The Irish were a miserable people, and there was a saying in the 19th century, "It's hard to see an Irishman with gray hair" because the average Irish life expectancy is only 40 years. Of course, the "Irish" in this statement mainly refers to immigrants from the State of Ireland and the State of Ireland, and the Northern Irish are not included, because the group is actually British, which is very different from the Irish. So why are the Irish so tragic in modern times, and what have they done to get rid of it?
The Irish painting style is more special
(1) The tragedy of Ireland in England
When you think of Ireland, you may first think that this is a small country on the edge of the United Kingdom, and then you may wonder why it is so close but not part of the United Kingdom. The answer was simple, because the British had enslaved the Irish before, and finally the Irish fought back, and eventually a large part of them broke away from the clutches of the British.
Ireland was once enslaved by the British
The Irish were very resentful of the British, and coupled with the death of the British during the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s, the Irish hatred of Britain was deeply rooted in the marrow. In the 1840s, when Ireland's potato harvest was so large that about 1 million people died from the famine, the British basically did everything in their power to prevent the Irish from rescuing them, and it was possible that for the British, the dead Irish were good Irish.
Desperate Irishman
By 1914, Ireland's population was half that of the 1840s, partly because too many people had died that year and partly because of Ireland's determination to escape the clutches of the British. So where are these Irish going? The answer is the place where the rebellion against the British succeeded in the United States of America.
(2) The Irish
Among these immigrants in the United States, in addition to the African Americans who were caught selling, the Chinese workers who were forced to sell their labor, and some Europeans who came to break into the docks, these were basically the first men to arrive, and others came again. But the Irish are different, the Irish are a family of old and young, the Irish can not put the old and weak women and children under the enslavement of the British.
Early image of the Irish
But Ireland was so poor under British rule that it was sometimes difficult to sell its property for a ferry ticket to the United States. At that time, if the native Irish wanted to immigrate, they generally had to rely on the remittance of money from overseas Chinese in the United States, so that these people could have the opportunity to immigrate to the United States. When it became clear that America was not a paradise, according to the 1855 statistics of the State of New York, a quarter of the Irish were domestic servants and a quarter were manual laborers, which meant that the Irish were at the bottom when they arrived in the United States.
(3) Irish immigrants who stirred up American society
In the United States, Ireland served as the lowest level of labor, even less than some blacks. They generally do hard work such as digging coal, building roads and digging canals. In addition, the Irish also like to abandon their wives and children, and in the United States in the 1840s there was a saying, "People will invariably assume that all orphans are descendants of the Irish." ”
The Irish had just arrived in the United States, had no capital and land, and they liked to live in groups, and they were incompatible with other American immigrants, so they fought continuously. In the 1850s, more than half of the prisoners arrested in New York were Irish, and now many movies and TELEVISION series that reflect the early gangsters in the United States have irish protagonists.
American gangster film directly named "The Irishman"
But the hard days of the Irish don't last forever, because they're united, they're working hard, they're united, so they're the first to get ahead politically. In the elections, they elected their representatives with a strong appeal, and there will be no denigration of the peoples of their ancestral countries, that is, there is no basis for people like Zean-Young, which is also a major factor in the success of the Irish.
The Kennedys were Irish
Through numerical superiority, Ireland took power and naturally took control of the political machine. In new York, for example, in 1855, about 30% of the city's police were Irish, and it can be said that Ireland almost controlled a major domination of the violent organs. By the end of the 19th century, the Irish were almost in the police force and the fire department.
(4) Conclusion
Through continuous struggle, Ireland has become a cornerstone of American society, and now 8% of Americans are of Irish descent, who have shed their original status as Dalits and have changed from the sad peasants in the British colonies to a major force in the world's first power.