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Mind Map by olivia.paddock, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by olivia.paddock
almost 11 years ago
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Irish Immigration
- Many Irish peoples emigrated
seasonally to Scotland to do farming.
- High rents and poverty caused
Irish people to migrate.
- Irish workers were willing to work for
low wages that even the highlanders
wouldn't accept.
- Many Irish people were skilled textile workers.
- By 1830, 30,000 Irish people had
emigrated to Glasgow.
- Irish people were willing to do the
dirty/unpleasant jobs that nobody wanted to do
e.g. cess pit cleaners, navvies, etc.
- The Irish Potato Famine
(1940s) caused one million of
Irish people to die of starvation
and another million to emigrate.
- By 1848, the rate of Irish people
emigrating to Glasgow was 1000
a week.
- By 1848, the rate of Irish people
emigrating to Glasgow was 1000
a week.
- By 1861, 7% of Scotland's population was
Irish (3% was English)
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