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Irish immigration to the United States during the Great Famine in Ireland was substantial and had a lasting impact on the economy of the United States. In 1990, 44 million Americans claimed Irish ethnicity. [1] Many of these citizens can trace their ancestry to the Great Famine from 1845-1852 when 300 Irish would disembark daily in New York ...
Irish American Protestants Scotch-Irish Americans first came to America in colonial years (pre-1776).The largest wave of Catholic Irish immigration came after the Great Famine in 1845 although many Catholics immigrated during the colonial period. [5] Most came from some of Ireland's most populous counties, such as Cork, Galway, and Tipperary.
Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-515489-4. Kerby A. Miller; Patricia Mulholland Miller (2001). Journey of Hope: The Story of Irish Immigration to America. San Francisco: Chronicle. ISBN 978-0-8118-2783-6.
Irish culture in America is widespread though not especially visible as such except on Saint Patrick's Day, when, it is said, "Every American is Irish." [1] Many Irish began to immigrate after World War I. However, there was a decline in immigration after U.S. Congress began to limit the numbers of individuals immigrating. [2]
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 ...
In 1893 a group formed the Immigration Restriction League, and it and other similarly-inclined organizations began to press Congress for severe curtailment of foreign immigration. [citation needed] Irish and German Catholic immigration was opposed in the 1850s by the nativist movement, originating in New York in 1843 as the American Republican ...
America and the Fight for Irish Freedom 1866–1922 (1957) excerpt; Ward, Alan J. "America and the Irish Problem 1899–1921." Irish Historical Studies (1968): 64–90. in JSTOR; Whelan, Bernadette. De Valera and Roosevelt: Irish and American Diplomacy in Times of Crisis, 1932–1939 (Cambridge University Press, 2020) online review
"The Usual Irish Way of Doing Things" anti-Irish propaganda cartoon depicting an Irish caricature lighting an American powder keg while brandishing a bottle. (1871.) Irish immigration was opposed in the 1850s by the nativist Know Nothing movement, originating in New York in 1843.