Do we have an Irish-American History expert here?

I need some help with numbers and ideology relating to the Irish of North America in the early 1800s. Anyone know enough to help me out?
 
Dont have any recommendation for population numbers. My take is there was a strong Irish nationalist streak among them. As late as 1960 I can remember the older aunts & uncles of my mothers family being rabidly anti "English". Since they were third to fifth generation Americans the Irish nationalist outlook must have been fairly strong to last til then.

A close look at the histories of the many Irish social & political groups in North America will give you a fair size chunck of what you need. You need to look a a array of these as some I remember were a bit 'idealistic'. 'How the Irish Became White' by Noel Ignatiev might be a starting point. I expect some good recommendations will be forthcoming soon here.
 

Pangur

Donor
One approch may be to check where the Irish in the US came from and assume that if they came from rural areas that they were anti english. You might also check out the descendents of the Irish slaves
 
Check out Irish, UK or US universities to see if you can find migration studies departments and work through their reading lists. I'd assume there is a fair amount of interest and therefore research given wealth and size of Irish community in the US. There certainly are similar groups who've studied say Irish migration to NZ and whom I've found useful.
 
I'm not an expert on the matter, but according to Wikipedia's article on Irish Americans, "an estimated 250,000 migrated to United States during the colonial era. Only 20,000 immigrants of these immigrants from Ireland were Catholics."

It sounds like Irish immigrants were mostly of Protestant ("Scotch-Irish") origin until the 1840s, when the Famine struck.
 
I'm not an expert on the matter, but according to Wikipedia's article on Irish Americans, "an estimated 250,000 migrated to United States during the colonial era. Only 20,000 immigrants of these immigrants from Ireland were Catholics."

It sounds like Irish immigrants were mostly of Protestant ("Scotch-Irish") origin until the 1840s, when the Famine struck.

I suspect many of the Catholic immigrants from Ireland pre 1776 went to other locations than the future US colonies, or in some cases were not recorded as 'Irish'.
 

TFSmith121

Banned
It's worth noting that Irish nationalism,

I'm not an expert on the matter, but according to Wikipedia's article on Irish Americans, "an estimated 250,000 migrated to United States during the colonial era. Only 20,000 immigrants of these immigrants from Ireland were Catholics."

It sounds like Irish immigrants were mostly of Protestant ("Scotch-Irish") origin until the 1840s, when the Famine struck.


It's worth noting that Irish nationalism was not an exclusively Catholic phenomenon in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth centuries.

Best,
 
I'm not an expert on the matter, but according to Wikipedia's article on Irish Americans, "an estimated 250,000 migrated to United States during the colonial era. Only 20,000 immigrants of these immigrants from Ireland were Catholics."

It sounds like Irish immigrants were mostly of Protestant ("Scotch-Irish") origin until the 1840s, when the Famine struck.

That would make some sense. Interestingly, much of the early Irish immigration to NZ was also Protestant, with the Catholic wave coming slightly later.
 
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