From an Irish perspective, the map also provides a fascinating visualization of how, for four decades in the 1800s, Ireland led immigration to the US. From 1820 – 1859, the greatest proportion ...

Saint Patrick's legacy grew in the U.S., particularly in areas with large groups of Irish immigrants, such as Chicago, Boston and, of course, New York.

Some of the material was created and shared with Irish anti-immigration activists by US nationals ... In particular, some argued that one poster featuring a map of Ireland which excludes Northern ...

Kilgubbin won’t be found on modern-day maps of Chicago, but there once was a place known by that name — a settlement of Irish immigrants on the city’s North Side. In the 1850s and 1860s ...

Planners also want to collect stories of immigration and Cleveland Irish history ... vintage insurance maps, and more recent surveys with ground-penetrating radar that revealed building ...

Irish Americans have long used St. Patrick’s Day parades to demand opportunities for immigration from their native land, and one of these campaigns even opened doors for immigrants from across ...

“It’s a free country!” yelled one man. “And we’re f*ckin’ payin’ for it, scumbags!” responded another woman furiously. Thursday’s anti-mass-immigration protesters were preceded ...

It was also “home to more Irish immigrants than any other part of New York.” Still, the bank records Anbinder found revealed that even day laborers, who many would assume lived hand to mouth ...

His fourth book on American immigration history, Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York, was published in March 2024 by Little, Brown New York City ...