Excellent The Irish spirit is fierce through adversity. - (free verse) My Life in words : an Gorta Mór by Jaq Cee

A downtrodden race from the early days an Gorta Mor depleted them so the Irish Diaspora left their shores looking for somewhere fruitful to go. They travelled far to find a life where their children's bellies didn't hunger they found a place to settle down away from the potato blight. Whilst back at home great changes were rung division came out of the famine Catholics oppressed no longer valued thought less than a dog or a horse. Fight back they did against the Protestant 'masters' who burned their homes to the ground Their spirit was immense it carried them through out of the ashes of all they had owned emerged the Phoenix noble and true. Ireland's the place that people should know to believe it had to be seen where people were slain for the heinous crime of wearing the colour green Author Notes an Gorta Mór - Irish Gaelic for the Potato Famine which ravaged crops and left people dead from hunger from 1845-1852. Out of which was born their first Freedom Fighters. Thanks to Google images for the picture.

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