Letter to the London Times from an Irish Immigrant in America, 1850. It's estimated that between the years of 1820 to 1930 around 4.5 million Irish people in total moved to the U.S. Another large group of people to immigrate to America were the Germans. His grandson, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signed his name to the Declaration of Independence. After the Great Famine struck the potato fields of Ireland in the 1840s, Irish immigration to America took on a strikingly different character. These are passenger lists for emigrants from Ireland to the United States and Canada, arranged in date order. Irish Immigrants. Irish and Chinese experience in America The end of the civil war and the beginning of the industrial revolution started an increase of immigration into the United States because of a need for low paid workers. Irish Passenger Lists: Emigrants From Ireland To America And Canada View. However, there are sometimes immigration related materials and other records that can help determine when an immigrant came to America. Irish America. Irish Immigration to America represented the first mass immigration to the United States and set the stage for all future immigrating ethnic minorities. Irish immigration data from Office of Immigration Statistics, 2006 Yearbook of Immigration Statistics, Washington D.C.: Department of Homeland Security, 2006. New York now had more Irish-born citizens than Dublin. Irish-Catholic immigrants came to America during colonial times, too, and not all Irish-Catholic immigrants were poor. Many immigrants found themselves unprepared for the industrialized, urban centers in the United States. For example, wealthy Charles Carroll immigrated to America in 1706. Black Irish Identities: The complex relaionship between Irish and African Americans Ireland and Britain, Transatlantic Migration from North America, 1858-1870 - passenger lists from United States to … The famine Irish were not the Protestant, relatively well-to-do immigrants who had assimilated seamlessly into American society for nearly a century. It also provides detail on the social and political conditions that the immigrants faced during that period. The Making of a Melting Pot: Irish Immigration to America From 1700 to the early 1800s by The American Immigration Law Foundation . Immigrants who came to the United States sought out every job known to man. On arrival I purchased 120 acres of land at $5 an acre. Up to ninety percent of the Irish arriving in America remained in cities. Scots-Irish immigrants settled in the American colonies from the 1600s. Londonderry and Belfast James McGregor from County Londonderry to New England in 1718. The first known Irish-born immigrant to Canada was Tec Cornelius Aubrenon, who arrived in New France in 1661 and remained until his death in 1687. By far the greatest influx of Irish people to Liverpool came during the years of the Great Famine in the 1840s. By far the greatest influx of Irish people to Liverpool came during the years of the Great Famine in the 1840s. The immigrants often took jobs that others did not want to perform. They arrived at Boston, and many of them moved to New Hampshire, establishing the town of Londonderry. Here is a bibliography of this material focussing on Irish immigrants. The Irish immigrants wanted what every American wanted, which was to live the American dream of peace and prosperity. Indeed, from the early 1800s Liverpool acted as a staging post for Irish migrants on their way to North America or settling in England. Irish Genealogy and Family History. The Irish immigrants left a rural lifestyle in a nation lacking modern industry. However Irish migration into the city was not a novel occurrence.