The Blackbird” broke the silence
As you whistled it so sweet
And in Brendan Behan’s footsteps
I danced up and down the street
Then we said goodnight to Broadway
Giving it our best regards
Tipped our hats to Mister Cohan
Dear old Times Square’s favorite bard
Then we raised a glass to JFK
And a dozen more besides
When I got back to my empty room
I suppose I must have cried
Thousands are sailing
Again across the ocean
Where the hand of opportunity
Draws tickets in a lottery
Postcards we’re mailing
Of sky-blue skies and oceans
From rooms the daylight never sees
Where lights don’t glow on Christmas trees
But we dance to the music
And we dance
Thousands are sailing
Across the western ocean
Where the hand of opportunity
Draws tickets in a lottery
Where e’er we go, we celebrate
The land that makes us refugees
From fear of Priests with empty plates
From guilt and weeping effigies
And we dance
what happened to the “Celtic Tiger”?? Did they raise taxes? Did they bow down to the EU?
My daughter just came back from Ireland...a baked potatoe costs $10.00.
See post #9 S. Any opinion?
How did you arrive at that conclusion? The wife and visited Ireland last spring. The Irish were very friendly. Now on a little side trip to Juarez a few years ago, I didn't come across too many friendly people. Ireland was quite different.
Why does that tickle a nerve at the back of my brain?
Where did she eat? If she ate pub food, which the wife and I enjoyed immensely, you could get a very good meal i.e. shepherds pie, for about ten or eleven euros which was about fifteen American dollars. Even the restaurants weren't much more expensive.
Tell your wife Im happy for her. How long was she there? Did she ever get a chance to talk politics? The people who were friendly, was she paying them for goods and services? I love it when tourist think they know something because they experience something from a hotel, resort, or tour group. I’ve been to Ireland more times than I would have liked and will never return. I stand by my statement that they hate our guts.
Dan Quayle Im betting.
We both decided not to bring up politics to avoid arguments on what was supposed to be a fun trip. Which it was. We knew the Irish think Obama is great, so we deliberately avoided the subject. The only time we casually talked about politics was with a South African tourist who asked us what we thought of Obama. I did the talking and told the man we hoped things turned out right. I then added my politics are quite conservative hoping he got my drift.
famine I think it was
No problem. Just get a flight into Mexico and you're home free.
Baked and not mashed? Probably paid extra because they didn’t mash it.
I was home in April (Co Clare) and prices were high due to the low value of the dollar against the euro, but I was in Ireland so I didn’t mind.
Baked and not mashed? Probably paid extra because they didn’t mash it.
I was home in April (Co Clare) and prices were high due to the low value of the dollar against the euro, but I was in Ireland so I didn’t mind.
Baked and not mashed? Probably paid extra because they didn’t mash it.
I was home in April (Co Clare) and prices were high due to the low value of the dollar against the euro, but I was in Ireland so I didn’t mind.
The economy tanked the same as it did here, home prices overvalued, banking run amok. B of A and Dell laid off staff. MBNA had a huge call center in my hometown that employed a good lot of folks, then it laid off workers so in turn the workers couldn't afford much.
but wouldn’t mashing be more labor intensive? /sarc
“http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/2009/07/yes-thetowncrier-has-become-prejudiced.html
Funny link, rings true for some of my family, lol.
thanks for that :)”
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My pleasure, glad you enjoyed it.
TheTownCrier
Triplets are expensive to feed.
What the heck is up with FR and all the duplicate posting lately? I smell something fishy.
I agree, fishy is as fishy does and there’s something in the air.
The Irish I’ve encountered traveling in Europe were quite open about their hatred of the United States. They particularly get upset at Irish Americans calling themselves Irish. On the other hand, I met many nice people traveling in central and southern Mexico. I guess I had the reverse experience of you. :)
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