[Deb]

Irish? Irish? You mean the people who starved to death over a SIDE DISH??? The people who lived on an island and died by the thousands because they were too lazy to FISH????

Those Irish? Don't make me laugh.

[refreshed]

They have to admit, we did receive the best of the best prior to the revolution.

[maddog55]

Free trade gave the Irish farm families three choices when the potato crops failed: starve on their farms, while selling their grain crops and paying their rent; report to the Public Works or the Poor Law workhouses to be worked/starved to death or emigrate and take a 50 percent chance of surviving the passage across the Atlantic.

The Irish population was officially 8.1 million in 1845. Some 1.5 million died of starvation and disease in Ireland in four years, while more than one million attempted to emigrate; of these, about 500,000 died—usually of typhus—in passage or in quarantine camps in Canada and New England.

Based on the above “my people” should be entitled to a plot of land and welfare for life.

Me I’m doing ok and at one time was a commercial fisherman !