Sentences with phrase «century emigration»

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And after a century of mass Irish emigration, Varadkar, a doctor by training, is himself from immigrant stock: His father is a Hindu doctor from Mumbai.

Apart from this ecclesiastical relationship, there were at least two important waves of emigration of groups of Persian Christians to South India, one in the fourth century and the other in the ninth century, which reinforced and strengthened the existing St. Thomas Christian community.

In France Protestantism had survived the persecutions and emigrations of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and was quickened by contacts with awakenings in other countries, notably the Swiss réveil.

Most of the other quilts were from Pennsylvania which isn't surprising because of the mass emigration of Amish from Switzerland and Germany to Pennsylvania in the 17th and 18th centuries.

More large - scale emigration of Romanis to the Americas took place in the early 20th century, the majority of them fleeing economic depression and the persecution of the collapsing Austro - Hungarian empire after World War I. Today it is estimated that there are close to 100,000 so called Rom Amerko living in New York.

I'd found family records in Italy going back two centuries, found my grandfather's emigration to the United States as a young boy, found his father's naturalization papers, then unexpectedly, found a record from late in 1920 listing a marriage between my great - grandfather and, of all things, a second wife.

The Digital Public Library of America and Europeana are launching Leaving Europe: A New Life in America, which is a jointly curated virtual exhibition telling the story of European emigration to the US during the 19th and 20th centuries.

In this romantic yet keenly intelligent tale of the triumphant American emigration of a late - nineteenth - century Polish diva named Maryna Zalezowska, who is based on the renowned Polish actress Helena Modrzejewska, Sontag explores the complexities of friendship, love, and marriage, as well as the paradisical allure of California and the transformative power of the theater.

Yes, the city and surrounding region lost much of its population to emigration over the past century and a half — so nearby theme parks now cater to thousands of North American tourists who want to trace their roots back to this city.

Remarking that «the past is done, and can not be undone,» Lord Sumption, who is also an acclaimed historian, explained at the outset of his judgment that four centuries of emigration from the UK have complicated schemes for defining the right to British nationality because of the need to accommodate those born abroad but having significant connections with the UK by descent.

Tickets to America and Australia were legal «in the full knowledge that the person would die there»: prior to the mid twentieth century (and relatively cheap intercontinental travel) emigration was effectively permanent.