These people were not like the industrious, Protestant Scotch-Irish immigrants who came to America in large numbers during the colonial era, fought in the Continental Army and tamed the frontier. These people w
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....
When Irish immigrants in the 1840s found few turnips in the United States, they used the more plentiful pumpkins instead. See more about the origins of popular Halloween traditions—from witches on broomsticks to bobbing apples. Here are simple ways that you can celebrate Halloween. 1. Carve ...
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...
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...
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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...
Today the church remembers an Irish saint who honors the ancient truth that the Celts love the word “story” within “hiSTORY”: Saint Brendan the Navigator, Abbot and Pioneer. Saint Brendan was born around the year 484 in County Kerry. He was trained by those ancient Irish monks and, at...
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...
Immigrants have come to Italy to plant and pick tomatoes.Alessandro Penso The new Italy Everyone has talked to me about immigrants, but I haven't seen many of them. Where is this dangerous flood that so threatens the very foundations of Italian identity? Well, many live in transient villages...