Irish In America

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the starving Irish would not even have a home (Considine 50). In the years to come, hundreds of thousands of Irish immigrants saved all the money they could to send a family member on the journey across the Atlantic. It was their pain and suffering which powered them and gave them the strength to survive. The ships were overcrowded with immigrants, where disease and hunger followed them and many more died on the journey. Upon arrival at the ports of the United States, the immigrants were described as being "demoralized and confused" (Walt). The Irish men fought, in many cases physically to get labor jobs of long hours and low pay. The women worked manly as servants called "Brigets," to upper class families. In the south, mainly New Orleans, the Irish lived in the swampland, living with diseases such as yellow fever and malaria. The Irish men were looked at as lower than slaves, as one historian puts it "If a plantation owner loses a slave, he loses an investment, If a plantation ...

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