Irish settlers
Éire's diaspora members
Irish settlers are people of Irish origin who established residence in a new land, particularly during the mass emigrations of the 18th and 19th centuries.
The term most often refers to those who came to North America, especially during and after the Great Famine of the 1840s: Irish settlers built the railroads and worked the coal mines.
They also settled extensively in Britain, Australia, and other parts of the English-speaking world.
- emigrationLeaving homeland permanently
- coffin shipsFatal emigrant transport vessels
- Great FamineMass starvation in Ireland
- xenophobiaHatred of outsiders
- tenement lifeExistence in crowded housing
housing shortages · Celtic traditions · farming communities · diaspora · labor exploitation · chain migration · mining towns · labor unions · Ellis Island · indentured servitude · immigrant networks · colonial expansion · railroad construction · St. Patrick's Day · discrimination · potato blight · old country · County Cork
- immigrationimmigrant, immigrants, visa, refugee, citizenship
- Celtic DiasporaCeltic heritage, potato famine, coffin ships, immigration waves, heritage societies
- Irish Diasporaemigration, coffin ships, chain migration, Great Famine, immigration waves
- frontier Americapioneers, homesteaders, homesteading, sodbusters, westward expansion
- Maritime ColoniesNova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Halifax, Charlottetown
- Northern KentuckyCovington, Newport, Florence, Burlington, Hebron
Irish settlersEnglish settlers
Emigrants from Britain's shores
British settlers · indigenous peoples · Native Americans · First Nations · German settlers
Irish settlersindigenous peoples
Original inhabitants of lands
Native Americans · First Nations · native populations · original inhabitants · nomads
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