In the 1840s, Irish peasants came to Canada in vast numbers to escape a famine that swept Ireland. Robert Whyte kept a record ...

Nativist cartoons from the 1840s and '50s often used ethnic stereotypes to depict Irish and German immigrants as national threats to the United States. Here, they are depicted as drunken election ...

The 1840s were the city's greatest decade of ... and Boston was one of the main seaports of their landing. Many Irish immigrants barely had the means to make the trip, and had no money to move ...

In the 1840s and 1850s, Irish residents made up ... the wellspring of new immigrants began to shift. Though Irish immigrants continued to settle in Massachusetts into the twentieth century ...

Despite the enormous accomplishments of Irish immigrants, detailed knowledge of the integral ... Irish settlements in Atlantic Canada and Quebec before the Famines of the 1840s sent many more to our ...

During the 19th century most of the Irish immigrants came from Ulster. Between 1876 and 1883 around 83 per cent of Irish immigrants came from the North of Ireland - around 25 per cent of these ...

Gaelic Park is also home to the Chicago Famine Memorial, paying tribute to the Irish lives lost during The Great Famine of ...