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ANCESTORS IN MY ATTIC

19th-Century Urban Irish

They left Ireland in the mid-1800s during the famine of the potato blight and arrived in cities on the east coast: Providence, New York and Manchester, where they found work as tinkers, tradesmen, haulers and millhands. 

​Read their stories below.

1.  Lace Curtain Irish: The Peckenhams
2. The Elusive Donnellan Line
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