Exodus to America: The experience of Irish Women in a New World.
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SummaryThroughout the 19th century, the Irish were leaving Ireland by the thousands in hope of a better life in America. During the famine the numbers intensified, bringing large amounts of poor and destitute families over to the growing American cities of New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Chicago. But in the years following the famine, a change in the demographic of Irish emigrants occurred: over the years female Irish emigrants began to outnumber male emigrants. Young women arrived on American shores looking for employment, the opportunities to start families and an overall better life for themselves. In this paper I address the questions of women’s lives after emigration. Were women’s lives generally improved after starting over in America, or were the challenges more numerous than the benefits and improvements?
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- Debate over the initial reasons for the mass emigration of women following the great famine of the 1840s.
- Female emigration from Ireland exceeded male emigration by 82,000 between the years of 1880 and 1920.
- In Diner's book, she tends to argue that women left Ireland chiefly for economic reasons.
- America and its cities certainly did offer employment to young Irish women.
- Miller's paper, 'over 70% of employed Irish born women in the United States were engaged in domestic or personal service.?
- The majority of young women that immigrated to America in the 19th century found good jobs and husbands.
- Alcoholism was also a problem for Irish women and men alike.
- The social problems of Irish women in America were great.
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