Fleeing the famine : North America and Irish refugees, 1845-1851

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Title:

Fleeing the famine : North America and Irish refugees, 1845-1851

Author:

Mulrooney, Margaret M., 1966-

Publication Information:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2003.

Physical Description:

xiv, 154 pages : map ; 25 cm

Language:

English

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.

Subject Term:

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.

Geographic Term:

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.

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