It might also be a backward way of pointing out a people’s pile of bad luck going back to at least the 12th century, said Joseph McFadden, former president of the University of St. The idea was that any Irish man or woman who made good must be lucky rather than smart, hard-working or talented. Some, including O’Donnell, say that “luck of the Irish” was an ethnic slur from the days when immigrants were pouring into the United States. “More than 900 years of domination, oppression, starvation? I’m kind of hard pressed to understand where it comes from.” “It is patently absurd,” added O’Donnell, author of 1001 Things Everyone Should Know about Irish American History. O’Donnell, who teaches Irish-American history at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass. It is a phrase of derision, a put-down phrase,” said Edward T. We're a nation that's suffered famine, war, and religious and xenophobic persecution for hundreds of years, at home and abroad. The earliest version of it was "Any luck is better than the luck of the Irish". Please do not post Tourism-related queries on /r/Ireland - they will be removed!įriends of /r/Ireland/Cairde na /r/hÉireannįor complete list of all 600+ Irish subs click here! If you can't find what you're looking for, then you can then post a new thread on /r/IrishTourism. Please have a look there first for any tourism related questions.
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