Category: Connecticut, Immigrants from Ireland

Categories: Connecticut, Immigrants

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AdminEntity, Immigrants from Country

From Country:

Ireland

To Country:

United States

To Entity:

Connecticut

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" Immigration to Connecticut in the second half of the 19th century proceeded much as it had in earlier decades. Driven from their homelands by changing social and economic conditions, waves of primarily European immigrants arrived in Connecticut and increasingly found homes in industrial cities. What distinguished immigration later in the century, however, was the vastly increased numbers of new arrivals to the state, the variety of population centers from which they departed, and the growing hostility they faced upon arrival.

In the 1850s, Connecticut’s roughly 38,000 immigrants made up approximately 10 percent of the state’s population. Most of these immigrants came from northern and western Europe, with the largest number arriving from Ireland. By 1870, more than half the immigrants living in Connecticut were Irish. A dramatic shift late in the century, however, soon reshaped Connecticut’s ethnic identity."

http://connecticuthistory.org/late-19th-century-immigration-in-connecticut/

http://www.ctiahs.com/news.htm

" From 1845 to 1860, more than 1.5 million Irish immigrants sailed across the Atlantic Ocean to the United States and Canada. In the cramped quarters below the decks of the “coffin ships,” the journey was fraught with the hardship of inclement weather and the peril of disease, but in spite of their uncertain future, the travelers faced these adversities in hopes of finding a better way of life in North America."

http://www.kofcmuseum.org/km/en/exhibits/2016/fleeing-famine/index.html?gclid=CKrg9onc79ECFQGsaQod7qUBzA

http://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/ciahsmonographs/

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