2. The destination of Irish immigrants depended partly on the Irish port they sailed from.

3. The Last Hour in the Old Land
Margaret Allen, c. 1877, Gorry Gallery, Dublin

4. Irish Emigrant Arriving in Liverpool
Erskine Nicol, 1871, National Galleries, Scotland

5. Irish Vagrants in England, Walter Deverell, c
Irish Vagrants in England, Walter Deverell, c. 1853, Johannesburg Art Gallery

7. ‘Top twenty, Irish towns
1851 1

8. ‘Top twenty, Irish towns
1851 2

9. Sandgate Market (also known as Paddy’s Market) Newcastle
Ralph Heldley
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle

10. Houses of Irish navvies working on the Manchester Ship canal.

11. A Roman Catholic priest 1902

12. Station Mass in a Connemara Cottage, 1888
Aloysius O’Kelly, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art

13. Preparation for a Roman Catholic procession in Rook Street, Poplar c

14. Many Irish emigrants, including children, found jobs in textile factories in Lancashire.

15. Michael Davitt MP
He was born in Ireland and began working in a Lancashire cotton mill when he was 10.
Two years later, in 1858, he had an accident with a spinning mill and his right arm had to be amputated.

16. Girl making nails, 1880

17. Field Working in Spring: At the Potato Pits William Darling Kay, National Gallery of Scotland

18. Irish navvies
working on the
Manchester Ship Canal

19. Cartoon, 'The Mixing Room', 1854
It shows Irish women millworkers in Preston asleep on the job
as their horrified employer looks on.
It reflects a view that cheap Irish labour forced down wages
and undermined the trade union movement.

20. An Irish street
in London
mid-19thc

21. T.P. O’Connor. MP
He was born in Athlone in Ireland in 1848 and became a famous journalist in London.
He was also the Irish nationalist MP for the mainly Irish Scotland Road Division of Liverpool from 1885 until his death in 1929.

22. Bridget Liptrot
(née Doorley)
with her nephew Silvester Moran