The Irish people left Ireland in large numbers between 1820 and 1899 due to the potato famine and lack of work, with around 3 million Irish immigrants arriving in New York. When they arrived in New York, many Irish settlers lived in the crowded and impoverished Five Points area of Manhattan. While conditions were difficult, the Five Points district also served as a cultural melting pot where the Irish and other immigrant groups exchanged ideas and influences that later developed into musical genres like jazz and rock and roll. Today, the Irish community remains an important part of New York's history, culture and population.

1. What is their place?
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2.  Factor of migration, why they left?
 Their trip,the different step
 Their welcome, how were they
welcomed ?
 Their district, « Five Points »
 Knowledge that they bring in
New-York
 How is it today ?

3. The Irish people left towards the
America because there wasn’t of work
because of sickness like the one of the
potato, which was the bigger factor of
emigration.
Symptom of milidiou on
the potato leaf
Consequences of the irish famine
The potato was base foodstuff of Irish so the absence
of this foodstuff has led to the penury, the people
died of hunger this sickness did 1 million of death.
So in order that the Irish live they had to leave.
Potato reaches by the
mildiou
The America was their
dream, they left all in
order to hope have a
better life and especially
to have a work and earn
money.
Consequences of the irish famine

4. Between 1820 and 1899 there
had around 3millions of Irish
immigrant. It was a mass
emigration.
They were a lot of them , they came
of the different
Contries and they didn’t speak the
same language.
The finsih of migrant in New-York
The cargo ship which took away the
migrant in New-York
The migrants arrived in New-York by a cargo
ship, the conditions of trip were difficult, little
migrant arrived in New-York because the were
accumulated on one another , there were
sometimes a storm , tornado ect…. And they
were cold, don’t eaten a lot of.

5. Ellis Island
The migrant had to pass by Ellis island.
Ellis island is a little island near of the
Statue of Liberty, wich welcomed formerly
the migrant.
The crossing to Ellis Island lasted some
hours at best, otherwise that could last
several weeks or several month. The
migrant had to have on them at last 20
dollars.
Ellis island served in the first
administrative contact with the american
territory.

6. Five point finds herself in New-York on Manhattan’s
island. His name corresponds at the 5 street which rejoins
to the intersection where the slum was developed :
mulberry , anthony street(today worth street) , crosss street
(today park row) orange street(today baxter street) and
little water street(which used to exists but not anymore)
The district built around 1820. At the
beginning to the industrial revolution in
America the compagny used it like a tip.
This district was ran away by the peoples
who didn’t want to live here. The poor
peoples came install on the one hand a exslaves,on the other hand the immigrants
wich was come look for wealth. Five Points
was a sad incarnation of the « American
Dreams ».
Five Points in 1851, map by chris Robinson

7. Five points, isn’nt just a slum. It’s
also a place which is originally of
melting pot.
Melting pot is a place where mix
different population and different
knoweldge.
The contact between afro american’s
population and irish, who are maked
do cohabit togerther, isn’nt that a
Miles Davis is a jazz musician
fight, there was also a cultural
Elvis Presley
the precursory
exchange for instance the jazz and
of rock’n’roll
the rock’n’roll demonstrate of
interbreeding
The gang of Five Point beat but also
they kill.
The migrants come in the politics context very
unfavourable. Indeed they arrive after the
American Civil War (1861-1865). The American
State are in rebuilding economic and social. The
development of industry and the abolition of
slavery exercise the search of labour cheap.
The migrants with their hope accept every work
even worse. The Americans blame for the
migrants to steal their job.

8. The Irish community is one of the main clauses of New York since the first
waves of immigration in the middle of the XIXth century. Because of the
big famine of 1845-1849, hundreds of Irish thousands took refuge in the
United States. Today, the Irish people play a large part in the life of New
York, in the institutions such as the Roman Catholic Church, the fire
brigades and the police. The parade of Saint Patrick dates 1762. According
to the census of 2000, 420 810 New Yorkers declared to have an Irish
ancestor.
The movie «Gang of New York» show us the life of the irish
migrants it’s a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio and Cameron
Diaz, it was directed by Martin Scorsese. It dates of 2002. It
last 167minutes, it’s a movie Italian and American .
The film poster of Gang of New-York