In the nineteenth century the people of Ireland emigrated from their native country and flooded into the English speaking countries of the world such as England, Wales, Canada, Australia and New Zealand in great numbers. The great number of Irish immigrants from this period, however, decided to try to make their new life in the United States of America, especially the American Northeast. Millions of Irish came into the United States during the nineteenth century with a vast percentage of them arriving in New York City; from the year 1852 to 1857 there was 582,140 Irish that emigrated to the United States and of them 444,960 arrived in New York City, which is over 76% of all Irish immigrants during this period. In fact a staggering number of 8,154,930 Irish would come to America in the second half of the nineteenth century from 1850 to 1900 alone. During the nineteenth century close to a million of these Irish immigrants would venture a short distant south and settle their......

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Title: Irish Immigration To New Jersey
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