Facts About Irish Immigration
The population of the republic of island is around 4.5 million and that of Northern Island is approximately 1.8 million. Around sixty million people throughout the globe claim that their ancestry belongs to either the southern or northern parts of the Irish island. The largest Irish population resides in the US, and also plenty of Irish people inhabit in New Zealand, Australia and Canada. |
They are also found in some other parts of the world living in small communities. In the Australian continent, around 2 million claim to be from Irish ancestry that makes up around nine percent of the total population. People of Irish ancestry are also found in the UK that makes around ten percent of total population of the country.
How the Irish immigration took place in such great numbers is a big question. But significant studies have provided facts that states how immigration in such big numbers took place. Thousands of Irish fled to America during the great famine in the 1840s from Ireland. A maximum population among these landed up in Boston and the population in Boston increased from thirty thousand to hundred thousand. Most of the population was not skilled enough and were uneducated at that time. This led them towards slavery and it is estimated that around seventy percent were servants from the Irish origin in Boston. Because of this the Bostonians started believing that the Irish are from a servant race.
The Irish female servants were called as “Bridget”, and the Irish male servants were called as “Paddy” by the people of Boston. In the Irish, servants that contributed to around seventy percent of the total population of servants, and around 2/3rd were women in among Irish servants. Many of the Irish servants lead a miserable life like the men suffered from loneliness and depression whereas most of the women suffered from mental illness that too of high level.
The Irish immigration slowly declined in the US by the start of the nineteenth century as serious negligence was offered by the Natives in the American society.
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