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Models for movers : Irish women's emigration to America / Ide B. O'Carroll.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Carroll, Ide B., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women immigrants--United States--History.
- Women immigrants.
- Irish American women--History.
- Irish American women.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (268 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin : Attic Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A unique collection of Irish migrant women's oral histories spanning three waves of twentieth-century emigration, in the 1920s, 1950s, & 1980s. Each woman describes how she created a new life in America, creating a multigenerational tapestry of experience that will be valuable to emigrants everywhere.
- Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Background to the Models for Movers project; 2 Nineteenth-century emigration to America; 3 Ireland in the 1920s; 4 Off to America in the 1920s; 5 Ireland in the 1950s; 6 Mass emigration, again; 7 Ireland in the 1980s; 8 The 'New Irish' emigrants; 9 Generations of daughters; Bibliography; Index; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Originally published: Dublin : Attic Press, 1990.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on print record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781782051596
- 1782051597
- 9781782051589
- 1782051589
- OCLC:
- 918625449
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