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By 1846, Philadelphia had received Irish immigrants for six generations, but it was the seventh generation that was to greatly change the city's composition and posture with respect to immigrants. [21] The increase of Irish immigrants in the post-famine years introduced a ghetto system. [21]
This expansion was in part due to an influx of working class laborers and immigrants looking for factory jobs and dock work, as well as the first wave of mass immigration of Irish refugees or impoverished immigrants from Ireland in the wake of the Great Irish Hunger. South Philadelphia's urbanized border eventually expanded to reach that of ...
Irish immigration had greatly increased beginning in the 1830s due to the need for unskilled labor in canal building, lumbering, and construction works in the Northeast. [126] The large Erie Canal project was one such example where Irishmen were many of the laborers. Small but tight communities developed in growing cities such as Philadelphia ...
James Logan (20 October 1674 – 31 October 1751) was a Scots-Irish colonial American statesman, administrator, and scholar who served as the fourteenth mayor of Philadelphia and held a number of other public offices. Logan was born in the town of Lurgan in County Armagh, Ireland to Ulster Scots Quakers.
At the same time, as the number of poor and unskilled Irish Catholic and German immigrants increased, Philadelphia experienced an increase in freed and fugitive slaves from the South seeking refuge and employment in the city. Both blacks and Irish Catholics were at the bottom of the social hierarchy in Philadelphia at the time, and poor Irish ...
Pennsport is a neighborhood in the South Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.. Pennsport is home to a large working-class Irish American population, many of them descendants of immigrants from the mid to late 19th century.
Former MSNBC anchor Mehdi Hasan said Trump was essentially “calling for the ethnic cleansing of legal immigrants in the United States.” Others slammed the chant as “sickening” and called ...
The Columbia Guide to Irish American History. (2005), overview and bibliographies; includes the Catholics. Miller, Kerby, ed. (2001). Journey of Hope: The Story of Irish Immigration to America. Chronicle Books. ISBN 978-0811827836. Major source of primary documents. Miller, Kerby (1988).