Tag: St. Patrick’s Day Parade

Largest Migration of the 19th Century The great Irish immigration happened between 1820 and 1930 when 4.5 million Irish Catholics, mostly uneducated and poor, came in masses to America. The largest influx came during the Potato Famine, 1845-1852, when nearly one quarter of the Irish population—2 million people—came to the new world to escape certain…