Curious about what Ireland look like prior to the famine? Take a look at this map from just before the Great Famine that decimated Ireland’s population.
Immigration to the United States reached its peak between 1880 and 1920, as scores of people from Germany, Ireland, Eastern Europe and elsewhere flocked to make homes in the “land of opportunity.” In fact, in the decades from 1870 to 1900, nearly 12 million immigrants…