When Auntie Shea came from Ireland, she only spoke Gaelic . She found her way to Bloody Plank Road by going from firehouse to firehouse and asking directions. ( She apparently discovered that at least one fireman was a recent Irish immigrant, who spoke Gaelic, or they could point to someone in the community familiar with Gaelic.)
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The party helped these descendants of Ireland escape the anti – Irish prejudice that had confined the hated “ Micks ” to Irish ghettos like Bloody Plank Road. The Democratic Party granted the perquisites of political power to Irish-Americans because the close-knit Irish families reliably delivered the necessary votes keeping the party in power.
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…how he came, lived, worked, played and suffered until he was recognized as a patriotic, useful and respected citizen, no longer a ‘frog’ and ‘pea soup eater,’ a despised Canuck.
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Flippant and sorrowful by turns, he read his books of history frantically, looking for a fact or story that would trigger his insight and give
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I have to admit to being conflicted about this book. The good: The illustrations are wonderful and the story is an exciting wild west adventure
Continue reading »We had been taught not to look back. We had been trained to disconnect from family and our homelands. We had swapped our stories for
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