How did the Irish come to Australia?

Answer 1

Because the Irish sent there were criminals or political agitators and it was a British penal colony. Australia is still a commonwealth country today under the British crown and it was the British that invaded it. However, if you were to ask the same question today of the Irish people, the answer would likely be because there is work in Australia and the weather is awesome.

Answer 2

There were three groups. One came before the American revolution in the 1600's and the second/ third came in the 1860's and the late 1880's. Many young Irish men were signed up for the civil war as they came off of ships .

Answer 3

The first Irish in Australia were prisoners who arrived in 1791, three years after the First Fleet. The largest influx of Irish immigrants came to the eastern states during the 1840s. They settled in New South Wales, especially around Boorowa, Victoria and Queensland (which was not then yet called Queensland, but part of NSW), and they even settled in the German communities of South Australia, such as Gawler. However, there were free Irish immigrants in Australia long before the 1840s. William Hovell, temperamental companion to the Australian explorer Hamilton Hume in 1824, was one such example.

Answer 4

The Irish migrated to Australia in 1840 This was during the great potato famine in Ireland. although more people migrated after the famine at around 1860 than during it.

Answer 5

On boats, most of the were convicts and so the police force shipped them over to Australia. Alot of Irish died non the way over.

Answer 6

In the past, by ship. Some went by choice in search of a better life. Some were sent there as prisoners. In modern times people fly there.