The romance and myths of the American Revolution have long obscured the disproportionate contributions of the Irish, who numbered as high as one half million of America’s two million population.
Posted on 07/04/2019 1:42:49 PM PDT by Al Hitan
The romance and myths of the American Revolution have long obscured the disproportionate contributions of the Irish, who numbered as high as one half million of America’s two million population.
Yet, the role of the Irish has often been written out. No chapter of America’s story has been more thoroughly dominated by myths and romance than the nation’s desperate struggle for life during the American Revolution. Unfortunately, America’s much-celebrated creation story has presented a sanitized version of events.
The long-accepted proper imaginary of the typical American patriot was that of an Anglo-Saxon who descended from early English settlers. This popular perception became a permanent part of the national mythology, in regard to the people who were seen as having been most responsible for sustaining and winning the revolutionary struggle.
Americans today believe that the upper-class elite, especially the Founding Fathers, and the traditional New England model (the popular romantic New England stereotype of the middle-class yeoman soldier of Anglo-Saxon descent) were most responsible for America’s success in the revolutionary struggle.
However, because so many of these diehard patriots were recent immigrants from Ireland and members of the lowest class, they were considered outsiders and foreigners, especially Irish Catholics, who were not deemed worthy of mention by generations of America’s leading historians and scholars.
Mostly from the northeast, these influential Anglo-Saxon historians possessed ample good reason to obscure the truth about America’s creation story. Quite simply, without the disproportionate and significant contributions of the Irish on all levels (political, military, and economic), America would not have won its struggle for independence. In consequence, the Irish odyssey during the American Revolution is one of the best-untold stories of American history.
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IGNORANT. Fools ALL... Learn your history, peasant.or fool.. your a hater. Plain. Simple.
Take a few deep breaths and calm down. It was a “Blazing Saddles” reference.
The Irish are fighters, the kings of England wanted as many
Irish in their ranks as they could get because they could and
would fight and even seemed to like it.
However the Irish are not prone to believe in a power higher
than them selves so they are falling by the way side like all
other unbelievers.
Mmm.
I actually agree with you, but the Catholic Irish don’t consider Scots-Irish or Ulstermen to be “Irish”.
The author of the screed conveniently neglects that little factoid.
As for persecution, perhaps you could read this:
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As for Anglican seizure of land and exterminating indigenous Irish, that is a horrific story. But a population that remained staunchly with the church that inflicted the Albigensian massacres, the Inquisition, the massacre of the French Huguenots, and of course the other wars in central Europe that you mentioned was bound to be viewed by every flavor of Protestant as a threat.
And that threat continues today. What “church” agitates relentlessly for more of their people to cross into our country against our will? The mainstay church of Mexico: Los Catolicos. Urged on by their maximum lider, El Papa.
And who helped start this little invasion of our age old antagonists? Why none other then those famous Irish Catholics, the Kennedy’s. The 1965 immigration act, Ted Kennedy egging on La Raza Unida in the early ‘70s, right to this very day....along with Jerry Brown and Gavin Newsom. The spiritual descendants of the San Patricios.
Mmm hmmm. Gotta pity them freedom lovin’ Irish Catholics! Cuz ain’t it a shame that the evil Protestants managed to build the world’s greatest country in spite of them? Somebody got to DO something about that.
And they are. Every day at the border, where they are violently invading the hated safe space for the Protestants.
Which ain’t really safe for us anymore, you know?
PS, my “heritage”: Anabaptist German, French Huguenot, Anglo-Saxon Anglican English, and of course, Scots-Irish (Grand MaMa was Orange Irish; she’s the only one of my ancestral line that didn’t arrive between 1681 and 1743). So I have a bit of personal interest on this...
“It one goes to the Alamo in Texas and read the names on the walls of those heros and place of origin it is very revealing.”
Now that you mention it, I remember being surprised at all of the places the defenders of the Alamo had come from, including the one or ones from Germany. There were even one or two from New Hampshire, IIRC.
Yes an Irish tribe, the Scots or Scoti settled the Western Islands and the Highlands. Lowland Scots are mostly who made up the Ulster Irish. Although the Highland Scots seem to think they are better, I think history shows the Scots-Irish were just as tough.
“How the heroic Irish won the American Revolution remembered this Patriot’s Day”
It was the Scots Irish...Northern Ireland/Ulster...my ancestors.
You didn't read it very closely, then. The article talks about both. A couple of quick examples:
They were considered outsiders and foreigners, especially Irish Catholics
John Barry, an Irish Catholic born in Ballysampson, County Wexford, earned the well-deserved renown as the “Father of the American Navy.”
Incorrect. Two linguistically distinct peoples. Scots came up from the Mediterranean across Northern Europe and Scandinavia into Scotland. The Irish bounced up the coast of Spain and around to Ireland
Same thing at the San Jacinto monument.
A lot of Irish, Scots, Germans were there.
“You didn’t read it very closely, then.”
To the contrary I read the article several times as well as a number of reviews which confirmed my suspicion that the author is a hack; an indifferent scholar and poor writer specializing in grinding out middle brow drivel claiming startling new insights based on neglected materiel.
Piffle, unworthy of serious consideration .
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