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Ourselves Alone Women's Emigration from Ireland, 1885-1920.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, (c)1989.Description: 1 online resource (148 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813147604
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HQ1600 .O977 1989
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Subject: In early April of 1888, sixteen-year-old Mary Ann Donovan stood alone on the quays of Queenstown in county Cork waiting to board a ship for Boston in far-off America. She was but one of almost 700,000 young, usually unmarried women, traveling alone, who left their homes in Ireland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in a move unprecedented in the annals of European emigration. Using a wide variety of sources --
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Going Alone; 1 The Changing Face of Ireland, 1830-1880; 2 Women and Social Change, 1830-1880; 3 Women and Emigration, 1880-1920; 4 The Impact of Women's Emigration, 1880-1920; 5 Irish Women in America, 1880-1920; Conclusion: ""Ourselves Alone""; Appendix; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

In early April of 1888, sixteen-year-old Mary Ann Donovan stood alone on the quays of Queenstown in county Cork waiting to board a ship for Boston in far-off America. She was but one of almost 700,000 young, usually unmarried women, traveling alone, who left their homes in Ireland during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in a move unprecedented in the annals of European emigration. Using a wide variety of sources --

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