The Irish Immigration to America " the reversal breaks with previous decades of Irish immigration to the United States, one of the oldest, largest, most sustained and most culturally influential migration flows of American history -- reaching nearly a million in the 1850's after the Irish potato famine, but dwindling lately to just a few thousand a year" (Allen, The New York Times, May 31, 1998). One of the factors that lead the Irish to immigrate to America was the deadly potato famine that began in 1846 and killed over 1 million Irish people. The famine lasted from 1846 to 1850 an...
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