My favorite school subject is easily History, and it has been for a long time. That explains why I enjoy my American History class so much. It was about two weeks ago when we were covering the Civil War (the class only covers the first half of the Nation's history), and Prof. Kimball played a song for us. It's a tune sometimes sung by the Irish volunteers in the Union Army.
See, back when the war first started, there was speculation that Britain would favor, or even send troops to help, the Confederate States of America (South). Because of the famines in Ireland years before, many Irishmen left the isle and went to America, and often saw it as a saving grace, as there was work and food here.
So when Britain, whom the Irish had never really been big fans of, threatened to interfere with the war, the immigrants were... unhappy. I've posted a link of the song that I mentioned earlier, "Opinions of Paddy Magee." It's the Irish soldiers in the Union army singing a warning of sorts to England to leave "Columbia" (USA) alone, or they'll get what's coming to them (which is interesting, considering that England had whipped America's trash in the War of 1812).
I like the song because it shows how much the Irish immigrants loved their new home. Listen to the words, and you'll get a kick out of it; if you can understand it, anyway.
And remember, "The American Nation can wail all creation."
(Copy and paste the link into your browser)
http://www.imeem.com/trump1tx/music/G4YPEAca/david_kincaid_opinions_of_paddy_magee/
I Love History Class.
Posted by
Mark Ferguson
Thursday, December 11, 2008
3 comments:
Very cool!
You better be majoring in history. Or I am forever mad at you. But I'll remember how great Europe was, as well as Mr. Spencer's class, which I laughed very hard in, a lot because of your useless facts or Ryan M making comments about you that may or may not have been true... and Mr. Spencer... wow. I cried one time in that class because I was laughing so hard, the one day where Mrs. Fletcher I think was her name... a counselor talked to us for like an hour and 15 minutes of class... Do you remember that? Anyway. I heart history too. But you should major in it.
You and Jordan need to get together and make a "I hate Twilight Blog". You guys are funny. If I got you a life size cut out of Edward, what would you do with it? I know you would destroy it but I bet you could come up with a few interesting ways! That could be your first blog post!
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