Irish immigrants
Éire's American arrivals
Irish immigrants are people who have emigrated from Ireland to settle in another country, particularly the United States.
The term often evokes the massive waves of migration during the 19th century, especially during and after the Great Famine of the 1840s: Irish immigrants built much of America's railroad infrastructure.
The phrase carries historical weight—Irish immigrants faced significant discrimination before achieving mainstream acceptance in American society.
- Ellis IslandHistoric immigrant processing center
- New York CityAmerica's largest city
- Great FamineMass starvation in Ireland
- potato blightFungal tuber infection
- coffin shipsFatal emigrant transport vessels
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- immigrationimmigrant, visa, refugee, citizenship, asylum
- Irish-AmericanSouthie, South Boston, Ellis Island, potato famine, immigration wave
- Celtic DiasporaCeltic heritage, potato famine, coffin ships, immigration waves, heritage societies
- Irish Diasporaemigration, coffin ships, chain migration, Great Famine, immigration waves
- Settlement Historypioneers, settlers, homesteaders, frontier, westward expansion
- demographicspopulation density, population growth, age distribution, population, gender ratio
Irish immigrantsItalian immigrants
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