Irish in World History - The Wild Geese2024-03-29T07:48:11Zhttps://thewildgeese.irish/forum/categories/irish-in-world-history/listForCategory?categoryId=6442157%3ACategory%3A24657&feed=yes&xn_auth=noLincoln, the Know Nothing Party and anti-Irish Catholic history.tag:thewildgeese.irish,2021-04-29:6442157:Topic:2929802021-04-29T00:20:37.679ZDaniel P Quinnhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/DanielPQuinn
<h1 class="entry-title">Legacy of the Irish 1821-2021. Lest we forget immigration then and now.</h1>
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</div> Remembering French support for the Irish in the USA.tag:thewildgeese.irish,2020-06-28:6442157:Topic:2471862020-06-28T19:47:37.241ZDaniel P Quinnhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/DanielPQuinn
<p>From Lyon, France to Paterson and Newark, NJ in the 19th Century.</p>
<p>From Lyon, France to Paterson and Newark, NJ in the 19th Century.</p> Chance National Library of Israel Discovery: Ireland's 1st Chief Rabbi Rescue of Holocaust Survivorstag:thewildgeese.irish,2019-09-10:6442157:Topic:2436432019-09-10T18:07:40.734ZValerie Lapin Ganleyhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/ValerieLapinGanley
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<p><span>A recent acquisition of personal archives of the well-known Jerusalem attorney Alexander Amdur includes</span> documents of Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi Herzog’s historic mission to redeem Jewish children taken in by Christian institutions and families.</p>
<p>Herzog was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland. He was a strong supporter of the…</p>
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<p><span>A recent acquisition of personal archives of the well-known Jerusalem attorney Alexander Amdur includes</span> documents of Rabbi Yitzhak Halevi Herzog’s historic mission to redeem Jewish children taken in by Christian institutions and families.</p>
<p>Herzog was the first Chief Rabbi of Ireland. He was a strong supporter of the struggle for Irish independence and a close personal friend of Eamon de Valera, who at times used the Rabbi’s house in Dublin as a hiding spot.</p>
<p>More information here:</p>
<p><a href="https://blog.nli.org.il/en/rabbi_herzog/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://blog.nli.org.il/en/rabbi_herzog/</a></p>
<p>Rabbi Herzog and his son former Israeli President Chaim Herzog are featured in the documentary film Shalom Ireland. <a href="http://www.ShalomIreland.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.ShalomIreland.com</a></p> Irish Apes: Tactics of De-Humanizationtag:thewildgeese.irish,2016-09-14:6442157:Topic:1998272016-09-14T17:17:36.799ZCarolina G-Smithhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/Carolina
<p><a href="https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/01/28/irish-apes-tactics-of-de-humanization/">https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/01/28/irish-apes-tactics-of-de-humanization/</a></p>
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<div class="byline"><a href="https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/author/lisa">Lisa Wade, PhD</a> on January 28,…</div>
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<p><a href="https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/01/28/irish-apes-tactics-of-de-humanization/">https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2011/01/28/irish-apes-tactics-of-de-humanization/</a></p>
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<div class="byline"><a href="https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/author/lisa">Lisa Wade, PhD</a> on January 28, 2011</div>
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<div class="post-content"><p>In the last few hundred years, <a href="https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/06/18/whites-blacks-apes-in-the-great-chain-of-being/" target="_self">dark-skinned peoples have been likened to apes</a> in an effort to dehumanize them and justify their oppression and exploitation. This is familiar to most Americans as something that is done peculiarly to Black people (as examples, see <a href="https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/06/16/obama-sock-monkey-toy/" target="_self">here</a>, <a href="https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2009/07/05/africa-is-wild-and-you-can-be-too/" target="_self">here</a>, and <a href="https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2009/02/18/new-york-post-monkeystimulus-bill-cartoon/" target="_self">here</a>). The history of U.S. discrimination against the Irish, however, offers an interesting comparative data point. The Irish, too, have been compared to apes, suggesting that this comparison is a generalizable tactic of oppression, not one inspired by the color of the skin of Africans.</p>
<p>Irish woman, “Bridget McBruiser,” contrasted with Florence Nightengale:<a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122515042?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122515042?profile=original" width="500" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span>A similar contrasting of the English woman (left) and the Irish woman (right):</span></p>
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<p><span>Cartoon facing off “the British Lion” and “the Irish monkey”:</span><a href="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122515328?profile=original" target="_self"><img src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122515328?profile=original" width="350" class="align-center"/></a></p>
<p><span>An Irishman, looking decidedly simian, in the left of this cartoon:</span></p>
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<p><span>The Irish and the Black are compared as equally problematic to the North and the South respectively. Notice how both are drawn to look less human:</span></p>
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<p><span>A depiction of an Irish riot (1867):</span></p>
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<p><span>An Irishman, depicted as drunk, sits atop a powderkeg threatening to destroy the U.S.:</span></p>
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<p><span>Two similar cartoons from the same source:</span></p>
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<p>About this cartoon, <a href="http://historyarthistory.gmu.edu/people/details/momalle3" target="_blank">Michael O’Malley</a> at George Mason University writes:</p>
<blockquote><p>In this cartoon, captioned “A King of -Shanty,” the comparison becomes explicit. The “Ashantee” were a well known African tribe; “shanty” was the Irish word for a shack or poor man’s house. The cartoon mocks Irish poverty, caricatures irish people as ape like and primitive, and suggests they are little different from Africans, who the cartoonists seems to see the same way. This cartroon irishman has, again, the outhrust mouth, sloping forehead, and flat wide nose of the standard Irish caricature.</p>
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<p>So, there you have it. Being compared to apes is tactic of oppression totally unrelated to skin color — that is, it has nothing to do with Black people and everything to do with the effort to exert control and power.</p>
<p>For more on anti-Irish discrimination, see our post on <a href="https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/03/23/gingerism/" target="_self">Gingerism</a>. And see our earlier post on <a href="https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2008/10/06/negative-stereotypes-of-the-irish/" target="_self">anti-Irish caricature</a>in which we touched on this before.</p>
<p><span class="ft_signature"><em><a href="http://lisa-wade.com/">Lisa Wade, PhD</a> is a professor at Occidental College. She is the author of </em><a href="https://www.amazon.com/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus/dp/039328509X?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0">American Hookup</a><em>, a book about college sexual culture, and a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade/dp/0393931072?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0">textbook about gender</a>. You can follow her on <a href="https://twitter.com/lisawade">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lisawadephd">Facebook</a>, and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lisawadephd/">Instagram</a>.</em></span></p>
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</div> How Have the Lives of Irish Women Changed?tag:thewildgeese.irish,2015-03-03:6442157:Topic:1474872015-03-03T11:11:18.203ZThe Wild Geesehttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/TheWildGeese
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<p><span class="font-size-3">From Brehon law, to the Rising, and certainly in the present day, women have always played a major role in Irish culture. On this forum, we would like to collect anecdotes about the changing lives of Irish women. Can you tell us how your Irish experience has differed from your mother's and your grandmother's? Please comment below.…</span></p>
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<p><span class="font-size-3">From Brehon law, to the Rising, and certainly in the present day, women have always played a major role in Irish culture. On this forum, we would like to collect anecdotes about the changing lives of Irish women. Can you tell us how your Irish experience has differed from your mother's and your grandmother's? Please comment below.</span></p>
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<p><span class="ssens"><span class="ssens">I took a course at an American university called "Genocides and Crimes Against Humanity." We discussed many world events and sometimes struggled with how to place them into these categories. The accepted definitions and the collective memories of the different cultures involved were sometimes at odds.…</span></span></p>
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<p><span class="ssens"><span class="ssens">I took a course at an American university called "Genocides and Crimes Against Humanity." We discussed many world events and sometimes struggled with how to place them into these categories. The accepted definitions and the collective memories of the different cultures involved were sometimes at odds.</span></span></p>
<p><span class="ssens"><span class="font-size-5"><strong>fam·ine </strong></span> <span class="main-fl"><em>noun</em></span> <span class="pr">\<span class="unicode">ˈ</span>fa-mən\</span> : extreme and protracted shortage of food, resulting in widespread hunger and a substantial increase in the death rate</span></p>
<p><span class="ssens"><span class="ssens"><strong><span class="font-size-5">geno·cide <span class="font-size-2"> </span></span></strong><span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-2"><em>noun</em></span></span> <span class="font-size-5"><span class="font-size-2">\ˈje-nə-ˌsīd\ </span></span><strong>:</strong> the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, or cultural group</span></span></p>
<p><span class="ssens"><span class="ssens">Which word best describes the events that occurred in Ireland from 1845 to 1852? Which word encapsulates the cause behind the one million bodies, and the one million emigrants that would forever change this land and it's people? Are the words mutually exclusive, or should we use both to label this tragedy? Perhaps you think a different term is the best description. </span></span></p>
<p><span class="ssens"><span class="ssens">This question has been debated before, and will be debated again, but it is a valuable one. Maybe you've never had a chance to engage in it directly. Please share your knowledge, opinions, and questions here.</span></span></p>
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<p><span class="ssens"><span class="ssens"><a target="_self" href="http://thewildgeese.com/profiles/blogs/focus-on-the-great-hunger"><img width="750" class="align-full" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/122500328?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" width="750"/></a></span></span></p> Margaret Haughery "Mother of Orphans"tag:thewildgeese.irish,2014-11-17:6442157:Topic:1282782014-11-17T17:04:58.389ZGreg Lynch Jrhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/GregLynchJr
<p>I came across this great article about Margaret Haughery in the Irish Times over the weekend. It brought home the fact there are great stories about the Irish abroad everywhere and I keep coming across them.</p>
<p>Here is a little bit about Margaret Haughery from Wikiepedia:</p>
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<blockquote><p>She opened up four orphanages in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a> area in the 19th century. Many years later in the 20th and 21st…</p>
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<p>I came across this great article about Margaret Haughery in the Irish Times over the weekend. It brought home the fact there are great stories about the Irish abroad everywhere and I keep coming across them.</p>
<p>Here is a little bit about Margaret Haughery from Wikiepedia:</p>
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<blockquote><p>She opened up four orphanages in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a> area in the 19th century. Many years later in the 20th and 21st centuries several of the asylums Margaret originally founded as places of shelter for orphans and widows evolved into homes for the elderly.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Haughery#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup></p>
<p>Margaret Gaffney Haughery (pronounced as HAW -a- ree) was a beloved historical figure in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisiana" title="Louisiana">Louisiana</a> the 1880s. Widely known as “Our Margaret,” “The Bread Woman of New Orleans" and “Mother of Orphans,” Margaret devoted her life’s work to the care and feeding of the poor and hungry, and to fund and build <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orphanages" title="Orphanages" class="mw-redirect">orphanages</a> throughout the city. The poor called her "Saint Margaret."</p>
<p>An Irish <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigrant" title="Immigrant" class="mw-redirect">immigrant</a> widow woman of many titles, Margaret was also commonly referred to as the “Angel of the Delta,” “Mother Margaret,” “Margaret of New Orleans,” the “Celebrated Margaret” and “Margaret of Tully.” A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic" title="Catholic" class="mw-redirect">Catholic</a>, she worked closely with New Orleans <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisters_of_Charity" title="Sisters of Charity">Sisters of Charity</a>, associated with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_New_Orleans" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans">Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans</a> (the second-oldest diocese in the present-day United States).</p>
<p>A woman of unsurpassed charity, Margaret became famed for her lifelong championing of the destitute. Countless thousands of all creeds considered her a living saint worthy of canonization. Born into poverty and orphaned at a young age, she began her adult life as a washwoman and a peddler — yet she died an epic businesswoman and philanthropist who received a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_funeral" title="State funeral">state funeral</a>.</p>
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<p>You can read the article about Margaret in the Irish Times here: <a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/irish-philanthropist-s-spirit-lives-on-in-new-orleans-1.2001679" target="_blank">Margret in the Irish Times</a></p> Neutral on Hitlertag:thewildgeese.irish,2014-09-18:6442157:Topic:1192032014-09-18T16:18:57.272ZPamela Wrigley Schneiderhttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/PamelaWrigleySchneider
Most interesting information. I never knew...but in light of so much media ops today no excuse feign 'i never knew'!
Most interesting information. I never knew...but in light of so much media ops today no excuse feign 'i never knew'! Neutral ... on Hitler?tag:thewildgeese.irish,2014-09-17:6442157:Topic:1185322014-09-17T09:29:46.102ZKelly O'Rourkehttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/KellyORourke
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<p>I have had several conversations recently about Irish neutrality during WWII. I am curious about the opinion of The Wild Geese community. </p>
<p>In case you are not familiar with this piece of history: Ireland, under <strong>Taoiseach Éamon de Valera</strong> maintained neutrality throughout WWII. In discussions behind the scenes, representatives of the Irish…</p>
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<p>I have had several conversations recently about Irish neutrality during WWII. I am curious about the opinion of The Wild Geese community. </p>
<p>In case you are not familiar with this piece of history: Ireland, under <strong>Taoiseach Éamon de Valera</strong> maintained neutrality throughout WWII. In discussions behind the scenes, representatives of the Irish government made statements indicating tacit support of both sides of the conflict. 50,000 Irish citizens volunteered to fight as part of the British armed forces. However, there was also sympathy towards Germany, with <strong>Fine Gael founder Eoin O'Duffy</strong> facilitating links between the IRA and the Nazis, and de Valera famously signing the book of condolence at Hitler's death. It was revealed in a 1970 biography that de Valera refused a British offer to end the partition of Ireland in exchange for Irish support of the Allies.</p>
<p> <strong>Secretary of the Department of External Affairs Joe Walshe</strong>, 1941:</p>
<blockquote><p>"... small nations like Ireland do not and cannot assume a role as defenders of just causes except [their] own ... Existence of our own people comes before all other considerations ... no government has the right to court certain destruction for its people; they have to take the only chance of survival and stay out."</p>
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<p>So, what do you say: Was Irish neutrality in WWII principled, pragmatic, or cowardly? Did "Dev" miss a chance to unite Ireland, and come out on the morally "right side" of history?</p>
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<p><em><span style="font-size: 8pt;">Reference for Walshe quotation: Collins, M.E., 1993, Ireland 1868-1966, Dublin: the Educational Company of Ireland. p. 371</span></em></p> Work! -- Tell Us How It Defines You AND Your Irish Ancestorstag:thewildgeese.irish,2014-08-29:6442157:Topic:1153582014-08-29T19:17:37.564ZMicci Pirainohttps://thewildgeese.irish/profile/MicciPiraino
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2">Beannachtaí! (Greetings!) Lá Oibre Shona! (Happy Labor Day!) On this Labor Day Weekend, as we celebrate the working people of North America, we can also reflect on the struggles, sacrifices and triumphs of our Irish ancestors.…</span></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2">Beannachtaí! (Greetings!) Lá Oibre Shona! (Happy Labor Day!) On this Labor Day Weekend, as we celebrate the working people of North America, we can also reflect on the struggles, sacrifices and triumphs of our Irish ancestors.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2"><em><span>Right, a Time Magazine cover featuring <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Meany" target="_blank">George Meany</a>, president of the AFL-CIO from 1955 to 1979. Meany was born in 1894 in the Harlem neighborhood of Manhattan, in New York City. His ancestors emigrated to the United States in the 1850s. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Meany" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a>). </span></em></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2">We invite you to share what your Irish ancestors did for work. What did they do in Ireland? Did they continue to do it when they emigrated to North America? Did they find work easily when they arrived here or did they have struggles? </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2">Do you do something similar to what they did or something altogether different to make a living? Share your story here. Go raibh maith agat! (Thank You!) The Wild Geese Team</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left;"><span class="font-size-2">By the way, Ireland celebrates <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/ireland/may-day" target="_blank">Labour Day</a> (Lá an Lucht Oibre), aka May Day (Lá Bealtaine), which transpires the first Monday of May.</span></p>