num_pages: 103
description: Irish immigration to America was an episode of unique it started two centuries ago, when Ireland became a nation of "emigrants" supplying the foremost nation of "immigrants" in the world. No fewer than fifteen of the forty-three presidents of the United States were Irish (John F. Kennedy was the first Catholic). In 1850, a quarter of all the residents of New York and Boston were Irish, and in the 1990 census, forty-four million US citizens declared they were Irish origin.The Americans had never seen such poor and desperate Europeans as the Catholic Irish after the famine. They lived in shanty towns on the edge of the great cities, such as the famous Five Points of New York, with its dives and its fights between gangs of Irish and "nativists" - descendants of northern European who, since they had arrived earlier, considered themselves to be the "real" Americans.
language: English
title: The Irish Towards the USA: The Irish Who Made America
titlecomplete: The Irish Towards the USA: The Irish Who Made America
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publisher: Umberto Allemandi