Comments about irish

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Marybel Perez Ridley: I lived in Sunset Park from 1962-1989 I moved to the midwest and I visit alot still have family there. I grew up going to sunset park and had a lot of great memories.......

in response to: Sunset Park by little ukraine

Karlo: Wrong.None of the people who walked their children to school were involved in any attacks.There had been a number of incidents involving people from both communities previous to this,and im not going to argue who......

in response to: Black and White by norniron

Sean O' Muileann: Do u think that bobby was scared, fighting for the cause is one thing, coming within an inch of your own life, knowing the risks and chances of being killed on active duty, but to......

in response to: Bobby Sands: An Cumann Cabhrach biography of 1981 by Marcella32

Liz: Dear Mr. Hammond, I was born 1948, so I don't think we hung out together, but my Mom was a nurse at St. Mary's, probably at the time your siblings were born I have......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

anon (c-69-139-11-88.hsd1.pa.comcast.net): hairsy: can,t remember the hot dog stand. I did remember cassidy's candy store at palethorpe and cambria; spring water from wissonoming park; seeing president kennedy at front and sterner st. if you get a......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Liz in Canada: I am Canadian and my ancestry is Irish/Scottish. Some of my ancestors were Catholic and some were Protestant, but I am non-religious by choice. My Irish ancestors were forced out of Ireland and......

in response to: NYC: The Empire State Building at Sunrise by Peter

Lou Romero: Amazing !! I didn't realize the quality of life and safety had began to decline as early as 1962. I know that the "white flight" was in full swing from 1965 onward, many neighboorhoods still had......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Liz: Smiling...Eastern Parkway...Irish, Italian, Jewish...how come we all knew how to get along back then??? I can remember a Jewish couple coming up to me and saying something in Yiddish, and then noticing a surprise......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Lillibette Irish expat: What most of the people that have responded to this fail to realize is that "The Troubles" in Ireland have LONG ago stopped being about religion. It was/is rather like the black-white thing in......

in response to: NYC: The Empire State Building at Sunrise by Peter

Jamie: Well, that's what i thought immediately after I made my comment. "Wee" is quite a {Scottish}/{Irish} thing to say and those windows look ever so [[1173:Scottish]] also....

in response to: While You Are Reading This.... by David G.

alan: jUST BY ASKING A SIMPLE QUESTION CONCERNING SOMEONE IN THE PAST,A ENTIRE WORLD OPENS TO YOU. I lived at 4802 Snyder and left Tilden in 1960. What a different world. My grandfather owed the buiding......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

colavitos ghost: there's a "joseph m. gallagher middle school" in my neighborhood that is home to a particularly humorous piece of partial signage. the last two letters of the first name have fallen, leaving the interesting......

in response to: El R Restau by Peter

Julian Austin-Seal: Hi Anne, thanks for your reply, tried replying earlier, but found problems posting my comment, im glad you have simmilar opinions about the film 'stand by me', now its summer and i would like to......

in response to: Irlam, Manchester by Andrew Smith

Richard Barron: What memories! My father was bar tender at Bob Renzies, 'I'and Russell Sts.Then at Lafferty's,Kensington Ave. and Madison. That was in the 50's. We lived at 'F'and Allegheny Ave.in the 60's. I went to......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Joe: As others have stated, the good memories exceed those that were bad: Joe the pretzel guy at Front & Allegheny, Christmas and the stores on the 3200 block of front St., local bakery shops and......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Aingeal: Being from the Bogside, Doire, (Derry). I've developed a strong sense of awareness, passion for all people, and the need to uphold my Irish heritage. I was saddened to read Seamus's (from the south) comments.......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

Ethereal: I too have stumbled in here by accident and I have to say I am a little scared.. I am English and me and my Irish girlfriend are going to move to Ireland within the......

in response to: snapshots on a refrigerator by manda

JimQV : A young lady named Geraldine just posted that she had moved to Bushwick Ave & Eldert St, and doesn't feel insecure. My Mom was born in a house on Eldert St is 1922. Her relatives......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

merbenz: i lived on cedar and dalphin st in kensington , the area was of irish and polish all hard working poor familys . the city let this section go . thank your city......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Michael Waugh: Our family owned a small farm called Tullach Mhor, just up the road from that paper mill. Built by an irishman, Paddy Webb. Your'e right, it did stink. Names from the past - the Fraynes......

in response to: Mans Contribution to Nature by Guy McLaren

EvilGentleman: The areas bordering Verdun are pretty much the same, as well. Pointe-Saint-Charles, east of Verdun, is historically Irish, and today is a mixed community where English is not a problem. Ville-Emard, to the north of Verdun, has......

in response to: You Know You\'re in Montreal When... by EvilGentleman

FRED MEGLIO: I LIVE IN BUSHWICK SECTION FROM 1946 TO 1979 THE 50S AND 60S WERE GREAT! LIVED 1403 GATES AVE BETWEEN WILSON AND KNICKERBOCKER AVENUES WE NEVER LOCKED OUR DOORS AT NIGHT TILL THE 70S CAME......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

Bill: Saturday Nights in the Early Fortys. 7PM Start out at the Utica Pool Hall(132 Utica Av)for a few games with Mickey, Danny, George and Jimmy 8PM Pickup come Camels at Goldman's Candy Store (145 Utica Av) On......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

Paul R Taylor : In its heyday Liverpool was the richest city in the world and was the gateway to Europe, Asia, Australia, south America, north America and the world. The River Mersey, the Irish Sea......

in response to: These Things No Longer Exist by Andrew Smith

MaGoo: I grew up on Lawn Guyland in the 70's; most of my neighbors were "caucasian-Americans" who were from Bushwick and East New York. They had been displaced by the "diversity"- when the city used THEIR......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Jason: I'm sorry to agree with Gentrification, The old Southeast Side used to be a mecca of beautiful homes with flowers and families enjoying life in the 1970's-early 80's. The area was majority Irish, Serbian......

in response to: Humboldt Park & Gentrification by Xavi

polish worker: i love the mural art but i cantunderstand why the loyalist art is so much better than the republican art.since we arrived from poland nearly four years ago we have lived in a loyalist area......

in response to: Cuban Solidarity Mural by Jamie

bill w: i was rasied there also i use to box in harrowgate gym alot has changed,i do return to feed the the drug addicts and the prostitutes and offer a better way i am now a......

in response to: Kensington, Philadelphia - July 2004 by CE

Danny: What happened at Holy Cross is Northern Irish hatred and sectarianism at its finest. Protestants target Catholic children with pipe bombs and urine, the police do nothing to arrest them, and the British media reports......

in response to: Black and White by norniron

karlo: P.S The first one is at the corner of Beechmount ave,and the Falls road in west Belfast. If you look closely,you'll see that the name of the street is 'R.P.G avenue'. ( For those who don't know,R.P.G stands......

in response to: Graffiti in Belfast by barry

karlo: I appreciate your views BBH,but i have to disagree. You should read as much as you can about the hunger strikes,or better still,take a trip to Ireland and talk to the families,friends or people who where......

in response to: Graffiti in Belfast by barry

Dee: I grew up in Bushwick as a matter of fact iwas born in Bushwick.Iwas born in Wycoff Heights hospital in 1955.I lived in the same house with my family until I married in 78 my mom......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

patrick flanagan: i think i played here in 1985 with an irish band.we also played the pickin parlourii believe the house band were called ?hill station patfla@ntlworld.com...

in response to: White Elephant by dfwtiger

Bonnie: I too lived on Wilson Ave., between Cooper and Moffit Streets -- in the 1950's. We lived on the 3rd floor of one of the cold water railroad flats, right down the street from......

in response to: A Rare Ruin in Bushwick by upfromflames

Ra: Face it u orange fucks, u ar aliens to the ilsand of ireland u wur planted like seeds by the brits to steal, murder and many other inhumane acts against the catholic irish. ...

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

EvilGentleman: My grandmother's aunt and her husband, Jack McMullen raised my grandmother through most of her childhood. My grandmother was 100% Mohawk, but was raised to love both Mohawk and Irish culture. Uncle Jack was a......

in response to: Echoes of a Proud Nation Pow-Wow 2006 by EvilGentleman

Anne M. Berger: I grew up in Brooklyn in the forties and fifties. It was truly the melting pot. I went to St. Joseph's on Sydam St. My Irish friends went to St. Lenords on Toutman?......

in response to: My House in Bushwick by matthew

hannah: i think it is very unfair how people judge us in northern ireland because of some murals. Some of the comments above are really biased. Not all Northern irish peple are secterian. i am from......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

maybetoday: I don't know much about the rest of Missouri's architecture. Because of St. Louis' role as a prominent hub for immigrants in the mid-nineteenth century to the early-twentieth century, its architecture is quite varied.......

in response to: Old North St. Louis Pt. II by maybetoday

Sandra: I stayed in Northern Ireland for five years,and found the scenery beautifull,and house prices were cheap. The weather is awful,with rain most days,The people are friendly,However Racism does excist,and unless you are irish then you are......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

EvilGentleman: I could have sworn the first conquest of Alexander was Greece. So the big question would then be, was it a civil war or an invasion? Considering the classical Greek habit of describing both Macedon......

in response to: Θεσσαλονίκη by zagg

Irish13: I was just in belfast, and there is no sign of those cocksucker prods to leave, ...

in response to: NYC: The Empire State Building at Sunrise by Peter

jack: many of the buildings constructed in the late 1800's that was used as housing by poor hispanics, blacks, jews, polish, german, italians and irish are still standing today and in livable conditions and very expensive.......

in response to: The Bushwick Initiative: Holistic Redevelopment or Urban Renewal Retrofit? by upfromflames

barry: in response to that,there are so many varying and contrating viewpoints of 'the troubles' it's impossible to categorise what has happened into one master answer,instead we must understand the plethora of viewpoints interwoven into a......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

irish adw: jonny the person that started the whole protestant religon was as u call a 'TAIG'...

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

Jamie: was this man irish, jack? and what kind of a uniform were you wearing? i like how i can be away from here for so long and come back to find the same people doing......

in response to: Gherkin Sneaks Up on You by elaine

Princess: just proves what great story tellers the Irish are I could see you smiling as you wrote this....more pleae...

in response to: Yorkville: A Neighborhood Recalled by Laura

jack: yeah, peter is from brooklyn, like me, and we are uncivilized, according to british standards, because as a nation we had lost that victorian elegence and charm. when we broke away from our mother......

in response to: Timeless Grace by Guy McLaren

JNJ: Again. The problem isn't your, "whiteness". Human phenotypes don't necessarily always reflect the genotypes. "White", just like Black, Brown, Red, Yellow, is just a generic term used to separate people for the......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

once republican: we all know what happened in the past...where has it gotten us? everybody has an opinion on why different conflicts started, if we keep bringing up the past and blaming the other side, we will......

in response to: Black and White by norniron

The Healing Leaf: Hey, Ulsterman and Republican! Yo! Interested in what my Canadian government did to our First nations people 100-150 years ago? Exactly what the British did to ALL the original Irish 400 years ago, and beyond!......

in response to: snapshots on a refrigerator by manda

JNJ: Everybody is missing the point here and underlying factor. I grew up in Humboldt Park. I lived there for 32 years. Yes, it was stressful. However, I had allot of fun......

in response to: Humbodlt Park: Don\'t leave but make it better by Delma

Rí Niall: rite this is bollocks, i read most of this n its a pile of shite. the only places that are dangerous 2 outsiders is the rundown estates, mainly places lyk ballymacash(loyalist) or turflodge(republican), simply bcos......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

Børge: I don't think the fact that oslo is an expensive city has anything to do with the high crime number. It's also a fact that oslo is unique in norwegian matter. I live in the......

in response to: Crime in Oslo by Rune-Willem

Alissa- Some where in the Midwest, USA: Being a granddaughter of a Retired Col. of the United States Airforce/ Retired Policital Science Professor, I am proud of what he and others like him (both USA/ English) who fought for freedom of the......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Joseph Sassone: I was 15 years old when Bobby Sands died and remember it rather well. The other 9 men who gave their lives for the cause are sadly overshadowed somewhat by Bobby but someone had to......

in response to: Bobby Sands: An Cumann Cabhrach biography of 1981 by Marcella32

OGLACH: MP Bobby Sands grave has been spat on! He never Died So we could Give up our right to irish independence ! Certain political groups gave it up! look it up! He never died so......

in response to: Bobby Sands: An Cumann Cabhrach biography of 1981 by Marcella32

Karlo: Volunteer Im not trying to convince you of my views,i am merely trying to reach an understanding with you as a human being. If i were standing next to you,i would offer you my sincere condolences and......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

anon (host81-138-12-194.in-addr.btopenworld.com): Going back to April or something, I just have to say that probably the same proportion of blacks are in UK prisons if not higher. I know because I have been inside some. The US......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Sally: That's funny, Moore. Like you, we would like the millions of Irish out of England too. Reminds me of the joke: Why are the Irish over in England singing about the green grass back......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Disgusted: Myself personly, i am DISGUSTED with the whole protestant/catholic british/irish issue. I myself am a protestant and i love Ireland to me its the best country in the world. I consider myself an irish man (that......

in response to: Black and White by norniron

Karlo: Ok ok,now you ARE funny. 'Loyalists the world over'.... Oh,you mean your support groups such as Combat 18 (for those who dont know,C18 is a 100% Nazi organisation..18 stands for the 1st and 8th letters of the......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

Moore: Thats a funny picture, but i do somewhat agree with it being that im Irish and would like the british out of Ireland....

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Nick: I'm embaressed by the number of stupid Brits here who have come looking for an arguement, by slagging off the US in the most derogatory, assinine way possible. I'm a Brit and I also *shock......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

doc 12th aug 20.01: for the people of west belfast(anderstown) and a far. he stood up for the rights of irish people and irish freedom his memory will live on forever in our hearts and soul a brave young......

in response to: Bobby Sands: An Cumann Cabhrach biography of 1981 by Marcella32

Susannah : I also have to say that people who want to look to the past all of the time are just looking for excuses and someone to blame for their dissatisfaction with themselves. I grew......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

Patrick McMahon: Its ha tobe the Irish inme. Aye,aim part o irish but more oft the roman in me. Hackneyed as I am, wot wid the Mohican of bakyard descent, I find it difficult not to......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

Happy Grammie: Being half Irish (but not hungry), I would like to know what this sign is all about. I live in Canada but visited Battery Park in New York City last year but never saw all......

in response to: Battery park( NYC) memorials and sculptures by barry

ZooPaul: Right on Anon The only rational response to conflict is the restoration of harmony. I was born in Canada of Catholic parents from the Republic of Ireland, and came to Ireland when I was 4. I remember......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

TheTruth: Nice try at history, Sylvia, but you've missed some huge factors. My family was part of that 1st wave of nonwhites to integrate Bushwick in the 1950s. They weren't Gentry -- sorry--even though they were......

in response to: I\'ve lived in Bushwick for just about fifteen years by Jeanne M.

EvilGentleman: Since most of Northern Ireland seems to be broken up into Catholic and Protestant areas, why not just let the Protestant areas remain as British enclaves, while the rest of Northern Ireland merges with the......

in response to: Northern Ireland is the most intrguing of places by Jamie

teresa 25/06/2006: i came to Australia in 1972 with my family I was only 9 years of age. I have been home twice since then. I would go home tomorrow to live, only I married......

in response to: Northern Ireland is the most intrguing of places by Jamie

barry: You no know alot more about some things than alot of Irish to....

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

Jamie: i've just sat and read this entire thread end to end and i have to say, i think there are a lot of sticks being firmly grasped by the wrong ends. Northern Ireland is a......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

loyal: America is a great place( Well it was till the civil war,) you have no history so you have to cling on to Irish roots which hardly any of you have.you have not won a......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

C.D. MORRIS...ALABAMA,U.S.A.: I BELIEVE IF I WERE IRISH...I WOULD WANT MY OWN COUNTRY. THE NORTHERN YANKESS WANTED TO IMPOSE THEIR WILL ON OUR SOUTHERN STATES...AND WEE FOUGHT BACK.WE WANTED OUR SOVEREIGNTY...OUR OWN COUNTRY...CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICA,TO LIVE......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

Grange: geshhhhhhhhh , fighting among the irish , some times I think the worlds gone nuts . Maybe ya should just get it over with ,then the scots can have a go settling the land..lol........

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

mikey irish: some of the best bakeries anywhere in the city are in astoria- remember kury's...

in response to: Ditmars Avenue, Sweets by GGP

Stoney: You gave the most precious gift anyone can give. The gift of life. Because of your unselfish act we so called republicans in the South are blessed with the standard of life we have now.We......

in response to: Bobby Sands: An Cumann Cabhrach biography of 1981 by Marcella32

taylor: fuck that giv ireland back till the irish im frm tyrone an poud an prod we introduced civilized behaviour wen u all wer fucking barbarians and slaughtering the scottish an english hundreds of years ago......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

Fionnừala R: Hello, I am from Portadown, Co. Armagh and I have to say that most of the people on dis do nah no wat dey r talkin bit! yas are all talkin aload o crap. I......

in response to: Urban Street Propoganda by Jamie

Ronan - North Belfast: Ardoyne is in NORTH Belfast!!! Reggie it's bigotted people like you that hinder progression in such segregated societies, calling them "lazy, car stealing, pensioner mugging ballbags" is a gross over generalisation, how many people have you......

in response to: Black and White by norniron

rich: 1 year after leaving chi. the navy sent me to san juan pr. i couldnt beleave how clean it was.i was only 19, but it hit me right away.and the people were great.this white irish......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

EvilGentleman: Aw darn! I thought I had stumbled across an Irish Sushi bar. Or maybe it is owned by an Irishman who is the son of a man named Sushi. I mean, there is an O'Toole......

in response to: O\'Sushi by EvilGentleman

Goats: Me too Frankster! I'd be laughing my ass off, taking pictures, and doing an irish jig!...

in response to: A Grisly Example of Man\'s Inhumanity by GGP

Elicar: Holy Carapolla Peter! This really got you going. I really did not read your write up when I first saw this post. Here I was, admiring your "class" in dealing with {Irish Mike}/{Mike} in {Fuck......

in response to: Criminalize Greed, Not Graffiti by Peter

Carltan : yea...you people kinda sum up what i was thinking...i've never been to ireland although i am scottish and irish...when i go there it better not look like that ( i kno it doesnt) ANYWAY i......

in response to: Cross Street and Blossom 2002 by Jamie

anon (p54907093.dip.t-dialin.net): Hi I'm half German. I live in England and have done for 3 years. I like a lot of the people there, as you do in every country you meet good people and bad people.......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

a.l.m: I'm an American and I'm a history major with a concentration in European History. Since I am of Irish ancestry, I have naturally done substantial research on Ireland and my heritage. I am......

in response to: The Bogside by norniron

Big REd: Irish mike is definetly right, i think were forgetting that england is a graff writer but whatever, the point is everythings fucked up and instead of fighting eachother, we should be joining up to fight......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

jack: in our class there were mostly irish and italians. a few polish and a couple of germans. there was one boy we picked up on the way to school who lived down our......

in response to: The Meatball Caper by jack

rich: grew up pierce/kedzie in the fiftys,hood was mostly norwegians/poles and irish.2 luthern churches, at pierce/spalding and lemoyne/spalding, not much crime at all,kings were just starting near div.st,we were the hirsch st lords. one of the......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

EvilGentleman: Having lived through a different type of troubles, I know how hard it can be to deal with the legacies of colonialism. My ancestors fought the French for the British (and won!), they fought the......

in response to: Ulster Young Militants: Shankhill by norniron

Irish Mike: I'm an Irishman born and bred. I lived in the USA for five years in the eighties and for ten in England. I later lived in Japan and Korea and now call China home. So......

in response to: Fuck England by Peter

Jamie: heh peter, sounds much like irish chinese take-aways. or at least the ones where i used to live in {northern ireland} whos mainstay are chips, french fried onions and {curry fried rice} which is a......

in response to: Building Slice by Peter

PolishGayIrishIndianWhiteHUMAN: The whole area has been changing forever. It was once all Polish and Eastern Europeans. We never complained when others moved in or out of the area. Chicago is the most segregated mentally challenged City......

in response to: Humboldt Park by corsakti

John: Dia daoibh Northern Ireland is just the most extreme part of Ireland/UK that most of you bozos have been able to experience. Go visit Kosovo. Go visit the Middle East. I doubt if any of you......

in response to: Northern Ireland is the most intrguing of places by Jamie

EvilGentleman: The Blarney Stone is a fine Irish tradition, but one has to wonder, is it full of STD's and other communicable illnesses? Jack, I remember a little bit of the skirt thing from the 1970's, but......

in response to: What on Earth Is That Man Doing!!?? by SSRS

EvilGentleman: Wow! You survived an Irish Bar while wearing the Union Jack? They musta thought either A: This woman is just another typical American tourist who failed geography class (Note to USA: I know that this......

in response to: Cat\'s Brave Battle with the Snow. by Catherine Penfold-Waxman

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: Thanks EvilGentleman! I know to the Canadians, a couple of feet of snow is practically summer, but I was quite surprised when the schneider shovel and I went out there. I'm thrilled at the prospect......

in response to: Cat\'s Brave Battle with the Snow. by Catherine Penfold-Waxman