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These people were not like the industrious, Protestant Scotch-Irish immigrants who came to America in large numbers during the colonial era, fought in the Continental Army and tamed the...
It is estimated that as many as 4.5 million Irish arrived in America between 1820 and 1930. Between 1820 and 1860, the Irish constituted over one third of all immigrants to the United States. In the 1840s, they comprised nearly half of all immigrants to this nation.
At this time, when famine was raging in Ireland, Irish immigration to America came from two directions: by transatlantic voyage to the East Coast Ports (primarily Boston and New York) or by land or sea from Canada, then called British North America.
When people think of Irish immigration in the United States, the first thing that comes to mind is the 19th century wave of Irish immigrants that came to America due to devastating effects of the Famous Potato Blight of the mid 1840’s.
After the Great Famine struck the potato fields of Ireland in the 1840s, Irish immigration to America took on a strikingly different character. The famine Irish were not the Protestant, relatively well-to-do immigrants who had assimilated seamlessly into American society for nearly a century.
In the 1840s, the Irish potato sent waves of migrants who could afford passage fleeing starvation in the countryside. The Irish made up one half of all migrants to the country during the 1840s. From 1820 to the start of the Civil War, they constituted one third of all immigrants.
Irish Immigration. Nearly two million Irish people came to the United States from Ireland in the 1840s. Most of them crossed the ocean to escape the potato famine. Potatoes were the main crop grown by farmers in Ireland, and a fungus infestation devastated crops nationwide in 1845.
In this series of articles, Michael Doorley tells the fascinating story of migration from Ireland to America, a story that begins long before the Irish Famine of the 1840s and continues to be written well into the 21st century. Podcast transcript 93.5 KB.
However, most of the Irish came to America in the 1840s after the potato famine. The greatest influx of European immigrants to the United States occurred between the 1840s and the 1920s. During this era, approximately 37 million immigrants arrived in the United States.
Because three-quarters of all Irish immigrants intending to settle in the United States took ships to New York, this dataset provides the best means available for estimating the origins of the United States's Famine immigrants. The authors find that while the largest number of Irish immigrants came from some of Ireland's most populous