Most of the exiles—nearly a quarter of the Irish nation—washed up on the shores of the United States. They knew little about America except one thing: It had to be better than the hell that was searing Ireland. READ MORE: When Irish-Americans Attacked Canada—With the White House's ...
The struggles of Irish immigrants were compounded by the poor treatment they received from the white, primarily Anglo-Saxon and Protestant establishment. America's existing unskilled workers worried they would be replaced by immigrants willing to work for less than the going rate. And business owners...
Kirke, Karen D. 2005. When there's more than one norm-enforcement mechanism: Accommodation and shift among Irish immigrants to New York City. University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics: Selected Papers from NWAV 33 11. 1-12....
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First, a stronger military presence. “On the frontier there are intrigues,” Terán wrote. And lest the intrigues become rebellions, Mexico needed more soldiers in Texas. Second, immigration should be suspended until it could be controlled. The border must be policed and illegal immigrants deporte...
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Last month the Irish International Immigrant Center partnered with Maura Weir to offer this training to a group of Irish Immigrants, providing them with the op- portunity to learn how to protect their friends and loved ones from this tragic and preventable cause of death. "Traditionally, Ireland...
Karavelis. He housed homeless people – mostly immigrants from Latin America – in the rectory, the basement of the convent, and in a shelter across the street from the church. He helped them find more permanent housing, and he turned the former convent into a refuge for AIDS patients. ...
While churches in other parts of the world had All Saints Day on November 1, not much was going on for All Hallow’s Eve (Halloween) until the potato famine forced Irish immigrants to come to the United States. America in the 1840s discovered Mischief Night where young people in costumes...
Halloween arrived in its near-modern form in the 1840s when Irish immigrants arrived in the United States to escape the Irish Potato Famine. Nearly two centuries later, Halloween is now celebrated in the United States, Ireland, Italy, England, Mexico, Portugal and many other countries around th...