Sentences with phrase «irish immigrants»

Standing at the confluence of the Maumee, St Joseph and St. Mary's Rivers, an impressive manufacturing base was built from commerce and transportation trades as German, Polish and Irish immigrants furnished labor for automobile and utility companies.

Originally settled by Scottish and Irish immigrants, Carlisle was named after its sister city, Carlisle, England, and was also home to the famous Molly Pitcher of Revolutionary War lore.

Before that, Irish immigrants occupied Kensington.

An impressive accomplishment on its own, but the son of Irish immigrants would be particularly proud today knowing that he started a family tradition of legal service that has stretched through five generations.

That stern solemnity continued until the 19th century, when the influx of German and Irish immigrants undermined the Puritan legacy.

Some of the oldest extant working - class neighborhoods include those in the Southwest such Corktown, established by Irish immigrants and those in the middle - class West Vernor - Junction area.

Big festivals also occur in Boston and Chicago, the landing place of many Irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine of the early 1900s.

Irish immigrants invented the dish when they first settled in New York City and started eating the corned beef sold at kosher butchers.

His parents were Irish immigrants who worked hard, but didnâ $ ™ t have a lot.

Originally settled by Scottish and Irish immigrants, Carlisle was named after its sister city, Carlisle, England, and was also home to the famous Molly Pitcher of Revolutionary War lore.

JD Jackson and Kirby Heyborne superbly tell the story of two boys, one the descendant of slaves and the other of Irish immigrants, in this companion book to Elijah of Buxton (2007).

The potato famine has caused hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants to flock to New York, causing untoward problems between the protestants and the newly arrived Catholics.

So begins the Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of Frank McCourt, born in Depression - era Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants and raised in the slums of Limerick, Ireland.

Danger, regret, and hope lurk on every deck, from steerage to first class, of an 1847 ship full of Irish immigrants desperate for a new life in America.

It is such a beautifully written book about Irish immigrants who come to America, and about the misunderstandings and secrets that can tear families apart.

My family were Irish immigrants and were discriminated against as were Poles, Native Americans, etc..

Irish immigrants to America started using pumpkins as they were easier to carve and hollow!

Awaiting Eilis in Brooklyn is a room in a female - only boardinghouse run by an eagle - eyed landlady (Julie Walters) obsessed with protecting the reputations of the gullible, young Irish immigrants placed under her supervision.

The job, a room in a boarding house with other Irish immigrants, and night classes in accounting at Brooklyn College are all provided by Father Flood (Jim Broadbent, «Filth»), a reminder of the contribution that caring priests with integrity can provide, one that most immigrants do not have.

I would also say it has historical accuracy, so you get a sense of what life was like for Irish immigrants.

But Jenny nurses Amsterdam back to health, and he rises, with newfound political savvy and resolve, to unite an army of Irish immigrants against the Butcher and form an alliance with the boss of the Tammany Hall Democratic machine, William Tweed (Jim Broadbent).

The son of Irish immigrants, Colm Feore grew up in Boston, Ottawa and Windsor, where he attended Georges P. Vanier Elementary School.

Olcott's «The Lad From Old Ireland» — which played especially well to the growing number of Irish immigrants in the U.S. at the time — is one of the first known examples of an American studio shooting a movie in a foreign location.

The potato was taken to the U.S. by Irish immigrants during the early 18th century where it soon became extensively cultivated.

My Irish - American grandmother wasn't technically only «Irish» either since she was born here (to Irish immigrants) but I would have dared you to tell her that!

10 In 1828 Irish immigrants William Burke and William Hare partnered to murder 16 people in Scotland for cadaver bounties paid for by a doctor who didn't ask questions.

Mr. Coffey, the son of Irish immigrants, is also a veteran who graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1978 and resigned from active duty in 1987, but remained a member of the Navy Reserve until 2004.

Mulrow, a Bronx - born son of Irish immigrants, had been an investment banker and financial adviser with some of the world's largest financial firms, and previously held two posts in the governor's administration, first as a member of the board that recommends how judges are compensated.

By Jeremy Warneke Born in 1921 in East Harlem to Irish immigrants, Patrick «Pat» Dolan grew up in the Bronx, where he raised his own family and continues to reside.

«One hundred years ago, when Irish immigrants were coming to America, my grandmother among them, they were too often characterized as «drunks.»

«But in Boston there are Irish immigrants who are being deported.

«Sean is the son of Irish immigrants who knows what it's like to struggle, sometimes living on unemployment.

Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker and the granddaughter of Irish immigrants, called them «surprising and inappropriate.»

So why does no one ever mention that around a quarter of Irish immigrants to the West of Scotland were Ulster Protestants, which is how there come to be Orange Lodges there?

«Sean Coffey, son of Irish immigrants, a decorated Navy veteran and skilled advocate, seems like that man.»

Mr. Cassidy, the son of Irish immigrants, attended Marquette University in Milwaukee on a football scholarship.

On a clear day it is possible to see the outline of Ireland from the shores of the Clyde estuary, and Irish immigrants had been entering Scotland by the boatload for generations before the two clubs were formed, Rangers in 1873 and Celtic in 1888.

The popularity of the dish exploded during the turn of the century when Irish immigrants in American were able to cheaply get their hands on this once hard to find meal.

When Irish immigrants began arriving in New York in the 1840s, that pork was replaced by cured brisket from kosher butchers, a more affordable cut that still tasted like the old country.

The Catholic population, which had been so enlarged by Irish immigrants, was now well served by a network of churches, religious houses and schools (which now received some state funding).

Its heyday as a harbor for Irish immigrants was long gone.

«Here a set of poor Irishmen [Newman's first congregation, in Alcester Street, Birmingham, was in large part made up of poor Irish immigrants], coming and going at harvest time, or a colony of them lodged in a miserable quarter of a vast metropolis.

You want to preach about how they should play by our rules, why not play by the rules of the native americans, they were here first, or how about by the rules of the Irish immigrants they came here before the polish ones, or how about remembering where this country came from, who we were, and what we stood for, and then getting out of our own way to allow our country to be restored to the glory that it once was.

The parish was founded in 1846, and the church was constructed in 1854 by Irish immigrants and furnished with generic Catholic icons.

Originally settled by Scottish and Irish immigrants, Carlisle was named after its sister city, Carlisle, England, and was also home to the famous Molly Pitcher of Revolutionary War lore.

In the spring of 1910, engineer W.G. McElhanney — the son of Irish immigrants and known to his friends as «Mac» — began a one - room surveying and mapping firm

We're sitting in his 10th - floor office in the Phelan Building, a San Francisco landmark built at the turn of the century by James D. Phelan, an American industrialist and senator, who also happened to be the son of an Irish immigrant.

Dack's Shoes was born in 1834, when Irish immigrant Matthew Dack opened a shop for the well - heeled at the corner of King and Jordan streets in downtown Toronto, then a settlement of some 10,000 souls.

Fiona McEntee, an Irish immigrant and the founder of Chicago - based law firm McEntee Law Group, celebrated the 2016 passage of a U.S. startup visa program.

One of eight children born to an Irish immigrant, Hannan was ordained auxiliary bishop of Washington in 1956.