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

Published Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 154 pages) : map Contents Irish famine emigrants and the passage trade to North America / William A. Spray -- The ties that bind : the family networks of famine refugees at the du Pont powder mills, 1802-1902 / Margaret M. Mulrooney -- The spirit of manifest destiny : the American government and famine Ireland, 1845-1849 / Timothy J. Sarbaugh -- "An unprecedented influx" : nativism and Irish famine immigration to Canada / Scott W. See -- "Celtic exodus" : the famine Irish, ethnic stereotypes, and the cultivation of American racial nationalism / Dale T. Knobel -- Irish American drama of the 1850s : national identity, "otherness," and assimilation / Stephen Watt -- In the famine's shadow : an Irish immigrant from West Kerry to South Dakota, 1881-1979 / Kerby A. Miller -- The legacy of Irish emigration to the Canadas in 1847 / Cecil J. Houston and William J. Smyth Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Print version record Subject Irish Americans -- History -- 19th century Irish -- Canada -- History -- 19th century Irish -- Migrations -- History -- 19th century Refugees -- United States -- History -- 19th century Refugees -- Canada -- History -- 19th century SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration. Emigration and immigration Irish Irish Americans Irish -- Migrations Refugees SUBJECT United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95010073 Subject Canada Ireland United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Mulrooney, Margaret M., 1966- editor. ISBN 0313051585 9780313051586 1282408135 9781282408135 9786612408137 6612408138

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