Why Did The Irish Migrate To Australia
. Thats an overview for that period. People on farms needed labourers to clear the land plant crops and take care of animals.
The Irish Catholic emigrant settled in cities and towns rather than in the open country. Thats an overview for that period. Diaspóra na nGael refers to ethnic Irish people and their descendants who live outside the island of Ireland.
Once in Australia they toiled to make a decent life for themselves and their descendants and.
Between 1839 and 1845 more than half of the 46500 immigrants to New South Wales were Irish. The Irish who were transported to Australia for what are today the most minor of offenses offenses they were often driven to by extremes of poverty were torn from family friends and a country many of them loved dearly. People on farms needed labourers to clear the land plant crops and take care of animals. The phenomenon of migration from Ireland is recorded since the Early Middle Ages but it can be quantified only from around 1700.
