Ireland – a Polish home from home

Radio Polonia ^ | 16.08.2006 | Iwona Lajmen

[lizol]

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[muawiyah]

We need a "MONUMENTAL GOOD NEWS" category. Ireland has immigrants, not just emigrants. What a turnaround.

[sine_nomine]

They used to say that about the Irish! And then came the Kennedy clan.

[brooklyn dave]

Hey why shouldn't the Poles and the Irish get along. They're both Catholic and they both like to have a good time. Ireland will do better with 150,00 Poles than France has done with 4 million North Africans.

[G8 Diplomat]

Interesting...Poles also seem to like Chicago. Chicagohas a higher population of Polish people than Warsaw.

[wideawake]

The amazing thing is that Ireland still has only half the population it had 150 years ago.

[TEXASPROUD]

Lizol, I'm leaving for a month's vacation in Ireland in October. I'll need some good Polish expressions. Hook me up!

[Rytwyng]

The amazing thing is that Ireland still has only half the population it had 150 years ago.

We have the British to thank for that. The potato blight wouldn't have killed anyone except for the fact that the British forcibly exported the other crops leaving the Irish only potatoes to eat.

[martin_fierro]

Polish "Corned Beef and Cabbage"

now I'm hungry

[wideawake]

I find that hard to believe, since Warsaw has a population of 2 million, 95% of which is Polish and Chicago has a population of 2.8 million, of which only 0.9 million are white.

There are at least twice as many Poles in Warsaw as Chicago, and probably five or six times as many in reality.

[Happygal]

'Fancy a vodka' is fairly well understood! haha!!!


And yup, the country has a large, and very visible Polish population - and it's great. They are hardworking, and (most of them) very handsome! :) Can only improve the wee gene pool ;)

[CheyennePress]

They're not just both Catholic but nations who still have large percentages of practicing Catholics. And yeah, Poles are a fun people, but never quite so mystical/fancy-drive as are the Irish. Poles have always struck me as very literal, very calculated, but fun people.

[Happygal]

One for the Irish Ping list, methinks. :)

[wideawake]

The English bear quite a bit of blame for the famine, but realistically a large percentage of the Irish population couldn't afford to eat much besides potatoes in the best circumstances and the blight sent the price of grain rocketing past even that prohibitive level.

If the English had permitted all grain grown domestically in Ireland to be consumed in Ireland, many would have died of hunger just the same.

[MarcinPL]

Gołąbki^^ nom I'm hungry too :)

[The Old Hoosier]

I think it includes the metro area...

[Recon Dad]

They were smart enough to keep the immigrants from the Euro countries and not face the Muslim hoards.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

One for the Irish Ping list, methinks. :)

I'm just on it!! :P

[xsmommy]

poles and irish bound together via potatoes and cabbage!