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5. "Irish - Adaptation and Assimilation - Immigration..." //Library of Congress//. Web. 04 Jan. 2016. "The History Place - Irish Potato Famine: Gone to America." //The History Place - Irish Potato Famine: Gone to America.// 2000. Web. 04 Jan. 2016.
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 * 2) Kacey Seeloff
 * 3) Irish Immigration to America
 * 4) During the Irish Immigration to America, the Irish experienced great hardship regarding living standards, in addition to segregation imposed by unwelcoming Americans. One article illustrates the obstacle for the Irish to find work, “Bostonians feared being undercut by hungry Irish willing to work for less than the going rate. Their resentment, combined with growing anti-Irish and anti-Catholic sentiment among all classes in Boston led to 'No Irish Need Apply' signs being posted in shop windows, factory gates and workshop doors throughout the city” (“Irish Potato Famine”). Despite willingness to work with extremely low wages in comparison to America’s standards, the Irish were refused opportunity to work in fearful factories. In addition this boycott of hiring Irish causing the immigrants economic hardship, it increased the segregation between the Irish and Americans. Another article describes the living conditions, “A lack of adequate sewage and running water in these places made cleanliness next to impossible. Disease of all kinds (including cholera, typhus, tuberculosis, and mental illness) resulted from these miserable living conditions. Thus, when the Irish families moved into neighborhoods, other families often moved out fearing the real or imagined dangers of disease, fire hazards, unsanitary conditions and the social problems of violence, alcoholism and crime” (“Immigration...Irish”). Due to poverty of the Irish, and the inability to find work, the immigrants were forced to live in inadequate areas such as single member homes, alleyways, and other poorly sized and maintained areas. The unfortunate housing led to poor living conditions, often imposing health risks. In addition to the disease significantly disabling the immigrants, it led to an even more drastic segregation. As Americans feared the “dangers of disease” they made a great effort to stay away from the immigrants, claiming them as dirty. The over generalization of the immigrants forced them to be rejected by society, enabling them from assimilating. In addition to having extremely poor living conditions, the Irish immigrants suffered from the harsh rejection of America.

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3. In the novel All Souls Michael Patrick Macdonald raises awareness about the violence and poverty that took place during the Irish immigration to America. In All Souls he looks to raise awareness and give support and help to those that need it. The people that need the help or support are his primary audience. According to the American Program Bureau Michael looks to, “give voice to adult and youth survivors of poverty, violence and the drug trade” (Macdonald 1). By doing this, and giving a voice to the survivors he is targeting an audience with the same general background as himself. In a secondary source it showed, “ They often had no money beyond the fare for their passage, and, thus, settled in the ports of their debarkation” (Immigration...Irish). What this showed is that many immigrants did not have money so they really settled for what they had to be worthy of. There are two types of audiences that could be targeted in his novel. The primary audience is the informed and survivors of the same situation dealing with poverty and violence. What Mcdonald's purpose for them would be is to encourage them to take a step to help others in the same situation. The secondary audience is uninformed and by reading Macdonald’s work they will become educated and possibly inspired to help others in the poor situation that they are in. It was important for Macdonald to give “voice” to the survivors that went through violence during the Irish immigration to America to demonstrate the hardships that an immigrant endured during this time period.

4. Rebecca Miehl 5.  Diebboll, Erin. “Michael Patrick Macdonald Bio.” // Michael Patrick // //MacDonald//. American Program Bureau, 2009. Web. 5 Jan 2016. "Irish - Adaptation and Assimilation - Immigration..." //Library of Congress//. Web. 05 Jan. 2016.

Aim

1.  2. Irish immigration to America: Irish immigration during this time was incredibly popular and relevant to this time period focused on in the book. This part of Europe was going through an extreme decline in economy because of the huge potato famine. It is said that, “The roughest welcome of all would be in Boston, Massachusetts...Proper Bostonians pointed and laughed at the first Irish immigrants stepping off ships wearing clothes twenty years out of fashion”(“Gone to America”). It was extremely difficult for Irish people to be accepted in society as equals to those born in the country. The book All Souls will explain, in first person, what an experience in south Boston for an Irish person was and show the discriminatory and crude things both said and done to them. The purpose will be shown to the reader by reaching an emotional level by explaining the reality of that time period. 3. Gia Williams

"Irish - Adaptation and Assimilation - Immigration..." //Library of Congress//. Web. 05 Jan. 2016. “Irish Potato Famine - Gone to America”. //The History Place//.  Web. 05 Jan. 2016.

Historical

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 * 3) John Kinney
 * 4)  Throughout history, America has been a haven for immigration and assimilation that has expanded the multifaceted culture that makes the United States. This openness to immigration was tested in the 1800s with the huge influx of Irish immigrants in response to Ireland’s potato famine. The Library of Congress conveys that, “ The Irish immigrants left a rural lifestyle in a nation lacking modern industry. Many immigrants found themselves unprepared for the industrialized, urban centers in the United States”. The majority of the Irish immigrants called the city of Boston home which was experiencing a huge change due to the industrial revolution. At the time, these immigrants were poor, uneducated, and unprepared to assimilate into the American work force. A lot of them were forced to live in shanties, and cellars that had a lack of airflow, and were without running water and sewage. The Irish at the time were seen as lazy drunks by society at the time because of their unemployment and poverty. This resulted in a huge spike in crime, and other social issues within South Boston on behalf of the Irish Americans within Boston.
 * 5) "Irish - Adaptation and Assimilation - Immigration..." //Library of Congress//. Web. 05 Jan. 2016.