Irish Potato Famine
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Pennsylvania Irish: Coal Region History
Most of the Irish, who settled in Pennsylvania coal regions, prior to the great Irish famine (1845-1849), came from the counties of Kilkenny and Laois, in south-central Ireland. These Irish immigrants usually had experience working in coal mines and quickly assimilated into that working environment, progressing up the ladder of promotions at a steady pace. The coal regions of Pennsylvania consisted of Lackawanna, Luzerne, Columbia, Carbon, Schuylkill and Northumberland counties. The Kilkenny and Laois Irish generally were not financially struggling before they came to America, and ended up less poor than many of the later Irish immigrants. These south-central Irish tended to commingle with Welsh and English mining families, who generally had all the supervisory positions. This commingling produced strong working and political bonds between the Welsh, English and the Kilkenny and Laois Irish.
Because of the great potato famine in Ireland in 1845-1849, a large number of Irish immigrants reluctantly descended on Pennsylvania coal regions for employment. They really never wanted to leave Ireland. These immigrants were mostly from the Irish counties of Mayo, Galway and Donegal, in north-west Ireland, where the famine hit the hardest. These Irish immigrants did not have skilled mining backgrounds and were mostly farmers and basic laborers, trying to escape starvation in Ireland. Coming to Pennsylvania was more a necessity than a privilege to them. They were financially destitute and did not even have much wealth to get started on. These two factors lead to these Irish immigrants ending up in the rough and poor areas of Pennsylvania. Needless to say, the north-west Irish, in the coal regions, did not get along with the south-central Irish of Kilkenny and Laois, who had already bonded with the Welsh and English years before.
Welsh and English minors had come from a background in England of organized labor practices. In Pennsylvania, attempts were made in the 1860’s to organize coal mine labor into unions. First attempts consisted of including all miners in unions, regardless of ethnicity. Since the Welsh and English were being treated better than the Irish, by management, these early attempts failed as arguing and fighting broke out between the Irish and other groups culminating in the “Molly McGuire” violent era around 1863-1867. During this period, the Kilkenny and Laois Irish generally sided with the English and Welsh immigrants. As well, the Molly McGuire Irish were Catholics, whereas many of the earlier Irish immigrants were Protestant. After a few years, some arrests and executions, this labor movement ended with tolerable agreements between the parties.
Anthracite Mining in Pennsylvania declined in the 1950’s, but the Irish culture is still very influential in the mining counties heavily populated by Irish descendants. Many old traditions still exist, as well as influential Irish groups and festivals; although this has slowly faded as Irish descendants mix with descendants of other cultures.
About the Author
Mark Jordan is genealogist, Irish culture fan and a natural medicine researcher. He is a writer for Celtic Pennsylvania. He also writes for Land of Confusion and Celtic Giraffe Research.
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Irish Potato Famine, 1847 $49.99 Irish Potato Famine, 1847 - Giclee Print |
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The Irish Potato Famine. Section of a Potato Showing Disease $39.99 The Irish Potato Famine. Section of a Potato Showing Disease - Giclee Print |
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Irish Potato Famine (Hardcover) $80.08 "Provides comprehensive information on the history leading up to the Irish potato famine, presents accounts of narrow escapes, and discusses the legacy of the event"--Provided by publisher. |
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The Irish Potato Famine. Children Searching for Potatoes $39.99 The Irish Potato Famine. Children Searching for Potatoes - Giclee Print |
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Dublin's Famine Memorial Memorializes the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840's $39.99 Jim Richardson Dublin's Famine Memorial Memorializes the Irish Potato Famine of the 1840's - Photographic Print |
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U.S.S. Macedonian, Frigate Which Brought Provisions at the Height of the Irish Potato Famine $49.99 U.S.S. Macedonian, Frigate Which Brought Provisions at the Height of the Irish Potato Famine - Giclee Print |
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Irish Potato Famine $34.21 Presents personal gripping accounts of narrow escapes that illuminate historical events. |
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The Great Irish Potato Famine $2 No Synopsis Available |
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Irish Famine (17401741) $79.66 The Irish Famine of 17401741 in the Kingdom of Ireland was perhaps of similar magnitude to the betterknown Great Famine of 18451852. Unlike the famine of the 1840s, which was caused in part by a fungal infection in the potato crop, that of 174041 was due to extremely cold and then rainy weather in successive years, resulting in a series of poor harvests. Hunger compounded a range of fatal diseases. The cold and its effects extended across Europe, and it is now seen to be the last serious cold period at the end of the Little Ice Age of about 14001800. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 116 Publication Date: 2010/07/24 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.27 inches |
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Fleeing the Famine $112 The Irish Potato Famine caused the migration of more than two million individuals who sought refuge in the United States and Canada. In contrast to previous studies, which have tended to focus on only one destination, this collection allows readers to evaluate the experience of transatlantic Famine refugees in a comparative context. Featuring new and innovative scholarship by both established and emerging scholars of Irish America and Irish Canada, it carefully dissects the connection that arose between Ireland and North America during the famine years (1845-1851). In the more than 150 years since the onset of Ireland's Great Famine, historians have intensely scrutinized the causes, the year-by-year events, and the consequences of his human catastrophe. Who was to blame? Were the hunger and misery inevitable? Did the famine have revolutionary effects on the Irish economy? How did it change the nature of Irish religion? This new study complements the wealth of existing literature on the social, cultural, and political aspects of the Famine and invites the reader to consider the fate of the Irish refugees in their new home lands. |
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The Great Irish Famine $35 The Great Irish Famine |
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Black 47: Britain and the Famine Irish $261.11 The Irish Famine of 184549 was a major modern catastrophe. The return of the potato blight in 1846 triggered a huge exodus of destitute Irish seeking refuge in British towns and 1847 witnessed an unprecedented inflow of Irish refugees into Britain. This book examines the scale of that refugee immigration, the conditions under which the refugees were carried to Britain, the relief operations mounted, the horrors of the typhus epidemic in Liverpool, Glasgow, Manchester, South Wales and the NorthEast, and the financial cost to the British ratepayers. Author: Neal, Frank/ Neal Binding Type: Hardcover Number of Pages: 310 Publication Date: 1997/12/15 Language: English Dimensions: 8.81 x 5.64 x 1.21 inches |
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Flight from Famine $12.99 Flight from Famine is the moving account of the survivors of the Irish potato famine who helped build Canada in the years that followed Black '47. Their tale is a testament to courage, resilience, and perseverance, as well as an important chapter in the development of pre-Confederation Canada. |
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Famine $27.95 Famine remains one of the worst calamities that can befall a society. Mass starvation--whether it is inflicted by drought or engineered by misguided or genocidal economic policies--devastates families, weakens the social fabric, and undermines political stability. Cormac Ó Gráda, the acclaimed author who chronicled the tragic Irish famine in books like Black '47 and Beyond, here traces the complete history of famine from the earliest records to today. Combining powerful storytelling with the latest evidence from economics and history, Ó Gráda explores the causes and profound consequences of famine over the past five millennia, from ancient Egypt to the killing fields of 1970s Cambodia, from the Great Famine of fourteenth-century Europe to the famine in Niger in 2005. He enriches our understanding of the most crucial and far-reaching aspects of famine, including the roles that population pressure, public policy, and human agency play in causing famine; how food markets can mitigate famine or make it worse; famine's long-term demographic consequences; and the successes and failures of globalized disaster relief. Ó Gráda demonstrates the central role famine has played in the economic and political histories of places as different as Ukraine under Stalin, 1940s Bengal, and Mao's China. And he examines the prospects of a world free of famine. This is the most comprehensive history of famine available, and is required reading for anyone concerned with issues of economic development and world poverty. |
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The Great Irish Potato Famine By Donnelly, James S. $34.37 Author: Donnelly, James S. Publication Date: 2003/08/01 Number of Pages: 304 Binding Type: Paperbound Language: English Depth: 0.75 Width: 6.75 Height: 9.25 |
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A Doctor Visiting a Family During the Irish Famine, C.1849 $49.99 A Doctor Visiting a Family During the Irish Famine, C.1849 - Giclee Print |
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Irish Famine $17.5 No Synopsis Available |
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The Potato $9.99 The Potato tells the story of how a humble vegetable, once regarded as trash food, had as revolutionary an impact on Western history as the railroad or the automobile. Using Ireland, England, France, and the United States as examples, Larry Zuckerman shows how daily life from the 1770s until World War I would have been unrecognizable-perhaps impossible-without the potato, which functioned as fast food, famine insurance, fuel and labor saver, budget stretcher, and bank loan, as well as delicacy. Drawing on personal diaries, contemporaneous newspaper accounts, and other primary sources, this is popular social history at its liveliest and most illuminating. |
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On Board an Emigrant Ship at the Time of the Irish Famine $34.99 William Heysham Overend On Board an Emigrant Ship at the Time of the Irish Famine - Giclee Print |
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The Irish Famine: Scene at the Gate of the Work-House, circa 1846 $34.99 The Irish Famine: Scene at the Gate of the Work-House, circa 1846 - Giclee Print |
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The Irish Americans (Hardcover) $49.18 A history of the Irish in America from the eighteenth century to the present covers a range of topics, from the potato famine and ethnic prejudice to Tammany politics and the election of JFK, in an account that offers insight into the ways in which Irish culture has influenced all areas of American life. 40,000 first printing. |
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Great Famine $27.95 Over one million people died in the Great Famine, and more than one million more emigrated on the coffin ships to America and beyond. Drawing on contemporary eyewitness accounts and diaries, the book charts the arrival of the potato blight in 1845 and the total destruction of the harvests in 1846 which brought a sense of numbing shock to the populace. F ar from meeting the relief needs of the poor, the Liberal public works programme was a first example of how relief policies would themselves lead to mortality. Workhouses were swamped with thousands who had subsisted on public works and soup kitchens earlier, and who now gathered in ragged crowds. Unable to cope, workhouse staff were forced to witness hundreds die where they lay, outside the walls. The next phase of degradation was the clearances, or exterminations in popular parlance which took place on a colossal scale. From late 1847 an exodus had begun. The Famine slowly came to an end from late 1849 but the longer term consequences were to reverberate through future decades. |
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