Hello readers, if is someone reading this!
How is going your quarantine time? Mine is not as productive as I’ve imagined, but some days are better than others, so let’s enjoy the good days.
Today I haven’t done too much but I have watched a lot of contents, first of all let me explain that I love watching documentaries and more over to listen to podcasts, this last is something new for me, actually I began to listen to podcasts about one and half year ago.
My favourite topics are crime stories, reviews and information about films and history.
A few days ago I listened to a podcast about the arrival of the Irish to America, a podcast made by The Bowery Boys who I highly recommend to listen to!
I lived in Ireland for a year and was an awful year, this experience was a little bit traumatic for me but more traumatic was to come back to Spain, I had learnt so much from the Irish that my first months in Spain were really hard to adapt to our culture and behaviour, specially about how to be a polite person (this could be another post because we are so different…).
I came back to Spain in 2013 so since then I haven’t read about Ireland, even I haven’t watched documentaries about the emerald island, but after to listening to that podcast I’ve been interested into their story.
I think that to know a society, you need to know about their past to understand their present, so this is what I did: to look for more information about their history.
Something very curious is how they get to the condemned society they were, I mean it was a big tragedy that lived with them for long time. They had a tragic famine, if you don’t know, in Ireland is really hard to farm vegetables for their weather, almost every day is raining, even in August! So in the 1840 in Europe was a virus that affected to the potatoes, as in Ireland was really hard to farm, they had lots of lands farmed with potatoes and this event made to kill hundreds of Irish. The other Irish who survived emigrated to America, but the trip was really hard and in terrible conditions, so a part of this immigrants arrived alive to America, the rest, unfortunately died during the journey.
Once in America they were repudiated by the americans, not the native americans, the other british colonies who were there for long time.
Many of these american families were rich and they needed most of all women to work as housekeepers, cookers and works to do in their houses.
The other Irish who couldn’t find a job became into poor people and criminals, but here starts another great story I’ve been documented: the paddys, that is the Irish mafia and it’s for another post because it’s an interesting story.
Changing a little bit of topic, but not much, today I’ve started to watch a serie of documentaries by the BBC about the Ireland’s history, as you know I don’t understand very well the British accent, so imagine to watch interviews made to Irish people from around all the island with lot of different accents! It’s been really hard but so interesting, so now I can find a difference between the Irish accent and the British.
I’d like to write deeply about Ireland’s history, it’s like therapy for me because when I went there I didn’t know nothing about Ireland, neither I knew this island exists! Imagine how ignorant I was when I moved there… But this is a story for another post!
Thank you so much for reading me another day, keep safe at home!
Regards,
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