The Myth of the Irish -- Just Where Are Those Signs Warning "No Irish Need Apply"?

History News Network via Chicago Sun-Times ^ | July 17, 2005 / March 18, 2005 | Richard Jensen

[SunkenCiv]

Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution. Yes, I do have Irish ancestry.

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[Irish_Thatcherite]

Well said!

[muawiyah]

No, you are a revisionist who is into arguing that the only problem the Irish had during the famine years was the practice of the Brits shipping food out of the island.

Look, there was more than one famine in the 1800s, and Ireland was not producing enough food to feed itself in face of those famines.

Neither was most of Europe during those famines.

Millions died.

[muawiyah]

My own Irish ancestors arrived here on prison boats in the mid-1700s. The people who came later had it easy.

[Kevin OMalley]

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