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No Guinness in the Old Brewery

by Kate Dolan | Mar 31, 2011 | Latest Posts, Living History, The Irish

When Irish landlords started shipping their starving tenants to North America in the mid-19th Century (either to help the tenants or to help themselves by avoiding the extra poor tax), most of the immigrants chose to go to New York. It soon became much cheaper to send...

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