Television: Uncle Sam and his furtive Irish nephews
Irish politicians have made something of a fetish of proclaiming that emigration has taken “the best and the brightest”
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In April 1883, the New York journal Harper’s Weekly carried an infamous cartoon depicting the entire Galway poorhouse, packed to its chimney pots with ragged poor, steaming on the high seas for the US.
The cartoon, by WA Rogers, carried a note explaining its immediate reference: “650 paupers arrived in Boston in the steamship Nestoria, April 15, from Galway, Ireland, ...
