Mar 16, 2017 · 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 …

It is estimated that as many as 4.5 million Irish arrived in America between 1820 and 1930. Between 1820 and 1860, the Irish constituted over one third of all immigrants to the United …

From 1841 to 1850, immigration from Europe totaled more than 1.7 million, including 780,000 Irish, who fled poverty and death from the potato famine of 1845-49. To divert the Irish exodus …

At this time, when famine was raging in Ireland, Irish immigration to America came from two directions: by transatlantic voyage to the East Coast Ports (primarily Boston and New York) or …

Apr 27, 2009 · Irish immigrants in the 1840s and 1850s settled mainly in coastal states such as New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, but also in western states such as …

The Great Famine of the 1840s saw a massive influx of Irish immigrants to Saint John, and the city’s population swelled with newcomers. Today, the city’s immigration records, housed in …

Today, Ireland has just half the population it did in the early 1840s. There are now more Irish Americans than there are Irish nationals. In the decade from 1845 to 1855, more than a million …

After the Great Famine struck the potato fields of Ireland in the 1840s, Irish immigration to America took on a strikingly different character. The famine Irish were not the Protestant, …

Aug 18, 2023 · Between 8,000 and 10,000 Irish immigrants made significant contributions to the development of modern America by helping to complete the transcontinental railroad. The …

Apr 13, 2019 · The Great Famine that ravaged the potato crop in Ireland in the 1840s caused widespread starvation and prompted a wave of immigration to America.