Posted on 01/16/2017 6:42:01 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
With just days to go until Donald Trump is inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States of America, we want to hear from Irish readers living there about how they feel now about him entering the White House.
On the day of the election result, we were inundated with reaction, with the majority expressing shock and dismay. Have your opinions or expectations changed in the months since? What did you think of Mr Trump’s press conference this week? What is the mood like where you live? How do you think his presidency could affect the Irish community in the US?
Yesterday it emerged that the president-elect’s transition team has been considering ways to revamp the H1-B visa, a common programme for temporary Irish workers coming to the US. The future of the popular J-1 visa for students is also shaky as Mr Tump pledged to end the programme during his election campaign. The fate of undocumented people - including an estimated 50,000 Irish - is most uncertain. Are you concerned about these potential changes, or other aspects of Trump's immigration policy?
Send us your thoughts and opinions by email to abroad@irishtimes.com, including your name, where you live, when you emigrated, your occupation and age. Photographs are optional. A selection of submissions will be published on irishtimes.com next week. Thank you.
Sicilian and Irish women are emotional time bombs.
I cannot buy a beer in many Bars around here too, they don’t enjoy my singing so I have been Banned.
“In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.”
Sicilian women can be very vicious. I know from experience. Irish women are almost as bad. I seriously dated a women that was half Sicilian and half Irish. She was beautiful, exciting and dangerous as white water rafting without oars.
Irish are whiners? There is a very good reason that the Irish who came to Boston voted Dem and it was JOBS JOBS JOBS. Please read at least something credible on the history of the Irish in Boston before you accuse them of being whiners. All grandparents born in Ireland and came here after 1915 ish ... all worked, even the women. Never heard a complaint, ever in my life from any of the relatives. All worked hard, bought and took care of property and educated their kids. Please learn the history of how Boston College started out.
The Irish young coming over to the USA today are products of a socialist Europe and very different from the Irish of 100 years ago. But still, I do not hear them whining.
What’s an Irish seven course meal?
We’re about the same age, then, I’m about a year older. Maybe not my first memory, but an important early one. My Mom and I were living at my Grandparents’ house while Dad did a 1-year unaccompanied tour in Korea with the 1st Cav. I remember watching the procession on the B&W TV.
Guessing, a six-pack of Guinness and a potato?
Irish. Georgia. 1600’s. Love Trump!
Don’t know what those yokels are hollering about!
Mother went to Ireland. She loved it. Only time I see it is once a year when I watch The Quiet Man :)
Great movie.
I’m of Italian descent and there are a lot of Italian/Irish marriages out here.
Believe it or not, it wasn’t until my generation (i’m 48) that the rivalry between the two groups stopped.
The Irish hated us for pouring into Staten Island after the Verrazao was built lol.
I don’t blame them!!
Mostly Irish in town called Tottenville and Huguenot. Not sure of the historical significance of those names.
My cousin married and Irish gal and of their two boys, one looks ALL Italian and the other ALL Irish :) Two handsome boys.
Good-natured ethnic joking and teasing was also common in my Catholic high school in the late 60s. Being in a fast-growing city in the Sunbelt, we were far from the ethnic neighborhoods of Northern cities. In truth, compared to everyone else, we were as alike as slices of Wonderbread — and, in retrospect, incredibly fortunate to grow up as standard issue, American middle class kids of that era.
The whole slave argument is ludicrous. Why? Because despite what many libtards want their meat puppets to believe is that slavery was NOT invented in the USA!
In all truthfulness practically every society in the world has at one time or another gone through their own era of slavery.
And even today slavery abounds globally. I’m talking about physical slavery and not wage/tax slavery.
Furthermore, until those bent on reparation get off their lazy backsides and work towards ending physical slavery across the globe any protest or demonstrative complaining is worthless and void of substance.
I am an Irishman who is from the same family as Michael Collins I say if you are here go home
Bingo
My brother married into a family of Irish expats.
When they go home to visit they lament that since Ireland joined the EU the work ethic, and pretty much everything else productive about the culture, has gone down the tubes.
When sober the Irish are good workers.
I was born in Scotland in 1940. We certainly didn’t want Britain to lose in W.W. 2, but our Scots/Irish family always considered England “the auld enemy”. Wales wasn’t that keen about England, either. However, England called the shots coz’ “might equaled right” so we were all stuck with it. I think a lot of the continuing resentment was helped along because the schools then were either Catholic (free) or Protestant (free) and if you wanted to go to a non-religious school (called Public School for some reason) you had to pay tuition. I doubt Scottish, Irish, Welsh nationalism is as strong these days because all schools are public, unless you specifically pay to go to a religiously run school, and with the advent of T.V. and national news countries are not as insular as they used to be.
I was born in Scotland in 1940. We certainly didn’t want Britain to lose in W.W. 2, but our Scots/Irish family always considered England “the auld enemy”. Wales wasn’t that keen about England, either. However, England called the shots coz’ “might equaled right” so we were all stuck with it. I think a lot of the continuing resentment was helped along because the schools then were either Catholic (free) or Protestant (free) and if you wanted to go to a non-religious school (called Public School for some reason) you had to pay tuition. I doubt Scottish, Irish, Welsh nationalism is as strong these days because all schools are public, unless you specifically pay to go to a religiously run school, and with the advent of T.V. and national news countries are not as insular as they used to be.
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