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    The Irish Potato Famine

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    massive famine, which many called the Irish Potato Famine or the Great Irish Famine. This incident was considered one of the darkest and hardest period of the Irish history. Unfortunately, this event caused between 500,000 to 1 million deaths and ruined the land and crops of many farmers. The famine reached its peak in 1847 and during that year, about 300,000 people left Ireland and went to install themselves in other countries which included Canada. When the Irish people came to Canada, they…

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    This was the first time Alphonsus and his family have left the country and were scared to see what awaited them upper north in Canada. The famine migration (1847‒52) marks the last large movement of the Irish to Canada. The famine immigrants favoured the towns and cities; and by 1871, the Irish were the largest ethnic group in every large town and city of Canada, with the exceptions of Montréal and Québec City. Upon arriving in British North America through the Canadian ports because of the…

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    The Irish people were faced with many problems in their home countries of Ireland that caused them to migrate to the United States. The first wave of people that migrated to the United States in the nineteenth century were Protestants, political refugees, and Catholic peasants. Most of these people were farmers that had their land taken from them, or their landlords no longer leased the land because of an interest in grazing. According to the textbook A Different Mirror: A History of…

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    role of women during the 1641 Rebellion. The 1641 Rebellion was the result of discontent with the British in Ireland due to a number of reasons, including but not limited to the failures of the Ulster Planation. During the Ulster Plantation many Irish lost their land and were left with less desirable land. As well as land and economic reasons, another factor resulting in the rebellion was Catholics unhappiness during the English Lord Deputy, Thomas Wentworth’s rule, many were unhappy with…

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    The Potato Famine

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    The Donnelly’s were a family who emigrated from Ireland because of the Potato Famine. They immigrated to London, Canada. In Canada, they were not the most favourite family in their township. In their township which was called the Biddulph Township, there was a lot of violence which was shown by sheep killings, arson, fights and by murders. This shows that the township was not very peaceful and there was a lot of problems and violence. This was common for them. In the text it says that the…

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    1840s” by Ruth Bleasdale discusses the social disorder of class conflict on the canals of British North America. In the 1840s numerous Irish immigrants were migrating to Canada whose sole choice was to enter the capitalist labour market and accept any wages given by the contractor. However, the unemployment rates in Upper Canada were at peak and several thousand Irish labourers were living in extreme poverty and facing starvation. The thesis of this article claims that the violence caused by the…

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    otherwise known as the Emerald Isle is an island country west of the United Kingdom with beautiful landscapes and Proud people. for example, Colin Farrell said that “Being Irish is very much of who I am I take it with me everywhere I go.” Now lots of people feel this, now 15% of people that live in the US have come from Irish decent. You could learn a lot about Ireland using the five themes of geography: Movement, Region, Human/Environment Interaction, Place, and Location. Movement The first…

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    Irish Immigration History

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    The Historical Context of Irish Immigration While the general public of today consider the Irish as under the umbrella term “Caucasian,” there was a point in American history where Irish immigrants had the same social status as African Americans. It occurred when the largest group of poor immigrants—over a million Irish immigrants—arrived on America’s doorstep during the years of the great Irish Potato Famine which began in 1845 and ended six years later (The History Place); the catastrophe…

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    American Dream. Likely the most well known cause of voluntary immigration is the potato famine, in 1840 Ireland began to starve because of the potato famine. In the nineteenth century America's population increased from 30,000 to 100,000 in one year (The Irish in America: 1840's-1930's.). From 1820 to 1860 the American population held over…

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    of the judgments made about Ireland and the Irish in Victorian England, and that theme had a distinctly ethnic and racial character. Stated simply, this consensus amounted to an assumption or a conviction that the 'native Irish ' were alien in race and inferior in culture to the Anglo-Saxons" (Curtis 5). In North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell, this Victorian undercurrent of anti-Irish sentiment is felt throughout the novel. The novel 's view of the Irish spans from sympathy and pity to…

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