Learn more about the Irish immigration requirements for short stay visas, studying in Ireland, Irish work permits and retiring to Ireland.
This webquest allows students to learn about Irish immigration to America. The Irish Immigration to America Webquest uses an engaging website that allows students to explore the positive and negative experiences that Irish immigrants had within the United States. Click here to view the website. The webquest contains 40 questions and is a great way for students to learn more about the following topics: • Colonial Immigration • Irish-Catholic Immigration • Potato Famine • Slums and Mistreatment of Irish immigrants • Jobs • Discrimination and Riots • Racial Tensions/Civil War • Politics and Opportunity Word and PDF versions included! An answer sheet is included for the teacher. The webquest takes most students one class period to complete depending on the age of your students. Feel free to modify this activity if needed to fit the needs of your students. I highly suggest this webquest for students in grades 5-12 This lesson plan is included in the Industrialization and Immigration Lesson Plan Collection. Please check out some of my other Industrial Revolution and Immigration lesson plans. 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Searching for Irish genealogy records can be daunting, but is worth the effort! Learn how to start finding your Irish ancestors!
An overview of Irish immigration to Britain: the how, why, when and where of emigration from Ireland to its bigger neighbour.
A quick guide to the main US immigration records to help you find details of your Irish immigrant ancestors
Irish emigration, coffin ships and the history behind the exodus of Irish immigrants to America, Canada, Australia, NZ and Britain.
"West Indian Arrivals" by Haywood Magee West Indian immigrants arrive at Victoria Station, London, after their journey from Southampton Docks. Original Publication: Picture Post - 8405 - Thirty Thousand Colour Problems - pub. 1956 Unframed Paper Size: 30" x 40'' (inches) Printed 2022 Silver Gelatin Fibre Print This piece is attributed to the mentioned designer/maker. It has no attribution mark and no official proof of authenticity, however it is well documented in design history. I take full responsibility for any authenticity issues arising from misattribution less
Brush up on your Ellis Island immigration history and learn some lesser known facts on one of America's historic immigration stations. Learn more!
Christmas day in Australia in 1967 as Irish emigrants. Migration Memories of living in Australia as a 10 year old Irish child. We emigrated there with the help of the £10 assisted passage scheme.
Ellis Island, which opened in 1892, admitted some 3.5 million Irish immigrants to the United States.
These images, which represent the first ever colour photographs taken in Ireland, were taken in 1913 by two French women, Marguerite Mespoulet and Madeleine Mignon-Alba, who used newly available autochrome colour plates. The novice photographers recorded life and historic sites on their two month journey through Ireland from Connemara to the Boyne Valley. They arrived in Ireland to take part in a world-wide project entitled ‘the Archives of the Planet’. The project was the brainchild of the French banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn whose ambition was to compile a “kind of photographic inventory of the surface of the earth as it was occupied and organised by Man at the beginning of the 20th century.” Mother of seven making fringes for knitted shawls, Galway, Ireland, 29 May 1913 Two fishermen and a boy, An Spidéal, Galway, Ireland, 31 May 1913 Two fishermen characteristic of the west coast, gentle, pleasant and hardened to poverty. The boy is dressed in a skirt which is common in the region for all boys up to the age of 12. Two men making coracles, River Boyne, Oldbridge, Ireland, June 1913 A coracle is a small boat traditionally used in Ireland (particularly on the River Boyne), Wales and Scotland. The word "coracle" comes from the Welsh cwrwgl, cognate with the Irish "currach", Two coracles on the Boyne, Oldbridge, Ireland, June 1913 Two coracles on the Boyne, Oldbridge, Ireland, June 1913 Two coracles on the Boyne, Oldbridge, Ireland, June 1913 Girl wearing traditional dress of Claddagh, Galway, Ireland, 26 May 1913 Main Ní Tuathail, a 14 year old girl from the Claddagh wearing traditional Claddagh dress. Galway, Ireland, 26th May 1913. The Claddagh (Irish: an Cladach, meaning "the shore") was a fishing village close to the centre of Galway city. The people of the Claddagh lived quite separately from the City of Galway and retained their Gaelic customs, language and dress well into the 1930s. The original village of thatched cottages was razed in 1935 and replaced by a council-housing scheme. Mother and child outside dwelling, The Claddagh, Galway, Ireland, 25 May 1913 These dwellings are typical of Irish peasantry in the 18th and 19th centuries. The neatly thatched roofs and whitewashed walls show skilled craftsmanship, but cannot hide the true desperation and poverty of the native Irish. A village wheelwright in County Louth, June 1913 A wheelwright is a person who builds or repairs wheels. This man has treated his doors with the same paint as his wheels! Clonmacnoise, Ireland, 2 June 1913 Clonmacnoise, Ireland, 1 June 1913 Mellifont Abbey, Louth, Ireland, June 1913 "Outside car" on the route from Headford to Claregalway, Ireland, 29 May 1913 Eel fisherman, Lough Ree, Athlone, Ireland, June 1913 Man cutting turf, South Connemara, Ireland, 29 May 1913 Ross Abbey, Headford, 29 May 1913 Selling fish at the port of Galway, Ireland, 26 May 1913 Livestock, the day of the fair, Galway, Ireland, 29 May 1913 Mansion of the Conyngham family, Slane, Irealand, June 1913 Athlone Castle, Ireland, June 1913 Round tower, Glendalough, Ireland, June 1913 Roundtower, Roscam, near Oranmore, Galway, Ireland, 27 May 1913 Glendalough, Ireland, June 1913 Weaving, An Spidéal, Galway, Ireland, 31 May 1913 Ross Errilly Friary, Headford, Galway, Ireland, 29 May 1913 Woman and abandoned dwelling, Lough Ree, North Athlone, Ireland, June 1913 Isoltated house, South Connemara, Ireland, 31 May 1913 House in a gorse bog, South Connemara, Ireland, 29 May 1913 Currach transporting turf, River Shannon, near Athlone, Ireland, June 1913 Turf Transport, An Spidéal, Galway, Ireland, 31 May 1913 Glendaloch, Ireland, June 1913 Traditional Irish knitwear, An Spidéal, Galway, Ireland 1 May 1913 Galway, Ireland 1 May 1913 Galway, Ireland 1 May 1913 Galway, Ireland 1 May 1913 Next up: The Dark Hedges, Ireland
The Know-Nothing Party campaigned against immigrants to America in the 1840s and 1850s.
Taken at Ellis Island in the early 20th century by amateur photographer Augustus Sherman, they reveal the diverse and unique history of the U.S. as a nation of immigrants.
