Title: Emigrants and exiles :
Authors: Miller, Kerby A.
Date: 1985
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Physical description: xii, 684 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: J
Abstract: Explains the reasons for the large Irish emigration, and examines the problems they faced adjusting to new lives in the United States.
Contents: The making if the emigrants' Ireland. Conquest: exiles in Erin -- Change: Ireland before the Great Famine -- Continuity: the culture of exile -- The patterns of the Irish emigration, 1607-1921. Settlers, servants, and slaves: Irish emigration before the American Revolution -- Liberty, intolerance, and profit: Irish emigration, 1783-1814 -- From "emigrants" to "exiles": the pre-famine exodus, 1815-1844 -- "Revenge for Skibbereen": the Great Famine and Irish emigration, 1845-1855 -- The last "exiles": Ireland and post-famine emigration, 1856-1921.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Ireland--Emigration and immigration--History; Ireland--Social conditions; Irish--United States--History.; United States--Emigration and immigration--History