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Irish America magazine - Oct/Nov '05 issue: Mo Mowlam, Eileen Collins, Changes in Irish America, 20 Great Interviews, 20 Moments In History, 20 Best Movies About Irish-Americans, Beer, Patrick Fitzgerald, Billy Bob Thornton
Last Word: Helping Hands Along the Way
In 1870 New York City was home to 200,000 people of Irish birth, more than
any other city in the world, including Dublin. Under the tutelage of Tammany
Hall the survivors and descendants of the Irish Famine and the American
Civil War had wrested control of City Hall and its political patronage.
Yet the tide of immigration from Ireland, Italy and other European countries
continued to swell the numbers of poverty stricken, dislocated populace
in the city.
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