Irish Immigration Pre-Confederation British North America became home to thousands of people fleeing poverty or oppression in their homelands with hopes to build a better life. In the 1840s, Irish ...

May 17, 2013 -- Immigration from Ireland hit its peak in the 1850s, when more than a million Irish immigrants -- many fleeing their homeland because of famine -- became legal permanent residents.

Ballyhaunis, in the west of Ireland, experienced immigration long before the rest of the country, thanks to the opening of a halal meat plant by a Pakistani businessman in the 1970s. Now, almost 40% ...

Ireland, a country of just over 5 million people, saw 141,600 immigrants arrive in the year leading up to April 2023 – the highest figure in 16 years with some attracted by its strong economic ...

Steady Irish migration in the past years has led the government of Ireland to build a new immigrant services centre at the Ireland Fund of Canada’s downtown offices. Irish temporary workers do not ...

Since taking over the Department of Justice, Jim O’Callaghan has embarked on a firmer, more hardline approach to immigration in this country. New legislation brought forward by the Minister this ...

Details about immigration from census 2022 were released by the CSO in October 2023, showing that there were almost 632,000 non-Irish citizens living in Ireland at the time of the census ...