"This Sunday became known as Bloody Sunday and bloody it was. It was quite unnecessary. It strikes me that the Army ran amok that day and shot without thinking what they were doing. They were shooting innocent people. These people may have been taking part in a march that was banned but that does no...
Their disbelief turned to disgust and angst when King Henry II returned to England and claimed himself the ruler of Ireland. ... As the ships docked, the Immigrants were greeted by hundreds of runners, usually large greedy men, that flooded aboard the ship grabbing the Irish Immigrants and their bags trying to force them to their favorite tenement house and then demanded an outrageous fee for their services. ... The country was growing and it needed men to do the heavy work of building bridges, canals, and railroads. ... In many Irish families, it was the women who pushed the men upwards in ...
