durrushistory's avatarWest Cork History

From Irish Iowa site,

http://www.celticcousins.net/irishiniowa/pennyemigrantguide.htm

New Orleans, major destination pre 1860:

In 1845, in Louisiana, USA, the Priests were exhorting the Immigrant Irish to forsake the grog halls of New Orleans and go up the Mississippi. like the Germans to claim the free land

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