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Between 1607 and 1820, the majority of emigrants from Ireland to America were Protestants [179] who were described simply as "Irish". [180] The religious distinction became important after 1820, [181] when large numbers of Irish Roman Catholics began to emigrate to the United States.
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 ...
The Ireland-US Council [8] and the US-Ireland Alliance are organizations which encourage bilateral cooperation between the two countries. The Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform (ILIR) is an organization founded in 2005 by Niall O'Dowd , Ciaran Staunton, and Kelly Fincham that campaigns for reform of United States immigration law and for ...
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.
After moving from the US to Spain, I decided not to go home for the holidays, which gave me plenty of time to take a dream trip to Ireland.
By 1850 the United States had 961,719 Irish citizens, 42.8% of whom were born in Ireland. [1] This comprised 43% of all foreign born population of the United States at the time. [ 1 ] New York saw the largest amount of Irish immigration and by 1855, 26% of population in Manhattan was Irish and by 1900 that percentage had risen to 60%. [ 1 ]
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.
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