42 Comments

• mreinhar2001 | Jun 17, 2012, 02:49 AM EDT

  Not so sure what any of this has to do with the great famine exhibit, but I am intrigued by your ocmment BrendanDunphy. So the twenty-something Irish, like ciaradexy, are angry and hostile. That is interesting. I wondered if it was just him/her.

• BrendanDunphy | Feb 24, 2012, 01:42 PM EST

  Ciaradexy is proof to the popular and widespread belief that today's generation of Irish are a much less friendly people than in prior generations. In fact, they appear to be downright angry and hostile.

• ciaradexy | Feb 22, 2012, 03:54 PM EST

  Where have I put Irish people down? Show me 1 sentence where I put Irish people down.

• ciaradexy | Feb 22, 2012, 03:50 PM EST

  READ THE INFO ON THE WEBSITES I SENT YOU FOR THE LOVE OF FLIP! GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE HATE FILLED VACCUUM YOU ARE IN! The info is there for you on a website run by the nurses board and the medicines board! You cannot FORCE irish people to study medicine or nursing just so you can fill the jobs! Read the information there and get your head out of the clouds! You assume hospitals etc dont want to hire irish people, the people ARE NOT there to do the jobs! You cannot answer the questions Im putting to you! You have not given a valid answer in regards to my questions! If hospitals cannot get the staff, what should they do? Stop waffling on there off topic. Stick to what Im asking you and give me some solutions.

• awoken32 | Feb 22, 2012, 03:45 PM EST

  ITS TERRIBLE THE WAY YOU PUT YOUR OWN PEOPLE DOWN,ITS DISGUSTING

• awoken32 | Feb 22, 2012, 03:42 PM EST

  ANYTHING THAT IRELAND NEEDS WE CAN TRAIN OUR OWN PEOPLE DO DO,LIKE WE ALWAYS HAVE DONE,WE NEVER NEEDED MASS IMMIGRATION AN WE NEVER WILL NEED IT,ALL YOUR RUBBISH ABOUT IRELAND NEEDING IT IS SIMPLY PUR AN UTTER NONSENCE,YOU ARE SO IGNORANT,IT REALLY PISSES ME OFF,YOU SHOULD GO BACK TO THE LABOUR PARTY,IT WOULD SUIT THE INDOCTRINATED PERFECTLY

• awoken32 | Feb 22, 2012, 03:39 PM EST

  the cheek of you,the amount of irish that cannot find work in this country,or cannot afford to work directly because of competition from immigrants,you have some neck,we have people leaving colledge with qualifications for nurseing an they have to go abroad because they are not getting employed,you sound like bertie or enda kenny there,and in any case were talking MASS IMMIGRATION HERE NOT A FEW JOBS,WERE TALKING THE MANY JOBS ,FORGET ABOUT IT,YOU LOVE MASS IMMIGRATION AN THATS REALLY IT,FOR SOMEONE THAT GOES TO COLLEDGE YOU ARE SO SMALL MINDED ITS UNBELEIVABLE,YOU JUST CANNOT SEE THE REAL DESTRUCTION THAT THIS IS CAUSING THROUGHOUT EUROPE,NOT IN THE SLIGHTEST,I DONT KNOW AT ALL WERE YOU GET YOU BS FROM

• ciaradexy | Feb 22, 2012, 03:19 PM EST

  I suggest you look at nixers .ie to see how many jobs are available which people are having issues with filling. Maybe try nurses .ie too. Also irishhealth. com/article.html?id=19025 might be of interest to you.

• ciaradexy | Feb 22, 2012, 03:07 PM EST

  Oh and what about our shortage of doctors and nurses? Should we just not hire from outside Ireland too?

• ciaradexy | Feb 22, 2012, 03:06 PM EST

  Ah ok, so if Im working for €10 (which is better than minimum wage plus we get tips)and my migrant work colleague is also, whats your next issue? Should we be paying waiting staff much bigger hourly rates? Would that entice people into the service industry?

• awoken32 | Feb 22, 2012, 02:39 PM EST

  BECAUSE OF LOW WAGES IS THE CAUSE,PEOPLE DONT COME HERE TO BE SERVER BY IMMIGRANTS,

• ciaradexy | Feb 22, 2012, 02:30 PM EST

  AWOKEN!! I am speaking from my experiences! I have worked in hotels and restaurants with foreign staff and my own friends have said they wouldnt work in these jobs! If Irish people wouldnt take these jobs what do you expect these businesses to do? Answer the question! You cannot force irish people to take jobs they dont want!

• awoken32 | Feb 22, 2012, 02:04 PM EST

  everything you say about mass immigration is nothing but government spin,pure rubbish,just look at the whole of europe,im not getting into this again with ye,some sheeple are to far gone

• awoken32 | Feb 22, 2012, 02:02 PM EST

  There is no lack of staf,the irish are getting priced out of work,go into any restruant an you wont see an irish person working there,an yes if immigrants were having a negative impact in austrailia,they should be sent home

• ciaradexy | Feb 22, 2012, 12:15 PM EST

  Mates I went to college with went traveling to Australia and NZ. Some got jobs and have stayed there. Should they be sent home?

• ciaradexy | Feb 22, 2012, 12:14 PM EST

  Ok, so you think I make this up. On the issues which i experiences for myself working in hotel, what do you suggest should have been done? Should the hotels have closed due to lack of staff? Seriously, answer the question now.

• awoken32 | Feb 22, 2012, 12:03 PM EST

  everything you say is directly frompresstitutes in the media,its all rubbish,irish people are being priced out of work by mass immigration fact,irelands population is growing faster than anyother time fact,the immigrants will grow old an will live of the state fact,everyone gets old fact,our younger population are been forced to leave their own country by their own government an media,with people like you who would swallow a brick,anyone will tell you you talk pure BS

• ciaradexy | Feb 22, 2012, 11:57 AM EST

  Awoken, I said I am a medical scientist in the histopathology lab of a maternity hospital. On average we have 500 babies born here a month and less than 30 of them are to women with non irish names. I volunteer with a tour group. I get out and about and meet people. I bet your nice to tourists in Dublin but then when they want to stay here and work you turn on them. We have a dwindling population and an increased number of old people. We need people to work in restaraunts and hotels etc. I worked in Citywest in about 2005, I was the only irish memeber of staff n the Terrace restuarant. We couldnt get Irish staff. I also worked in the Clarence hotel and the Fitzwilliam hotels in 2001-2003. Again, we could not get Irish staff. My class mates in college scoffed at the very idea of me working a part time job in a hotel. It was way beneath them or so they felt. I worked, earned my money and paid for my college fees. I met these migrants who you hate so much and I saw how hard they worked. What do you do to keep Irish culture alive? At least some of the yanks on here speak Irish but they dont live here.

• awoken32 | Feb 22, 2012, 11:34 AM EST

  an i not racist against nigerians either ciara,not wanting my country populated with them is a completly differant thing,something you think is great thing

• awoken32 | Feb 22, 2012, 11:29 AM EST

  atleast when i comment on something i know what im talking about ciara an i do not lie

• awoken32 | Feb 22, 2012, 11:02 AM EST

  you were a midwife when we were discussing mass immigrationan the effect on the population boom(which you were blindly condoning)you were also a waitress when we were discussing the catering industry an the effects that mass immigration has had on it for the natives,the citywest also which my bro works in with his girlfreind which i quarenntee you dont know,(which anyone irish will tell you youre wrong)when i brought up the labour party,guess what you were a paid labour party TD,then when we spoke about irish culture sure ciara works on a buss travelling ireland teaching everyone our culture,when you havent even got a clue about the irish holocaust lol,an by the way i dont hate the english people,but yeh i do hate the royal family,if you actually knew anything about them you would understand,oh no wait you were part of the royal family but you came to ireland help our people lol

• awoken32 | Feb 22, 2012, 10:52 AM EST

  yeh you were a midwife a few weeks when you were trying to say that the baby boom wasnt down to mass immigration,you were a td labour party when i brought them up,whenn we spoke about the damaging effect mass immigration has on the ctering industry above others you were a waitress in the city west hotel,when my brotherworked there for years an his girlfreind which i quarentee you dont know,then when we speak of irish culture,have a guess what ciara works on a buss driving around the country of ireland teaching all the immigrants the irish culture,and you dont even know the truth about the famine or multiculture or really anything you comment on,if you ask me your full of it,oh yeh we all just forget about the irish holocaust an be good people like you,i dont hate the english people by the way,but the royal family 2 right i do,you see ciara i know a lot about the world an the part that the royals play in it,you know a lot about walter mitty

• ciaradexy | Feb 22, 2012, 09:33 AM EST

  Awoken:''ciaradexy you have not got a clue about the so-called famine,i guess you worked on one of the farms did ye.'' Yeah of course I worked on the farms. I worked with you!What a ridiculous point you have brought up! I work voluntarily with a tour company who work between Dublin, Clare and Connemara so I know plenty about this country as tend to get out of Dublin and meet real live Irish people rather than giving out about foreigners and hating the English for something that their great great great great great grandparents were alive during.

• awoken32 | Feb 22, 2012, 08:48 AM EST

  You really have not got a clue about irish history or the royal family

• awoken32 | Feb 22, 2012, 08:46 AM EST

  @dan the britisg army is under controll of the royal family,so therefore they are the ones responceable,what a stupid question anyways man,the royal family their bloodlines an agents are responceable for deaths of millions of innocent people throughout the centuries,the famine was caused to help overpopulation?? what a twisted an stupid thing to say,it was done for reasons of empire and imperialism,and to force populations top move to freshly conquered colonies were slaves were needed to built,it was all done for power

• DanOLoingsigh | Feb 22, 2012, 08:38 AM EST

  Remember that a national fast in aid of the victims of the Famine was held in England in March 1847. Supported by Victoris, it raised almost half a million pounds and helped to make people aware of what was happening in Ireland. The scale of the famine, and the thought that it would help to clear ‘overpopulated’ areas, mainly in the West, was certainly a factor many in many landlords calculations…The famine was a tragedy, and the poor were exploited by their richer and more powerful neighbours, and landlords, but it’s not as simple as portrayed here. Or how do you explain that independent Ireland has never managed to repopulate the west?

• DanOLoingsigh | Feb 22, 2012, 08:33 AM EST

  I was asking for evidence that it was on Royal Family orders...do you have any?

• awoken32 | Feb 22, 2012, 06:42 AM EST

  anyone who wishes do read about the irish holocaust just goog---- the mass graves of ireland and go into the link irish holocaust,the whole truth is there

• awoken32 | Feb 22, 2012, 06:32 AM EST

  @dan,yeh dont mind me man,look it up yourself an you will know,there was a potato plight alright at the time,it was throughout europe,why you think only ireland starved and only irish catholics also not prodestants?,were did all our other foods go ie meats cheese corn etc? look into it

• awoken32 | Feb 22, 2012, 06:20 AM EST

  just copped onto your lying lastnite,when yet again you had another occupation lol

• awoken32 | Feb 22, 2012, 06:19 AM EST

  ciaradexy you have not got a clue about the so-called famine,i guess you worked on one of the farms did ye,a pure bs artist if i ever heard one,you should look up the real history of the of how our country was nearly wiped out on the orders of the royal saxo cohburg gottas

• jpstull | Feb 22, 2012, 01:30 AM EST

  The Quad News is an independent newspaper. The Quinnipiac Chronicle (quchronicle.com) is the student newspaper.

• robbiedunn | Feb 21, 2012, 06:11 PM EST

  When are we going to stop calling this a famine? It was genocide, How could you have a famine in the most fertile ground on earth? Think about it. When I came to Australia in 1985 I met an old Scots man and he said to me "You do not really know your own history" he was right a lot of Irish people are the same we just go along with what we are told. Robbie Dunn Brisbane Australia

• RedBranch | Feb 21, 2012, 02:06 PM EST

  Strokestown House Co Roscommon is the site of the Irish National Famine Museum is supposed to be excellent, although somewhat ironic that it is in an Ascendancy mansion. However any visitor can get a sense of the hardship where, in the early morning light, you can still trace the lines of the potato drills on land you wouldn't consider hardly worthy of sheep.

• Nicomax | Feb 21, 2012, 01:40 PM EST

  The Irish needed a better PR firm it appears, but at least this is a start in describing what was indeed a tragedy brought on by nature but aggravated by their oppressors.

• ciaradexy | Feb 21, 2012, 01:03 PM EST

  Wasnt it Peel, an English man who tried to get corn to the starving?

• Murph46 | Feb 21, 2012, 12:57 PM EST

  Dan- How about Trevlyans corn-you would't starve if you took British corn ,and of course an oath of fealty to the Crown.What more proof is needed!How about all the lands confiscated at this time!

• ciaradexy | Feb 21, 2012, 12:55 PM EST

  Dan, dont mind Awoken, he'll be blaming the Nigerians next.

• DanOLoingsigh | Feb 21, 2012, 12:17 PM EST

  Awoken- any evidence to support your 'theory'?

• Murph46 | Feb 21, 2012, 11:18 AM EST

  Genocide!

• awoken32 | Feb 21, 2012, 11:12 AM EST

  THE IRISH HOLOCAUST WHICH IS WHAT IT WAS,THE IRISH WERE STARVED TO DEATH ON THE ORDERS OF THE ROYAL FAMILY OF ENGLAND.WHY IS IT ALWAYS PORTRAYED AS THE FAMINE,TELL THE TRUTH

• carrickcourt | Feb 21, 2012, 10:19 AM EST

  Living not too far from Quinnipiac U. I will have to get to the new location for The Great Hunger Museum this fall/autumn. Been meaning to get to The Great Hunger Museum for some time.