tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post8225204990505120189..comments2024-03-26T12:19:52.801-04:00Comments on Tea at Trianon: The Irish in Americaelena maria vidalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17129629173535139807noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-39496652395207466152010-02-12T08:27:05.586-05:002010-02-12T08:27:05.586-05:00My Mother, who was not Irish, would say when somet...My Mother, who was not Irish, would say when something bothered me to "Let it be like water on a ducks back". Then I married an Irishman and experienced the 'everything is a cause' mentality. Exhausting.Julygirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08113475639726723076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-84490985758031970952010-02-11T19:35:11.866-05:002010-02-11T19:35:11.866-05:00Hating, like poetry, is something the Irish are ve...Hating, like poetry, is something the Irish are very good at. I'm very lucky that my saintly Irish grandfather was spared that curse. And life wasn't easy for him > having married an English lass.<br /><br /> The history of the Phila. Know-Nothing riots have an interesting detail most people are unaware of:<br /><br /> These Ulster Irish thugs burnt St Michael's and then marched down to St Augustine's and burnt that down. Right smack-in-the-middle of their route was St Peter's. LEFT UNSCATHED! and why?... Because it was the church of German tradesmen who were way out of their league... Those krauts posed no threat to their factory/ weaver jobs.tubbshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07272003035464034763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-2437665463529769742010-02-11T14:11:12.030-05:002010-02-11T14:11:12.030-05:00Interesting post! My own great-great-grandmother c...Interesting post! My own great-great-grandmother came over from Ireland at the tender age of fourteen, to work as a "domestic." She eventually established herself in Kansas City and became the nanny for the children of a well-to-do man. She ended up marrying the man and had several children of her own with him. It's a very interesting story and I wish I knew more about her.Christinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05279960474896005256noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7534539169157708222.post-24538352468790250982010-02-11T12:28:02.624-05:002010-02-11T12:28:02.624-05:00Wonderful post!! As I was going through the blogs ...Wonderful post!! As I was going through the blogs I follow of course my eyes perked up at the mention of Irish. My husband had an ancestor who was part of the Irish Brigade and he, in this day and age still dislikes the English. I have wanted to go to England but he doesn't want to so we went to Ireland twice.Celticlady's Reviewshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10979628903168581945noreply@blogger.com