Well stated!!
The Irish could have cried about their ill reception. They didn’t. They prospered.
Who will be the voice that wakes up that lost 15 percent of our population? I don’t know.
BTW, didn’t know about the famine memorial. You learn something new every day :)
Thanks.
The Irish banded together with private clubs, elected leaders and their parishes to network and make a go of it regardless of intolerance regarding their race & religion. One thing I see missing in today’s unassimilated urban populations is a determination to prove their detractors WRONG; as an Irishman I try to live every day as if to prove that every negative stereotype about us Irish is flat-out wrong. I don’t live in a bar, I can hold down a job, and I’m more than just a paycheck to a wife forced to hold things together through my reckless and erratic behavior. I understand where the stereotypes arose (my town had plenty of that type of Irish in decades past), and know that it is a small minority of our tribe.
The Irish prospered. The Vietnamese who came here in the 70s became prosperous tax PAYERS too.
The Irish got even: They inflicted the Kennedys on America.