Irish Immigrants To America

The Irish were considered White in 19th century America, but they were considered inferior to the native born Americans. In Document A. the cartoon showed the Irish being labeled as white, but were equal to blacks. So the Irish and blacks were distinguished as having an equal social status. So they were both victims of racism. Then in Document B. it was said “Things which Roman Catholics priests and all true Roman Catholics hate”. All Irish were Roman Catholics, and in the 19th century all Roman Catholics were white. Showing that once again the Irish were white but were discriminated because of their religion. Their religion was discriminated against because it wasn’t the same as the native born American’s. The native born Americans were Protestants.

The book, “The Irish Way” by James R. Barrett is a masterpiece written to describe the life of Irish immigrants who went to start new lives in America after conditions at home became un-accommodative. Widespread insecurity, callous English colonizers and the ghost of great famine still lingering on and on in their lives, made this ethnic group be convinced that home was longer a home anymore. They descended in United States of America in large numbers. James R. Barrett in his book notes that these people were the first group of immigrants to settle in America. According to him, there were a number of several ethnic groups that have arrived in America. It was, however, the mass exodus of Irish people during and after the great

The United States saw an influx of Irish immigrants due to the Great Famine (potatoes) in Ireland.

German and Irish immigrants made up two of the largest immigrant groups in the 19th century. The immigration experience of the Germans and Irish shown through Ironweed, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Hold Dear, As Always Jette, Immigrant Voices, and Second Fatherland displayed several similarities and differences between each group’s immigration experience. The Germans and Irish similarly went through Americanization by living in communities made up of their own ethnic group. Also, the role of women was similar in both communities; women took care of the children and maintained the house. They both faced serious disease in both of their communities and were not considered American until later on. However, there were many ways that the German

Ethnicity and class are similar, yet different. A common way to described class can be by the socioeconomic statues of an individual. The socioeconomic statues are lower class, middle class, and high class. Ethnicity can be described as a group of people who are bound together by either having common traditions or cultures. They way class and ethnicity functions together for Irish immigrants was that even though they had the same skin color as the English, they were still seen and treated harshly. They were considered lower class in both Europe and America in the 1800s, they were treated like any other minority in the United States. However, even though Irish Immigrants were treated unfairly as any other minority, the Irish believed that

Irish immigrants dealt with many negative impacts on their arrival to America. Coming to America they were put into destitute neighborhoods. As they were isolated and stigmatized in these lower class communities, this drove to the creation of Irish gangs. The gangs started fire companies as fronts to hold wars amongst each other for control over the slums, but most importantly Irish to defend their people against attacks of anti-Irish immigrant gangs. They assaulted anti-drink marchers and even rioted against the temperance movement as stated in the book from a man in a grog shop “in this land of liberty, they expected to do as they like” (pg.144). As gangs went on, they forced city officials to expand police and fire services to give more

As many foreigners arrive into the United States many are welcomed in airports, borders, immigration, customs, etc. in which many do not intent to stay in the United States. Many enter the country as tourist, businessmen, students, etc. In other cases, many arrivals are immigrants and refugees many unauthorized, or unlawfully using false documents to border inspectors. In the “Irish in America: 1940’s -1930’s article, it mentions how the Irish immigrated into America into Boston for the opportunities America had to offer and the idea that the Irish can have a new beginning but obstacles later were faced as the Irish immigrated with few skills to offer the Americans. In a way that parallels to the idea in the article “Syrian Refugees in America:

First, let’s look at the largest group of immigrants that migrated to America, Irish. The conditions that cause the Irish to leave their old country and move to America were, English government, famine and force. The English government did everything to make life for Irish unbearable; for example, raising tax making it hard to get out of poverty. Famine was the next condition that cause Irish to migrate to America; when the great potato famine hit many died thus leaving two alternatives for the survivors; stay and died or leave. This was one force that cause many to leave the other force was the English government. The English government started evicted the Irish because the government would save money not having to support them and the government

Many factors lead the Irish to emigrate from Ireland to America in the 1700s and 1800s; many left Ireland barely escaping with their lives as famine and disease struck the country, some left over political neglect from the country for its people especially by the British, others left for better economic opportunities, religious, and social freedoms. In many of the letters on the documentary, Out of Ireland, several people yearned for America and the idea of starting over on a new land full of freedom and opportunity. Many people, mostly poor peasants, had endured enough suffering and sought to leave these experiences behind by beginning life anew in the land of opportunity. Indeed, the arrival of Irish immigrants set about a massive transformation

A large reason for Irish to immigrate to the United States was the fact of being catholic. Since the British have taken away Ireland during a battle and made it to one of the British colonies, Irish had a new law called the Penal law where basic right including voting, practice their religion in the open, and schools if being catholic were permitted. The land that once was owned by Irish folks were rebuild into catholic lands were the Irish had to pay rent and were not permitted to do anything freely without the landlord/government knowing. Another major reason for Irish to immigrate in such a density was because of the Famine that found its way into Ireland between 1845 and 1851 were over one million Irish died through starvation and diseases.

Settlers venturing over to America all had one thing in common, they all had hopes of prospering in the New World. With an even playing field to define one's own status, thousands of people jumped at the opportunity and flooded America. Some of the largest immigrant groups were the Scots-Irish, the Germans, and even African Americans. Immigrants impacted the culture in America making it truly unique.

Hello i'm Thomas D’Arcy McGee. I was born in Carlingford Ireland on April 7, 1825. In 1842 i packed up and moved myself to north america and joined the boston pilot. A little while later I got really involved with the irish rebellion and had to go to united states. While i was in the United States my attitude changed about how i felt. I argued that the irish immigrants should choose canada over the United states. I became editor of the era which was used to discuss irish politics and the future of canada. In December 1857 i was elected to the legislative assembly of the province of canada. As you can see i like changing things up and trying new things. So in 1862 i joined the cabinet of the john sandfield macdonald government and charged with the intercolonial Railways conference.

Most immigrants came to America expecting a perfect lives with no struggle. What most immigrants realized when arriving to America, was that they were expected to do all of the hard work. Irish people came to America expecting job opportunities and wealth, but got the exact opposite.

The turmoil of the second decade of the twentieth century gave way to a greater sense of peace and stability in the third, with a peace treaty signed between Ireland and Britain in December of 1921 and Home Rule finally established for most of the Irish isle (Ferriter, n.d.). At the same time, this new society did not lead to instant prosperity, and indeed poverty remained a major and growing problem in Ireland during this decade (Ferriter, n.d.). Economic and social problems that persisted during this decade certainly could have been pushes to increased immigration.

Prior to this time, there were large numbers of immigrants and refugees from Irish for the religious freedom, but mostly to escape from the Great Famine of 1845-1851 (Foner 343). According to (http://www.ushistory.org/us/25f.asp)   , in the middle half of 19th century, over two