Five murdered Irish emigrants will be reburied in a new grave today- VIDEO

Highly laudable. Documentaries like this are exactly what some of us expect from America. Much injustice has been perpetrated on this planet, by all of us. Exercises such as this go a long way to atoning and informing, which make this world a safer place to be in for all of us. Well done lads.

America is a strange place, every first wave of new immigrants get abused. After that, immigrants seem to gravitate towards crime and menial labor, then civil service, then private sector dominance, then back to civil service. Gotta be extra tough to be part of the first wave..God Bless Them... Looking forward to our first Mexican American President(enjoying the hell out of O'Bama though, he pisses the bigots off by smiling ).... Mexicans know how to throw a Party, for days and days....

Just a wee clarification -- Seven graves and six bodies are, by any definition, a "mass grave." A mass burial of more remains located 30 feet below the surface up by the tracks is also, by any definition, a "mass grave." And perimortem violence (and one with a bullet lodged in his skull)on all the bodies buried today makes it of import today or 180 years ago.

Let me repeat, there is ABSOLUTELY NO HISTORICAL proof of any MASS graves! An honorable endeavor by the Watson's indeed, Catholic or Protestant, who cares. The pre famine Irish have indeed been neglected, but this does not add to their history, at least not very much!

While this is a very sad exemplar of my own history and heritage, I would note that the problems of immigrants and lack of acceptance continues to this day. When are we ever going to educate ourselves and seek acceptance of others coming to this country for the same reasons our own immigrant ancestors came here? How many more mass graves will we find of Irish and other immigrants before we all sit down and accept who and what we are?

Sad but honourable endeavour by the Watson Brothers. The Irish, particularly before the end of the Civil War (where they bought respectability with their life blood courage and intelligece). I include the pre Famine Irish those Protestant fellow countrymen, mostly Presbyterians who left this island, surging in the 1718-30 exodus,some of whom were "moved on" by the still puritanical colonists of MA so they went west to found what is now Londonderry NH. Isn't it a pity that we remember our diaspora as beginning with the famine. The island is "whole" now why not the real diaspora? The Watson undertaking might have been marked by an ecumenical service, perhaps?

In the old days in Ireland your family was nothing unless you were a land owner. Well off Irish Catholics in Ireland could teach any protestant how to discriminate.

I have followed this story for years, and while sympathetic to the remains, I have seen not a SINGLE piece of evidence that there are any more than the five or six bodies uncovered. SUPPOSITION is not history. The mass is nice, the attention is nice, but this is an unbelievably overrated story. Typical plastic paddy history.

I came across this story in one of the free weeklies here in Philly about a year and a half ago. That angle was both historical, archaeological and metaphysical too as there has apparently been certain "happenings" associated with the site to pretty much the present time. An either Chester or Delaware County (Pennsylvania and part of the 5 county Philly metro area) paranormal group investigated and came up with some interesting EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) findings. Those are available on the net. I corresponded with some of the folks at Immaculata at the time as I was concerned that Masses be offered for those who might be "stuck" to as be able to move to "The Light" (i.e. Heaven). S ad stuff here. Glad that they will have some of their physical remains properly buried. Had I known earlier I would have liked to attend this myself. Pray for their betterment. Pray for all out betterment, here and beyond. Anyone interested in discussing this? brickleysean@gmail.com

Unfortunately, the Chinese on the west coast also faced serious discrimination, especially on jobs to build RR in the western part of the U.S. I'm sad to read about how these Irish immigrants died and how their bodies were disposed of. It's good to know the truth and to see that some are finally getting a proper burial.

How sad! It's nice that they will finally be properly buried. I've spoken to a number of people in Ireland who were unaware that early Iirish Catholic immigrants faced serious discrimination in this country.