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An Irish Emigrant to New York Writes Home
This letter home from 23-year-old Irish emigrant Margaret McCarthy captures both the opportunity and adversity awaiting arrivals to a new land. McCarthy sailed from Liverpool on the Columbus on September 7, 1849, and arrived in New York on October [...]
Tags: Five Points, Irish Immigration
Item Type: Diary/Letter
Historical Era: Antebellum America (1816-1860)
A Nativist New Yorker Disparages Irish Arrivals
The following are excerpts from the diaries of George Templeton Strong (1820-1875), a prominent New York lawyer. Written between 1838 and 1857, the entries reveal Strong's undisguised contempt for the Irish immigrants who were then flooding the [...]
Tags: Five Points, Irish Immigration
Item Type: Diary/Letter
Historical Era: Antebellum America (1816-1860)