Think Draw - Picture - If We Only Had Old Ireland Over Here

Title: If We Only Had Old Ireland Over Here
created on 09 Mar 09

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Comments on this picture (19):
1. nancylee wrote: Love this! Had a interesting conversation last summer with a man who wants to create a museum in Ireland that recognizes the experience of being forcibly removed from Ireland to Australia.
2. Login wrote: Yes ... early 17th century ... then in the 1840's came the famine, with a million dead and a mass exodus of another two million.
3. marg wrote: hang on a minute - have the Irish taken over the Margaret River ?? (and wot's this 'over here' bit ?)
4. Login wrote: It's an old song, marg ... from the Irish population in Australia. There's also a challenge going on in Community Forum ...
5. marg wrote: ahh.. didn't know about any Irish in WA, but I'll check it out - as for the forum, well.. umm.. I wish you luck !
6. marg wrote: Hank Locklin ? .. doesn't matter - I just love all your stuff !
7. matthew wrote: Just watched a show on dicovery last week about English prisoners & Sidney area... Don't know much about the Irish part of things down under...
8. marg wrote: not quite dead yet.. I think I might be feeling a bit better.. you're brill, Login !
9. marg wrote: .. and no.. I haven't been anywhere.. just racked off with some of the egos, I guess !
10. Login wrote: Mmmm, I know what you mean, but I get a strong feeling someone is on the bottle ... changed from being the one to calm troubled waters, to being a total wind up. I suppose that's why I respond ... would hate to think he is on a downward slope.
11. marg wrote: Yep.. but it also grieves me that so many really good people have left - possibly 'cos of comments or just that it's changed so much
12. Login wrote: You're right ... I think grahame and puzzler have definately gone, for that very reason. They were so easy to get along with and I miss their drawings. Shall we just leave the big egos to get on with it?
13. marg wrote: Thanks, Login - you really are a special person ! I guess I was tired and just had enough that day, but so long as you keep doing your thing, I'm sure everything will be fine.
14. marg wrote: Do you realise I've had this song going through my head for the last week or so ? (as soon as I read the lyrics, it did an auto play-back in my head !)
15. Login wrote: Hi marg, I've been away for a couple of days. This is my first port of call ... just off to look at new drawings and then browse through Forum.
16. chelydra wrote: So there was melodrama on the site way back when! ice that you two are among the survivors.
17. chelydra wrote: ice > Nice
18. Login wrote: Yes, in the early days of TD the voting system was not cheat-proof and tensions rose as people noticed what was going on. Happily, it was fixed and things settled down ... but not before some very talented artists left the site, fed up with the antagonis
19. Login wrote: ... antagonism.