War broke out between Irish Catholic landowners and Protestant British colonists in the early 1600s; the conflict led many landowners to flee the island and allowed the British to claim their land. This series of events led to an influx of British immigrants who moved to Ireland in order to ...
Book Review: German and Irish Immigrants in the Midwestern United States 1850–1900:doi:10.1177/0332489319881245DSarah RoddySAGE PublicationsSage UK: London, England
Historians tend to attribute the "conservatism" of Irish Americans to their status as "Old Immigrants," whose hard-won place within the working class and the larger society was threatened by new waves of immigration; to their extraordinary allegiance to a Catholic Church whose hierarchy propagated ...
In the early years of the nineteenth century Protestants, many of whom were skilled tradesmen, continued to account for the majority of Irish immigrants. There were also numerous political refugees especially after the abortive United Irishmen uprising of 1798. However, by the 1820s and 1830s the...
or a local history book. Ten years ago, I found an except from the original edition ofConcerning Mary Ann,which describes the lives and times of the Irish Catholic immigrants who settled Monroe County, Iowa in the mid 1800s. I wrote about it in the vintage post, “Of Cofflins and Roha...
Posted in Boston Irish, Family History, Genealogy, Irish Immigrants to the USA, Massachusetts | Tagged great storm, Hurricane of 1938, Trees Slade Slaves in Swansey, Massachusetts Posted on September 3, 2021 Early probate records for colonial Massachusetts show enslaved human beings, – men, wo...
In the early 1900s the transatlantic passenger trade was highly profitable and competitive, with ship lines vying to transport wealthy travelers and immigrants. Two of the chief lines wereWhite StarandCunard. By the summer of 1907, Cunard seemedpoisedto increase its share of the market with the...
(1771) in contemporary rather than classical clothes. James Barry was also encouraged by the success of another AmericanJohn Singleton Copley(the son of Irish immigrants), whose 1778 painting 'Brooke Watson and The Shark' also broke new ground in history painting (the traditionalists hated it ...
Both novels ostensibly critique the socio-cultural inequalities of Victorian London, particularly for women, immigrants, and the working class, and the gender and class politics and structures of the original texts. However, as this article demonstrates, the presence of invented Irish female servants ...
In New York, the political machine was known as Tammany Hall, a powerful but corrupt organization that traded favors and jobs for votes and money. Out of Manhattan's fourth ward emerged Al Smith, the grandson of Irish immigrants, who rose from the tenements of the Lower East Side to seek...