IMMIGRATION FOR 1853, IN NEW YORK.— According to the books of the Commissioners of Emigration, 284,945 aliens and 50,312 citizens arrived at this port by sea during the past year– and of these 113,164 were Irish, […]
THE SUFFERING POOR OF IRELAND. The New York Courier has the following article:The warm-hearted Irishman is an expression that has passed into a proverb.– The facts we are about to relate, and which have just been […]
Before the Irish ever set foot in Harpers Ferry, they had already lived through generations of hardship. Crushed by tithes, shut out of political power, and driven from the land their families had worked for centuries, they carried with them the memory of a society held down by oppressive law and deprivation. Their presence in America was not the product of luck, but of people pushed to the edge who refused to disappear.
PATHETIC HISTORY OF EMERALD ISLEFew countries look back upon a history so tragic so heart breaking as Ireland’s and few countries have produced such patriots. In fact, Ireland’s history is one of romance and bloodshed, the […]
The condition of things in Ireland is sufficient to keep the British government on the alert. The London Courier mentions, that ministers have determined to call out the yeomanry force of that island. A fierce spirit […]
In 1801 the population of Ireland was 5,319,000; in 1841, 8,221,000, and in 1881, 5,159,000 — less by nearly a quarter of a million than in 1801. These figures in themselves tell a terrible story.
Ireland.– The number of inhabitants in Ireland is estimated at 6,846,949, and the number of Irish acres at 6,809,709; so that there is more than one individual to an acre. In England, the number of English […]
The New York American has been favored with the following extract of a letter from Greenock, addressed to a gentleman in New York. It gives a frightful, but, we trust, an exaggerated picture of misery:– “I […]
The late discussion in the British Parliament, on the condition of Ireland, in reference to the Tithe System, has brought forth some detailed statements of the real nature and pressure of that system upon the people […]
There was pith in the short reply of Mr. O’Connell in the British House of Commons, to a speech of Lord Althorp against the Repeal of the Irish Union. His Lordship ended with expressing his inability […]
THE IRISH SOLDIER.The following is an extract from a Speech by G. W. CUSTIS, at a recent celebration of the birth day of O’CONNELL: The recollections of America’s days of trial must the more and more […]
Mr. O’Connell has addressed a long letter to the Irish Political Union, developing his intentions, and calling on the people of Ireland to second him. His principal object he declares to be to impeach Lord Anglesey, […]
IRELAND.— The affairs of this unhappy and distracted country assume a more sombre appearance, if possible, by every fresh arrival. It will be seen by the following proclamation of the Marquis of Anglesey, that the enforcing […]
IRELAND.DUBLIN, May 8.– The indictment against the proprietor of the Pilot newspaper, for publishing Mr. O’Connell’s first letter to the Irish people, charges him with bringing the act of Legislative Union and the Irish Disturbance Bill […]
THE POPULATION OF IRELAND. — The census of Ireland, taken in June last, is not yet completed; but sufficient progress has been made in the arrangement of the returns from a great variety of districts, to […]
“Alas for poor Erin!– her pride has gone by, And the spirit is broken which never would bend;O’er the rain her children in secret must sigh,Y[?] ’tis treason to love her and death to defend.”[Moore. MR. […]
