irish immigration 1865 - 1900?

Question

ok i'm doing a report on life from ireland coming to the americas. however for the report we have to find out what they experienced at Ellis Island, and what like i guess you can say forms they had to fill out to come to america, how much they paid what test they took all that stuff. i found out a bunch of stuff about how life was when they came to america but i can't find about hte journey itself. anyone have any help? i have life in ireland and i have life in america but i need to know stuff about the experiences of coming to america, because you have to pretend that YOU are the person coming, so you have to write a diary, so i need to write about how i got there and all that. any help? =/

Answer 1

The first immigrant to land at Ellis Island was Irish, actually, a 15-year-old girl named Annie Moore, in 1892. NPR did an audio story on her that might be useful (I haven't listened to it) - http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6080581

Here's an interactive historical tour of Ellis Island that should give you some info: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/immigration/tour/stop1.htm

This chapter from an 1853 book (available online from Google books) discusses the sea journey and emigration from Ireland: http://books.google.com/books?id=9RZwtDBm7JMC&pg=PA114&lpg=PA114&dq=emigrating+from+ireland+to+us&source=web&ots=KuXZzs8Y5s&sig=aido58AfOcpsg_Xlm5zMdfw-ekY#PPA114,M1

Answer 2

I don't know how big that paper is, but if you add a photograph of some of those settlers, it can really dress up a paper. That information would be found in your university, or college library if you are lucky.

Up at the top of this page there is a Yahoo Web Search bar. Ask for Irish Immigrants. LOTS of information, and what I looked at was excellent.

Good luck on the paper. If you do the photographs, look at them with a critical eye and comment on each photograph explaining what that photo would lend to understanding the immigrants and their lives. DON"T count them as pages of the paper.

Answer 3

Many Irish who left Ireland for America during the famine and subsequent years did not make their destination. Due to poverty, ill health and poor conditions a significant number died en route. As a result the ships they travelled on became known as coffin ships. Nearly a third of all Irish who left on ships during the famine period to North America emigrated from the United Kingdom to its dominion in Canada, having a large impact on a smaller population there as many arrived in a disease stricken state. Although the greater portion of these arrivals stayed on in Canada, particularly in Toronto and Ontario and remained as subjects of the British Empire, a significant number moved on to the United States to join quickly growing Irish American communities, some after staying in Canada for only a few years. Between 1820 and 1860, fully two-thirds of the Irish immigrants to the United States were Catholic and constituted fully one third of all immigrants to the United States. By the 1840s as a result of the famine fully half of all immigrants to the United States originated from Ireland.

Answer 4

this link has a name of a book about it.try to see if your school library has it.
http://www.metronet.lib.mi.us/BLFD/Youth_Services/Youth_Books/Youth_Immigration_Bib/youth_immigration_bib.html
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/america.htm
maybe this one can help.