Ryan Hackney Quotes

#1. Interestingly, some of the worst anti-Irish discrimination came from the Scotch-Irish, who wanted to make clear that they were a different group from the impoverished newcomers.

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#2. And if you can't go to heaven, May you at least die in Ireland.

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#3. You can't swing a cat in Ireland without hitting a saint.

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#4. The first volume of Irish folktales was Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland, published in 1825 by Thomas Croker from Cork.

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#5. The malnourished Irish were very vulnerable to diseases. In fact, more people died from illness than from actual starvation. Typhus

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#6. Potatoes came to Europe from the New World in the early sixteenth century. Sir Francis Drake is thought to have introduced the potato to England, and shortly afterward Sir Walter Raleigh tried planting them on his Irish estates. When

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#7. It's no use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking. If

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#8. Leave the table hungry. Leave the bed sleepy. Leave the table thirsty. Here

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#9. The Irish mingled their Christianity with folk beliefs in fairies and changelings.

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#10. Most of the first voluntary Irish immigrants came from Ulster in the north of Ireland. These immigrants were generally, although not exclusively, Protestants. They were known as "Scotch-Irish" or "Scots Irish,

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#11. Cholera was always a problem in unsanitary, crowded conditions; it broke out in workhouses throughout the famine years. When

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#12. Ireland was a different place after the famine. The population was drastically reduced - an island of 8.2 million people in 1841 was reduced to 6 million in 1851. At least 1 million of those people had died. The rest fled the country, hoping for a new life in another land.

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#13. Vowels Irish marks long vowels with an accent; short vowels have no accent. Here are the main vowel sounds:

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