Or, a more banal definition is the Irish who came during and after the potato famine. They were referred to as Scots-Irish so as not to mistake them for the "old Irish" who had already been here for a century, establish their names and property. A bit of a snobbish definition, I would say. Genie ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 1:00 PM Subject: IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY-D Digest V05 #151
That's not correct. The "potato Famine" Irish were the indigenous Irish. The ones who were almost exclusively Roman Catholic. They were the true Irish who had to leave their homeland because they were serfs in their own land and were starving to death. The English took everything from the Irish...Their National Identity, Language, Land, Faith and Food. Ireland was a bad place to live if you were Irish. The Scots-Irish migration began 100 or more years before the Potato Famine. Frank > From: "Genie Coats" <[email protected]> > Reply-To: [email protected] > Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 15:34:10 -0400 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [IRISH-NYC] Re: IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY-D Digest V05 #151 > Resent-From: [email protected] > Resent-Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2005 13:34:01 -0600 > > Or, a more banal definition is the Irish who came during and after the > potato famine. They were referred to as Scots-Irish so as not to mistake > them for the "old Irish" who had already been here for a century, establish > their names and property. A bit of a snobbish definition, I would say. > Genie > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2005 1:00 PM > Subject: IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY-D Digest V05 #151 > > > > > ==== IRISH-NEW-YORK-CITY Mailing List ==== > If you will be away for a few days, please unsub from the list to keep > yourself from bouncing off. > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >