Irish America

Irish America

Irish immigration

The Irish of Dubuque, Iowa

By Lyn Jerde

March/April 1995

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They didn't all settle in the big cities on the East Coast. Many Irish immigrants headed for the frontier, where cheap land and mining jobs awaited them. The January 14, 1841, edi- tion of the Philadelphia Catholic Herald includes this letter from Charles Corkery, one of Dubuque, Iowa's first Irish settlers: "My sole desire is to direct the attention of Catholics (Irish … [Read more...] about The Irish of Dubuque, Iowa

The Irish in New Orleans

By Harry Dunleavy

May/June 1994

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They built the roads and the canals, and died in their thousands from yellow fever. They competed with slaves to load cotton on the ships bound for Liverpool. Ships that would return crowded with famine Irish. They owned coffee houses. They took part in politics and some lucky ones became millionaires and sugar plantation owners. Harry Dunleavy writes on the extraordinary … [Read more...] about The Irish in New Orleans