And your lot took the soup.
Get mature ffs , having a laugh at a famine memorial, cop on or even grow up, sorry pal had to put you on ignore, I’ll let u out after the new year, but only of you’re a good boy
Go way you gowl.
They were dead all along.
These figures are surprising.
On one hand its surprising as, in my own head, you’d think early 1800s far more if not majority spoke Irish.
Other hand when you consider population of the island was what, around 7/8m? So 3m people or so speaking the language is a significant number.
Given that the bulk of that 3m probably died or emigrated it means the vast majority of us aren’t descended from Irish speakers at all
Irish was the spoken language of the five points area in New York in the 1850s. That will tell you who emigrated in the main
Thats why most of you cant speak Irish.
I just presumed in the 1800s that everyone spoke Irish.
Any idea of NYC population pre-Famine?
300,000 in 1840
800,000 in 1860
He was from Bruree, not Rathkeale
This is a good one
I thought he was a bit of a blowhard.
Oh he was. All bluster. All them auld veterans were like that. But they earned that right I suppose.
Gay the West Brit that he was lapping it up the lickspittle
Give me Johnny over Jack in my troop
