In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The distinguished historian of Irish America Timothy Meagher has produced the first ethnic volume in the Columbia guides to American history. This
Throughout the Famine years, nearly a million Irish arrived in the United States. Famine immigrants were the first big wave of poor refugees ever to arrive in the U.S. and Americans were simply overwhelmed. Upon arrival in America, the Irish found the going to be quite tough. With no one...
Reginald Byron, in Irish America, has pro vided a thorough historical and ethnographic picture of Irish American ethnicity in Albany, New York. In addition to deepening our knowledge of the immigration of Irish people to the United States in the nineteenth centu ry, Byron also forcefully argues...
My paternal grandmother, Theresa, came to the United States as a teenager from Ireland, settled in the Boston area and married an American-born man of Irish descent. Together they raised their children in the Boston suburbs. She was "famous" in her neighborhood for being the mother of eight...
immigrationThis article proposes that a better knowledge of culinary history enriches all culinary stakeholders. The article will discuss the origins and history of corned beef in Irish cuisine and culture. It outlines how cattle have been central to the ancient Irish way of life for centuries but...
Mr Homan has tried to draw attention to the so-called sanctuary cities. In November, he suggested that he would ramp up the number of federal immigration officers in those areas. “New York City, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, the major cities in this country are still sanctuary citie...
A wave of immigration from southern Europe swept across postwar Canada to fill the need for manual labour. The immigration of a highly skilled worked force was also encouraged in the areas of health, education and technology, mostly from Europe.The United States of America America was built by...
While informal CIPs of a questionable legal basis have existed in various guises in Vanuatu since 1990s, the first formal such program to open in Vanuatu is the Capital Investment Immigration Plan (CIIP), in 2014. Several similar programs (such as the VERP and the REOP) were opened and late...
U.S. Maritime History – Shipwrecks – Irish immigration in the 1830s – Tall ships in the Age of Sail –Death of 215 Passengers and Crew – Walt Whitman’s shipwreck-poetry – Currier and Ives prints of the wrecks – The New York Harbor Pilots – Land Pirates – The Origin of the U...
There is a well-documented history of such women being able to save some of their earnings to help other family members back home, and to help them emigrate in the chain-migration style of Irish families. However, as Irish prejudice grew in this decade, many families did not want young ...