Who+are+these+immigrants(demographics)?

· By 1854, between 1½ and 2 million Irish left their country due to evictions, starvation, and harsh living conditions. In America, most Irish became city-dwellers: with little money, many had to settle in the cities that the ships they came on landed in  · The Irish made up almost half of all immigrants in the United States in the 1840s and one-third in the 1850s. · In 1840, nearly half of all immigrants arriving in the United States had come from Ireland. The five largest White ethnic groups in the city of Pittsburgh are German (19.7%), Irish (15.8%), Italian(11.8%), Polish (8.4%), and English (4.6%), while the metropolitan area is approximately 22% German, and 16% Italian, and 12% Irish. Pittsburgh has one of the largest Italian communities in the nation, and also has the nation's fifth largest Ukrainian community-2000 census

· Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania claim a strong Irish heritage, dating back to the 18th century. · The regions first settlers came from Scotland and Ireland · From 1820 to 1860, 1,956,557 Irish arrived · After 1860, Irish immigration continued, with another 1,916,547 arriving by 1900