Social Studies

Diaspora: Ireland and the World

• What is a diaspora?

• Why Ireland?

The Beginning of Mass Migration

• What were the conditions in the U.S., British North America, Australia, etc., that made it desirable to leave Ireland?

Flight from Famine

• Phytophthora infestans and potatoes

• Impacts of the Famine

• Voyage conditions, diseases

• Differing views of who was responsible for the Famine

• Role of religion during the Famine

Castle Garden and Beyond: Emigration to the United States in the Post-Famine Years

• Process of emigration to U.S.

• Conditions of voyages – ships and disease

• Rural vs Urban – trends of settlement in different areas of the U.S.

• Role of Women

• Immobility vs. constant mobility

Soldiers and Citizens: Nativism, Civil War, and the Quest for Acceptance

• Political parties

• Role of Irish in the U.S. Civil War

• Outcome and effects of the U.S Civil War on Irish immigrants

Beneath the Southern Cross: Australia and New Zealand

• penal colony

• voyage conditions

• women’s roles

• farming and land ownership

• Eureka Stockade

• role of religion

The Making of Irish America

• Hostile incidents

• Role of Catholic Church

• Irish identity

• Role of newspapers

The Politics of Irish America

• Tammany Hall and the political machine

• role of municipal jobs

• unions, ex. Knights of Labor, AFL

• advantages of Irish in politics

• Hibernians, Fenian Brotherhood, Senate Wing, Clan na Gael

The Other America

• Why Canada?

• roles of women

• Orangeism

• Toronto – “Belfast of Canada?”

• role of Catholic Church

An Irish World

• new immigration trends

• Irish role in popular culture

• Argentina

War and Revolution

• Irish nationalism

• fundraising

• Orange Order

• World War I and its aftermath

• Sinn Fein party

• Irish Republican Army (IRA)

• Eamon de Valera

In the Melting Pot

• new immigration trends

• Johnson-Reed Immigration Act

• Eamon de Valera

• “melting pot”

From Tammany to Camelot

• new immigration trends

• new voter trends

• economic trends

• Interwar Years

• World War II

• John F. Kennedy

'We've Married Italian Girls and Moved to the Suburbs': Irish Identities in a Changing World

• Celtic Tiger

• new immigration trends

• spread of Irish culture

• changes of participation in church and unions

A Last Hurrah? The United States and the Northern Ireland Conflict

• Protestant vs Catholic

• IRA – people, supporters, fundraising, weapons

• U.S. presidential administrations and their views on Ireland

• Northern Ireland peace talks and agreement

• modern-day American views and political ties to Ireland

Global Ireland Reimagined

• “Global Ireland: Ireland’s Footprint to 2025”

• Ireland’s place in the global economy