Posted on 06/24/2011 9:59:35 AM PDT by decimon
Clan mine ping
NO WAI! Nobody ever learned to read, write, and add before compulsory government schools opened! Everyone knows that!
Why not study the communities of immigrants (some of which are here illegally) who refuse to assimilate today?
"These people helped build Maryland's infrastructure and supply materials for the Washington Monument, the U.S. Capitol, yet their voices have been muted in history," Brighton adds. i>
Um, if the story is to believed at all, "these people" muted themselves. Are we sure this isn't Pompey and they were covered by volcanic ash?
I wonder what researchers will find years in the future, when they excavate the remains of cities such as Detroit. I wonder what the remains will tell of the lives of people today.
It’s not PC to study immigrants today. It’s only PC to study immigrants from a hundred years ago.
Many apartments with big-screen televisions and just about nothing else in them.
Have you seen the “Ruins of Detroit” photo collections? They’re astounding.
If you'd seen areas like Howard Beach in NYC then you might be more believing.
******Dating to the 1850’s******** ?????????????????
Good grief - there should be diaries and photos.
Digging???
I’m all in favor of sunken civs - but this hardly qualifies.
My great grandfather’s obituary (born 1840 in Kilkee, Ireland; died Osceola in PA in 1895) noted that he was honored in his community for teaching other young, Irish immigrant coal miners to read and write. Although he was retired from the mines because of lung problems at the time of his death, he was noted for “reading extensively and discussing the news of the day with his neighbors and all who stopped by.”
It’s almost like FreeRepublic.
He made sure that his 13 children were all educated, although he didn’t live to see them all grow up.
As opposed to swinging by McDonald's on their way home?
You're right; this reads like a report on an ancient civilization rather than one that posters on this board have 2nd- if not 1st-hand knowledge. While this Brighton guy sounds like a typical academic--he has no experience in the real world of real people living real lives--I'm grateful that he's sifting under outhouses . . . and not me.
OH MY WORD!!! They actually used CERAMIC PLATES for dinner! OH! The huge manatee!!!
have they found bambi’s irish roots? maybe he can use this to claim he is an american citizen.
My family (Irish catholics) immigrated from Ireland and settled in Maryland during the 1840’s. They worked on the railroad and the MD canal. They all assimilated just fine. Frankly this “study” is a bunch of BS.
The article says most Irish immigrants assimilated. This group isolated itself.
Ethnic enclaves are nothing new in the US. All ethnic groups.
Maybe the author expected them to use paper plates.
My grandmother emigrated from Co. Clare in 1918. The rest of my ancestors, presumably all Irish, are still a bit of a mystery.
The good professor would no doubt be amazed at the concept of a potluck dinner.
But, no, poor immigrant Irish didn’t participate in dinner “parties” because they lacked serving plates.
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