Hi Pat, I have often wondered the same thing, but I guess there was a difference between deprevation in the U.S. and starvation in Ireland, especially when you add disease, violence and serfdom to the mix. Fran Weeks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Connors" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 12:18 PM Subject: Re: [IRISH-AMER] Kerry's Dingle Peninsula (1976) - FITZGERALD,BOLAND > I still > think she would have been better off and happier if she stayed put. > Poverty in that area of Ireland doesn't seem quite the same as poverty > in New York (New Rochelle). At least in Ireland she had extended family > and land. She had neither in NY. > > -- > Pat Connors, Sacramento CA > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com > > > ====Irish American Mailing List===== > Add/check your surname to the Irish-American mailing list Surname Registry > at: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

> > especially when you add disease, violence and serfdom to the mix. Well, in the 1920s, she didn't have to worry about disease or serfdom, and the civil war was winding down. However, when you are young, the grass always looks greener but she found out soon that there is nothing greener than the grass in Ireland. -- Pat Connors, Sacramento CA http://www.connorsgenealogy.com