With immigration controls left primarily to the states and cities, the Irish poured through a porous border. In Boston, a city of a little more than 100,000 people saw 37,000 Irish arrive in the matter of a few years. Naturally, it was difficult to integrate the newcomers in such sheer ...
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 ...
CHAPTER ONE. Irish Immigration to Colonial America : The Columbia Guide to Irish American Historycapital market intermediariesmanagerial capitalisminvestment bankingprivate equitycorporate restructuringthe cityIn lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The distinguished historian of ...
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American History > Immigration > Irish Immigration ▼Primary Sources ▼ Irish ImmigrationAt 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 ...
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 "...
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...
The month of March isn’t just home toSt. Patrick’s Daybut also to Irish American Heritage Month, which acknowledges the discrimination the Irish faced in America and their contributions to society. In honor of the annual event, the U.S. Census Bureau releases a variety of facts and figure...