The emerald Isle
Mar. 17th, 2015 12:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
arcane_brooklynite13 In honor of St. Patrick's day I bring you a poem
A lot of the Irish came to USA in the late 1700's shortly after the revolutionary war, but the big surge of the Irish coming to America was in the 1840's due to the Famine that struck the land.
I'm sure that the lucky ones that survived the Famine were still holding the desire to come back to their home. Maybe some of their descendants did come back to the emerald Isle.
Despite the fact that Ireland was struck by Famine that wiped out half of the population , the Irish never forgot about their steadfast catholic faith.
St. Patrick was their venerated and famous saint in Ireland despite of him being an English slave / son of a roman Prefect.
He went to Ireland as a slave and although he did hard labor on the farm he was in , his master was a follower of the pagan religion probably a druid follower and he saw how they respected nature but in an usual way.
When he gained his freedom when a voice told him to go back to his parents in England, then when he became a bishop he had heard the voices of the Irish people begging for his return, but other than hearing their voices I bet he wanted to go back despite of him seeing pagan rituals he held no grudge for the land. He died in Ireland , it was there that his remains stayed.
A lot of the Irish came to USA in the late 1700's shortly after the revolutionary war, but the big surge of the Irish coming to America was in the 1840's due to the Famine that struck the land.
I'm sure that the lucky ones that survived the Famine were still holding the desire to come back to their home. Maybe some of their descendants did come back to the emerald Isle.
Despite the fact that Ireland was struck by Famine that wiped out half of the population , the Irish never forgot about their steadfast catholic faith.
St. Patrick was their venerated and famous saint in Ireland despite of him being an English slave / son of a roman Prefect.
He went to Ireland as a slave and although he did hard labor on the farm he was in , his master was a follower of the pagan religion probably a druid follower and he saw how they respected nature but in an usual way.
When he gained his freedom when a voice told him to go back to his parents in England, then when he became a bishop he had heard the voices of the Irish people begging for his return, but other than hearing their voices I bet he wanted to go back despite of him seeing pagan rituals he held no grudge for the land. He died in Ireland , it was there that his remains stayed.
