The destination of Irish immigrants depended partly on the Irish port they sailed from.

The Last Hour in the Old Land Margaret Allen, c. 1877, Gorry Gallery, Dublin

Irish Emigrant Arriving in Liverpool Erskine Nicol, 1871, National Galleries, Scotland

Irish Vagrants in England, Walter Deverell, c Irish Vagrants in England, Walter Deverell, c. 1853, Johannesburg Art Gallery

‘Top twenty, Irish towns 1851 1

‘Top twenty, Irish towns 1851 2

Sandgate Market (also known as Paddy’s Market) Newcastle Ralph Heldley Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle

Houses of Irish navvies working on the Manchester Ship canal.

A Roman Catholic priest 1902

Station Mass in a Connemara Cottage, 1888 Aloysius O’Kelly, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art

Preparation for a Roman Catholic procession in Rook Street, Poplar c

Many Irish emigrants, including children, found jobs in textile factories in Lancashire.

Michael Davitt MP He was born in Ireland and began working in a Lancashire cotton mill when he was 10. Two years later, in 1858, he had an accident with a spinning mill and his right arm had to be amputated.

Girl making nails, 1880

Field Working in Spring: At the Potato Pits William Darling Kay, National Gallery of Scotland

Irish navvies working on the Manchester Ship Canal

Cartoon, 'The Mixing Room', 1854 It shows Irish women millworkers in Preston asleep on the job as their horrified employer looks on. It reflects a view that cheap Irish labour forced down wages and undermined the trade union movement.

An Irish street in London mid-19thc

T.P. O’Connor. MP He was born in Athlone in Ireland in 1848 and became a famous journalist in London. He was also the Irish nationalist MP for the mainly Irish Scotland Road Division of Liverpool from 1885 until his death in 1929.

Bridget Liptrot (née Doorley) with her nephew Silvester Moran