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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.
Between 1607 and 1820, the majority of emigrants from Ireland to America were Protestants [180] who were described simply as "Irish". [181] The religious distinction became important after 1820, [182] when large numbers of Irish Roman Catholics began to emigrate to the United States.
Fewer migrants came to Latin America from Ireland than from other English-speaking countries, and they were also relatively less stably established in the region; even in Argentina, the main destination they went to, half went on to re-emigrate. [1]
The specter of emigration has lingered in Ireland’s history, defined by a devastating famine between 1845 and 1852 that caused an estimated 2.1 million people to flee the country.
Carroll, Francis M. America and the Making of an Independent Ireland (New York University Press, 2021) online review. Cooper, James, "'A Log-Rolling, Irish-American Politician, Out to Raise Votes in the United States': Tip O'Neill and the Irish Dimension of Anglo-American Relations, 1977–1986," Congress and the Presidency, (2015) 42#1 pp: 1–27.
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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.