[thread] Irish people does not forget : Behind Irish outpouring of relief for Navajo :
csmonitor.com/USA/Society/20…
csmonitor.com/USA/Society/20…
Navajo women was organizing a fundraising to help their community combat the COVID-19 plague.
Their community is hit very hard by this plague. It has the highest number of COVID-19 cases per capita.
Suddenly they noticed something very strange ;
Their community is hit very hard by this plague. It has the highest number of COVID-19 cases per capita.
Suddenly they noticed something very strange ;
"Hey, guys, we’re all of the sudden receiving a flood of donations from Ireland!"
"What’s going on? Why us? Why is a whole country all of the sudden donating to us?"
"What’s going on? Why us? Why is a whole country all of the sudden donating to us?"
Turned out another tribe of America’s first peoples, the Choctaw, raised $170 (about $5,000 in today’s dollars)
and sent it to starving Irish families during the Potato Famine in 1847.
and sent it to starving Irish families during the Potato Famine in 1847.
The Choctaw collected their modest donation just a few years after the infamous Trail of Tears, when the U.S. government forcibly removed them from their ancestral lands across the South, killing thousands.
“I think the gift touched and stayed with Irish people so much, basically because it wasn’t charity. It was an act of solidarity,” Ms. Ferrell says
“The Choctaw people, they were giving it to us because they saw us, they recognized us and our plight as being similar to theirs.”
“The Choctaw people, they were giving it to us because they saw us, they recognized us and our plight as being similar to theirs.”
“With the outpouring of support from our Irish friends because of what the Choctaw ancestors did 173 years ago ... it’s something we’ll always remember, and our children will remember, and there will come a day when we will pay it forward, too.”
Same thing happened with the Turkish - after the Sultan sent food & donation for the Irish during the Famine, the Irish always remember it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland%E…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland%E…
In 1995, the Drogheda town hall erected a placard in commemoration.
In 2012, plans were announced to produce a film on the subject, starring Colin Farrell and several Turkish stars.
In 2012, plans were announced to produce a film on the subject, starring Colin Farrell and several Turkish stars.
The Drogheda city even incorporated the Turkish star and crescent into its municipal crest ; and act that followed by its football club, Drogheda United FC.
archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/201501/a…
archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/201501/a…
The Sultan's help and its responses is recorded in great detail in this book :
books.google.co.id/books?id=GnksA…
books.google.co.id/books?id=GnksA…
In 2007 Turkish journalist Aymaz delivered an account of an interesting memory of Yahya Kemal Beyatlı, a former Turkish ambassador who participated in the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923.
According to Beyatlı, whilst each of the representatives from the Allied powers voted in unison against Turkey,
the delegate from Ireland was an exception, raising his hand in favor of Turkey for each vote.
the delegate from Ireland was an exception, raising his hand in favor of Turkey for each vote.
When questioned why he had acted so, the Ireland representative said:
“When we suffered from famine and disease, your Ottoman ancestors shipped loads of food and monetary donations."
“When we suffered from famine and disease, your Ottoman ancestors shipped loads of food and monetary donations."
"We have never forgotten the friendly hand extended to us in our difficult times. Your nation deserves to be supported on every occasion.”
For those starving citizens who greeted the Ottoman ships in Drogheda in 1847, Sultan Abdülmecid’s gesture would have been seen for what it truly was: an unprecedented and progressive act of humanity.
web.archive.org/web/2013101709…
web.archive.org/web/2013101709…
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