the destination of irish immigrants depended partly on the irish port they sailed from
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The destination of Irish immigrants depended partly on the Irish port they sailed from.
The Last Hour in the Old Land
Margaret Allen, c. 1877, Gorry Gallery,
Dublin
Irish Emigrant Arriving in Liverpool
Erskine Nicol, 1871, National Galleries,
Scotland
Irish Vagrants in England, Walter Deverell, c. 1853, Johannesburg Art Gallery
‘Top twenty, Irish towns1851
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‘Top twenty, Irish towns1851
2
Sandgate Market (also known as Paddy’s Market) NewcastleRalph HeldleyLaing Art Gallery, Newcastle
Houses of Irish navvies working on the Manchester Ship canal.
A Roman Catholic priest 1902
Station Mass in a Connemara Cottage, 1888Aloysius O’Kelly, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art
Preparation for a Roman Catholic procession in Rook Street, Poplar c.1912
Many Irish emigrants, including children, found jobs in textile factories in Lancashire.
Michael Davitt MP
He was born in Ireland and began
working in a Lancashire cotton mill when he was
10.
Two years later, in 1858, he had an
accident with a spinning mill and
his right arm had to be amputated.
Girl making nails, 1880
Field Working in Spring: At the Potato PitsWilliam Darling Kay, National Gallery of Scotland
Irish navviesworking on the
Manchester Ship Canal
Cartoon, 'The Mixing Room', 1854It shows Irish women millworkers in Preston asleep on the job
as their horrified employer looks on. It reflects a view that cheap Irish labour forced down wages
and undermined the trade union movement.
An Irish streetin Londonmid-19thc
T.P. O’Connor. MP
He was born in Athlone in Ireland in 1848 and became a famous journalist in
London.
He was also the Irish nationalist MP for the mainly Irish Scotland
Road Division of Liverpool from 1885
until his death in 1929.
Bridget Liptrot(née Doorley)
with her nephew Silvester Moran