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This article seems odd to me for some reason, maybe because it touches on so many issues but is so short. For example, it states that Irish marriages were characterized by high levels of animosity. Making this kind of statement is really opening a can of worms, but then the article doesn't explore it very much. Compared to our other readings, this one seemed to just skim the surface of Irish immigrant families. -- Rebecca | This article seems odd to me for some reason, maybe because it touches on so many issues but is so short. For example, it states that Irish marriages were characterized by high levels of animosity. Making this kind of statement is really opening a can of worms, but then the article doesn't explore it very much. Compared to our other readings, this one seemed to just skim the surface of Irish immigrant families. -- Rebecca | ||
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| + | I also felt that this article threw out numbers and figures at us but didn't go into much depth with explaining this ethinic tendency. It makes sense that many Irish women felt that they needed to be single in order to raise money for their families in Ireland, but it feels like many ethnic groups would have behaved the same way. Diner explains that the Irish married later in life back home, but I seemed to walk away from this article with more questions then before. What exactly was the reason that the people in Ireland married later and why did it differ so much from other nationalites? Were there more troubled marriages in Ireland? - Celia | ||
== Working Class Families == | == Working Class Families == | ||
