Ireland's dramatic population growth took off in these decades, but migration was not the main factor driving it. Paradoxically, the increase took place in spite of net emigration. The immigration flows from Britain and Europe were so reduced that the Protestant community was scarcely able to ...
Still others were among the thousands who were exiled to the West Indies by Cromwell during the 1640s and later made their way to America. There was an increase in Irish immigration during the eighteenth century, though the numbers were still relatively small. Most of the century's arrivals ...
it is believed as many as 1 million Irish men, women and children perished during the Famine, and another 1 to 2 million emigrated from the island to escape poverty and starvation, with many landing in various cities throughout North America and Great Britain. ...
Famous Irish American Songs When the Irish stepped off ships by the tens of thousands during the great waves of Irish immigration to America, they brought with them little more than the clothes on their backs, empty stomachs, and a special gift for song. In fact, the Irish are known for ...
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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...
immigrants, faith was a crucial dimension of life for those coming to the New World from their native land. Much of the Irish milieu existed within a culture of Catholicism. The biases of anti-Catholicism and anti-immigration made for rough times for the Irish,especially during the 1800s. ...
Round towers were common in medieval Ireland—but not so much in 19th-century America. This one pays tribute to the large number of Irish immigrants who settled in Milford, Massachusetts. In the late 1800s, local priest Father Patrick Cuddihy built the structure as a memorial to his countrymen...
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 ...
servants; Irish; emigration; immigration; domestic; gothic; historiographical metafiction; re-visionary fiction; Dracula; Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde1. Introduction In Valerie Martin’s 1990 novel Mary Reilly, the eponymous narrator, a servant working in the household of Dr Henry Jekyll ...