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Uploaded by on Sep 30, 2007

A song ... A story .... A novel ....

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  • the sad thing about this house is....it has been ripped down about 2 or 3 years ago .i live only 6 miles from here and drive past this house often

  • The coal mines in the east were not the only place Irish were hated. There is a grave yard with the remains of a village behind it in the upper peninsula of Michigan. It is also a bookmark to history. It is called Irish Hollow. While their men were away for the winter working in the mines, sickness came and when they returned in the spring, they found all their families dead. No one would help them because they were Irish. I learned of them from Parish records, listing funeral masses.

  • "I'm smarter and better then you..."

    It's "than you". I left that area 30 years ago because, sadly you probably are one of the smart ones!

    I'd think about going back to whatever school gave you a diploma and giving it back. Another dumb ass Skook

    Pottsville native

  • What is the book you wrote?  I am always interested in anthracite mining books.

  • Your paranoia about my historical ambitions is flattering, I'm off on the book by Wayne Broehl. I suppose he was a fruit and didn't know what he was talking about, forged everything hand in hand with McKenna...speking of who never existed mr irony, McKenna never existed. The man's name was McParlan. So YOU get your history straight!

  • :DDD I love youtube, so many psychopaths to meet. Uh, how do you exactly have thousands of pages of artciles disproving their existence when you wouldn't have a single page of those if their existence didn't need to be disproved?

  • Great video. We still have companies in Schuylkill County (like Alpha Mills,& Schuylkill Haven Casket Co.) that still to this day treat their work as the coal Companies treated the Irish.

  • A good bit of history you find people are forgeting the past when I lived on tyneside in 1970s alot of mines were being closed down by 1980s there were a hand full of pits left know there are none well done for keeping history alive I like the old pit song well done..

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