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NINETEENTH CENTURY

1- Density of population

2- Potatoes famine

- potatoes hit by Phytophthora infenstas

EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

- 1 million people died

- 1,7 million emigrated from Irelan

THE VOJAGE

Immigration left from ports all over Ireland:

AMERICAN WAKE

Terrible condition caused by:

  • Sea sickness
  • Starvation
  • Unsanitary conditions
  • cholera
  • typhus
  • Black fever
  • Derry
  • Cork
  • Limerick
  • Galway

It usually lasted up to 3 months, on sailing ships which were called "Famine ships" or " Coffin ships"

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

THE IRISHMEN

  • Catholics
  • Poor

were:

  • unskilled laborers
  • Adventurers

but

provided to build:

  • canals
  • roads
  • railways of America

Began with:

  • Irish slave trade

It increased in the nineteenth century

BUT BEFORE...

HISTORY OF IRISH IMMIGRATION

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