Irish history – NewYorkScapes https://newyorkscapes.org NewYorkScapes is a research community dedicated to exploring the literary, historical, and social aspects of the city of New York using digital forms of scholarship. Wed, 11 May 2022 14:33:32 +0000 en hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 Irish Emigrants Manifest Database https://newyorkscapes.org/dataset/100006/ Tue, 03 Oct 2017 20:41:41 +0000 https://newyorkscapes.org/?post_type=dataset&p=545 To be summarized: The “Irish Emigrants Manifest Database” is an Excel file containing the name, age, occupation, birthplace, ship name, and arrival date for 18,000 of the 916,000 Irish immigrants who arrived at the port of New York from 1846 to 1854. It is not a random sample, but was created almost entirely from those manifests which gave detailed information (county, parish, or town) for each…

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]]> Irish Speakers and the Empire City https://newyorkscapes.org/project/irish-speakers-and-the-empire-city/ Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:57:29 +0000 http://newyorkscapes.org/project/irish-speakers-and-the-empire-city/ Irish Speakers and the Empire City is a collaborative endeavor to try to identify and record the household information of residents of New York City born in Ireland who claimed Irish (Gaelic) as their mother tongue on the 1910 census.

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]]> Digital Almshouse Project https://newyorkscapes.org/project/digital-almshouse-project/ Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:52:28 +0000 http://newyorkscapes.org/project/digital-almshouse-project/ The Digital Almshouse Project captures the experiences of Irish-born patients admitted to New York’s Bellevue Almshouse between 1845 and 1852. In addition to tracing Irish-born Bellevue patients’ journeys through New York’s public health system, it also includes background on nineteenth-century immigration to New York City, a history of New York Public Health, descriptions of the population of…

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