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In 1845, a fungus began to destroy Ireland’s potato crop, triggering a famine that would K*ll a million Irish men, women, and children—and drive over a million more to immigrate to America. In the ten years that followed, the United States was radically transformed by this monumental migration, and nowhere more so than New York, where by 1855, roughly a third of all adults living in Manhattan were immigrants who had escaped the hunger in Ireland. Historian and author Tyler Anbinder joins Director of the Glucksman Ireland House at New York University, Kevin Kenny, to paint a picture of these so-called “Famine Irish,” whose perseverance through low-paying jobs, discrimination, and ridicule by their new countrymen paved the way for four US presidents.
Tyler Anbinder is a professor emeritus of history at George Washington University and the author of several award-winning books, including Five Points and Plentiful Country: The Great Potato Famine and the Making of Irish New York. Kevin Kenny (moderator) is Glucksman Professor of History at New York University and the author of multiple books, including Making Sense of the Molly Maguires.
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