1900s 1910s 1920s Reasons for Immigrating to U.S. The Great Famine Figures add up to one million people dying due to starvation or disease from the potato famine. Severe Unemployment Rates Unemployment in Ireland pushed the Irish to US, who were simultaneously pulled by the lure of industria...
Immigrants from Ireland were driven to the United States due to the Great Famine of 1845-1850. Many people were almost completely dependent on potatoes, an easy-to-raise crop, due to Britain’s change of religion. These potatoes then fell victim to the unknown disease that left many families...
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 ...
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 85DescriptionDescription: Petitions, V 148, 1887...
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 ...
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 "...
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 ...
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 "...
immigrationtoAmericainthenineteenthcenturywellwhenshewrote, “[Irish]Protestantimmigration[totheUS]didnotceaseintheeighteenth century,butweknowlittleornothingaboutthosewholeft[Ireland]after 1 1800.”Howdidthisextraordinaryandembarrassingstateof historiographycometobe? ThefirstexplanationisthathistoriansofIrishProtestan...
The accessible areas include the Great Hall, where immigrants were inspected and formally processed, and theJourneys: The Peopling of America 1550-1890exhibit, which tells of immigration to America before Ellis Island started operating. In a timely blogpost today, US-based Irish genealogist Joe Bugg...