EXPERIENCE OF CATHOLIC IRISH IMMIGRANTS

Question 1

EXPERIENCE

Answer 1

A:CI immigrants usually settled near where they landed, like Gorbals in Glasgow

B:had a common desire for work=but largely uneducated+unskilled, only find work in low-skilled manual jobs like coal-mining, textiles, navvies on railway + canals

C:POS+ experience= moved from Ireland to escape poverty and famine from potato blight

Question 2

REACTIONS

Answer 2

A:S often reacted poorly to IC mainly due to religious differences

B:in workplace C often discriminated due to religion, many S worried about vast numbers of IC seeking jobs, s believed drove down wages + threatened job positions

C:NEG+ experience as C often discriminated by Protestant S= protestant country , religious discrim. became a feature of CI experience on S

Question 3

IDENTITY

Answer 3

A: initially assimilated well, changed surnames to S ones, marrying native S or change religion

B:from 1800’s=CI started to keep in own communities, shown by fact in 1851=80% of CI in Greenock married other CI

C:more difficult to assimilate in S, communities kept more insular, not mix w/ S, NEG- experience