The emigration of the Irish to the United States in the mid-19th Century has sometimes been referred to as "from the frying pan into the fire." Conditions which motivated the Irish to leave their homeland were deplorable in both the social and the economic sense, and those in which they lived in th …

Starting in 1845 the farmers of Ireland no longer owned their land, it was taken over by the British and all the farmland had been turned into English plantations. The farmers who had been used to working for themselves had now become tenants on their own land.At this time in Ireland the potato was …