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This land blessed with immense and primitive Beauty is where our story begins it's a story of courage charity and a hope born of suffering between 1843 and 1894 ten groups of ______ 62 individual women in all left their beloved homeland to serve the poor sick and uneducated in the Americas they set out with hope and a willingness to serve they endured the hardships of travel and braved the unknown with these last glimpses of beauty and serenity they set their sights on new lands without a doubt the great Irish emigration of the 19th century plays an important role in our story shaken by extreme poverty many Irish began leaving their land as early as 1815 by 1844 more than 1.5 million almost 20% of the Irish population had emigrated but it was the terrible potato blight of 1845 to 1847 that caused mass Irish Exodus by 1855 another 2 million Irish with the heartache of abandoning both family and country had left their motherland for good most of them went to America normally a week is not a very sorrowful occasion in Ireland and as there's a tragedy there because they come together and they really make merry tell stories and they even dance before the end of the night but these American wakes were different but the whole feeling was that'll just despair really because they felt that they would never again see this member of the family and if anyone went to America they couldn't see a foresee that there would ever be a return so it was really a death and yet the reason that the whole experience was bearable both for those who were staying behind in those who were coming to the United States was this belief this hope that they would find a better life on the other side of the Atlantic but emigration to the new land did not always mean a better life the Americas North Central and South were still wilderness unsettled and predominantly non Catholic in the u.
Sisters of Mercy
The year
1843
Cause
poverty
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What was the cause of the mass Irish Exodus between 1845 and 1847?
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In which year did more than 1.5 million Irish emigrate due to extreme poverty?
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What was the predominant feeling during the American wakes for those leaving for the United States?
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What was the state of the Americas (North, Central, and South) during the 19th century Irish emigration?
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What was the main reason that made the whole experience bearable for those leaving for the United States?
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