Download or read book Ireland and Irish Emigration to the New World from 1815 to the Famine written by William Forbes Adams and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1980 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mass immigration to the United States was nowhere more apparent than in the immigration of the Irish between 1815 and the failure of the potato crop in 1845/1846, during which time a million Irish men and women emigrated here. This book provides a detailed account of the economic, social, and political factors underlying the early migrations; an examination of the emigrant trade and its links with American shipping interests; and a history of government policy regarding assisted and unassisted emigration.