tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post4797635781728316220..comments2023-08-04T21:25:23.543+01:00Comments on A Heron's View: Sailing Across the PondA Heron's Viewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-39963677221079445162017-11-01T23:16:30.244+00:002017-11-01T23:16:30.244+00:00I will take your words as gospel :-) for we do not...I will take your words as gospel :-) for we do not have a TV by choice. From what I can make out news of Ireland's plight reached quite a few countries. I heard that a Prince in India wanted to send a couple of thousand sovereigns and was not allowed to send more than Queen Victoria's donation because it would look bad...!A Heron's Viewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-20436743578196722017-11-01T21:56:24.831+00:002017-11-01T21:56:24.831+00:00Hi Mel, the US blighted spuds info was in a docume...Hi Mel, the US blighted spuds info was in a documentary on rte years ago im sure it was on the gerry ryan show an episode which was dedicated to the 'famine' subject.<br />yes the choctaw representatives visited cobh, that was early this year when a monument to their help was unveiled.<br /> isnt it amazing that they heard about the plight of the irish and did something about it when they had so little themselvesOdinsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-82615364154478505492017-10-31T13:53:33.926+00:002017-10-31T13:53:33.926+00:00Thank you for your comment Odinson.
To your questi...Thank you for your comment Odinson.<br />To your question. I have never heard of Ireland having received blighted potatoes from the U.S. . <br />Although, I am very well aware that financial aid was received from The Cherokee and Choctaw tribes at that time. Indeed at tree was planted by some of Cherokee people's descendants on Lloyd Hill near Kells in Co. Meath to mark their gift (planted in the 90's because I was there) and there is also a sculpture from the Choctaw in Cork to mark the occasion of their gift.A Heron's Viewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-18948290367081747022017-10-31T12:37:54.823+00:002017-10-31T12:37:54.823+00:00thanx for sharing Mel, this subject can lead on to...thanx for sharing Mel, this subject can lead on to a huge debate with so many threads that its probably impossible to discuss here. But, famine is a misnomer, there was not a famine, and you noted that; the ships manifests show the huge amount of food shipped out of Eire at that time, genocide is imho a more suitable word. i do have a question though. Some aid came from the U.S. Did the americans know they shipped potatoes with blight into Eire?Odinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16293506233711624480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-28848236796351442872017-10-08T05:20:39.691+01:002017-10-08T05:20:39.691+01:00Many thanks for your appreciation Jack.Many thanks for your appreciation Jack.A Heron's Viewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-37539529904075163072017-10-08T05:19:36.024+01:002017-10-08T05:19:36.024+01:00Jack L said:
A nice written piece on the ships whi...Jack L said:<br />A nice written piece on the ships which carried all those people off to a new life in N. America....although many Irish immigrants certainly made their way to the New England states of America, many Irish imigrants also made Canada their new home. The Atlantic provinces in particular Newfoundland has a distinctly Irish 'feel' to it. <br /><br />Must admit as lovely as though sailing ships are, I can imagine the jouney across the Atlantic would have entailed many difficulties, and hardships...and then landing on the foreign shores and to go where??? Must have been very confusing and frightening at times..but then facing the spectre of starvation or your livelihood stolen from you... a new fresh start, in a new land would seem no less a gamble I think!<br /><br />Great touch to add the link to the passenger lists on these ships...I guess my great-grandmother and her Father (Francis Cousins) both would have sailed on one of these ships too, I think it was around 1884..according to a family history book. I might take a trip one day to the area they came from, around the vicinty of Lough Neagh.A Heron's Viewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-10496676173263712102017-10-06T01:14:16.547+01:002017-10-06T01:14:16.547+01:00Yes you are quite right Val and thank you for the ...Yes you are quite right Val and thank you for the comment.A Heron's Viewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-9993629291245894822017-10-05T22:12:18.633+01:002017-10-05T22:12:18.633+01:00If you go back far enough, everyone everywhere is ...If you go back far enough, everyone everywhere is a blow-in from somewhere else, aren't they? Like you, Mel, I have no desire to cross the pond, but the Irish have always been great travellers and I love it that they have 'blown out' to so many countries across the globe. What a beautiful ship the Dunbrody was/is!Vallypeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08309284606572565277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-60895628606576152882017-10-05T21:22:39.336+01:002017-10-05T21:22:39.336+01:00Oh' really !Oh' really !A Heron's Viewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-38055353658676917332017-10-05T21:19:35.139+01:002017-10-05T21:19:35.139+01:00A great many thanks Suzie for your comments. Yes a...A great many thanks Suzie for your comments. Yes as you said about todays immigrants and the terrible journeys that they are experiencing. I wanted to bring that to peoples minds via the blog and then I decided that hopefully it might nudge folk into awareness anyway...and again hopefully!A Heron's Viewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-71019042870157832102017-10-05T19:18:28.212+01:002017-10-05T19:18:28.212+01:00Great emigration data bases. I have read the phra...Great emigration data bases. I have read the phrase: Blow In was given to Irish emigrants to Australia in the Fifties. northsider https://www.blogger.com/profile/00716743611909673869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-14255633179099523832017-10-05T18:48:18.913+01:002017-10-05T18:48:18.913+01:00Lovely photos Mel and thanks for informing me of t...Lovely photos Mel and thanks for informing me of this eternal flame, I think it's a beautiful way to reflect on the movement of people. As I read the poem I though of all those people travelling even now in desperate situations to reach better places.SeagullSuziehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15857680854262709165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-6457032599444781302017-10-05T15:59:17.948+01:002017-10-05T15:59:17.948+01:00Touched :-)Touched :-)A Heron's Viewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-27411432841864747502017-10-05T15:46:13.664+01:002017-10-05T15:46:13.664+01:00:) Love, cat.:) Love, cat.^.^https://www.blogger.com/profile/17422876955246850636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-19983472143871179062017-10-05T13:52:32.335+01:002017-10-05T13:52:32.335+01:00Hello Graham, Thank you for your well considered p...Hello Graham, Thank you for your well considered points of view, some of which made me smile... except that I have yet to sing praises of my birth land... there is perhaps a slim chance of that, but I doubt it. <br />I shall refrain from stating my thoughts on your last sentence :-)A Heron's Viewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-77685644686563369042017-10-05T13:18:35.339+01:002017-10-05T13:18:35.339+01:00I came from Liverpool. Everyone in Liverpool was a...I came from Liverpool. Everyone in Liverpool was a blow-in of one sort or another. <br /><br />Blow-ins from one place are blow-outs from another place. <br /><br />I always find it incomprehensible that blow-ins who have already established themselves immediately forget they are blow-ins. However they never forget their 'homeland' and always sing its praises. But offer them the opportunity to return and the offer is rarely taken up.<br /><br />Obviously what I have said is a generalisation but if believe it to have a certain basic truth. The sad thing, as has already been said, we are all pretty much descended from the same origins. And if one believes in God then we are all his children. Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-56099281496673408262017-10-05T11:07:28.544+01:002017-10-05T11:07:28.544+01:00Thank you very much for your contribution Patsy an...Thank you very much for your contribution Patsy and appreciation. I well know what it is too have itchy feet<br />too, which is why we go on lots of trips to combat the cabin fever. My personal take when asked about my roots is that home is where I lay my head !A Heron's Viewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-33831877890403796572017-10-05T10:52:51.246+01:002017-10-05T10:52:51.246+01:00Having lived in almost every county in Erie during...Having lived in almost every county in Erie during the years we travelled in a horse drawn wagon, I have spent more time being a 'blow in' than most. I must say it is a great feeling when one finally feels part of the community, however. I am getting itchy feet again xAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14953271808700939516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-51270733399923231822017-10-05T09:09:49.576+01:002017-10-05T09:09:49.576+01:00Thank you for commenting Shawn; there need not hav...Thank you for commenting Shawn; there need not have been starvation in Ireland when the potato crop failed because the glut of grain instead of being shipped to England would have fed the people. Incidentally a similar catastrophe occurred in Scotland in 1860.A Heron's Viewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-73184895132512922712017-10-05T08:42:47.220+01:002017-10-05T08:42:47.220+01:00Thank you for your input... our origins are closel...Thank you for your input... our origins are closely related.A Heron's Viewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-6505497780989866562017-10-05T08:39:11.143+01:002017-10-05T08:39:11.143+01:00Thank you for your compliments Hilary... as you sa...Thank you for your compliments Hilary... as you say needs must...myself I have never been attracted to go across the pond... other than the Celtic Sea which I have crossed many times.A Heron's Viewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-3528427169851263272017-10-05T08:26:34.189+01:002017-10-05T08:26:34.189+01:00You are very welcome :-)You are very welcome :-)A Heron's Viewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06563706152609630696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-34674047668979436412017-10-05T08:21:38.197+01:002017-10-05T08:21:38.197+01:00According to a documentary TV programme I watched ...According to a documentary TV programme I watched recently if you're not an African then you're descended from a handful of people who crossed the Bab-el-Mandeb strait into Arabia - that's whether you're Chinese, European, Inuit or even Irish. John "By Stargoose And Hanglands"https://www.blogger.com/profile/00832873074550725579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-21437699040894382442017-10-05T07:55:19.327+01:002017-10-05T07:55:19.327+01:00Hi Mel - what a lovely post ... sadly time is runn...Hi Mel - what a lovely post ... sadly time is running somewhere round me - but I'd love to spend time looking for more ... I think I'm plain English ... but no doubt back in the bowels of time there's a wee mixture in me ... perhaps some Cornish and definitely some north London - but me is now just me! My uncle did our father's family tree for us back in the 70s ... he was an engineer - so had the facilities to have it typed up in a long spread-sheet over the 300+ years ... <br /><br />Wonderful ships - the thought of travelling across the Atlantic or even the Irish Sea doesn't bear thinking about - but if needs must ... I'd go! Cheers HilaryHilary Melton-Butcherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17596532480645510678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3069061569253153388.post-62654953318668623382017-10-05T05:45:26.279+01:002017-10-05T05:45:26.279+01:00Thank you for that interesting like. I'm amaz...Thank you for that interesting like. I'm amazed to find 561 people with my husband's last name there, and it's not that common of a name, at least here in the States. Sara at Come Away With Mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07677354270954094291noreply@blogger.com