Sentence examples for famine immigration from inspiring English sources
Tells about the potato famine, immigration.
By 1844, 15 parishes served more than 80,000 Irish Roman Catholics, and it was clear even before the Great Famine immigration of 1845 49 that New York was becoming predominantly Irish.
This new book from George Bornstein offers compelling insights into the century that witnessed, among other things, the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Jim Crow era, the Potato Famine and subsequent Irish immigration, the Russian pogroms and subsequent Jewish immigrations, the First World War, the Great Depression, and the Second World War.
In the late 1840s, it became a destination for massive immigration by Irish immigrants fleeing the Great Famine, and Germans arriving after the Revolution in German states of 1848.
The Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s significantly increased the pace of Irish immigration to Prince Edward Island and the Province of Canada, with over 35,000 distressed individuals landing in Toronto in 1847 and 1848.
The Roman Catholic Parish of Corpus Christi was founded in Chadderton in 1878, following immigration to the region by Irish Catholics fleeing the Great Famine.
In the 1840s and 50s Germany's agricultural problems, Ireland's infamous Potato Famine, and general social upheaval due to industrialization led to higher rates of European immigration to America.
This growth was accompanied by high levels of immigration from surrounding areas and from Ireland, especially during and after the Irish Potato Famine (1845 49).
Irish immigration to the US peaked in the mid-19th Century, around the time of the famine.
