Fleeing the famine : North America and Irish refugees, 1845-1851 / edited by Margaret M. Mulrooney.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mulrooney, Margaret M., 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irish Americans--History--19th century.

Irish Americans.

Irish--Canada--History--19th century.

Irish.

Irish--Migrations--History--19th century.

Refugees--United States--History--19th century.

Refugees.

Refugees--Canada--History--19th century.

Emigration and immigration.

History.

Irish--Migrations.

United States--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.

United States.

Canada--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.

Canada.

Ireland--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.

Ireland.

Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852.

Physical Description:

xiv, 154 pages : map ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

Contents:

Part I Migration

1 Irish Famine Emigrants and the Passage Trade to North America / William A. Spray 3

2 The Ties that Bind: The Family Networks of Famine Refugees at the du Pont Powder Mills, 1802-1902 / Margaret M. Mulrooney 21

Part II Responses

3 The Spirit of Manifest Destiny: The American Government and Famine Ireland, 1845-1849 / Timothy J. Sarbaugh 45

4 "An Unprecedented Influx": Nativism and Irish Famine Immigration to Canada / Scott W. See 59

5 "Celtic Exodus": The Famine Irish, Ethnic Stereotypes, and the Cultivation of American Racial Nationalism / Dale T. Knobel 79

6 Irish American Drama of the 1850s: National Identity, "Otherness," and Assimilation / Stephen Watt 97

Part III Memories

7 In the Famine's Shadow: An Irish Immigrant from West Kerry to South Dakota, 1881-1979 / Kerby A. Miller 113

8 The Legacy of Irish Emigration to the Canadas in 1847 / Cecil J. Houston, William J. Smyth 133.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

027597670X

OCLC:

50479270