The Irish-American Experience

This website gives an overview to the experience of Irish citizens coming over to America from 1700 to 1930. Further down the page there set pieces of work for students to complete, making sure the information set out is being retained. Some of this work is done in groups, allowing a more free flowing of ideas, or questions that might not be asked when work is done alone. It seems a good way to teach the children about a people's that used to comprise the largest influx group, and even today many Americans still relate to that heritage, falsely or otherwise.

There is a lot of information to be found, and lots of colour and links to pictures makes the topic far less daunting for a younger audience.

"Students will understand the collective experience of the Irish in early America and make connections between the reasons for leaving homelands and the treatment of Irish immigrants then and recent immigrants now."