RE: Feeling17 Sep 2024 09:55
Let's examine the suggestion that "the Irish emigrating to work" coming from the amadán Playing cards.
Looks like an attempt to rewrite Irish history.
- In the 1600s, approximately 25,000 Irish Catholics left – some were forced to move, others left voluntarily
- From 1815 to the start of the Great Irish Famine, between 800,000 and 1 million Irish sailed for North America with roughly half settling in Canada and the other half in the United States.
- The Famine was the final ultimatum before deciding to leave Ireland, with1.8 million arriving in the United States in 1845-55.
- In the 1950s, approximately half a million left the Irish Republic
So our resident amadán can see the real figures now. Most of the immigration was due to the political, religions, economic oppression and of course the man made famine by the settler colonists.