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Kate and Sandy Sullivan, emigrants from the Lansdowne estate in County Kerry, Ireland, converted a tenement apartment at 35 Baxter Street, just north of Worth, into a 'boarding house.' Like all Famine emigrants, the Sullivans knew that running their…

From Harpers Weekly, this image depicts a tenement house fire on 45th Street in New York on March 28, 1860.

Montezuma. Painting created by Antonio Jacobsen in 1917 of the Montezuma, a ship that carried many Irish immigrants to New York.

steerage compartment of passenger ship

rendering of a steerage compartment from The Illustrated London News, 1851; caption reads, " Emigration Vessel--Between Decks."

A break-down of civil parishes in Ireland in 1841

shows the population of each parish in Ireland in 1841

locates where EISB customers emigrated from by Irish parish

EISB customers who immigrated to the US before 1846; displayed by Irish parish

EISB customers, by Irish parish, who immigrated to the United States after 1846