1880s 1890s 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 lur...
There was an increase in Irish immigration during the eighteenth century, though the numbers were still relatively small. Most of the century's arrivals were Presbyterians from the northern province of Ulster who had originally been sent there from Scotland as colonists by the British crown. Many...
Challenge, Change, and Continuity: Irish Immigrant Women on the Kern County Frontier, 1860-1880.Examines the lives of the immigrant Irish women in Kern County, California. Comparison of the lives of Irish women in the county and in other states; Reasons for the immigrations; Investigation on ...
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...
Discussion on the church's criticism o... DG Paz - 《American Historical Review》 被引量: 7发表: 1994年 "Almost A Class of Helots in an Alien Land": The British State and Irish Immigration, 1921-1945 Examines the debates about the Irish modern women in the context of nation-building ...
n.1.(Eng. Politics)One of the adherents of Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-91) in his advocacy of home rule for Ireland. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co. Want to thank TFD for its existence?Tell a friend about us, add a link to this pag...
American History > Immigration > Irish Immigration▼Primary Sources ▼ Irish Immigration At the beginning of the 19th century the dominant industry of Ireland was agriculture. Large areas of this land was under the control of landowners living in England. Much of this land was rented to small far...
immigrant processing station, stands as an originary figure of the so‐called golden age of European immigration to the USA in the late nineteenth century... SK&S Morton - 《Social & Cultural Geography》 被引量: 8发表: 2004年 Dance Hall Days: Intimacy and Leisure among Working-Class Immigrant...
Irish Immigration to Colonial America : The Columbia Guide to Irish American History reality more explicitly in the second section, where he has a chapter devoted to Irish nationalism in America and one on the Irish in American politics... TJ Meagher - 《Catholic Historical Review》 被引量: 18...
"One of the oddities about Irish immigration is that they were the most rural people in Europe and became the most urban people in America," Rogers said. That was not by choice but, rather, circumstance. In 1880, hundreds of immigrants from Connemara Ireland settle...