Clare · Pictures

19th/20th Century Pictures of Tivoli Terrace, Lisdoonvarna

I went to the Valuation Office in Dublin yesterday for the second time in a week. I pulled up records in relation to where my great, great-grandfather lived after he left our older home in Ardeamush, Lisdoonvarna. I posted about that home here. Michael Considine (b.1861) lived in a place called Tivoli Terrace on Main St. in the townland of Rathbaun,…… Continue reading 19th/20th Century Pictures of Tivoli Terrace, Lisdoonvarna

Irish · Irish Diaspora

How Irish Slaves Were Worse Off Than African Slaves During 19th Century, USA

19th century Irish immigrants fled from desperate poverty and arrived to the US in destitute conditions … In the United States, the Irish experienced not only religious and political bigotry, but they were also discriminated against through racial overtones. The use of racism against the Irish was at times more prevalent than the racist discrimination…… Continue reading How Irish Slaves Were Worse Off Than African Slaves During 19th Century, USA

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Ralph Waldo Emerson on thought and the prison

Truth is our element of life, yet if a man fasten his attention on single aspect of truth, and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself, but falsehood; herein reassembling the air, which is our natural element, and the breath of our nostrils, but if a…… Continue reading Ralph Waldo Emerson on thought and the prison