Craic Down in Oz
We may have the finest football fans in the world, but the news from abroad isn’t all positive. In Australia, the Irish have – allegedly – been running amok. So what gives?
The Hot Press Newsdesk, 01 Aug 2012
We seem to find our own stereotypes hard to shake, whether it’s the drunken Paddy, the pining emigrant or the economic pessimist. Old letters to and from Irish emigrants echo the present to a remarkable degree. David Fitzpatrick contributed a paper to Irish Historical Studies in 1991 titled “‘That beloved country, that no place else resembles’: connotations of Irishness in Irish-Australian letters, 1841-1915”.
In one letter from 1860, an emigrant girl is told by her brother that “the prospect of living in Ireland at the present is very Dark”. And her father added:
“My Dear Child it is hard hard work to Forget I feel it So, the Native Soil how strangely sweet where first we Breathed who can Forget with Flowing eyes, yet with a thankful heart that you have Escaped as a Bird from the snare of the Fowler.”
Wonderfully poetic. But how odd is it that, even though there is no possible comparison between Ireland then and now, so little has changed in how we speak of Ireland, how we behave at home and abroad (both good and ill) and how we view the future.
Why? More on this anon…
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