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The Chicago Post wrote, "The Irish fill our prisons, ... In 1850 at the crest of the Potato Famine immigration, Orestes Brownson, a celebrated convert to Catholicism, stated: "Out of these narrow lanes, dirty streets, damp cellars, and suffocating garrets, will come forth some of the noblest sons of our country,
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www.kinsella.org/history/histira.htm
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Reasons for Irish Immigration: The Potato Famin ... Gives chronological history of Irish immigration. Discusses reasons they left and the voyage of coming to America, and the experience of being a newly arrived immigrant, including where they settled and what work they did.
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www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed311/kafai/Team%204/immigra...
www.gseis.ucla.edu/courses/ed311/kafai/Team%204/immigration
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TWO MAJOR IMMIGRATION PERIODS: ... First Irish immigration during colonial era of ... Irish immigration peaked in mid to late century. This was largely because of dire poverty and starvation in their homeland.
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www.udel.edu/soe/deal/IrishImmigrationFacts.html
www.udel.edu/soe/deal/IrishImmigrationFacts.html
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Suddenly, in the mid-1840s, the size and nature of Irish immigration changed drastically. The potato blight which destroyed the staple of the Irish diet produced famine. Hundreds of thousands of peasants were driven from their cottages and forced to emigrate -- most often to North America.
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www.assumption.edu/ahc/Irish/overview.html
www.assumption.edu/ahc/Irish/overview.html
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Irish diaspora - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Irish diaspora (Irish: ) consists of Irish emigrants and their descendants in countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, Argentina, New Zealand, Mexico, South Af...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_diaspora
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So the custom of crowding many persons into a single room, now so universal, has been chiefly implanted by the Irish immigration. And since the poor devil must have one enjoyment, and society has shut him out of all others, he betakes himself to the drinking of spirits.
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www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-work...
www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/condition-working-class/ch06.htm
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This curriculum is dedicated to the millions of Irish who suffered and perished in the Great Starvation. It is also dedicated to those who escaped by emigration, and to the great Irish Diaspora worldwide.
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www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/irish/irish_pf.html
www.nde.state.ne.us/SS/irish/irish_pf.html
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