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    of a better life. For the Irish, the American dreams and promises weren’t just ideas and hopes, they were the way to a new beginning in America, a way to start over and forget the horrifying past they encountered. The Irish struggled day after day to pay for fair travel to America. To many people, the challenge the Irish overcame seemed to deserve praise. Today, the Irish are honored and commemorated for their hard work and desire for a better life. The start of the Irish’ peoples struggles began

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    Success as an immigrant means that they have achieved economic stability. Whether that is by having a stable job that pays well or being able to support your family and pay your bills every month. Most struggle at first but end up achieving this success, unlike the Irish immigrants. Irish immigrants failed at achieving success in America because they lacked the important skills needed to become successful, companies became anti-Irish and many worked low-class jobs. The Irish Immigrants lacked many

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    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

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    As a Irish Immigrant ? Irish Immigrants came to America from poverty of Ireland to have to be treated bad and to live in harsh conditions. Early 1900s and late 1800s immigration living in America In the late 1800s and early 1900s Irish immigrants came to America very unprepared because they came from the Great Famine. The country they came from Ireland was lacking modern industry. In 1840 70,000 people from Ireland stormed Boston and New York. Living was hard for the Irish immigrant they were

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    The Irish immigrated to the U.S. in the millions from 1820 and on. They came for a variety of reasons, primarily the potato famine that caused nationwide starvation. However, the living conditions in Ireland were deplorable far before the potato famine. The Irish were different from Americans because they lived in rural area that lacked modern industry. Many were very poor and had issues supporting themselves, or even moving away from the place they docked at when they got off the boat. When they

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    Irish Immigrants

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    shortage in one of the main staples of the native cuisine: the potato. This famine led to a decrease in not only the amount of available food, but also in the amount of money that each individual family had (Irish and German). These issues in unison made life exceptionally hard for the common Irish citizen. There was a point when the amount of hardships was too much for families to bear. They had two options: stay and hope that life would get better in Ireland, or relocate to America,

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    Between 1870 and 1900, over 12 million immigrants arrived in hopes of a promising future. The majority of these immigrants were from England, Ireland, and Germany. Immigrants from Europe commonly entered from ports on the East Coast and settled nearby. However, there were a few immigrants who were attracted by lands for farming and moved inland. During the 1870s and 1880s, many Irish occupied the slums of East Boston, including new immigrants. The Irish began to move up the social ladder and a

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    Brendan Ryan February 16th, 2017 Class 811 Period 3 The Diary of an Irish Immigrant Entry #1: Leaving Ireland. December 8th, 1892 It 's so cold today. I sit on a suitcase packed for me, Norah. I am from a small town in Ireland called Cobh, and I live there with my mother, father and little sister. Glenn is my older brother, three years older than me. Oh, and I 'm sixteen. I guess you could call this feeling anxiety, but it really is more than that. It feels like I 'll never

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    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

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    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

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