Nebraska - Irish Emigrants Surviving on The Frontier

Irish History Podcast

Fin Dwyer

Ireland, Irish History, Norman Invasion, Great Hunger, Vikings, Interviews, History, War Of Independence, Great Famine

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

When we think of Irish Emigrants in the USA, images of New York or Boston spring to mind. However on a recent trip to the US I visited friends in Nebraska where I found a very different Irish American history.

Located in the midwest - the landcape and climate in Nebraska are pretty extreme - its very different from the large cities on the Eastern Coast.

In this podcast I look at how Irish emigrants survived on the Great Plains in the 1870s and 1880s. Their accounts are fascinating - from sleeping in tents in brutal winters to an Irish American man who sold something called 'The Great Remedy' that could cure anything!

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0:49.4	Check the Uber app. up. My name is Finn dewire and this is Irish emigrants on the American frontier.
1:06.0	Over the last month I was in the US where I was honored to be invited to the American Irish Historical Society in New York.
1:13.2	The recording of that event will be available for patrons shortly.
1:17.6	While I was in the US, I also spent time in Nebraska as well.
1:21.8	In both New York and Nebraska I visited archives
1:25.8	trying to track down the stories of Irish immigrants in the USA specifically
1:30.5	relating to the story and an aftermath of the Great Famine.
1:34.0	I got incredible letters in a New York archive and they are currently being made into the
1:39.1	next famine podcast which covers later 1848. These provide extremely vivid first-hand
1:46.6	accounts which have never as far as I'm aware been published before. This show might
1:52.3	be three weeks in the making, but it'll be well worth
1:55.1	the weight and I'll have another bonus show for you guys in the meantime. But today's
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