Ourselves alone : women's emigration from Ireland, 1885-1920 / Janet A. Nolan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nolan, Janet, 1946- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young women--Ireland--Social conditions.

Young women.

Single women--Ireland--Social conditions.

Single women.

Women immigrants--United States--History.

Women immigrants.

Irish--United States--History.

Irish.

Ireland--Emigration and immigration--History.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (148 p.)

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Other Title:

Women's emigration from Ireland, 1885-1920.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In early April of 1888, sixteen-year-old Mary Ann Donovan stood alone on the quays of Queenstown in county Cork waiting to board a ship for Boston in far-off America. She was but one of almost 700,000 young, usually unmarried women, traveling alone, who left their homes in Ireland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in a move unprecedented in the annals of European emigration. Using a wide variety of sources -- many of which appear here for the first time -- including personal reminiscences, interviews, oral histories, letter, and autobiographies as well as data from Irish

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Going Alone; 1 The Changing Face of Ireland, 1830-1880; 2 Women and Social Change, 1830-1880; 3 Women and Emigration, 1880-1920; 4 The Impact of Women's Emigration, 1880-1920; 5 Irish Women in America, 1880-1920; Conclusion: ""Ourselves Alone""; Appendix; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-9251-X

0-8131-4760-3

OCLC:

654584832