THE CELTIC CONNECTION • APRIL 1992
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Irish Trade Show a Hit in Seattle
SEATTLE —The Everett/Sligo and Seattle/Galway Sister City Associations sponsored a highly succesful week-long exhibit of Irish goods at the Seattle International Trade Centre from March 16 to 20.
Bodhrans, hand made silver jewellery, stone cut crystal and ceramics were sent from Sligo. Lambswool jackets, skirts, scarves and shawls arrived from Galway.
The local Irish import shops — Kells, Galway Traders and McNamara's Green — provided examples of blankets, discs, perfume, linen, sweaters, Celtic jewellery and stationery among others. The Irish Trade Board, Irish Tourist Board and Irish Distillers provided displays.
Visitors included the Mayor of Galway, Michael Leahy and Mrs. Leahy, the Mayor of Sligo, Sean McManus, and John MacNabols, Sligo's Town Clerk as well as tenants of the Trade Centre, representatives from local businesses and local government.
Special guests were members of a trade delegation representing the new nation of Slovenia.
Patty MacNamara, a Seattle designer, was responsible for the exhibit design. — Helen Harte
Votes for Emigrants
DUBLIN — The question of votes for emigrants was discussed on a recent Late Late Show. None of the speakers in the audience supported the idea. Objections included no representation without taxation, lack of knowledge of the current scene, too many votes for Sinn Fein, more Irish people living abroad than at home, and administrative difficulties. —LF
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So far, more than one hundred bodies with their heads facing to the West, as they will face the Saviour when he comes on final day of Judgement; — when he comes from the East on Judgment Day. The old graveyard was a burial ground for the poor;
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a potters field. Archaeologists predict that as many as ten thousand bodies are buried there.
Close to where City Hall now stands, bounded by Broadway; Reade Street and Elk Street in Lower Manhattan, a 34-storey federal office building is to be raised on the site. Archaeologists have been working some 20 feet below street level under a roof of translucent plastic sheets, surrounded by the rumbling noise of backhoes clearing the site.
Twenty seven infants have been found. Many died before the age of six months and were bur-
ied in coffins 12 to 18 inches long. There were so poor at the time, only a brass finger ring has been found among the remains.
As well as unearthing the 19th Century cemetery, the final resting place of countless number of our Irish ancestors, part of the 19th century city has been unearthed a few blocks away at yet another construction site. It is the site of Five Points, the most notorious slum in the world at the time. Called Five Points back in the mid-eighties.
How did they live, the Irish immigrants of that era? Nastily, and often life was brief.
When, after the 1822 cholera epidemic, the Mayor of New York ordered all city streets scraped of animal and human filth, a lady living in the slums all her life exclaimed "I never knew the streets were covered with cobblestones".
In the 1949 epidemic, pigs rooted in the streets. Most of the Five Points rubble now rests 20 feet below street level. Its problems were solved the "American way" by building over the slum.
Archaeologists are now working some 50 feet below city street level and have delayed the planned building of yet another New York skyscraper.
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