Author: Mathew CareyPublisher:
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Category : Irish Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Letters on Irish Immigrants and Irishmen Generally
Author: Mathew CareyPublisher:
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Category : Irish Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Letters on Irish Emigration. First published in the Boston Daily Advertiser
Author: Edward Everett HALE (the Elder.)Publisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 78
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Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan
Author: Kerby A. MillerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195348224
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan is a monumental and pathbreaking study of early Irish Protestant and Catholic migration to America. Through exhaustive research and sensitive analyses of the letters, memoirs, and other writings, the authors describe the variety and vitality of early Irish immigrant experiences, ranging from those of frontier farmers and seaport workers to revolutionaries and loyalists. Largely through the migrants own words, it brings to life the networks, work, and experiences of these immigrants who shaped the formative stages of American society and its Irish communities. The authors explore why Irishmen and women left home and how they adapted to colonial and revolutionary America, in the process creating modern Irish and Irish-American identities on the two sides of the Atlantic Ocean. Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan was the winner of the James S. Donnelly, Sr., Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences, American Council on Irish Studies.
So Far From Home
Author: Patricia Trainor O'Malley, PH DPublisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
This is the story in letters of two Irish families, the Donovans of Dreenlamane, Ballydehob and the McCarthys of Ballinlough, Leap. Both homes were in south-western County Cork. They were ordinary farming families in 19th century Ireland. The usual tools of genealogy provide us with the bare bones of the individuals in the story. We can learn about births, family names, marriages, and deaths. But, by a series of unexpected coincidences, we have been given flesh for those bones. The names and dates provided by genealogy have been given personalities and voices and individuality. We know their words and ideas, joys and fears, the inner concerns and shared touches of humor, because the Donovans and the McCarthys wrote letters to their family in America. And one Donovan and one McCarthy saved the letters. These 200 letters have much in common, though the families who saved them did not. They were written in the late nineteenth-early twentieth century, many of them in Ireland, others by immigrant friends in America. The recipients in all cases were Irish immigrants, with the vast majority of the letters being sent within the first five years of their arrival in America. The two major recipients, Dan Donovan and Nora McCarthy resided in Haverhill, a shoe manufacturing center in the northeast corner of Massachusetts. Combined, they offer a rare retrospect of the daily rural life west of Cork and the Irish perception of life in America.
Letters on Irish Emigration
Author: Edward Everett HalePublisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages :
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Ireland and Irish America
Author: Kerby A. MillerPublisher: Field Day Publications
ISBN: 0946755396
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Between 1600 and 1929, perhaps seven million men and women left Ireland and crossed the Atlantic. Ireland and Irish America is concerned with Catholics and Protestants, rural and urban dwellers, men and women on both sides of that vast ocean. Drawing on over thirty years of research, in sources as disparate as emigrants' letters and demographic data, it recovers the experiences and opinions of emigrants as varied as the Rev. James McGregor, who in 1718 led the first major settlement of Presbyterians from Ulster to the New World, Mary Rush, a desperate refugee from the Great Famine in County Sligo, and Tom Brick, an Irish-speaking Kerryman on the American prairie in the early 1900s. Above all, Ireland and Irish America offers a trenchant analysis of mass migration's causes, its consequences, and its popular and political interpretations. In the process, it challenges the conventional 'two traditions' (Protestant versus Catholic) paradigm of Irish and Irish diasporan history, and it illuminates the hegemonic forces and relationships that governed the Irish and Irish-American worlds created and linked by transatlantic capitalism.
Letters from Ireland, 1886
Author: Letters from the Irish Highlands
Author: The Recorder
Author: Emigrants and Exiles
Author: Kerby A. MillerPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195051872
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Explains the reasons for the large Irish emigration, and examines the problems they faced adjusting to new lives in the United States.