{"id":18855,"date":"2023-03-17T11:37:56","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T18:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=18855"},"modified":"2023-03-18T08:58:31","modified_gmt":"2023-03-18T15:58:31","slug":"luck-of-an-irish-canadian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/luck-of-an-irish-canadian\/","title":{"rendered":"Luck of an Irish Canadian"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

L\u00e1 Fh\u00e9ile P\u00e1draig sona duit!<\/b><\/h3>\r\n

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\u00a0Irish-Canadian Hart Brothers<\/strong><\/h3>\r\n

My Grandfather (Edward) \u00a0and 3 of his brothers (Thomas, William, Michael)\u2014first generation of Irish Canadians<\/p>\r\n

On St. Patrick’s Day I honour my Irish ancestors (I’m 1\/2 Irish)🍀\u00a0They are my heroes\u2014their courage inspires me.<\/p>\r\n

As Sir John Norris said of the Irish:<\/p>\r\n

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…never beheld so few of any country as of \u2028Irish that were idiots and cowards, which is very notable.”<\/p>\r\n

(Pendergast, John P. The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, 1868, P78)<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

In the 17th Century, my relatives were among the Irish Catholics and Irish gentry whose land and possessions were stolen, and who were “transported” to Connaught and held prisoner there.\u00a0Connaught had a natural wall around it to keep the Irish separate from the new English “adventurers”\u2014Connaught had a rugged Atlantic coastline on one side and the River Shannon on the other.<\/p>\r\n

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The rest of the [Irish] ‘\u2028nation were to lose their lands, and take up their residence \u2028wherever the Parliament of England should order.* On 26th \u2028September, 1653, all the ancient estates and farms of the people \u2028of Ireland were declared to belong to the adventurers and the\u2028 army of England; and it was announced that the Parliament \u2028had assigned Connaught (America was not then accessible), \u2028for the habitation of the Irish nation, whither they must transplant with their wives, and daughters, and children, before the\u20281st of May following (1654), under penalty of death, if found\u2028 on this side of the Shannon after that day.” (Pendergast, John P. The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, 1868, p.83.)<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

However, the Irish cannot be kept down\u2014as King Henry of France (King from 1589-1610) expressed:<\/p>\r\n

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There lives not a people more hardy, active, and painful…\u2028neither is there any will endure the miseries of warre, as famine, watching, \u2028heat, cold, wet, travel, and the like, so naturally, and with such facility\u2028 and courage that they do.<\/p>\r\n

(The Library of Trin, 1615, Coil. Dublin, F. 3, 16,\u00a0in: Pendergast, John P. The Cromwellian Settlement of Ireland, 1868, P78.)<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

My ancestors survived the Irish genocide-famine and left Ireland for Canada as soon as they were able (18th-19th centuries). Today, on St. Patrick’s Day, I honour my Irish ancestors: the Harts (O’hAirt), Dooleys (O’Dubhlaoich), Rowans (O’Ruadhain), and Gavins (O’ G\u00e1ibh\u00edn).\u00a0<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

L\u00e1 Fh\u00e9ile P\u00e1draig sona duit! \u00a0Irish-Canadian Hart Brothers My Grandfather (Edward) \u00a0and 3 of his brothers (Thomas, William, Michael)\u2014first generation of Irish Canadians On St. Patrick’s Day I honour my Irish ancestors (I’m 1\/2 Irish)🍀\u00a0They are my heroes\u2014their courage inspires … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3765,2353,3764,2349,3766,3768,3767,2160],"class_list":["post-18855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cromwellian-settlement","tag-indomitable-irish-spirit","tag-irish","tag-irish-canadians","tag-irish-genocide","tag-irish-harts","tag-potato-famine","tag-st-patricks-day"],"aioseo_notices":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"Uncategorized"}],"post_tag":[{"value":3765,"label":"Cromwellian Settlement"},{"value":2353,"label":"Indomitable Irish spirit"},{"value":3764,"label":"Irish"},{"value":2349,"label":"Irish Canadians"},{"value":3766,"label":"Irish genocide"},{"value":3768,"label":"Irish Harts"},{"value":3767,"label":"potato famine"},{"value":2160,"label":"St. Patrick's Day"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Screen-Shot-2023-03-17-at-10.15.26-AM.jpeg",522,618,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"mixhart","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/author\/mixhart\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Uncategorized","slug":"uncategorized","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":576,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":576,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Uncategorized","category_nicename":"uncategorized","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":3765,"name":"Cromwellian Settlement","slug":"cromwellian-settlement","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3812,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":2353,"name":"Indomitable Irish spirit","slug":"indomitable-irish-spirit","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2412,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":3764,"name":"Irish","slug":"irish","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3811,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":5,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":2349,"name":"Irish Canadians","slug":"irish-canadians","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2408,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":3766,"name":"Irish genocide","slug":"irish-genocide","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3813,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":3768,"name":"Irish Harts","slug":"irish-harts","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3815,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":3767,"name":"potato famine","slug":"potato-famine","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3814,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw"},{"term_id":2160,"name":"St. Patrick's Day","slug":"st-patricks-day","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2215,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18855"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18881,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18855\/revisions\/18881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}