What is their place?

The Irish in New-York

Huguenin Nicolas Coulon Louis Marette Sangata

SUMMURY :

Factor of migration, why they left?

Their trip,the different step Their welcome, how were they

welcomed ? Their district, « Five Points » Knowledge that they bring in

New-York How is it today ?

Factor of migration, why they left?

The Irish people left towards the America because there wasn’t of work because of sickness like the one of the potato, which was the bigger factor of emigration.

The potato was base foodstuff of Irish so the absence of this foodstuff has led to the penury, the people died of hunger this sickness did 1 million of death. So in order that the Irish live they had to leave.

The America was their dream, they left all in order to hope have a better life and especially to have a work and earn money.

Symptom of milidiou on the potato leaf

Potato reaches by the mildiou

Consequences of the irish famine

Consequences of the irish famine

Their trip, the different steps

Between 1820 and 1899 there had around 3millions of Irish immigrant. It was a mass emigration.

The migrants arrived in New-York by a cargo ship, the conditions of trip were difficult, little migrant arrived in New-York because the were accumulated on one another , there were sometimes a storm , tornado ect…. And they were cold, don’t eaten a lot of.

They were a lot of them , they came of the different Contries and they didn’t speak the same language.

The cargo ship which took away the migrant in New-York

The finsih of migrant in New-York

Ellis island

The migrant had to pass by Ellis island.

Ellis island served in the first administrative contact with the american territory.

The crossing to Ellis Island lasted some hours at best, otherwise that could last several weeks or several month. The migrant had to have on them at last 20 dollars.

Ellis island is a little island near of the Statue of Liberty, wich welcomed formerly the migrant.

Ellis Island

Five pointFive point finds herself in New-York on Manhattan’s island. His name corresponds at the 5 street which rejoins to the intersection where the slum was developed : mulberry , anthony street(today worth street) , crosss street (today park row) orange street(today baxter street) and little water street(which used to exists but not anymore)

Five Points in 1851, map by chris Robinson

The district built around 1820. At the beginning to the industrial revolution in America the compagny used it like a tip. This district was ran away by the peoples who didn’t want to live here. The poor peoples came install on the one hand a ex-slaves,on the other hand the immigrants wich was come look for wealth. Five Points was a sad incarnation of the « American Dreams ».

Five points, isn’nt just a slum. It’s also a place which is originally of melting pot. Melting pot is a place where mix different population and different knoweldge.

The contact between afro american’s population and irish, who are maked do cohabit togerther, isn’nt that a fight, there was also a cultural exchange for instance the jazz and the rock’n’roll demonstrate of interbreeding

The migrants come in the politics context very unfavourable. Indeed they arrive after the American Civil War (1861-1865). The American State are in rebuilding economic and social. The development of industry and the abolition of slavery exercise the search of labour cheap.The migrants with their hope accept every work even worse. The Americans blame for the migrants to steal their job.

Elvis Presley the precursory of rock’n’roll

Miles Davis is a jazz musician

The gang of Five Point beat but also they kill.

How is it today ?

The Irish community is one of the main clauses of New York since the first waves of immigration in the middle of the XIXth century. Because of the big famine of 1845-1849, hundreds of Irish thousands took refuge in the United States. Today, the Irish people play a large part in the life of New York, in the institutions such as the Roman Catholic Church, the fire brigades and the police. The parade of Saint Patrick dates 1762. According to the census of 2000, 420 810 New Yorkers declared to have an Irish ancestor.

The film poster of Gang of New-York

The movie «Gang of New York» show us the life of the irish migrants it’s a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron Diaz, it was directed by Martin Scorsese. It dates of 2002. It last 167minutes, it’s a movie Italian and American .