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Tierra_y_Libertad

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5. My grandmother fled Ireland because of poverty and repression.

Reply to Paper Roses (Original post)

Sun Mar 15, 2015, 01:35 PM

Mar 2015

To England. Then Canada with 6 kids, including my mother, and then in 1919 to America to steal jobs from Good Americans.

As a kid I asked her what Ireland was like.

"It's a beautiful country...to starve in."

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