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Subject: Re: [IRL-LIMERICK] John Crimmins - the "emigrationby boatloadsquestion"
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:17:05 -0500
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Chris, Thanks for weighing in on this.
Kelly
Chris Kervick wrote:
> I thought it was the landlords who put up their own money on occasion to
> send poor tenants overseas. It was sometimes cheaper to ship them away then
> to feed them.
> Chris Kervick
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>> Yes, I have never hear of this plan, however, one assumes US
>> Government involvement. This is an interesting thing to ponder. At
>> the time the canals were built, there was, in actuality, a state
>> sponsored emigration campaign.... these immigrants, were probably not
>> "brought over" by Americans to work at this point, but "brought over
>> in boatloads" subsidized by a British Government desperate to fix the
>> Irish Problem.
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