Posted on 09/17/2017 10:38:24 PM PDT by Olog-hai
The only town in Ireland to have a plaque commemorating a Confederate Army war hero on a public building is set to keep the memorial in place despite intensive lobbying from the United States.
Councillors in Tuam, Co Galway, have been accused of caring more about the image of the town than the search for truth or justice after deciding to keep the plaque in memory of Major Richard “Dick” Dowling at the Town Hall. Dowling rented slaves, including a 12-year-old boy, for his restaurant and hotel business in Houston, Texas.
The matter was raised at a meeting of the Municipal District Council on Monday afternoon, but never went to a vote following objections to its removal.
“The mood in the town is that people don’t give a damn about it,” Councillor Donagh Killilea (Fianna Fáil) told IrishCentral on Tuesday evening. “When this plaque was erected, the people of the town only wanted to commemorate a man who made a success of himself in America. It’s honoring a guy who left extreme poverty on the outskirts of Tuam and managed to survive 180 years ago by joining an army. My understanding is that he was only in the Confederate Army for a couple of years, and that he became a very successful businessman in Houston.” …
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Hey, I think we’ve found a solution to that minimum wage problem.
I am glad I am Irish. I would have told the snow flakes to go pound sand. I am glad the Irish did too.
Imagine that. Irish defending southern states while the southern states cave.
I'll bet BLM and Antifa are already sending a bunch of angry Negros to pick a fight over this ...
... with the Irish ...
Scarlet O’Hara would be proud... And she’s the strongest female lead in any movie that I’ve ever seen, except for maybe Ripley in the Alien series of films.
Oh’ And by the way... If you haven’t seen ‘Gone with the Wind’ see it now before it’s banned outright.
They were different times and people didn't know any better. SJWs might as well get mad that those people didn't know about penicillin, airplanes, or cell phones.
Knowing what we know now, those people would have gladly sent the slaves back to where they belong.
FU Big US Government.
The Confederates said that also. Hooray Ireland.
IMPORT the Irish. DEPORT the Rest.
WTF?
Because our elected officials do not have enough to do here I guess.
“People rented slaves; that is the way it was in those days. People owned slaves. That’s the way it was.”
Didn’t the Lincoln administration use rented slave labor to construct part of the U.S. Capitol during the war to “free the slaves”?
Hopefully someone that knows more about history than I do can comment.
The author may have been a wee dramatic in their telling of this story...the town got a grand total of 16 phone calls from the United States.
Good for them!
Major Dowling’s birthplace (Knockballyvishteal, Milltown) is less than a mile from my cousin’s house
The Irish are great people. Lobbying by the US? Was it George Soro’s minions? I bet it was.
His victory over a Union flotilla at the Battle of Sabine Pass (mouth of the river separating Texas & Louisiana), defeated a Union tactic which had previously won at Mobile & New Orleans.
It got Dowling promoted to major in the Confederate Army.
Dowling is honored with a statue, school & street names in Houston, a memorial at Sabine Pass and in his home town of Tuam, Ireland.
My wife has cousins living in Tuam. Some may be “republicans”.
American Marxists needn't worry....Brussels will take care of the matter in one of their 2,300 page long official decrees that individual member states can do nothing to stop.
I do know the railroads especially moving westward were built by a labor pool made up of Irish,Chinese,Blacks and others. They were basically “free” slaves.
Meanwhile the country is filling up with moslems - slave merchants and slave owners to this very day - and not a peep.
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