Research Topic

Irish Immigrants

Irish immigrants played a central role in the early labor history of Jefferson County, WV, especially around Harpers Ferry, where they worked in quarries, infrastructure construction, and local industry.

This topic appears in 56 indexed records between 1824 and 1923.
56 Indexed Records
1824 Earliest Record
1923 Latest Record
Ireland Strongest Location
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December 6, 2025

Riot at Winchester Depot

RIOTOUS PROCEEDINGS.– On Saturday night last, a number of negroes waylaid an Irish citizen near the Cemetery, and beat him in an outrageous manner. Upon this fact being ascertained on the Sabbath, there was some excitement […]
December 6, 2025

VA Election; Irish Casting Votes

THE VIRGINIA ELECTION. The election of Mr. Wise, says the Washington Organ, is generally conceded although there are nearly fifty counties yet to be heard from. It is hardly probable that Mr. Flournoy has gained enough […]
December 6, 2025

NY Immigration, Demographics 1853

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, […]
December 6, 2025

Petrified Man (IL) Believed to Be Canal Laborer

PETRIFIED MAN.– The Morris (Ill.) Yeoman states that not long since, while some men were digging in a coal bank, near the canal, they exhumed the body of a man in a perfect state of petrifaction. […]
December 6, 2025

Irish Laborers – Over $80k Sent to Homeland

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 […]
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Time Period Concentration

This topic appears most frequently during the following decades.

1860s 12 records
1830s 11 records
1850s 7 records
1840s 6 records
1820s 4 records
1920s 2 records