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Nebraska - Irish Emigrants Surviving on The Frontier





When we think of Irish Emigrants in the USA, images of New York or Boston spring to mind. However on a recent trip to the US I visited friends in Nebraska where I found a very different Irish American history.


Located in the midwest – the landcape and climate in Nebraska are pretty extreme – its very different from the large cities on the Eastern Coast.

In this podcast I look at how Irish emigrants survived on the Great Plains in the 1870s and 1880s. Their accounts are fascinating – from sleeping in tents in brutal winters to an Irish American man who sold something called ‘The Great Remedy’ that could cure anything!

“From the creator of the Irish History Podcast comes the story of Modern Ireland and its people written in death” 

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