Home <index.html> General Information <general.htm> Pastoral Staff <pastoral.htm> Mass Intentions <massintentions.htm> Meditation <meditation.htm> Links <recommended_links.htm> O.L.R. & St. Elizabeth Ann Seton <shrineof.htm> O.L.R. &Irish Immigration <historic.htm> Bookof the Sick <Book_of_the_sick.htm> E-Mail <mailto:OLRShrine@WorldNet.ATT.Net> Pastors <pastors.htm> CHURCH OF Our Lady of the Rosary SHRINE OF ST. ELIZABETH ANN SETON Irish Immigration and The Mission Church of …showed first 75 words of 3684 total…

…showed last 75 words of 3684 total…deriding their brogues, their religion, and their poverty. They had endured centuries of oppression. As harsh as the prejudice they encountered in the United States was, it paled in comparison to life in Ireland. "Skibbereen," <http://www.assumption.edu/HTML/Academic/history/95Fall97/Skibbereen> an Irish-American ballad, captures the enduring quality of Irish hatred of the English and their sense of America as a place from which to regroup and then resume their centuries-old struggle.