Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Graphs, Tables, and Maps -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Pursuit of Irish Protestants in America: Problems and Solutions -- Section One The Church and the Ministry: Keystones in Irish Presbyterian Society -- 2 A Government unto Itself: Conflict, Theology, and Presbyterianism in Ireland -- 3 Kirk and Clergy: "None Is Found Apart from the Other" -- Section Two Part and Parcel: Clerical and General Irish Presbyterian Migration, 1683-1810 -- 4 In the Beginning: Clerical Migration, 1683-1713 -- 5 A Great Flood Swept over the Land: Clerical Migration, 1714-1738 -- 6 Years of Drought: Clerical Migration, 1739-1769 -- 7 War, Rebellion, and Departure: Clerical Migration, 1770-1810 -- Section Three Into the Unknown: Irish Presbyterian Migration to America in the Nineteenth Century -- 8 Patterns in the Tea Leaves: Nineteenth-Century Irish Presbyterian Clerical Migration to the United States and What It Suggests -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
An exploration of the enduring historical puzzle of the nature and scope of Irish Protestant migration
