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Ba chúis mhór imirce é an seoltán a chuir gaolta abhaile chun cabhrú le daoine eile sa teaghlach dul ar imirce. Imirce shlabhrach ba thoradh air seo.
“What brings such crowds to New York by every packetship is the letters which are written by the Irish already here to their relations in Ireland, accompanied, as they are in a majority of cases, by remittances to enable them to pay their passage out. It is from this source, and this mainly, if not only, that the Cork or Galway peasant learns all he knows about the United States, and he is not in the least likely to trust any other.” London Daily News, 1864.
Sliocht as litir le Margaret McCarthy chuig a tuismitheoirí, 22 Meán Fómhair 1850(18) QRO file 11821, PRO, Baile Átha Cliath
Scríobh an tUrramach Patrick A. Ward litir ó Liberty, Meiriceá, chuig an nuachtán The Limerick Reporter, ar Aibreán 24 1849. Mhol sé do na hÉireannaigh teacht go Meiriceá mar ba lú i bhfad an cothú a bhí ag “the white slaves of Ireland” ná sclábhaí gorma Mheiriceá, a bhí ní ba ghléasta agus a raibh aire níos fearr tugtha dóibh. Dúirt sé gur maíodh go raibh réimsí talún,160 acra, á ndíol ar timpeall $100-$120, i.e. £20-£25, toisc go raibh feirmeoirí ag tabhairt aghaidh ar California ag lorg óir. Mhol sé long a fháil ó Learpholl nó port Éireannach go New Orleans, agus taisteal suas an Mississippi chuig na machairí torthúla, áit a raibh talamh saor agus pá ard. D’fhógair sé dá mbeadh iallach ar dhaoine teacht go Nua-Eabhrac nó Bostún, nár chóir dóibh fanacht thar coicís in aon cheann de na cathracha oirthearacha sin, mar ba bhochtáin iad go leor dá gcomhthírigh ansin.
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