Why did the ”new” Irish immigrants leave their country? How did they help America
When I visit home and my mother sees me carrying so many dishes at one time that the risk of dropping something outweighs the benefits of the reduction in the number of trips, it’s called carrying a lazy load. Being the opposite of lazy I no longer carry any dishes at all.
Anyway this question is a lazy load. It’s two questions for god’s sake. Guessing who you mean in question one, by how you phrase question two, I’m going to say that the “new” Irish immigrants you speak of are those that came to America roughly in the decade from the mid-eighties to the mid-nineties culminating in the effective amnesty of the Donnelly and Morrison visas.
Why? Economic reasons. In the 1980s the national average for unemployment in Ireland was around the 18-21% mark with many urban areas of Dublin having rates of 65-80%. During this time I emigrated myself, like most people in my year in school. We went mostly to England, Germany, Holland, Australia, Canada, and the U.S.
Irish immigrants helped America the same way anybody in America helped it. By working, and it being America, usually more than one job at a time. Many went on to open their own businesses. Many assimilated, and many returned eventually to Ireland. For better or worse the “new” Irish behaved as immigrants
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