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A Pictorial Walk Through
the 20th Century

The Irish in Mining


The Irish in Mining
A family evicted by their landlords.
Source: National Library of Ireland

Landlords moved to cut their losses by evicting thousands of peasants and later by even paying their tenants to emigrate. Greedy ship-owners often crowded hundreds of Irish onto ships unequal to the task of providing shelter to so many. It was estimated that up to one-third of the passengers of these "coffin ships" never made it to their new home alive. Of the one million immigrants who left Ireland during this decade, most traveled to England or America.

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