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PoindexterOglethorpe

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5. Not too long. Thank you for all that.

Reply to Hekate (Reply #2)

Wed Nov 13, 2019, 01:25 PM

Nov 2019

My grandparents' children all married fellow Irish Americans. The very first time I went to Ireland in 1972, I was completely amazed to see that every single person there looked just like my brothers and sisters and cousins.

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Noel Ignatiev, scholar who called for abolishing whiteness, dies at 78 [View all] Hekate Nov 2019 OP

I believe I've read that after the Civil War, landlords in DC preferred to rent to former slaves PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2019 #1

The Irish in my family came at different times in the 1800s... Hekate Nov 2019 #2

But it is all a tangle pecosbob Nov 2019 #3

Not too long. Thank you for all that. PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2019 #5

K&R and it's ironic that many white people try to equalize plight of Irish people to black people ck4829 Nov 2019 #4

I was briefly on Face Book, & was sent an essay about how the indentured servitude of the Irish was Hekate Nov 2019 #6