tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939752311253681195.post906823570632615995..comments2024-01-29T05:14:23.927-05:00Comments on A Sense of Family: Castle Garden Immigrants, 1882Shelley Bishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07488453243236670013noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939752311253681195.post-5509332797774466582012-10-15T22:56:08.075-04:002012-10-15T22:56:08.075-04:00It is a colorful article, and I actually think the...It is a colorful article, and I actually think the writer intended it to be complimentary, at least for the most part. He seems to have a good bit of admiration for these immigrants who can stand tall and proud, despite the fact that they're strangers in a strange land. I can't even imagine the challenges they must have faced. Thanks for commenting, Mariann!Shelley Bishophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07488453243236670013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939752311253681195.post-30927033718212041762012-10-15T22:39:08.609-04:002012-10-15T22:39:08.609-04:00That's an interesting perspective, isn't i...That's an interesting perspective, isn't it? I didn't realize that America was perceived as such a rough country by the Irish. It's neat to go back and read these accounts now as little historical time capsules. Thanks for reading and sharing this piece!Shelley Bishophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07488453243236670013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939752311253681195.post-9138410750980369062012-10-15T19:42:26.681-04:002012-10-15T19:42:26.681-04:00A colorful article, in spite of (maybe also becaus...A colorful article, in spite of (maybe also because of) all the ethnic stereotypes the writer repeats and embellishes so liberally. It's well crafted as prose: "They can look you right straight in the face without being ashamed." Whatever else, the writing is as you say ... vivid and descriptive. I'm surprised that so many of these stereotypes are still "going strong" in our culture--at least for Swedes, Norwegians, and Italians. If you find an article describing German emigrants, I wonder if it will be a composite of stereotypes as well. Thanks! I enjoyed reading this.Mariann Reganhttp://mariannregan.authorsxpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8939752311253681195.post-10210474496677135842012-10-15T11:22:50.609-04:002012-10-15T11:22:50.609-04:00Great blog. I like looking at the newspapers too. ...Great blog. I like looking at the newspapers too. My ancestors were all Irish. One family arrived on July 8, 1861. I found an article in the NY Times that day on the emigration statistics.<br /><br />"The falling off in the Irish element lately may, perhaps, be accounted for, in part, by the extraordinary news from America, which is circulated among the British and Irish emigrants at the various points of embarkation, as well as among the peasantry of the agricultural districts. It is believed by everybody over there, (according to the accounts of venturesome Hibernians lately landed here,) that the people all over America are slaughtering each other like savages, and that they were fighting furiously even in the streets of New-York; while the very latest intelligence at the emigrant head-quarters in Liverpool was that the inhabitants of New-York had all taken to their heels and were running for their lives -- no one knew where. Of course no son of Erin would ever think of going over to America, or New-York -- which is about the same thing -- after he heard that; for, though Pat is proverbially of a belligerent turn of mind, and has lately shown himself as happy to wield a rifle in Virginia as heretofore a shillelagh at Donnybrook, it could hardly be expected that he would emigrate, with his wife and his brood of young ones to a country where a general scrimmage ended in a universal flight for life."<br /><br />There's more about other immigrants including the Germans who were considered to be better informed.<br />I don't know if this link will work:<br /><br />http://www.nytimes.com/1861/07/08/news/european-emigration-to-this-port-for-the-half-year.html?scp=10&sq=falling+off&st=pThe Colbert Whelan Family Historyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08143553117258587689noreply@blogger.com