Ireland's New Worlds : immigrants, politics, and society in the United States and Australia, 1815-1922 / Malcolm Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Malcolm, 1963-

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

History of Ireland and the Irish diaspora.

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irish Americans--Social conditions--19th century.

Irish Americans.

Irish--Australia--Social conditions--19th century.

Irish.

Irish Americans--Social conditions--20th century.

Irish--Australia--Social conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

249 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.

Other Title:

Ireland’s New Worlds

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wis. University of Wisconsin Press, c2008.

Contents:

Contrasting fortunes : Irish lives from 1815 to the famine

Crisis and despair : the famine and its aftermath

Irish rural life : Minnesota and New South Wales compared

The Pacific Irish : California and Eastern Australia

New Worlds converge : immigrants, nationalisms and sectarian cultures

Call of the new : Irish worlds in the late-nineteenth century

Casting off ties : 1914 to the Irish civil war.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-241) and index.