Emigrants and Exiles Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America

Name: Emigrants and Exiles Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America
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ISBN: 9780195051872

ISBN-10: 0195051874

ISBN-13: 9780195051872

Edition: 1985

Authors: Kerby A. Miller

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From the 1660s to the early 1900s, no fewer than seven million people emigrated from Ireland to North America. This vast flow at once reflected and compelled enormous social changes on both sides of the Atlantic. In this book Miller chronicles the momentous causes of the Irish emigration and its far-reaching impact - on the people themselves, on the land they left behind, and on the new one they came to. Drawing on enormous original research, Miller focuses on the thought and behaviour of the "ordinary" Irish emigrants, Catholic and Protestant, as revealed in their personal letters, diaries, journals, and memoirs as well as in their songs, poems, and folklore. Monumental in scope, Emigrants…

Book details

List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/21/1988
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 704
Size: 9.02" wide x 6.06" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 2.486
Language: English

Kerby Miller, America's preeminent historian of Irish immigration, is the author of "Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America". He is the Middlebush Professor of History at the University of Missouri. He and his family live in Columbia, Missouri.