Describe the Hardships of the Irish in Ireland and America.
According to Irish Famine Facts by John Keating the average adult working male in Ireland consumed a staggering 14 pounds of potatoes per day while the average adult Irish woman ate 112. Old literate in english immigrants sent to new world earned wages to pay the fares for those who waited home. Pin On Smarts You see back then the only way to. . In editorial after editorial he savaged. Machine supplied coal in wintertime food and law help. Irish immigration to America peaked in the wake of the Great Famine that devastated the old country starting with the failure of the potato crop in the autumn of 1845. After difficulties and hardships enough to fill the poor adventurers with despairwhich difficulties and hardships were aggravated by fever and ague that alike unsparingly attacked the robust and the delicate the strong on whom the weak relied and the weak who were thus rendered still more. Day Irish American was an oxymoro...