The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in America

1999 History

Author : Arthur Gribben
Release : 1999
Genre : History
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Download or read book The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora in America written by Arthur Gribben. This book was released on 1999. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Ireland, the Great Famine was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration between 1845 and 1852. It is also known, mostly outside Ireland, as the Irish Potato Famine. In the Irish language it is called an Gorta Mór (IPA: [n t mo?], meaning "the Great Hunger") or an Drochshaol ([n dxhi?l], meaning "the bad life"). During the famine approximately 1 million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland, causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%."--Wikipedia.

The End of Irish-America?

2010 History

Author : Feargal Cochrane
Release : 2010
Genre : History
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Download or read book The End of Irish-America? written by Feargal Cochrane. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the changing relationship between Ireland and America in the modern world. Its main themes examine the shifting patterns of Irish migration over time and the implications of these changes for the political and cultural relationship between the two countries. The historic connection between Ireland and America is at a transitional point, and that while Irish-America is not disappearing altogether, it is changing in fundamental ways, mediated by the forces of globalisation and modernity. Conceptually, the book focuses on Irish-America as an evolved diaspora - a migrant community that has moved into the political, economic and cultural mainstream within US society. A number of important issues lie at the heart of this book for all of us. Where do we belong? Why do we belong there? Can we mediate between where we are from and where we live, to transcend territorial restrictions and live our lives beyond, or in between, the country of our birth and where we've made our ho

The Irish Diaspora in America

1976 History

Author : Lawrence John McCaffrey
Release : 1976
Genre : History
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Download or read book The Irish Diaspora in America written by Lawrence John McCaffrey. This book was released on 1976. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The American Irish

2014-07-22 History

Author : Kevin Kenny
Release : 2014-07-22
Genre : History
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Download or read book The American Irish written by Kevin Kenny. This book was released on 2014-07-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American Irish: A History, is the first concise, general history of its subject in a generation. It provides a long-overdue synthesis of Irish-American history from the beginnings of emigration in the early eighteenth century to the present day. While most previous accounts of the subject have concentrated on the nineteenth century, and especially the period from the famine (1840s) to Irish independence (1920s), The American Irish: A History incorporates the Ulster Protestant emigration of the eighteenth century and is the first book to include extensive coverage of the twentieth century. Drawing on the most innovative scholarship from both sides of the Atlantic in the last generation, the book offers an extended analysis of the conditions in Ireland that led to mass migration and examines the Irish immigrant experience in the United States in terms of arrival and settlement, social mobility and assimilation, labor, race, gender, politics, and nationalism. It is ideal for courses on Irish history, Irish-American history, and the history of American immigration more generally.

Emigrants and Exiles

1988 History

Author : Kerby A. Miller
Release : 1988
Genre : History
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Download or read book Emigrants and Exiles written by Kerby A. Miller. This book was released on 1988. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the reasons for the large Irish emigration, and examines the problems they faced adjusting to new lives in the United States.

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