Australia

There is 76,000 Irish people living in Australia  and 55,000 of those are unemployed according to RTE news.

The last time Australia had a recession it was twenty two years, It is one of the world's wealthiest economies and is ranked as the world's happiest nation by the OECD. That is why over 40,000 Irish people journey over to Australia for work every year, while thousands travel over with holiday visas. Some of the young Irish that have traveled over there are having a hard time paying things like rent as when setting off they do not realize that it can take over six months to find a job and they arrive with enough money to survive on for a month, that is why the Irish Embassy are warning the Irish to make sure they travel with plenty of money at their disposal.

    

*image: http://www.travellers-autobarn.com.au/blog/winter-backpacking-essentials/

*sources: http://www.rte.ie/news/special-reports/2013/0709/461428-irish-in-australia/

Migrating During the Great Irish Famine

Seventy percent of the approximately one million Irish people that emigrated during the Irish Famine went over to America. Most of them paid their own fares but about three percent of them had their land lords pay their fares. A fare to the USA cost between 70 shillings and £5 (100 shillings) while a fare to Canada only cost around 55 shillings. On board there was two classes when travelling the standard class where you could walk on a deck and then there was a steerage  
class (a part or division of a ship, formerly the part containing the steering apparatus). The steerage passengers were below deck and crowded together, most emigrants could only afford steerage. It is estimated that forty percent of steerage passengers died en-route or soon after arrival, this was due to passengers suffering from a fever and then being in these cramped conditions.
 this image shows the conditions of the steerage class.
*image: http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/famine/emigration.html
*sources: http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/famine/emigration.html

One in ten Irish people have seen a close family member emigrate

According to the RTE news 300,000 Irish people have emigrated between 2009 and 2013 and over one quarter of Irish households have seen a close family member emigrate in the past two years. I personally know three Irish families that have left this country for better work in the last four years, one of these families went to Boston in America and the other two traveled to Sydney, Australia  for a more stable future. The reason these Irish families left was because the lack of jobs available here in Ireland this is due to the recession( a period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced) that we were under going at that time.
Seeing close family members leaving is can be difficult that is way I hope more Irish job opportunities are created in the near future so the Irish youth don't feel it is necessary to emigrate or at least feel they have more of an option.   
                                         
*image: http://www.irishamericanmom.com/2012/01/03/aching-airport-farewells-its-never-easy-to-leave-and-say-goodbye/6598499309_0de7f21ec9_z/

Population of the Republic of Ireland from 1841 to 2011

*image:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland

Here is an image of the population of Ireland from 1841 to 2011. Between 1841 and 1851 you can see a dramatic decrease in the population as the Great Irish Famine began and ended, the famine began in 1845 and ended in 1852. About a million died from starvation and another million emigrated. These are the countries the Irish emigrated to during the famine; England, Scotland, South Wales, North America, and Australia. The cause of this emigration and death was the fact that about two-fifths of our population relied on potatoes and in 1840 the potato blight spread across Europe, killing the main source of food for two-fifths of our population.

*sources:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Republic_of_Ireland

                      

Irish Emigration Destinations

 Where the Irish have been emigrating has changed significantly over time. Between 1941 and 1946 175,000 Irish moved to Britain. 90% of emigrating Irish between 1901 and 1931 went to the United States. Those  who emigrated in the 19th centaury and early 20th centaury also went to North America.

According to the Irish Times Britain attracts the largest amount of Irish emigrants, "Almost 90,000 people have moved across the water since 2008".

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*image: http://factsaresacred.ie/memes/is-irish-emigration-at-the-highest-rate-since-the-famine/

Irish Emigration Statistics

According to the Independent in 2013 close 250 people were emigrating from Ireland daily



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:http://www.irishtimes.com/blogs/generationemigration/2013/02/01/debate-are-emigrants-abandoning-ireland-or-has-it-abandoned-them/

Although, the number of Irish people emigrating for a better life abroad has fallen for the first time in seven years last year, dropping 20 per cent from 50,900 to 40,700 according to the irishtimes and the central statistic office.