For the week of March 5th to 11th , here is the Good News:
**Best news of the week**
On Monday, it was announced that in the United Kingdom, their Carbon emissions have fallen below levels recorded back in 1894. This is excellent news, as England has often had some of the highest emissions issues in the world.
Read the story here at the Independent.
Tuesday:
A group in Seattle is working to build a tiny village for homeless.
See more details at Kiro 7 news.
Chance the Rapper donated $1 million to support Chicago schools arts programs.
Read the article at the New York Times.
Wednesday:
Wednesday was International Women's Day.
See some photos at USA Today.
There were strikes held around the world in honor of women's rights.
See more at CNN.
And Iceland announced that it would require all employers to offer equal pay, and to offer proof that they were doing so.
Read the article at Fortune.
The American Medical Association announced that it opposes Republican Health Care Plan.
Read more at the New York Times.
A Utah School installs washing machines and showers for students' use.
Read the story atFox 13 News.
Nike revealed a Pro Hijab for Muslim athletes.
Read the article at The New York Times.
Thursday:
Hawaii is suing over Trump's travel ban.
Read the story here at CNN.
Local community councils in the UK pushes officials to increase number of Syrian refugees in their country.
Read the article at the Guardian
Shell's CEO plans to increase investment in renewable energy for his company.
Read the article at Reuters.
Saturday:
Judges rule Texas gerrymandered maps on racial lines, ruling several districts invalid.
See the article at The Washington Post.
Feel free to link anyone you'd like to this. And if you have any Good News links in the coming week that you'd like to share, feel free to send them my way. I can definitely use more.
American Immigrant Highlights: Ireland
Irish Americans have been part of the US since its inception, coming over with many of the early groups of Europeans who came to colonize the east coast of America. More than 10 percent of the American population consider themselves Irish, according to the US Census Bureau. Because the Irish were in such high numbers in Colonial America, they presented a large portion of the Continental army that fought the British during the Revolutionary War.
There is also a separate sub group of the Irish population who call themselves Scots-Irish. These are people whose ancestors were generally from the Ulster area of Ireland, which is basically the area now known as Northern Ireland. Many of these were among the earliest colonists in America, who took on the qualifier Scotch to differentiate themselves from the Irish who came in the 1840s to escape the Great Famine in Ireland. Those who came during that time were predominantly Catholic, while those already in the US were generally Protestant.
The American Irish population also played a large role in the Civil War. Many young men got off the boat from Ireland and were immediately enticed to volunteer in the Union Army. At least 38 Union regiments had "Irish" in their title. Many Irish Catholics refused to sign up, and when the conscription laws were passed, there were many draft riots that took place in New York. Between riots and the fact that many Irish were poor, Catholic, and had large families, led to a great deal of anger on other citizens' parts, and to hatred and prejudice against the Irish as a whole.
The Irish settled mostly in the cities and along the east coast, though more in the New England states than the South. New York City, Boston and Philadelphia have the largest concentrations even today. Though most Irish spoke English, most also still spoke their native language when they came to the US, and there is still a significant population who speak the language in the US today, with New York and Massachusetts having the most Irish speakers in the country. It ranks 66th out of 322 languages spoken today in the US.
I'm sure most people can name some basic Irish foods. They've become such a part of our culture that they are both easy to name, and hard to think of, because they're so obvious. Some of these obvious foods include Irish stew, soda bread, corn beef and cabbage, colcannon, and roast lamb. Of course, the Irish are even more known for their alcohol. Whiskey, porter or stout, lager, Irish coffee, Irish Cream, and many other drinks, all come from Irish brewers, and all easily found in the US today.
Notable Irish Americans:
- Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States
- Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States
- Ulysses S Grant, 18th President of the United States, and Union General during the Civil War
- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States
- Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States
- John F Kennedy, 35th President of the United States
- Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States
- Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States
- James Cagney, Actor
- Bing Crosby, Actor & singer
- Walt Disney, Animator, creator of the Disney Franchise
- Judy Garland, Actress
- Gene Kelly, Actor
- Spencer Tracy, Actor
- Maureen O'Hara, Actress
- Ed Sullivan, Talk show host
- Eugene O'Neill, Playwright
- F Scott Fitzgerald, Author
- Edgar Allan Poe, Author and Poet
This is by no means a complete list. For more interesting Irish Americans, look at this list on Wikipedia.
Sources
Irish Americans
Scotch-Irish Americans
8 Traditional Dishes that Signify the Irish Culture
Irish Cuisine
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