Full name: Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America

Author: Kerby A. Miller Year: 1985 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Award winners, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780195051872 0195051874

Rich in human detail, penetrating in analysis, this book is social history on an epic scale. The first "transatlantic" history of the Irish, Emigrants and Exiles offers the fullest account yet of the diverse waves of Irish emigration to North America. Drawing on enormous original research, Miller focuses on the thought and behavior of the "ordinary" Irish emigrants, as revealed in their personal letters, diaries, journals, and memoirs as well as in their songs, poems and folklore. Miller shows that the exile mentality was deeply rooted in Irish history, culture and personality, and it profoundly affected both the traumatic course of modern Irish history and the Irish experience in America. Similar books: The Famine Ships by Edward Laxton Paddy's Lament by Thomas Gallagher The Story of the Irish Race by Seumas MacManus The IRA by Tim Pat Coogan Irish History For Dummies by Mike Cronin The Great Shame by Thomas Keneally The Transformation of Ireland by Diarmaid Ferriter The Great Hunger by Cecil Woodham-Smith All Standing by Kathryn Miles Irish Freedom by Richard English Fractured Emerald: Ireland by Emily Hahn The Famine Plot by Tim Pat Coogan Armed Struggle by Richard English Dublin Tenement Life by Kevin C. Kearns Rebel Hearts by Kevin Toolis Dead Wake by Erik Larson One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer