1942; NAI Number: 4752894; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; Record Group Number: RG 85DescriptionDescription: Petitions, V 148, 1887-1888. (2) AmericanAncestors.org : Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston Records, 1789-1900. New England Historic...
Opposition, discipline and culture: The civic world of the Irish and Italians in Philadelphia, 1880--1920.One of the stock assumptions that inhabits our understanding of the history of 19th- and early 20th-century immigration to an industrializing America is the wretchedness of the new immigrant ...
After World War I Irish immigration to the United States was high. After Congress passed legislation limiting immigration during the 1920s, however, the numbers declined. Numbers for the 1930s were particularly low. After World War II numbers again increased; but the 1960s saw emigration from ...
immigrationtoAmericainthenineteenthcenturywellwhenshewrote, “[Irish]Protestantimmigration[totheUS]didnotceaseintheeighteenth century,butweknowlittleornothingaboutthosewholeft[Ireland]after 1 1800.”Howdidthisextraordinaryandembarrassingstateof historiographycometobe?
Taking as his subject the second generation often overlooked by immigration historians, Meagher seeks to understand how Irish Americans invented, and reinvented, their identities in a New England industrial city. The author rejects a linear model that sees a straight trajectory from "ethnic" to "...
Indeed, the more “Irish” the servant, the better equipped she will be to help her employer navigate the world of the supernatural. Keywords: servants; Irish; emigration; immigration; domestic; gothic; historiographical metafiction; re-visionary fiction; Dracula; Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr...
U.S. immigration records indicate that by 1850, the Irish made up 43 percent of the foreign-born population. Up to ninety percent of the Irish arriving in America remained in cities. New York now had more Irish-born citizens than Dublin. Those who did not stay in New York or Boston tra...
National Archives at Boston; Waltham, Massachusetts; ARC Title: Copies of Petitions and Records of Naturalization in New England Courts, 1939 – ca. 1942; NAI Number: 4752894; Record Group Title: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787-2004; Record Group Number: RG 85: Petit...
Janet Nolan's Servants of the Poor: Teaching and Mobility in Ireland and Irish America is a relatively short (138 pages of text) but well-researched and important contribution to American and modern Irish social history, particularly to U.S. education, immigration, and Irish-American history. ...
Just in case anyone feels like mobilizing against any of these injustices – the media are constantly focusing on the non-issue of immigration in the hope of distracting the public – rather than critiquing the wealthy and warmongers who have a vastly greater negative impact on society and well...