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