The famine began in September 1845, it was an airborne fungus which killed the much needed crops and in turn caused the migration from Ireland. Throughout the famine years, nearly a million Irish arrived in the United States. Famine immigrants were the first big wave of poor refugees ever to arrive in the U.S. Just about all of the immigrants to America arrived by boat and ship. These ships were often referred to as “coffin ships” due to the poor condition and that a lot of the time when or if they made the 3000 mile journey they were saturated with disease and death. http://www1.assumption.edu/ahc/irish/Irish_emigrants_Mersey.jpgIrish immigrants boarding a “coffin ship” to America in
The Famine mysteriously begun in 1845, the leaves on the potato plants began to turn black and curled, and also rotted. The cause was thought to be a fog across the fields of Ireland, but actually the cause ended up being an airborne fungus, that was from ships that traveled from North America to England. Charles Trevelyan had taken control over the famine policy in 1846 because
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Calvin Turner Professor Smith ENC 1101 12 November 2013 Irish American Immigrants Immigration played a big part in the growth of America. One group of immigrates that contributed to this were the Irish. The Irish had a rough time when migrating over during the nineteenth century. Irish Americans had to overcome a lot of things, such as, their living situation, the type of work they took on for horrible pay, and lastly the discrimination they endured from other racists. All of these problems were overcome one way or another but it took time.
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Few, if any, places in America would have been open-armed to an incursion of Irish immigrants during this time period. There are numerous accounts of inhumane, degrading things that happened to Irish immigrants, thanks to nativists, Know-Nothings, and general anti-Catholic fear mongers. The men who built Duffy’s Cut have been heralded as the would-be patron saints of all the adversity and torment that Irish immigrants had to endure in the 1800s. Within a few months, every single man of the fifty-seven person crew had died while constructing “mile 59” (Watson 59). The worst part about the story of Duffy’s Cut is the unsurprising element about how the Irish men died, which was as nameless and as faceless as when they came to
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