Challenges Faced By Irish Immigrants

Irish, Italian, polish, Spanish, Native American just to name a few of the nationalities that make up America today. The Irish had a dominant role in this factor with their migration to America. The life of immigrants and their challenges and accomplishments differ from story to story. Many of us come from one of these backgrounds and/or heard a story in our family past that was tale of life as an immigrant.
The cultural traits of the Irish that served them well in their new country was? The Irish are a paradoxical people a striking charm, joviality, and clannishness when the Irish band together for a moral or political cause, and they still suffered from a sense of isolation, sadness, and tragedy. The Irish will fight against all odds, and
One of prominent challenges the Irish immigrants faced was anti-Catholicism. Nearly all the Irish practiced Catholicism in Ireland. Americans frowned upon Catholicism do to its hierarchy, papacy, and idea of submitting to foreign powers, especially in such matters as one's salvation and morality. Second, Irish immigrants faced a large load of racial stereotypes, labels, and prejudice. As soon as they arrived on American soil, they were treated as the filth of society. When the Irish came to America in search of financial opportunities, they received little to none. They were considered terrible fellow citizens for they had no idea about plumbing and other functions that were thought to be normal and passive in America. Many were forced to find sanctuary in small, dirty communities with other Irish immigrants. Irish immigrants were only granted high risk, unskilled, manual labor type jobs. The sum of these events and many more caused many to turn to alcoholism. This did not help with their reputation as drunkards back in
Large numbers of young Irish women came by themselves to America and often sought employment as domestic servants with middle class and wealthy families (Maguire). Before factory jobs were available for women, domestic service work was the only occupation readily available to women, and it held desirable qualities to Irish female laborers, at it offered high wages and sometimes room and board. The attraction of "living out" or "going into service" was appealing: Irish domestics could earn 50 percent more than saleswomen, 25 percent more than textile works; had no expenses for food, housing, shelter, heat, water, or transportation; as well as live in pleasant, middle-class neighborhoods, as opposed to the tenements occupied by factory workers. Irish women faced a great deal of oppression, the exception to the general Irish antipathy to progressive movements was the Labor struggle, of which Irish women were