Interesting Maps

I think it was Anchor from Derry to New York, and Burns Laird to Scotland.

The Derry to New York ones used to pick Donegal passengers up, at sea, some distance North of Arranmore.

For Cork - pretty much every British and some other lines did a final call at Cobh until the era when flights took over.

Iubhar Chinn Trágha seems to be an obsolete name for Newry even then.

https://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/news/AN_1741173151588882000/irish-unemployment-rate-falls-to-39-in-february-%E2%80%94-cso.aspx

If we have an employment rate of 74.4% and an unemployment rate of 3.9%. What are the rest called?

Early retired, sick, disabled, in education, stay at home parents, independently wealthy.

If you're not claiming any welfare payments, or you're getting different payments - illness benefit etc etc - you're not on the live register.

A Great Aunt of mine was allegedly the last native Irish speaker in Michigan, died on Beaver Island.

I say "allegedly" because it's not like records of that sort of stuff exist; and also a kid from West Kerry could go on J1 to Michigan at any point and become the new, last native Irish speaker in Michigan!

She was not monolingual - or at least her siblings, parents and grandparents weren't; and she used the English form of her name.

The Balkans is an inexact region. Whoever included Muslims in Asiatic Turkey is stretching things.

The takeover of Beaver Island by fishermen from the Donegal Gaeltacth in 1856.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_Island_(Lake_Michigan)

It’s almost like Missouri’s major cities don’t want to be there anymore

https://x.com/TerribleMaps/status/1897753931721191441/photo/1

Scéal with the pendicle in southeast?

Edit: A rich farmer petitioned to have it included within the new state of Missouri, now a tree-denuded fluvial plain wiki

Yes, although Germany is in fact at the top.

But I think the graphic is a bit suss. It's headed "Net migration to western Europe", but it doesn't actually give a figure for net migration to WE. Instead, it gives separate figures for net migration to various WE countries.

Which raises the question: if somebody migrates from (say) Spain to France, is that reflected in the net migration figures for Spain and France respectively? You'd expect so. But that means that net migration to WE cannot be identified simply by totting up the separate figures for the various countries, since they reflect some element of migration within WE, which is obvious not migration to WE.

It's possible that the various national figures have all been adjusted, so that departures to other WE countries, and arrivals from other WE countries, are not counted. But if so, I'd expect that to be stated, and it isn't. Plus, it would be quite a difficult adjustment to make, since it's much easier for (say) the Spanish authorities to know how many people have left Spain than it is for them to know what country each of those people went to.

So, I have a suspicion that the figures in this chart may be accurate for identifying net migration to each of the countries covered, but may signficantly overstate aggregate migration to Western Europe.

How does it balance on the chart? As Peregrinus says, the chart gives no figure for net migration to Western Europe

….