Neighborhood and Politics: Irish Ethnicity in Nineteenth Century Lowell, Massachusetts In recent years social theorists have begun to assert the important influence of space on social ideas and practices. This paper examines some of these ass... SA Marston - 《Annals of the Association of American...
The population of the Republic of Ireland in 1991 was approximately 3,523,401, that of Northern Ireland 1,569,971. About 95 percent of the Republic's population is Roman Catholic; most of the rest are Protestant. Over 25 percent of Northern Ireland's population is Roman Catholic; about ...
Massachusetts In Massachusetts: Population composition …by waves of Roman Catholic Irish escaping the ravages of the Irish Potato Famine. Similarly, in the 1860s agricultural poverty in Canada sent French Canadians in large numbers to Massachusetts as workers in the new factory system pioneered by Ya...
Without the Irish, the Chicago River wouldn't turn green each year on March 17, nor is it likely that you would be drinking the verdant-tinged beer at the bar either. (Irish-Americans were celebrating St. Patrick's Day in the statesas early as the 18th century.) The sphere of politics...
Ireland’s population was nearly halved by the time the potato blight abated in 1852. While approximately 1 million perished, another 2 million abandoned the land that had abandoned them in the largest-single population movement of the 19th century. Most of the exiles—nearly a quarter of the ...
The article presents information on Boston, Massachusetts, which is regarded as the capital of Irish America. Irish began moving to Boston before the American Revolution. Some came for economic opportunities. Thousands of others were deported by the Br...
Rice University’s database of neologisms says the term comes from Boston, Massachusetts, which has a large Irish-American population. Rice specifically describes the Irish goodbye as a drunk person leaving without talking to anyone in order to avoid revealing how drunk they are. Not everyone ...
This was a vital question, wholly unsolved by the treaty. The motive of Massachusetts in welcoming the Scotch-Irish into her jurisdiction was to plant them on the frontiers of Maine as a living bulwark against the restless and enterprising French of the north, and their still more restless sav...
Many of the Irish residing in Boston were servants and also challenged the working class. Politics Many of the Irish population were excluded from politics because of their beliefs in Catholicism Slow to Assimilate The Irish kept to themselves, so they were slow to assimilate and slow to be acc...
resulting in famine and population displacement1. To this day, it affects world agriculture by causing the most destructive disease of potato, the fourth largest food crop and a critical alternative to the major cereal crops for feeding the world’s population1. Current annual worldwide potato cro...