Irish immigration

Question 1

reasons for irish immigration

push

Answer 1

• ireland did not have strongly growing industries to provide work
• smallholds we’re evicted because landlords tried to get bigger land for modern farming
• if a small holding was improved then the rent went up and people could be removed if they did not pay rent
• population was growing rapidly so less work available

Question 2

reasons for irish immigrants - pull

Answer 2

• there were much more jobs available
• less costly to go to scotland then other countries
• the enormous expansion of transport in scotland meant that canq, road and railway builders needed huge numbers of men to carry out the work of creating route ways and bridges etc
• higher wages in scotland

Question 3

lithuanian migration

Answer 3

they left because landholding were small and farming methods so basic
-attested by work in coal mines and the iron and steel works
they settled i coatbridge
when they got there they became iron furnaces, coal mining and slack minds and unskilled manual labour jobs

Question 4

jewish migration

Answer 4

they left because of nazis, pro grimes, eastern europe, russia, ukraine, and poland
started a new community
they settled j the gorbals near glasgow, edinburgh, aberdeen, falkirk, greenwich
when they got there they were mainly small salesmen and later to bacon it’s and tailors

Question 5

italian migration

Answer 5

they left because it was harder to make a living and poor economy
they settled in glasgow, riverside, and edinburgh
when they got there they opened fish and chips shops, ice cream shops and larger restaurants

Question 6

what did the scottish think of the irish?

Answer 6

they gained a reputation for being violent
they thought the irish took their jobs
catholic schools opened for irish immigrants
they joined scottish trade unions and faught in ww1 and joined political parties and formed football teams

Question 7

why did the scots emigrate?

Answer 7

between the 1830s and 1930s scots left homeland and went to live in other countries

Question 8

reasons for scottish emigration-push

Answer 8

-scottish land was difficult to grow on
-increasing population = increasing competition for jobs
-fishing,linden and kelp industries all failed which meant mass unemployment
/highland landowners kicked drifters off their land to make way for more profitable sheep or hunting and thus left drifters unemployed and homeless