Originally Posted by
Gnomie
Unless I have missed something
I would like to know why the city is not marking any event to the Irish coming into this city( many by force ).
Force? The rich of Dublin paid to get the starving people off the streets and paid for them to be sent to Liverpool. The city sent some back.
A huge percentage of this city have Irish blood in them,
A "huge" percentage? Well most people are of English decent, being in England that is no surprise. The next is the Welsh, being on the Welsh border that is no surprise - and the strong influence in the accent. The Welsh built many of the areas of the city. Most of Bootle and large parts of Toxteth and Walton too.
The Irish have certainly left their mark here. I know we have the Wigwam named Paddy, but surely something should be done to mark what happened during and after the Famine.
There is a plaque on the Clarence Dock gates. However you are right. The Irish who came to the city were in about 1.5 million - most left immediately.
There are mass graves around the city of the people who died of disease epidemics. Not all Irish.
Many passed through Liverpools port, and many made Liverpool their home.
They lived in some of the worst poverty ever witnessed in this city, yet they survived, and helped shape it into what it is now.
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I just feel a bit miffed when its capital of culture and nothing seems to be getting done ( I hope im proved wrong, but please not an official Irish dance at the town hall please ) Yes I have a big Irish connection in my family still today, but im sure others must wonder why nothing is marked.?
Dublin has the famine statues leaving the port. Liverpool could have them here arriving in their new world?
The city could and should do more to state its role in the Irish famine...all which was not good. The city did not want to accommodate them as the city could not handle the numbers that came.
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