Comments on: Immaculata U Finally Revealed As Mass Grave For Irish Catholics

By: the_ill

the_ill — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:09:27 +0000

this was on cbs news @ 11 last night. i was actually surprised they put on something historical.

By: Brendangling

Brendangling — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:09:40 +0000

To mark this occasion I plan on listening to every Thin Lizzy album I own in sequence, though Mick Moloney’s version of “Paddy Works on the Railway” would suffice.

See also “McAlpine’s Fusiliers” or “Building Up and Tearing England Down”.

By: lord_whimsy

lord_whimsy — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:59:18 +0000

Are there any concerns that the burial site might be leaching whiskey into the water supply? (I kid–I’m married to an Irish Catlick.)

I read somewhere that the canals that run north from Trenton along Rt 29 were dug by Irish laborers. By hand. And I don’t mean shovels: I mean fingers.

My wife’s family were Irish blacksmiths in Trenton, and her grandfather wrote stories about his neighborhood for the Saturday Evening Post. The old Irish neighborhoods were destroyed decades ago, but apparently Norman Rockwell did an illustration of one of her grandfather’s stories, called “Blacksmith’s Boy”, about a horse shoeing race her great-grandfather had with a rival blacksmith.

None of which is the least bit useful to anyone, but hey–it’s lunch.

By: Grapesoda

Grapesoda — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:49:09 +0000

it’s funny cos it’s true.

By: Timo

Timo — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:46:29 +0000

They probably tried to order a “cheesesteak wid” at Geno’s, but had those funny accents.