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Post by anne on May 20, 2009 5:33:39 GMT -5
Sorry! can't get the above link about Ian paisley right, the quotes are from that link
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Post by anne on May 20, 2009 17:39:41 GMT -5
The ANNALS OF THE FOUR MASTERS ............JOHN O'DONOVAN
THE AGE OF THE YEAR TO THIS DELUGE 2242 ...........40 DAYS BEFORE THE DELUGE
AM2242---AD1616
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Post by anne on May 25, 2009 5:12:35 GMT -5
SOUPERISM .
Evangelical protestants during the famine would only feed.clothe.or give aid to the starving Catholics if they converted ,if they gave up their faith.They were called 'soupers' APPALLING !
Yet the Quakers gave aid to all the starving and no strings attached.and the CHOCTAWS sent aid and they had nothing themselves. The most aid came from the Irish themselves who when they had to leave Ireland sent money over to their families either to assist them to leave or help them survive.They sent 10 times as much money as any other group.In 1847 alone they sent nearly a million dollars to their homeland. BLACK POTATOES Susan Cambell Bartoletti.
O' Donovan Rossa ROSSA'S RECOLLECTIONS 1838 TO 1898.
Some instructions given from authorities were:'To clean and Whitewash their houses and to move manure piles away from doorways to bathe, to wear clean warm and comfortable clothing and to eat wholesome nourishing and moderate food. The hygiene instructions meant little to the Irish poor, who had sold thei clothing and bedding and wore the same rags day after day weak from hunger and exhaustion they could not even fetch water let alone move manure piles .
Some Doctors, Priests and Ministers risked their lives tending the sick and dying some buriel pits held as many as 900 bodies.
Really pray this kind of thing never happens again...........
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Post by anne on May 25, 2009 6:29:49 GMT -5
The Irish scattering #In the United States more than forty million people claim Irish ancestry Though initially Irish immigrants faced predjudice,discrimination and homesickness,their determination won out.Over time they formed a large percentage of the American labor force and they rose to the highest positions in labor, trades, politics ,the military , the labor movement, the arts and entertainment industry and other professions. Most Irish emigrants never forgot their homeland , and they retained their ethnic identity and pride "When we left Ireland, I was a baby" said one man from Richmond Virginia, whose parents had emigrated during the famine years "My folks had hard times there, but my Mother was always talking about the Blue Mountains and the lakes and she never stopped loving it. She was always singing Irish songs around the house. That the Irish people managed to hold onto their language, their songs, their poetry ,their storytelling and their desire for freedom is testament to their spirit and strength .
More than one hundred and fifty years have passed since the famine from this event .We can learn that the famine is about individuals like Diarmuid O'Donovan Rossa, Tom Quin, and the Bridget O donnel, We can empathise with their suffering .We can explore the complex means through which they and countless others attempted to survive and preserve their dignity we can learn from their strength and courage.
The Irish worked in America at the lowest paid jobs often as little as fifty cents per day .digging canals. railways, and roads ,factories.mills and coalmines. for any worker who had earned eight pence per day-about sixteen cents-on the public works in Ireland the new wages seemed enormous.
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Post by anne on May 25, 2009 6:35:05 GMT -5
Are genealogy sites making money on all this? I have a SIL and her Irish family were Kennedy's she knows nothing about them ... other than her parents. I am seeing what I can find out for her.
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Post by anne on Jun 2, 2009 8:23:34 GMT -5
I hear there is an increase in visitors to Ireland now in search of their roots............ Good for them, woo hoo!
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Post by anne on Jun 2, 2009 8:32:04 GMT -5
CHECK OUT SOUPERISM...............
At least the Quakers helped.
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Post by anne on Jun 2, 2009 8:41:06 GMT -5
Where were all the religions who are supposed to be full of GRACE during the famine?
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Post by anne on Jun 2, 2009 16:40:56 GMT -5
JAMES 1V27 says "Pure and undefiled religion before God and the father is this;to visit orphans and widows in their trouble , and to keep oneself without spot from the world"
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Post by anne on Jun 2, 2009 16:45:50 GMT -5
Did you notice says God AND the Father............ do you think these are works? what does it mean to be doers and not hearers??
How many doers around during the famine, how many doers around during the Jewish holocaust?
How many men laid down their lives to give others freedoms?
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Post by anne on Jun 4, 2009 4:25:08 GMT -5
maybe the baptists and others were debating dress code.or which Scriptures should be used. not really being doers........
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