TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nolan,Janet
TI  - Ourselves Alone: Women's Emigration from Ireland, 1885-1920
SN  - 9780813147604
AV  - HQ1600 .O977 1989
PY  - 1989///
CY  - Lexington
PB  - The University Press of Kentucky
KW  - Young women
KW  - Ireland
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Single women
KW  - Women immigrants
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Irish
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Description based upon print version of record; 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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