The Irish diaspora
Subtitle: a primer
By: Donald Harman Akenson.
Contributors: Queen's University of Belfast. Institute of Irish Studies.
Publisher: P.D. Meany Co.; Institute of Irish Studies, Queen's University of Belfast
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Toronto; Belfast
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Irish -- Foreign countries -- History -- 19th century.; Irish -- Foreign countries -- History -- 20th century.; Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century.; Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century.
Description: "During the nineteeth and early twentieth centuries Ireland had a proportionately greater out-migration than did any other European nation...Irish persons made up large proportions of the populations of Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States."--book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-313) and index.