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How Irish Immigrants Built American Cities

How Irish Immigrants Built American Cities

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This episode traces how Irish famine migrants arrived in America as desperate laborers, built the canals, railways, sewers, and streets of major cities, and faced brutal anti-immigrant hostility along the way. It also follows their rise from exploited workers to political power brokers who helped shape the modern urban United States.
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