In the middle half of the nineteenth century, more than one-half of the population of Ireland emigrated to the United States. So did an equal number of Germans. Most of them came because of civil unrest, severe unemployment or almost inconceivable hardships at home.

Their origin went back to the Irish Marianus Scotus, who appeared with companions in Regensburg in 1070 and founded an ascetic monastic community, from which several monasteries were founded. The relatively large geographical distance caused German-Irish relations to be also later often concentrated on important individuals.

May 9, 2017 · Since the late 19th century, Irish revolutionaries had seen Germany as a prospective ally to assist their drive for independence. Such reasoning stirred Roger Casement’s doomed efforts to...

The Irish-German relationship has its roots in the seventh century when missionaries such as St. Killian came from Ireland to Germany. This began a rich exchange which has echoed through the centuries, leaving a deep imprint on one another’s cultures.

Mar 16, 2017 · Forced from their homeland because of famine and political upheaval, the Irish endured vehement discrimination before making their way into the American mainstream.

Apr 2, 2014 · As the Irish and German immigrants started to expand in the American labor market with their skills, and magnify the social climate of what it meant to be an American, they were steadily elevating up the social ladder.

Aug 29, 2015 · This wave of immigration transformed the primarily Anglo-Saxon Protestant and British makeup of Europeans in the United States, igniting hostility toward the mostly Catholic German and Irish migrants.

Jan 31, 2018 · Irish and German historians dated the beginning of their nations’ modern histories to the seventeenth-century era of conflict and crisis. The centrality of religion or, more accurately, confessional identity to national historical narratives is further developed in the second chapter.

Jun 12, 2014 · This paper seeks to prove that the Irish and German immigrants of the nineteenth century were able to live a better life in America than in their native lands. The two chief reasons that led a great number of Irish to emigrate Ireland, which are the Great Potato Famine of 1845-52 and religious persecution which occurred throughout the 1800s, is ...

Jul 1, 2019 · Germany has seen a steady arrival of Irish, from United Irishmen who fled to Hamburg after 1798 to Roger Casement’s mad-cap German mission in 1916 to acquire guns and an Irish brigade to...