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Many people think that immigration by the Irish to America started with the potato famine of the mid-1840s. As this article states, that is untrue and the Irish were in the colonies almost from the beginning.
Between 1820 and 1860, the Irish comprised over one third of all immigrants to the United States. Living conditions in Ireland were terrible with food scarce even before the great potato famine of 1845. According to the Earl of Darnley, the state of the Irish people was worse than the slaves in the West Indies. Many of the Irish immigrants in the early 1800s were employed building canals and railroads. The power dam at Hadley Falls was built in 1848 was actually a timber crib dam, not one of stone. It is likely that this picture dates from 1900, when the wooden dam was replaced by a granite faced concrete one.

 

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"At Work" photo & "History Finds Irish in Holyoke in 1663" from "Irish Heritage Important to Wmass.. in The Republican newspaper

author   John O'Connell
publisher   The Republican Newspaper
date   Mar 12, 1989
location   Springfield, Massachusetts
width   6.5"
height   4.5"
height   5.5"
width   4.5"
process/materials   printed paper, ink
item type   Periodicals/Newspaper
accession #   #L07.013


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"Immigrant Sweat built Paper City" article from Sunday Republican newspaper

"Irish Immigration" article from the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper

"State of Irish Poor" article from in the Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald newspaper


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