Irish Immigration To America

• It has affected Irish people in many ways because they have their own laws and Irish people felt that they did not accept them here in the U.S. But Starvation plagued Ireland and within five years, a million Irish were dead while half a million had arrived in America to start a new life. Living conditions in Ireland were deplorable long before the Potato Blight of 1845, however, and a large number of Irish left their homeland as early as the 1820's. In fact, Ireland’s population decreased dramatically throughout the nineteenth century.