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NAME: Teleshia Colvin

INSTITUTION: Southern New Hampshire University

The causes

The historical event I will be the handling of this essay is the great Irish migration which occurred in 1945. There are several that led to this event, the first one was that there were great famine and hunger, at the time, Irish people were potato farmers, so after the drought, they had nothing to harvest from their farms which were among the primary reasons that led to the immigration.

the second reason is that people began dying, it is essential to note that after the prolonged hunger, their stored ran dry where they had nothing to feed on and sustain their lives, some especially the elderly, weak and children began dying since they could not have at least a meal once in a day which forced them to immigrate to America. (Loughery, J. (2018).

The third reason is that there were strange diseases that began affecting the Irish people where some of these diseases were associated which miserable sanitation and less water which brought about conditions such as fungus infections, typhoid and cholera that were killer diseases at the time. There were other desert diseases which began affecting the Irish people forcing their immigration.

The fourth reason is that they wanted to have better lives, the conditions at home have worsened where people did not even have meals, others died of hunger and so on meaning they had to migrate to America which was still a green nation. They believed there were job opportunities in America that would have given them a livelihood.

The fifth reason was that their cargo ships, these were vessels that helped then to move from Irish to the American shores as we thoroughly look at in our next session. Even though these were cargo ships, they could still move in them. (Khalil, R. M. R. (2020).

The course of the event

After this great hunger for the Irish people, the conditions at their homeland because unbearable, some died of hunger, others of diseases and there was suffering among the people. Remember that there were two groups of people those who were educated (they were the least) while the others were farmers with no skills at all. They ended up selling all the potatoes that were in their stored to spend the money on transportation costs.

The conditions inside the ships were unbearable since they were not meant for human transport; they were for transporting goods from one continent to the other one. This led to death of some of the crew member, for those who survived, they alighted at either on the shores of Philadelphia, Boston or even New York since these were the major docking points. The key participants were the Irish people, after arriving in America, they were poor an ended-up living in slums, majority of them had not skills of education hence they were employed in factories where they provided cheap labor. ((Perlmann, J. (2018).

Effects of Irish migration to America

There were several effects that Irish migration brought to America, some of them included.

They led to rise of slums and suburbs. Since they never had education or skills to get them a good job, they had to live in slums with cheaper house rents and poor living conditions that led to slums in America implying poverty.

Irish migration led to development in America, this is because they used to provide cheap labor particularly in the factories where products of these factories were used to generate higher gross domestic product leading to growth of industries at the time.

The brought diseases to America, which is another effect since at their home, they were being affected with numerous diseases that are associated with drought and famine. These diseases included fungus infections, typhoid and cholera.

The Irish people brought competition for jobs in America because they could do any responsibility for any amount of wage no matter how low it was, this affected the native Americans since they had to compete with Irish people would be cheaper to hire. (O’Connell, P. J. (2019).

It led to new immigration laws being enacted in America, and these were regulations that could be used in preventing immigration in future to control the number of immigrants. These include the page act of 1875 and the immigration act of 1891.

The Irish people were used in fighting during the civil war where that were employed as part of the union army each immigrant was pay as little as $300 to fight.

The historical evidence

I will use the civil war as my evidence of these effects, these were mostly those Irish who were residing in the south, and I indicated that they were willing to carry out any job for any amount of money. Thus, they were employed to fight against the north at the time of the civil war. There were over one forty thousand Irish troops who were also used by the union army to counter this from the south where they were paid as little as $300 to put their lives in danger because of poverty at this time. (Farrell, E. (2016).

Message

I would tailor my message to the learned historians since they would be more interested with factors that caused the Irish people to migrate into America and what were some of the impacts of this.

Dear learned historians, we have probably heard in the past about Irish immigration into America, this was caused by hunger that made the potato crop to dry, and some diseases affected the Irish people causing their death. They decided to move into America to seek better lives on arriving here there were effects of their immigration such as cheap labor, civil war army, competition for jobs, and development of slums.

References

Loughery, J. (2018). Dagger John: Archbishop John Hughes and the Making of Irish America. Cornell University Press.

Khalil, R. M. R. (2020). Ireland Is My Home. Studi irlandesi. A Journal of Irish Studies, 10(10), 101-113.

Perlmann, J. (2018). America classifies the immigrants: from Ellis Island to the 2020 census. Harvard University Press.

O’Connell, P. J. (2019). Why are so few Africans at work in Ireland? Immigration policy and labour market disadvantage. Irish Journal of Sociology, 27(3), 273-295.

Farrell, E. (2016). ‘The salvation of them’: emigration to North America from the nineteenth-century Irish women's convict prison. Women's History Review, 25(4), 619-637.