“In the 1870s it was estimated that a third of all the money in the Irish economy came from money sent by kindhearted Irish servant girls to their families. The Emigrant Industrial Savings Bank in New York alone would send more than $30 million to Ireland between 1850 and 1880. Many families in Ireland owed their survival to what they gratefully called the "American Letter," a lifeline that helped them cope with brutal poverty and lack of opportunity.” IrishIrishmenIrish WriterIrish HistoryIrish AmericaIrish Women Book:F*ck You I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome Source: F*ck You I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome
“Cork-born Mother Jones was renowned as a dramatic orator who relished props, curses, and all kinds of attention-getting tactics--sound at all Irish to you? She exaggerated her age, referring to strikers not too much younger than herself as "my boys" and donning frumpish costumes to emphasize her "motherly appearance.” IrishIrishmenIrish WriterIrish HistoryIrish AmericaIrish In America Book:F*ck You I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome Source: F*ck You I'm Irish: Why We Irish Are Awesome