Irish emigrants in America: a woman with two children, and a man sitting outside an inn smoking a pipe. Coloured etching after William Heath.

An Irishman looks at a poster advertising voyages to New York and resolves to emigrate. Coloured lithograph after E. Nicol, ca. 1840/1860.

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Ireland - Emigration and immigration

Images from the collections

Images about Ireland - Emigration and immigration

Works from the collections

Irish emigrants in America: a woman with two children, and a man sitting outside an inn smoking a pipe. Coloured etching after William Heath.

An Irishman looks at a poster advertising voyages to New York and resolves to emigrate. Coloured lithograph after E. Nicol, ca. 1840/1860.