THE IRISH

CIRCUMSTANCES

• The potato blight destroyed the Irish's crops
• Thousands of peasants were forced to migrate
• common place to migrate was to North America
• Most had no money, cloths, work skills.
• Most were catholic

HARDSHIPS

• The Irish faced many hardships on there way to America.
• One of there many hardships was the actual journey on the ships.
• These ships were also called "coffin ships".
• These ships got this name because of the many deaths on board.
• Diseases, overcrowding, starvation, were the main reasons of death.

COFFIN SHIPS

CONTRIBUTIONS/ACHIEVEMENTS

• Vincent Barry discovered a cure for Ireland's tuberculosis problem
• Harry Ferguson was responsible for theFerguson System of tractor
• The Irish also invented the automobile, submarine, tank, and guided missile
• Aeneas Coffey, came up with the world first heat-exchange device in 1830

CITED PAGE

• http://t.answers.com/answers/#!/entry/what-hardships-did-irish-immigrants-f...
• http://www.irishcentral.com/business/technology/top-10-surprising-irish-inv...
• http://www1.assumption.edu/ahc/Irish/overview.html
• http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/the-top-ten-major-irish-contributions-to-...

Poor Irish people being evicted