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Irish immigration to England followed remarkably similar settlement patterns from 1851 to 1921, despite the overall decline in numbers of people leaving Ireland for Britain during that period. By 1832, the town's Catholic population stood at 30,000 and about two out of every three were either Irish-born or of Irish descent.
May 19, 2021 · Demography, state and society : Irish migration to Britain, 1921-1971 Bookreader Item Preview ... Irish -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, Ireland ...
Ireland was then a part of Great Britain, ruled from London. ... Irish seamen and dock workers settled in port communities such as South Shields and Cardiff. ... Migration to Britain c1000 to ...
Mar 14, 2023 · There is also a common perception that Irish emigration was mainly Catholic, but this ignores the fact that most Irish migrants to America in the eighteenth century were Protestant. Historian Kevin Kenny estimated that somewhere between 250,000 and 400,000 Irish Protestants crossed the Atlantic in the 1700s (2000, p. 7).
The article is about Irish migration to Great Britain, so including material on British migration to Ireland would be off-topic. A new British migration to Ireland article might be welcome though. Cordless Larry ( talk ) 08:38, 28 September 2010 (UTC) Reply [ reply ]
Census figures show an Irish population of 8.2 million in 1841, 6.6 million a decade later, and only 4.7 million in 1891. It is estimated that as many as 4.5 million Irish arrived in America between 1820 and 1930. Between 1820 and 1860, the Irish constituted over one third of all immigrants to the United States.
Nov 12, 2022 · The Irish Potato Famine, also known as the Great Famine or An Gorta Mór in Irish, was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1852. Between one and two million people emigrated from Ireland during the Great Hunger. Engraving by Henry Doyle (1827–1892), from Mary Frances Cusack’s Illustrated History of Ireland, 1868.
