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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Irish Immigration"”.
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The Laboring Irish: Developing Community and Industry in Early Kansas City
… manufacturing to support the slaughterhouses. Irish immigrants filled this need. Irish immigration to the United States peaked in the mid nineteenth century. Most Irish immigrants were Roman Catholic from rural Ireland and possessed limited skills, other than their willingness to perform manual …
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With full intent : the making of the film "Accident of geography"
… a documentary videotape addressing the issue of Irish immigration - a phenomenon dating back hundreds of years and recounted in song, poetry and literature, but not a focus of serious film, either within or outside of Ireland. The subject of immigration is explored specifically through …
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"Go West and Grow Up With the Country": A Study of German and Irish Immigrant Communities in the American Midwest, 1850-1900
This thesis compares German and Irish immigration to the American Midwest by examining migrant settlement in two of its cities during the period from 1850 to 1900. Concentrating on ethnically German and Irish communities in Fort Wayne, Indiana and St Louis, Missouri, this thesis examines these …
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The return to hill forts in the Dark Ages: what can this tell us about post-Roman Britain?
… may not all have been British. ‘Germanic’ and Irish immigration appears to have been well advanced and many of the artefacts found at hill forts suggest trading and interaction between these groups and the British population. I have tried to discover who lived in these hill forts, why they …
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Last breath, first pulse: an experiment in modernization, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1823 - 1857
… to fill empty mill positions, began to hire Irish immigrants. The introduction of the Irish to the mills immediately created an atmosphere of friction among the predominantly Yankee work force. The later introduction of French-Canadians to the Lowell mills only served to create additional …