Blog #9

 

       Fleeing a country in distress, the Irish immigrants came to find refuge in the new frontier. As the first major wave of immigrants, the Irish faced many unique situations that placed additional burden on their shoulders trying to settle down in a new environment. Without formal education and skills, the Irish immigrants constituted much of the homeless and jailed population. They were at the bottom of the social ladder. However, things began to shift as the children of the first generation immigrants began to attain skilled jobs and apprenticeships. This opened up doors and opportunites for the Irish community to move out of poverity and into a new way of life. The posterity of the first pioneers began to have formal education and move west to establish a new status of Irish immigrants.