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  2. History of Irish Americans in Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    By 1846, Philadelphia had received Irish immigrants for six generations, but it was the seventh generation that was to greatly change the city's composition and posture with respect to immigrants. [21] The increase of Irish immigrants in the post-famine years introduced a ghetto system. [21]

  3. List of memorials to the Great Famine - Wikipedia

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    Unveiled in 2000, the plaque inscription reads in Irish and English: "Through these gates passed most of the 1,300,000 Irish migrants who fled from the Great Famine and 'took the ship' to Liverpool in the years 1845–52" The Maritime Museum, Albert Dock, Liverpool has an exhibition regarding the Irish Migration, showing models of ships ...

  4. Great Famine (Ireland) - Wikipedia

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    The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger (Irish: an Gorta Mór [ənˠ ˈɡɔɾˠt̪ˠə ˈmˠoːɾˠ]), the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, [1] [2] was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland lasting from 1845 to 1852 that constituted a historical social crisis and had a major impact on Irish society and history as a whole. [3]

  5. How a surprising detail in bank records helped a historian ...

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    In “Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York,” Anbinder uses the bank records to dispel a myth that’s prevailed for generations about the 1.3 million Irish ...

  6. Irish diaspora - Wikipedia

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    By 1871, Irish immigrants accounted for one quarter of Australia's overseas-born population. [105] Irish Catholic immigrants – who made up about 75% of the total Irish population [101] – were largely responsible for the establishment of a separate Catholic school system. [106] [107] About 20% of Australian children attend Catholic schools ...

  7. Lambers: Remembering the Irish famine, preventing future ones

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  8. Molly Maguires - Wikipedia

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    Molly Maguires meeting to discuss strikes in the Pennsylvania coal mines, depicted in an 1874 illustration in Harper's Weekly.. The Molly Maguires was an Irish 19th-century secret society active in Ireland, Liverpool, and parts of the eastern United States, best known for their activism among Irish-American and Irish immigrant coal miners in Pennsylvania.

  9. European potato failure - Wikipedia

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    The European potato failure was a food crisis caused by potato blight that struck Northern and Western Europe in the mid-1840s. The time is also known as the Hungry Forties . While the crisis produced excess mortality and suffering across the affected areas, particularly affected were the Scottish Highlands , with the Highland Potato Famine and ...