The destination of Irish immigrants depended partly on the Irish port they sailed from.
Transcript of The destination of Irish immigrants depended partly on the Irish port they sailed from.
Station Mass in a Connemara Cottage, 1888Aloysius O’Kelly, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art
Michael Davitt MP
He was born in Ireland and began
working in a Lancashire cotton mill when he was
10.
Two years later, in 1858, he had an
accident with a spinning mill and
his right arm had to be amputated.
Cartoon, 'The Mixing Room', 1854It shows Irish women millworkers in Preston asleep on the job
as their horrified employer looks on. It reflects a view that cheap Irish labour forced down wages
and undermined the trade union movement.
T.P. O’Connor. MP
He was born in Athlone in Ireland in 1848 and became a famous journalist in
London.
He was also the Irish nationalist MP for the mainly Irish Scotland
Road Division of Liverpool from 1885
until his death in 1929.