A typical scene on the west coast of Ireland

The Irish Experience A CommUniversity Class at St. Ambrose University February 2002 Dr. Ryan Dye, Instructor The link below will take you to notes taken during a 4-session course at CommUniversity on the campus of St. Ambrose University during February 2002. The instructor was Dr. Ryan Dye, a history professor at St. Ambrose. This class provided much information about the Irish immigrants from 1600 until the present. If you have any Irish blood in you, you will want to read this background information about who the Irish were and how they came to be that way. It includes information on the Scots-Irish as well as the Catholic Famine Irish. Some Irish immigrants settled in Rock Island County. In the early 1900s St. Joseph Catholic Church created a new parish, Sacred Heart. Most of these parishoners were Irish. St. Joseph's was primarily German. Since Rock Island was one of four major crossing points for immigrants to cross the Mississippi, many Irish also settled in Davenport, Iowa which still has a large Irish population today. If you have questions about any of this material please contact Diana Alm, who attended the class and took the notes, or Dr. Ryan Dye, the instructor. The Irish Experience