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FROM 1830 - 1860 > COMINGS AND GOINGS |
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Emigration List, 1834 This is an extract from a longer list of names of those who emigrated from the Kilrea district in 1834. In fact, a total of 73 emigrated ... |
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An Irish Emigrant This lithograph of Erskine Nicol’s painting captures the poverty of the Irish emigrant. He is carrying a stick over his shoulder ... |
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Passage to Liverpool Most emigrants did not sail directly to America. Instead they went first to Liverpool where fares to America were cheaper. The ... |
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Emigration Agent This sketch appeared in the Illustrated London News in 1851. It shows departing emigrants paying for their fares at the emigration ... |
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Emigration Office The sharply rising demand for passages to America led to the opening of many more emigration offices. Sometimes fares were paid by ... |
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Passenger List This is part of the passenger list of a ship sailing from Liverpool to Philadelphia in September 1847. You can see how many of the ... |
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A Priest’s Blessing This sketch shows a local parish priest giving his blessing to a group of departing emigrants. At first the Catholic Church in Ireland ... |
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Emigrants at Cork 1 This 1851 sketch of emigrants on the quays at Cork gives some indication of the pressure on Irish ports during and immediately after the ... |
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Emigrants at Cork 2 It should be remembered that Irish emigration did not begin with the Famine. This painting of emigrants at Cork was done several years ... |
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Emigrant Ship 1 This Edwin Hayes’ painting shows an emigrant ship in Dublin bay which sailed directly to America. This was the exception. Most Irish ... |
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