Read at least one of the following links, about Irish Immigration to the U.S., and the attitudes and prejudices they faced:

• http://hsp.org/education/primary-sources/letter-hannah-curtis-to-brother-john-curtis-november-24-1845
• http://hsp.org/education/primary-sources/letter-william-dunne-to-his-nephew-john-curtis-april-25-1846
• http://hsp.org/education/primary-sources/letter-william-dunne-to-john-curtis-november-161846
• http://hsp.org/education/primary-sources/letter-hannah-curtis-to-john-curtis-april-2-1847
• http://hsp.org/education/primary-sources/letter-william-dunne-to-john-curtis-april-2-1851
• http://hsp.org/education/primary-sources/letter-john-and-jane-curtis-to-their-mother-bridget-dunne-curtis
• http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5798/
• http://hsp.org/sites/default/files/legacy_files/migrated/catholicherald.pdf
• http://hsp.org/sites/default/files/legacy_files/migrated/worksheetcurtisletters.pdf
• http://hsp.org/education/primary-sources/%E2%80%9Cwhat-irish-boys-can-do%E2%80%9D
• http://hsp.org/education/primary-sources/song-%E2%80%9Cpoor-pat-must-emigrate%E2%80%9D

From the Historical Society of Pennsylvania’s Irish Immigrant Letters Home and Immigrant Ballads.