Learn about Irish American Vernacular English
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ESSAYS BY PROFESSOR DAN CASSIDY
CITATIONS, REFERENCES, RESOURCES
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Dan Cassidy and Karen Ellis Guest Lecturer Honoring the work of Scholar Peter Tamony and The Sanas, the Etymology of Jazz. |
- Dat Ol' Jazz - How the Irish Invented Jazz.
Trace the etymology and sanas of the word JAZZ.
(more audio radio interviews are available to here)
- The word Giniker which is the link that explains what the new word "JAZZ" means in the San Francisco Bulletin March 1913 and view articles and pictures that trace the Irish word and explains what it means to the public.
Her Twelve Men (1954) Directed by Robert Z. Leonard stars Greer Garson the teacher who is given advice from the Gym Teacher. He says to give the 12 boys an assignment that will get the boys excited - enthusiastic - passionate but he never says those words.
He actually says GINIKER in the movie.
- Irish American Vernacular English Baseball words used by Scoop Gleeson in the Sports pages. Jazz appears in print 25 times in the month of March 1913, 24 times in Scoop's articles.
- Jasm & Gism as a Source for the Word "Jazz"
From the Work of Peter Tamony
- The Irish and Scots Gaelic Sanas of Fizz, Fizzle, and Sizzle and Teas.
From Rag to Jazz Like a lexical star the Irish and Scots Gaelic fizz and fizzle are perpetually losing their Teas (pron. chass, jass, or jazz depending on your dialect) means heat, excitement, and high spirit.
- Irish American Vernacular English Origin of Hoodoo.
- Juke Joint - Drinking Shelters, Tippling Shacks, boozing houses.
The word juke is believed to be derived from the African-influenced Gullah dialect of the Southeast coast, in which jook means disorderly or wicked.
- Boogie - Borrowing from Irish into English we used the words boogie and boogaloo to mean move fast or depart quickly with no reference to music.
- The Sacred Secret Tongue of the Saol Luim
(Slum, World of Poverty)
- The Big "Butter an' Eggman"
The King of Teas (Jass, Heat)
- Kid and Kiddo definitions the terms of endearment.
- Breaking the Code Of New York's Gangs by Daniel Cassidy Published: January 5, 2003This article was published in the January 6, 2003, edition of The New York Observer.
- The Secret Irish Traveller Bain-Fhile (Woman-Poet) of "Whoopie Ti Yi Yo, Git Along Little Doggies" - hear the song retranslated back to the irish it came from.
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The House of Fire - St. Bridgid's Teas (Jass) Heat
The Day of the Gin-i-ker - Tine caor (also spelled teine caor) means " a fireball, a thunderbolt, a meteor, a raging fire, lightning. "
The pagan Goddess Brigid's feast day and the Xtian St. Brigid's Day. (1) Bridget's fire (tine) is the thunderbolt (tine caor) of fifth and sixth century Irish literacy. It flashes with the sacred jazz (teas, pron. "jass," heat, enthusiasm, and passion) of knowledge. Tine caor, teine caor, caor thine, Dineen, pp.163, 1200)
- Irish American Vernacular English gave us Gambling Slang. Learn The Sanas (Irish Etymology) of Faro, Poker and the Secret Flash Words for the Brotherhood of American Gamblers.
RESOURCES
Irish American Vernacular English words traced, found, and borrowed into Standard American English.
Citations, References, and Resources
The Sanas of JAZZ, GINIKER, Mardi Gras, "New Second Line", Ráig to Rag to Ragged to Ragtime to JAZZ. Jasm, Jism, Grift, Gimmick, doozer, Buckaroos, Buccaneer, Pizzazz, Fizz, Fizzle, Sizzle, Big Butter and Eggman, Slum, Racket Fluke Lulu, Yippie Ty Yi Yo Git along little Doggies, Hip, honky, dig, jive, juke, Joint, Beat, Hoodo, Honky Tonk, Jim Crow, Kid, Kiddo, Cracker, KKK, Baloney, and Dick are all Irish and many misattributed to Wolof. Census Information for New Youk and California early 1900's. Remember in 1859 Philadelphia is the 4th largest city in the WORLD.
"There's A Sucker (Sách úr, fresh new "fat cat") Born Every Minute." The African etymology of jazz was fabricated by a New York press agent in 1917. See etymology of Bunk and Dude both are Irish.
Churches of Fire in Ireland and the South
ALTHOUGH IT HAS been more than 20 years since Alex Haley's ``Roots'' first hit the top of the best-seller list, it is still the most widely read novel written about African-American history. What is less known is that before his death, Haley was working on another book concerned with ``roots.'' This new story would begin not in Africa however, but in Ireland. Alex Haley, Mohammed Ali, writer Alice Walker, Billie Holiday, born Eleanora Gough Fagan, and Ella Fitzgerald were Irish African American. A people that both communities have chosen to forget, descended from the slave ships of Liverpool and the coffin ships of the Great Famine of Ireland. The ``Bloody Ould Sixth Ward'' turned up a number of Irish-African-American families living in New York's largest Irish ghetto before the Civil War. A history that stretches from the ancient fortresses of the Ulster kings, who traded with merchant princes of Africa two centuries before Christ, to Pete Williams' dance hall in The Five Points neighborhood of New York.
April is Jazz Appreciation Month
What does bebop sound like? How did jazz evolve? Learn about Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and others. See ideas for celebrating jazz appreciation month and for studying jazz in U.S. history or music class.
Louisiana 1860 census breaks down the Irish population "Irish Channel." Irish people have been in New Orleans in large numbers since the 1720s. During much of the antebellum period Louisiana had the highest death rate of any state in the nation and New Orleans the highest of any city. Yellow fever, smallpox, and cholera epidemics accounted for many of these deaths. However, the high mortality rate was offset by increasing immigration and rising numbers of births in the state. In the five decades prior to the Civil War, Louisiana's population increased from 80,000 to 700,000. The Crescent City held its first St. Patrick's Day celebration in 1809. Everyone came to the crossroads. The Irish built the canals. As the city grew, the American elite leap-frogged the Irish Channel, gobbling up old sugar plantations and establishing the Garden District in the 1830's and 1840's. Irish Railroad workers and bull whackers were known as teamsters in the west.
Irishman Stephen Foster born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
ABOUT ORALITY
Population genetics - Origins and geographical distribution.
Pliny the Elder affirms that Celtica (the country of origin of the Celts) was in the delta of the river Guadalquivir in the south of Spain. Map 200 B.C.
IRISH AFRICA
The Irish Language Reportedly Heard Spoken in Africa 1821
Discover early cultural mergings of African and European currents and their Moorish Legacy by Ted Gioia. Learn how the Irish were carried off as captives by the Corsairs in the middles ages to Africa, maybe as early as the third century. Find out about La Coruna in the most northwest corner of Spain and it's Celtic roots complete with bagpipes and Irish dialect the Celts in Galicia, Spain the Barbery Coast and the origin of Gypsies. Trace the shared custom of lamenting over the dead, the funeral dirge the funeral song of the African, Irish, Jew and Arab.
The Moors ruled Spain and parts of Europe and North Africa for about 800 years. The principal cities of Moorish Spain -- were Seville, Cordoba, and Grenada.
The Crusiades brought Christian rule to Spain, and by the early thirteenth century, the area of Moslem rule shrunk by half. "...by the middle of that same century only Andalusia, al-Andalus, remained under Moslem control. Jews in large numbers moved to Andalusia, seeking sanctuary with Moslem rulers who were historically more tolerant than their Christian counterparts. Many Jews and Moslems converted to Catholicism to escape persecution. Some Jews left Spain altogether, moving to North Africa and the eastern Mediterranean.
Between 150,000 and 300,000 Jews left Spain in 1492. Most of the Jews that escaped the inquisition went to North Africa or to Turkey, Greece, and the Balkans in the east -- the area to be known as the Ottoman Empire. The remainder escaped to Jerusalem and Safed. The exiled Jews of the Ottoman Empire became known as the Sephardim. Their music was written down and survives today as a history of peoples once joined, then scattered by religious intolerance and racial hatred.
A traditional song, "Il bastidor" is about a woman who is frustrated at her daily chores that keep her from making a vest (bastidor) for her husband. The language is a mixture of Ladino (Judeo-Spanish), Arabic, and Turkish Balkans. The instrument is the guitar, an African import of the Moors.
- Jewish In Ireland - By 1232, there was probably a Jewish community in Ireland, as a grant of July 28, 1232 by King Henry III to Peter de Rivall, gives him the office of treasurer and chancellor of the Irish Exchequer, the king's ports and coast, and also "the custody of the King's Judaism in Ireland." This grant contains the additional instruction that "all Jews in Ireland shall be intentive and respondent to Peter as their keeper in all things touching the King.
- Flag of Sardinia the four heads represent four Moorish "emirs" who were captured, killed, blindfolded and beheaded in an 11th Cent (CE/AD) battle. English slavers and the African kings and caboceers (native middlemen who arranged the raids) and slave captains.
- 16th - 20th century antique maps of Africa and accompanying text Searchable, by title, cartographer, date, country or African region, or place of publication.
Orality - By 1660 only 11 books were published in Irish [1]
Verbal Contest and Creativity
One of the major cultural differences between the white middle class and ghettoized Afro-Americans is that the latter have preserved an oral-aural world view while the former have invested their creative energies and imaginations heavily in books, in the typographic-chirographic world. As we know from many recent works on media, this difference is of much greater importance than simply illustrating the ability or inability to read. In point of fact, there wasn't one Camingerly resident who could not read, but reading simply did not enter their lives very often.
Many ethnocentric judgments about blacks stem from the white man's inability to understand or appreciate the creative aspects of living in an oral atmosphere. He neither understands nor remembers the ways in which an effective talker performer may strongly influence our attitudes. He does not value words effectively used in speaking events enough to confer high social status on the effective speaker. Good talking capable of totally enlisting the attention and support of an audience is something he regards as dangerous at its worst (associated with demagoguery and dictatorship) or as insincerity at best. Consequently, a good talker as judged by ghetto Negroes is often regarded by whites as hostile and arrogant.
Book Title: Deep Down in the Jungle
Negro Narrative Folklore from the Streets of Philadelphia.
Contributors: Roger D. Abrahams - author.
Copyright 1963, 1970 by Roger D. Abrahams
Peter Tamony helped a great deal with the Glossary
Publisher: Aldine de Gruyter. New York
Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1970
ORALITY [ . . . ethnocentric judgments (a stem from the inability to understand or appreciate the creative aspects of living in an oral atmosphere.]
Tamony was first published in American Speech in 1937 and two years later began writing a column, "The Origin of Words," for the San Francisco Newsletter and Wasp. Many of his etymologies were cited in works by H.L. Mencken, Damon Runyon, and other etymologists and linguists. He often contributed to "Among the New Words," a column in American Speech, and was consulted by editors of the Oxford English Dictionary, Dictionary of American Regional English, and Encyclopedia Britannica.
In addition to his collecting Tamony was a jazz enthusiast and founded the Hot Music Society of San Francisco in 1939. The society hosted events by some of the most popular jazz artists of the era including Lu Watters, Bunk Johnson, and Turk Murphy. This interest in jazz is also evidenced by his large collection of jazz magazines and journals. [source]
FYI: It was Peter Tamony who took Richard Farina to City Lights and Ferlinghetti.
Etymology of the Word Hillbilly
One possible clue on origin might be found in a pair of Scottish colloquialisms, hill-folk and billie.
Slate's Hey Wait A Minute: The Origins of 'Hip' 12/8/04 Jesse Sheidlower, editor the Oxford English Dictionary discusses the history of the word "hip." He challenges an assertion that the word "hip" comes from Africa.
"Language is a virus from outer space." ----
- Ruth Finnegan, MA, Dip Anthrop, DPhil (Oxon), FBA
- Echo Focus: Hidden histories
Some Irish and African American stories are intertwined By Niall Stanage
"Many celebrities who share Irish and black ethnicity, included among them Muhammad Ali (one of whose ancestors came from County Clare), Mariah Carey, Alicia Keys, and Eddie Murphy" - Tangled Roots A Project Exploring the Histories of Americans of Irish Heritage and Americans of African Heritage
- Black and green Civil Rights - USA and Ireland
- Marcus Garvey & Eamon de Valera
- Fredrick Douglass & Daniel O'Connell
- ALSO SEE FAST FACTS
MUSIC TRAVELS
Who is allowed to know?
The Roots of Print, Power, Politics, Literacy, Ballads, Plays, Thought and failed Censorship.
Who is allowed to write, who is allowed to read, who is allowed to hear, who is allowed to print, who is allowed to publish! It is now and has always been about our unknown culture makers - shapers of our consciousness vs. the Owners of culture/ the Power Elite who own the supply chain of money by thought control.
Henry 8th establishes treason by words, controls reading, and women reading. Elizabeth grants a Printing Monopoly to certain people in return for obedience to the authority of the church and Crown. First to appear is cheap single sheet printed ballads extremely popular that come directly out of the oral culture then goes back in. Telling sensational stories with a moral purpose, warning the readership with their punishment commanding them to repent.
Authentic Gospel Music Travels: Professor Ruff heard that Slaves sometimes spoke and sang hymes in gaelic from Dizzie Galespie.
In 2003, Ruff visited the Scottish Hebrides and found remote congregations worshipping in a manner similar to what he had heard growing up in Alabama. No instruments, hand clapping, no stomping involved. Gaelic psalm (salm) singing lies at the root of all African American music. "Then I learned from experts at Yale that white Presbyterians in the Highlands of Scotland sing the metrical Psalms as they appeared in the Bay Psalm book, only translated into their native Gaelic. Dizzy Gillespie often told me that his grandparents in the Cape Fear region of North and South Carolina had spoken of slave masters and the slaves they took to church with them speaking and worshipping in the Gaelic language. I knew there had to be a connection."
Irish Cowboys use the Irish word Buckaroos:
The first wagon train that headed west was lead by an Irish Scout. Irish cowboys and pioneers sing Irish songs going west.
Go to Sleep My Little Buckaroo
Cowboy Poetry Explained An essay by Hal Cannon, Founding Director of the Western Folklife Center - Watch the Video - An amazing amalgam of language, style and code which forever would identify Americans. It was a jazz of Irish storytelling and lore, Scottish seafaring and cattle tending, Moorish and Spanish Horsemanship, European Cavalry, African improvisation, and a reluctant observation of Native American survival that can be heard and seen in this way of life, even today. John Lomax and Alan Lomax cowboy song collector.
Irish Music Travels Appalachian Fiddle Workshop - Alan Jabbour ©2005
David Goldenberg 1938 - 2001
David Goldenberg: Finds the first Jazz Records
Record collector and film preservationist accumulated a trove of more than 10,000 classic 78-r.p.m. records dating to the 1920s and '30s provided the Library of Congress with the only complete sound-track discs for the classic 1933 film The Emperor Jones: By murder & guile, a black Pullman conductor becomes THE EMPEROR JONES on an impoverished Caribbean isle. David Goldenberg Memorial Library is housed in the Institute of Jazz Studies Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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| Louis Armstrong and his Savoy Ballroom Five | Frank Sebastion's Cotton Club Culver City, California brought in Armstrong to front the Les Hite orch. |
Earl Fuller's Famous Jazz Band - Jazbo Jazz 1918 (Edison Cylinder).mp3 1.21 MB
Earl Fuller's Famous Jazz Band - Jazz de luxe 1919 (78 RPM).mp3 1.24 MB
Earl Fuller's Famous Jazz Band - Jazz Deluxe 1918 (Edison Cylinder).mp3 1.23 MB
Earl Fuller's Famous Jazz Band - Jazzin' Around 1918 (Edison Cylinder).mp3 1.23 MB
Earl Fuller's Rector Novelty Orch - 12th St Rag 1917.mp3 984.00 KB
Earl Fuller's Rector Novelty Orch - Cold Turkey 1917.mp3 964.00 KB
Earl Fuller's Rector Novelty Orch - Down Home Rag 1918.mp3 860.00 KB
Earl Fuller's Rector Novelty Orch - Graveyard Blues 1918.mp3 1,006.00 KB
Earl Fuller's Rector Novelty Orch - I Ain't Got Nobody Much 1918.mp3 902.00 KB
Earl Fuller's Rector Novelty Orch - More Candy 1917.mp3 1.06 MB
Earl Fuller's Rector Novelty Orch - Oriental 1918.mp3 1,020.00 KB
Earl Fuller's Rector Novelty Orch - Out of the East 1918.mp3 920.00 KB
Frisco 'Jass' Band - Night Time In Little Italy 1919 Edison Cylindar.mp3 1.13 MB
Frisco Jass Band - All I need is just a girl like you 1918 (Edison Cylinder).mp3 1.12 MB
Frisco Jass Band - Cute little wigglin' dance 1918 (Edison Cylinder).mp3 1.06 MB
Frisco Jass Band - Johnson 'jass' blues 1917 (Edison Cylinder).mp3 1.25 MB
Frisco Jass Band - Pozzo 1917 (Edison Cylinder).mp3 1,016.00 KB
Frisco Jass Band - Umbrellas to mend 1918 (Edison Cylinder).mp3 1.11 MB
Frisco Jass Band - Yah-de-dah 1917 (Edison Cylinder).mp3
George Alexander - In the gloaming 1903 columbia.mp3 692.00 KB
George Alexander - In the sweet bye and bye 1906 columbia.mp3 690.00 KB
George Alexander - Killarney 1905 columbia.mp3
100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE APRIL 18,1906
The Irish Cowboys and pioneers go west - to help build the railroad, to work in the silver and gold mines, stake their claims for land, use their skills to help make the barrels used for vinyards, operate dry good stores, play music, play basefall. The Irish were there.
Jack London and the Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906 California Historical Society provides Writings and photos following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. Features more than 200 photos from his albums, pages from Charmian's diary, and a timeline of London's life. "The journeys on foot, horseback, and automobile of Jack and his wife Charmian London through the blackened, twisted debris of earthquake country ... produced both words and images that help define this country's greatest urban disaster."
1906 Earthquake Refugee Shacks
Details about the history and current condition of small cottages built in western San Francisco to house refugees following the 1906 earthquake and fire. "Of 5,610 shacks built in 1906-1907 only 27 remain." Includes historic photos, addresses for shacks still in existence, and images and additional material for selected homes. From the Western Neighborhoods Project, "a nonprofit organization formed to preserve and share the history and culture of the neighborhoods in western San Francisco."
San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection: Great Fire and Earthquake of 1906
"The San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection contains over 1,700 digitized images of the 1906 Earthquake and Fire. These images depict scenes taken both during and after the three-day event, and include neighborhoods, buildings, refugee camps, and the process of reconstruction." Photos are browsable by subject. From the San Francisco Public Library.
DICTIONARY
MacBain's Gaelic Etymological Dictionary Online: of Irish as well as Scottish Gaelic.
Manx to English Dictionary online: heat (chass) çhiass
hiass (chass) - heat (teas in Irish and Scots Gaelic)
heh (chay) - hot
Irish Gaelic Speakers language data broken down by county (see irish_gaelic.pdf) if you add non native speakers the list would quadruple.
BBC Children's Learning Site about Ireland
Irish Local Names ExplainedScots Words - Alt. Scots Words - English Meaning
The Voices project celebrates the diverse languages, dialects and accents of the UK.
This interview with a University of Liverpool dialectology and sociolinguistics expert discusses the origins and history of Merseyside speech and the "Scouse" accent of Liverpool. Includes several audio clips and the results of a survey about accents and voices. BBC Language Lab
Scouse Irish Roots
Scouse's Irish roots
Scouse's Lancashire roots
The adenoid thing and other Scouse peculiarities
Why do we rate some accents higher than others?
Yer Wha? Is it lazy speech?
Britain's Gypsy Families
The vardo (Gypsy wagons, caravans) Irish Travellers Galician Gypsies in England Appleby and other Horse Fairs.
Sheldu (Shelta) Anglo Irish Creole used mostly by Irish Travelers and their decendents in England and the USA based on English grammer with Irish vocabulary.
Ireland: 104 million pounds goes on Traveller housing, education Geraldine Collins
The Gov't spent 104 pounds in 2005. Dept of Ed spent more than 56 mil. pd. on Traveller education over and above what is provided on mainstream ed. Accomadation costs were more than 42 mil. pd in 2005. There are 45 pre-schools for Travellers with 500 resource teachers for them in primary schools and nearly 140 whole time in post-primary schools.
English Words with Irish Roots
Ever used the word highfalutin'? Or abracadabra? Or bragged about your brand new duds? If you have, you've been speaking Irish, says Daniel Cassidy, co-director of the Irish Studies Program at New College of California in San Francisco.
Working knowledge of the Irish language course.
The Computer Education Society of Ireland
Cumann Rìomh-Oideachais na h-Éireann
St. Patrick's Day
March is Irish-American Heritage Month and St. Patrick's Day 17th
- St Patrick's day which as you know celebrates Patrick's success @ ridding Ireland of all the snakes.
- Science: There never been any snakes in Ireland. Snakes have always been identified with the Goddess Religion. St. Bridget was a Pagen Goddess and St. Peter did his best to get rid of the Goddess Religion. Rome wanted to control the cash flow and power.
- Boston Celebrates First Evacuation Day: March 17, 1901 the City of Boston officially celebrated Evacuation Day for the first time. In early March of 1776, Continental troops managed to move heavy cannon to the top of Dorchester Heights. When the British realized what had happened, they knew they could no longer hold the capital. The lowly Continental Army forced the British to evacuate Boston. One hundred and twenty-five years later, the Mayor proclaimed March 17th, St. Patrick's Day, a legal holiday. The city could commemorate an important historical event -- George Washington's first victory in the American Revolution -- and celebrate its place as "the capital of Irish America." Even today, schools and government offices are closed on March 17th in Boston and Suffolk County.
Listen to this moment:
Read more about this moment:
Visit Mass Moments to search past moments - The History of St. Patrick's Day
History and related information about this holiday celebrated on March 17 in honor of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. Includes information about items associated with the holiday, such as parades, the shamrock, leprechauns, and corned beef. Also includes links to information about Irish travel destinations and literary Ireland. - St. Patrick's Day Fast Facts: Beyond the Blarney
A compilation of facts about this holiday celebrated on March 17, which "marks the Roman Catholic feast day for Ireland's patron saint." Includes facts such as that "New York City hosted the first official St. Patrick's Day parade in 1762," and that "Chicago is famous for dyeing the Chicago River green on St. Patrick's Day." From National Geographic News. - Census Bureau’s Public Information Office
Although not an “official” holiday in the United States, St. Patrick’s Day has a long history of being celebrated with parades and general goodwill for all things Irish. The day commemorates St. Patrick, who introduced Christianity to Ireland in the fifth century. Because many Americans celebrate their Irish lineage on St. Patrick’s Day, March was picked as Irish-American Heritage Month. The month was first proclaimed in 1995 by Congress. The U.S. president also issues an Irish-American Heritage Month proclamation.
FAST FACTS
- ABOUT YOUR LINGUISTIC RIGHTS - English and American Dictionaries do not include the origin of the word Jazz is Irish 2006.
- Back in print, 19th-century study dissects the plight of the Irish
No ''equality of conditions" there, Beaumont wrote, for the traveler ''meets only magnificent castles or miserable hovels," and ''misery, naked and famishing, . . . shows itself everywhere." And the cause of it all, ''a cause primary, permanent, radical, which predominates over all others," is ''a bad aristocracy." Beaumont -- himself a member of the French aristocracy -- appears to be ''England's advocate," as Garvin and Hess put it, until the weight of the evidence forces him to conclude ''that Ireland was to the United Kingdom what slavery was to the United States." - Sinn Fein fighting for a free Ireland since the 1850's to retake the farms from those who had stolen their property.
- The Potato Famine
- The Good Friday Agreement is still not implemented.
http://www.nio.gov.uk/the-agreement - History of the Good Friday Agreement
- Paddy Whacked the Irish Mob Long before the Mafia, Murder Inc., and the African-American gangster, "Paddy" was plundering and pilfering the stars and stripes. Once called the "National Scourge", "The Shame of the Cities", and "The White Man's Burden", the Irish rose from hellish beginnings riddled with disease, vice, and death. The Potato Famine or "Ireland's Genocide" had wiped out a third of their population--America offered hope. They arrived in swarms, starving and destitute, with their notorious Celtic stubbornness and toughness. In a land where man had to fight for his piece of the pie and fight harder to keep it, "Paddy" was almost unbeatable. From the 19th century gang wars to the 20th century wars with the Italians, "Paddy" whacked their way to a mythical status. We trace the legacy of the Irish Mob, deeply rooted in the diabolical power trio of "Gangster, Politician, and Lawman" feeding and festering off one another.
- The Molly Muguire secret society was fighting for
the rights of the minors and who helped in the american labor movement. - All those excellent Guiness Barrell makers come over to america.
- 1867 Mother Jones - raising hell for workers rights, Irish Bowery
- 1871 Chicago Fire Mrs. O'Leary cow
- 1880's potato famine a Holocaust engineered by
english policy and the irish immigrants mostly went to the west following the gold rush, copper, & silver opportunities. - Butte Montana was the most Irish City in America.
- 1884-86 Irish helped build the Statue of Liberty.
- It was the IRISH who were the first true immigrants to america with the exception of Jews who are by far the most successful.
- Tamony Hall - Irish Voting Power to run a city, the green machine, up the ladder of prosperity.
- Stars and Stripes were NOT bowed to the King of
England during opening olympic ceremonies and a continued practice to this day. - 1906 Irish Model used for the first Miss Liberty Coin
- 1494 english rum by product molasses brought over to america by the 1860's Boston Irish used the molasses as a spirit base then changed over to whisky which became the american drink of choice.
President Washington produced a rye whisky with
Irish barrel maker know how up to the present Napa Valley wine makers SEE Boyes Springs - Follow the history of distilleries - Bourbon
whiskey is from blue grass roots water from Kentucky - Million Dollar Baby - 4 Academy Awards Best Movie Oscar Winner. (NPR interview)
NYT 2/26/05 Fighting Words By WES DAVIS Clint Eastwood's choice of nickname "Mo Cuishle" for the heroine of "Million Dollar Baby," is a choice more fitting, and touching, than you may suspect. ["It feels as if he's extracting a gift of hope for her out of the bedrock of Ireland's nearly forgotten language." ] - The Irish Mafia were the greatest stars of the 30s, 40s, and 50s. The original members of the club were Frank McHugh, James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, and Spencer Tracy. In addition, the group at various times included Ralph Bellamy, Frank Morgan, Lynn Overman, Bert Lahr, Lou Calhern, Jimmy Gleason, Allen Jenkins, and Bob Armstrong. George M. Cohan and Will Rogers sat in from time to time. They called it the Boys Club, but since most of the "founding members" were Irish-American, columnist Sidney Skolsky called them the Irish Mafia.
- New York's Irish Claim Nobility
About 400,000 city residents say they are of Irish ancestry, according to a 2004 Census Bureau survey. Listen more kindly to the New York Irishmen who assure you that the blood of early Irish kings flows in their veins. At least 2 percent of the time, they are telling the truth, according to a new genetic survey. The survey not only bolsters the bragging rights of some Irishmen claiming a proud heritage but also provides evidence of the existence of Niall of the Nine Hostages, an Irish high king of the fifth century A.D. regarded by some historians as more legend than real. The survey shows that 20 percent of men in northwestern Ireland carry a distinctive genetic signature on their Y chromosomes, possibly inherited from Niall, who was said to have had numerous sons, or some other leader in a position to have had many descendants.
About one in 50 New Yorkers of European origin - including men with names like O'Connor, Flynn, Egan, Hynes, O'Reilly and Quinn - carry the genetic signature linked with Niall and northwestern Ireland, writes Daniel Bradley, the geneticist who conducted the survey with colleagues at Trinity College in Dublin. He arrived at that estimate after surveying the Y chromosomes in a genetic database that included New Yorkers. <snip> - Archie Green seen speaking with Woody Guthrie.
The Crossroads
Irish American Festival
The Crossroads Irish American Festival is an annual event which celebrates and explores the Irish-American experience and its creative energies, historical reflections, and cultural expressions. This years Crossroads 2006 programming featured Irish-American musicians, writers, scholars, social justice activists, journalists, politicians, professors, law enforcement professionals, nuns, community leaders, poets, and Nobel Prize nominees.
Claoidheann neart ceart.
~ Force overcomes justice.
Beatha an Staraidhe firinne.
~ The historian's food is truth.
"It should be the chief aim of a university professor to exhibit himself in his own true character -- that is, as an ignorant man thinking, actively utilizing his small share of knowledge." ~ Alfred North Whitehead
