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While not all settlers became Catholics, a great number of the early settlers were Catholic. In other western communities, Irish priests wanted to convert the Native Americans to Catholicism. [127] These Catholic Irish would contribute not only to the growth of Catholic population in America, but to the values and traditions in America.
In the decades that followed independence in the 1920s, emigration accelerated for economic and social reasons, [14] [15] and with the preferred destination switching from the United States to Great Britain, over 500,000 emigrated in the 1950s and 450,000 in the 1980s, and over 3 million Irish citizens resided outside Ireland in 2017.
Pennsylvania was settled by Quakers from England and Wales, followed by Ulster Scots (Northern Ireland) on the frontier and numerous German Protestant sects, including the German Palatines. The earlier colony of New Sweden had small settlements on the lower Delaware River, with immigrants of Swedes and Finns. Those colonies were absorbed by ...
Here are 5 reasons retiring in rural America can be cheaper (and easier) than moving abroad. Lou Carlozo. October 11, 2024 at 6:13 AM. Forget Europe! Here are 5 reasons retiring in rural America ...
Between 1815 and 1930, 60 million Europeans emigrated, of which 71% went to North America, 21% to Latin America, and 7% to Australia. [1] This mass immigration had as a backdrop economic and social problems in the Old World , allied to structural changes that facilitated the migratory movement between the two continents.
A Map of Ireland. The counties are indicated by thin black lines, including those in Ulster in green, and the modern territory of Northern Ireland indicated by a heavy black border across the island that separates six of the Ulster counties from the other three.
Richard Soto of VIP Realty recently recorded a YouTube video sharing seven reasons why you may not want to move to Texas for retirement (or at any time in your life, for that matter). 1. Boring ...
European emigration is the successive emigration waves from the European continent to other continents. The origins of the various European diasporas [38] can be traced to the people who left the European nation states or stateless ethnic communities on the European continent.