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From: David Collins <>
Subject: Re: IRL-CORK Digest, Vol 1, Issue 28
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:52:07 -0400
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Hi Mary,

Let me recommend another Famine book for your collection. Most people
interested in the story of the Famine consider The Great Hunger by Cecil
Woodham-Smith to be the best and most objective study of the subject. As
an English woman, Smith is anything but pro-British.

Happy reading,

David Collins
Hudson, MA, USA



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4. [Cork] Irish Birth dates > Hedgerow schools>British oppression.
(MARY THOMAS)

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> Subject:
> [Cork] Irish Birth dates > Hedgerow schools>British oppression.
> From:
> MARY THOMAS <>
> Date:
> Sun, 24 Sep 2006 14:31:19 -0700 (PDT)
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> Last night, I happened across a program called Moments in Time that
> covers different historical events. This one happened to be the Irish
> Famine and I wish I'd seen all of it. Out of ignorance, I always
> thought the Irish left to escape the famine. I had no idea that they
> were actually forced out in many cases. I didn't know about the deadly
> marches from the rural areas to the ports and I didn't know that the
> British yanked the Irish out of their homes, destroying the house so
> that they couldn't return to it. I knew about workhouses but not that
> they were, for all intents and purposes, a means to work the Irish
> like slaves in exchange for watery soup. I didn't know about the
> pestilance and disease that workhouses fostered and how many Irish
> men, women, and children died there. When I learned that a million had
> died and another million had been forced by the need to survive to
> seek a new life away from Ireland, it gave me a whole new view of my
> ancestors.
>
> I'd been wondering why only the two brothers came to the States. Now I know that it's possible they were the only survivors of their family. I've always been proud of my Irish heritage but never as much as I feel now. Those two brothers created a legacy that they probably never realized they had...pride in their courage, pride in their strength, pride in the fact that I carry their name, pride in knowing that I...and the rest of you on this list...are making certain that they won't be forgotten.
>
> Okay. Sunday sermon's over. Just had to put it out there.
>
> Chris
> 2nd great granddaughter of Patrick Sullivan
> 2nd great grandniece of Jeremiah Sullivan
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