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Mac-Talla: Stailc Ann Am Pennsylvania

Mac-Talla: Stailc Ann Am Pennsylvania

Posted by Andrew on Monday 15 August 2016
Mac-Talla is filled with news of every kind, and although they don’t report them in the same way as the big newspapers (even the big newspapers of their own day) it’s often interesting to read the perspectives of Gaels gone by on the world in which they lived. Among news items detailing, for example, bears killing sheep in Cape Breton, we can find items like this, which reports a strike in Pennsylvania in 1897 (even though Gaelic had no word for ‘strike’ at the time):
 
Many of the miners who had stopped work in Pennsylvania have gone back to work, but some thousands of them are staying out still. Twenty one people were killed two weeks ago by a group of deputies who were keeping them in order. The sheriff gave an order of some sort to the miners which they did not understand (the majority could not understand English) and since they did not follow his order, he commanded the deputies to fire on them; they did so, and twenty-one people were killed. This has stirred up great anger and hatred among the miners, and it is hardly surprising that it will be very hard to bring them to an agreement.
 
More can be read about the strike and how things happened here. Mac-Talla got the gist of it correct, even though their style is not conventional or similar to other newspapers!
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