Title: 
Headings:  Immigration from Europe: The Irish and Germans
Immigration
 
from
 
Europe:
 
The
 
Irish
 
and
 
Germans

Timeline

Facts
 
and
 
Figures

The
 
Potato
 
Famine


Content: By
 
the
 
time
 
the
 
famine
 
ran
 
its
 
course,
 
almost
 
1
 
million
 
of
Ireland’s
 
population
 
of
 
8
 
million
 
was
 
dead,
 
and
close
 
to
a
quarter
 
of
 
the
 
Irish
 
people
 
had
 
emigrated
 
overseas. Germans: The
 
Germans
 
brought
 
with
 
them
 
a
 
love
 
of
 
music
 
and
 
a
 
taste
 
for
beer,
 
and
 
they
 
enjoyed
 
both
 
in
 
the
 
beer
 
gardens
 
that
 
sprang
 
up
 
in
 
every
city
 
with
 
a
 
big
 
German-American
 
population. They
 
also
 
brought
 
a
 
love
 
for
sports: German
 
immigrants
 
founded
 
the
 
first
 
organized
 
gymnastic
 
society
in
 
the
 
U.S.
 
in
 
1828. Discrimination
Irish: Anti-Catholic
 
prejudice,
 
fear
 
of
 
competition
 
for
 
jobs,
 
and
 
stereotyp-
ing
 
of
 
the
 
Irish
 
as
 
prone
 
to
 
violence
 
and
 
drunkenness
 
all
 
contributed
 
to
strong
 
anti-Irish
 
discrimination. Germans: German
 
immigrants
 
typically
 
faced
 
less
 
outright
 
discrimination
than
 
the
 
Irish
 
did,
 
but
 
in
 
many
 
communities
 
they
 
were
 
resented
 
for
 
their
differences
 
in
 
language
 
and
 
traditions.