The Famine Immigrants
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Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 1218
ISBN-13: 0806353597
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Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 1218
ISBN-13: 0806353597
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Margaret Mulrooney
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2003-06-30
Total Pages: 169
ISBN-13: 0313051585
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Irish Potato Famine caused the migration of more than two million individuals who sought refuge in the United States and Canada. In contrast to previous studies, which have tended to focus on only one destination, this collection allows readers to evaluate the experience of transatlantic Famine refugees in a comparative context. Featuring new and innovative scholarship by both established and emerging scholars of Irish America and Irish Canada, it carefully dissects the connection that arose between Ireland and North America during the famine years (1845-1851). In the more than 150 years since the onset of Ireland's Great Famine, historians have intensely scrutinized the causes, the year-by-year events, and the consequences of his human catastrophe. Who was to blame? Were the hunger and misery inevitable? Did the famine have revolutionary effects on the Irish economy? How did it change the nature of Irish religion? This new study complements the wealth of existing literature on the social, cultural, and political aspects of the Famine and invites the reader to consider the fate of the Irish refugees in their new home lands.
Author: Sean O'Donoghue
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2015-12-15
Total Pages: 26
ISBN-13: 1508140669
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book introduces readers to the Irish potato famine, a period when many Irish people were forced to make a decision: leave their homeland or starve. Readers will learn about the injustices the Irish faced in Ireland, as well as the challenges they faced when they reached the United States. The book also explains the success the Irish found after much hard work, and the legacy they left in America. Primary sources and vivid photographs illustrate captivating text to give readers a deep understanding of the subject. This book is an excellent supplement to social studies curricula and will provide a dynamic reading experience.
Author: Elizabeth Raum
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2007-09
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 1429611804
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"3 story paths, 43 choices, 15 endings"--Cover.
Author: Ciaran Reilly
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2016-04-04
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 075096880X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From a range of leading academics and historians, this collection of essays examines Irish emigration during the Great Famine of the 1840s. From the mechanics of how this was arranged to the fate of the men, women and children who landed on the shores of the nations of the world, this work provides a remarkable insight into one of the most traumatic and transformative periods of Ireland’s history. More importantly, this collection of essays demonstrates how the Famine Irish influenced and shaped the worlds in which they settled, while also examining some of the difficulties they faced in doing so.
Author: Tyler Anbinder
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2024-03-12
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 0316564826
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the award-winning author of Five Points and City of Dreams, a breathtaking new history of the Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the Great Potato Famine, showing how their strivings in and beyond New York exemplify the astonishing tenacity and improbable triumph of Irish America. In 1845, a fungus began to destroy Ireland’s potato crop, triggering a famine that would kill one million Irish men, women, and children—and drive over one million more to flee for America. Ten years later, the United States had been transformed by this stupendous migration, nowhere more than New York: by 1855, roughly a third of all adults living in Manhattan were immigrants who had escaped the hunger in Ireland. These so-called “Famine Irish” were the forebears of four U.S. presidents (including Joe Biden) yet when they arrived in America they were consigned to the lowest-paying jobs and subjected to discrimination and ridicule by their new countrymen. Even today, the popular perception of these immigrants is one of destitution and despair. But when we let the Famine Irish narrate their own stories, they paint a far different picture. In this magisterial work of storytelling and scholarship, acclaimed historian Tyler Anbinder presents for the first time the Famine generation’s individual and collective tales of struggle, perseverance, and triumph. Drawing on newly available records and a ten-year research initiative, Anbinder reclaims the narratives of the refugees who settled in New York City and helped reshape the entire nation. Plentiful Country is a tour de force—a book that rescues the Famine immigrants from the margins of history and restores them to their rightful place at the center of the American story.
Author: Ira A. Glazier
Publisher: Baltimore : Genealogical Publishing Company
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 878
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the six-month period covered in this volume, April 1849-September 1849, over 80,000 Irish men, women, and children arrived in New York, twice as many as in the previous six months, and all of the data located on them is provided, and their names are all indexed.
Author: J. Matthew Gallman
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Published: 2003-06-19
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 0807860719
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Between 1845 and 1855, 2 million Irish men and women fled their famine-ravaged homeland, many to settle in large British and American cities that were already wrestling with a complex array of urban problems. In this innovative work of comparative urban history, Matthew Gallman looks at how two cities, Philadelphia and Liverpool, met the challenges raised by the influx of immigrants. Gallman examines how citizens and policymakers in Philadelphia and Liverpool dealt with such issues as poverty, disease, poor sanitation, crime, sectarian conflict, and juvenile delinquency. By considering how two cities of comparable population and dimensions responded to similar challenges, he sheds new light on familiar questions about distinctive national characteristics--without resorting to claims of "American exceptionalism." In this critical era of urban development, English and American cities often evolved in analogous ways, Gallman notes. But certain crucial differences--in location, material conditions, governmental structures, and voluntaristic traditions, for example--inspired varying approaches to urban problem solving on either side of the Atlantic.
Author: Jeremy Thornton
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781282222014
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Kathryn Miles
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2014-01-14
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1451610157
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The enthralling, true tale of a celebrated “coffin ship” that ran between Ireland and America in the 1840s: “By turns harrowing and heartwarming…All Standing salvages the treasure of a history lost at sea” (J.C. Hallman, author of The Devil Is a Gentleman). More than one million immigrants fled the Irish famine for North America—and more than one hundred thousand of them perished aboard the “coffin ships” that crossed the Atlantic. But one small ship never lost a passenger. All Standing recounts the remarkable tale of the Jeanie Johnston and her ingenious crew, whose eleven voyages are the stuff of legend. Why did these individuals succeed while so many others failed? And what new lives in America were the ship’s passengers seeking? In this deeply researched and powerfully told story, acclaimed author Kathryn Miles re-creates life aboard this amazing vessel, richly depicting the bravery and defiance of its shipwright, captain, and doctor—and one Irish family’s search for the American dream.