The leaving of Liverpool for the New World

[porrick]

9 million emigrants passing through Liverpool alone - I was not aware the number was that high; interesting.

Thanks for posting again, Alex

[Phil]

9 million emigrants passing through Liverpool alone - I was not aware the number was that high; interesting.

Thanks for posting again, Alex

And most of them were southern Irish coming over from Dublin before taking ship from Liverpool. The northern Irish mostly went to the Clyde and shipped out from there. The Protestants went much earlier to escape religious persecution and the remainder in the 19th century to escape the famine.You must be aware, however, that the potato famine affected the whole of Ireland and Catholic and Protestant alike. The country wasn't partitioned then and all poor subsistence farmers suffered the same fate. County Down, for instance, was one area badly affected as indeed was Scotland, all places where people relied on the potato. While Scots did not suffer to the same extent due to better famine relief than the earlier Irish famine, many were still forced to emigrate.