“We are bound for New York City, boys, 3,000 miles away.”

[barryqwalsh]

Kenmare Chronicle to publish special edition on emigration from area from 1700s to present day

Call for emigrant stories from Kenmare to North America

 

[whitehall]

What's the point? The British starved the Irish for a hundred years until the potato famine happened and they had to go someplace other than England. Meanwhile the Union Army in the American Civil War needed cannon fodder. Historically the Irish never could get a brake.

 

[barryqwalsh]

In 1831, the Boston Pilot began a new column, the “Missing Friends”. For many Irish, this was the only hope to find missing family members. The Missing Friends column ran for 90 years, from October 1831 to October 1921.

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