Irish People
The rural poor of Ireland left more often for this location.
What is Great Britain?
This is the Latin name for the Potato Famine.
What is Phytophthora Infestans?
What is the year range of Potato Famine?
What is 1845-1851? Note - the first death in Ireland occurred in October of 1846 and the last death from starvation occurred in 1851.
This number represented Ireland's peak population. The year was 1841.
What is 8 million?
Almost all of early Irish emigrants came from this area of Ireland.
What is Ulster?
This is the reason why Gerald O'Hara fled Ireland to Georgia?
This term describes the way Ireland was to leave one at home to work the farm while the rest of the family moved the to the United States.
What is the survival strategy of farming households?
This year is known as the "year with out a sun".
What is 1816?
In the years prior to 1830, these were the costs to sale to Canada and to the US (respectively).
What is 3 pounds to Canada and 5 pounds to the US?
These were the two largest ports that saw Irish emigration.
What is Liverpool and New York?
The Irish-born priest who attended to Louis XVI on his way to the guillotine.
Who is Henry Edgeworth?
This term is used to describe how population would outgrow resources until plague, war or famine corrected it.
What is Malthusian Trap?
The year slavery ended in the US.
What is 1865?
Ninety-eight percent survived the sailing across the Atlantic, yet ironically, ships were still referred to as this.
What are coffin ships?
This Board was created in Massachusetts in 1851 to carry out searches for Irish paupers.
What is the Board of Alien Commissioners?
Mary Durack, author of "Kings in Grass Castles" was this familiar relation to Patrick Durack.
What is his granddaughter?
A compartment built in the lower hold for the Irish.
What is steerage?
Between the years 1718 and 1776, this number of Irish emigrants crossed the Atlantic to Britain's North American colonies.
What is 150,000?
By 1845, this fraction of New York was Irish born.
What is 1/4?
Grosse Ile is an island downriver from Quebec. Many Irish immigrants who landed there suffered from these ailments.
What is typhus, dysentery and fever?
This person stage public meetings and mass petitions against Irish landlords.
Who is Daniel O'Connor?
What is "white slavery"?
By 1855, the NY Commissioners of Immigration opened a depot here, near the southern tip of Manhattan.
What is Castle Garden?
By 1870, this percentage of Irish lived in urban areas?
What is 75%?
New York city was "con"sidered a magnet for these kind of men.
What is confidence men?