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Margaret McCarthy
Margaret McCarthy ( – death date unknown) was an Irish migrant to the United States. On September 22, 1850, she wrote a letter to her family, as a guide for other emigrants. She explained that once in the United States, moving west was very expensive, though she did not know that those who did go rarely had an improved standard of living. Her letter is typical of that of many immigrants, containing optimism about her own condition, and concern for the family and people she left behind. Biography She was born to Alexander "Sandy" McCarthy, a carpenter for the Crown Estate who lived in Boherboy, Ireland, and his wife, Neil. McCarthy travelled from Kingwilliamstown in County Cork to Nohavaldaly, near Kanturk, during the Great Famine. She left from Liverpool, England, on September 7, 1849, on the ''Columbus'', and arrived in New York City, United States New York, often called New York City or NYC, is the most populous city in the United Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanturk
Kanturk () is a town in the north west of County Cork, Ireland. It is situated at the confluence of the Allua (Allow) and Dallow (Dalua) rivers, which stream further on as tributaries to the River Blackwater. It is about from Cork, Blarney and Limerick, and lies just north of the main N72 road, from Mallow and about from Killarney. Kanturk is within the Cork North-West Dáil constituency. History Located at a crossing point at the confluence of the River Allow and River Dalua, evidence of ancient settlement near Kanturk includes a number of ringfort, holy well and fulacht fiadh sites in the surrounding townlands of Coolacoosane, Curragh, Greenane and Gurteenard. The town's English name, Kanturk, derives from the Irish or , meaning head (or headland) of the boar. To the south of the town, in Paal East townland, is Kanturk Castle. Known locally as the Old Court, this fortified house was built for MacDonogh McCarthy as a defence against English settlers during the Plantatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English-language Works
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic (Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in the 8th and 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
