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The Coffin Ship

Author	: Cian T. McMahon
Publisher	: NYU Press
Release Date	: 2022-12
ISBN 10	: 9781479820535
Pages	: 325 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (25 users)

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Download or read book The Coffin Ship written by Cian T. McMahon and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-12 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honorable Mention, Theodore Saloutos Book Award, given by the Immigration and Ethnic History Society A vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great Famine The standard story of the exodus during Ireland’s Great Famine is one of tired clichés, half-truths, and dry statistics. In The Coffin Ship, a groundbreaking work of transnational history, Cian T. McMahon offers a vibrant, fresh perspective on an oft-ignored but vital component of the migration experience: the journey itself. Between 1845 and 1855, over two million people fled Ireland to escape the Great Famine and begin new lives abroad. The so-called “coffin ships” they embarked on have since become infamous icons of nineteenth-century migration. The crews were brutal, the captains were heartless, and the weather was ferocious. Yet the personal experiences of the emigrants aboard these vessels offer us a much more complex understanding of this pivotal moment in modern history. Based on archival research on three continents and written in clear, crisp prose, The Coffin Ship analyzes the emigrants’ own letters and diaries to unpack the dynamic social networks that the Irish built while voyaging overseas. At every stage of the journey—including the treacherous weeks at sea—these migrants created new threads in the worldwide web of the Irish diaspora. Colored by the long-lost voices of the emigrants themselves, this is an original portrait of a process that left a lasting mark on Irish life at home and abroad. An indispensable read, The Coffin Ship makes an ambitious argument for placing the sailing ship alongside the tenement and the factory floor as a central, dynamic element of migration history.

On Every Tide

Author	: Sean Connolly
Publisher	: Hachette UK
Release Date	: 2022-08-25
ISBN 10	: 9781408709498
Pages	: 566 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (94 users)

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Download or read book On Every Tide written by Sean Connolly and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2022-08-25 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ON EVERY TIDE is a wide-ranging and challenging reassessment of the Irish diaspora. Drawing on the latest ground-breaking research, and his own career-long engagement with the complexities of Irish identity, Sean Connolly reveals the forces that compelled millions of Irish men and women to abandon their homeland, and explores their new lives in America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere. What emerges is an Irish story, but also a chapter in world history. Irish emigrants fled a society blighted by poverty and lack of opportunity. But they also became part of a massive population movement, driven by the requirements of an ever more interconnected world economy, that transported the adventurous and the desperate to new parts of the globe. What distinguishes the Irish from tens of millions of other European immigrants is the position they established in their new homes. Initially treated as a despised and exploited underclass, they created a commanding position, in politics, in the labour movement, and, by the twentieth century, as cultural icons. From his starting point in the grim realities of Famine and social crisis, Sean Connolly takes the reader forward into the twentieth century, when Ireland itself has become a receiver rather than an exporter of emigrants, and when a reimagined Irishness has become a commodity to be marketed to a global audience. On Every Tide plays directly into wider, contemporary debates about migration, as well as offering a unique and distinctive view of two hundred years of Irish history.

Coffin Ship

Author	: William Henry
Publisher	: Mercier Press Ltd
Release Date	: 2009-05-14
ISBN 10	: 9781856358460
Pages	: 224 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (584 users)

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Download or read book Coffin Ship written by William Henry and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All rights held. Exceptions apply - see publisher's statement.

Robert Whyte's 1847 Famine Ship Diary

Author	: Robert Whyte
Publisher	: Mercier Press Ltd
Release Date	: 1994
ISBN 10	: 9781856350914
Pages	: 129 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (59 users)

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Download or read book Robert Whyte's 1847 Famine Ship Diary written by Robert Whyte and published by Mercier Press Ltd. This book was released on 1994 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A truly amazing story of courage born of desperation, starvation, poverty and the will to survive.

Out of the Depths

Author	: Alan G. Jamieson
Publisher	: Reaktion Books
Release Date	: 2022-10-24
ISBN 10	: 9781789146202
Pages	: 456 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (462 users)

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Download or read book Out of the Depths written by Alan G. Jamieson and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-10-24 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly illustrated voyage through shipwrecks ancient and contemporary. Out of the Depths explores all aspects of shipwrecks across four thousand years, examining their historical context and significance, showing how shipwrecks can be time capsules, and shedding new light on long-departed societies and civilizations. Alan G. Jamieson not only informs readers of the technological developments over the last sixty years that have made the true appreciation of shipwrecks possible, but he also covers shipwrecks in culture and maritime archaeology, their appeal to treasure hunters, and their environmental impacts. Although shipwrecks have become less common in recent decades, their implications have become more wide-ranging: since the 1960s, foundering supertankers have caused massive environmental disasters, and in 2021, the blocking of the Suez Canal by the giant container ship Ever Given had a serious effect on global trade.

All Standing

Author	: Kathryn Miles
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Release Date	: 2014-01-14
ISBN 10	: 9781451610154
Pages	: 256 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (11 users)

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Download or read book All Standing written by Kathryn Miles and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of an infant born at sea highlights the efforts of crewpeople and passengers to secure the survival of Irish citizens fleeing from the potato famine through acts of heroism and human decency.

Hereafter

Author	: Vona Groarke
Publisher	: NYU Press
Release Date	: 2022-11-15
ISBN 10	: 9781479817511
Pages	: 200 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (175 users)

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Download or read book Hereafter written by Vona Groarke and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hereafter tells the story of Ellen O'Hara, a young woman emigrant from Ireland at the end of the nineteenth century who, with courage and resilience, made a life for herself in New York, firstly as a domestic servant and later in her own boarding house-all the while financially supporting those at home"--

The Irish Revolution

Author	: Patrick Mannion
Publisher	: NYU Press
Release Date	: 2022-05-31
ISBN 10	: 9781479808915
Pages	: pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (89 users)

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Download or read book The Irish Revolution written by Patrick Mannion and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the Irish Revolution was shaped by international actors and events The Irish War of Independence is often understood as the culmination of centuries of political unrest between Ireland and the English. However, the conflict also has a vitally important yet vastly understudied international dimension. The Irish Revolution: A Global History reassesses the conflict as an inherently transnational event, examining how circumstances and individuals abroad shaped the course Ireland’s struggle for independence. Bringing together leading international scholars of modern Ireland, its diaspora, and the British Empire, this volume discusses the Irish revolution in a truly global sense. The text situates the conflict in the wider context of the international flourishing of anti-colonial movements following World War I. Despite the differences between these movements, their proponents communicated extensively with each other, learning from and engaging with other revolutionaries in anti-imperial metropoles such as Paris, London, and New York. The contributors to this volume argue that Irish nationalists at home and abroad were intimately involved in this exchange, from mobilizing Ireland’s vast diaspora in support of Irish independence to engaging directly with radical causes elsewhere. The Irish Revolution is a vital work for all those interested in Irish history, providing a new understanding of Ireland’s place in the evolving postwar world.

Changing Land

Author	: Niall Whelehan
Publisher	: NYU Press
Release Date	: 2021-12-14
ISBN 10	: 9781479809622
Pages	: 284 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (96 users)

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Download or read book Changing Land written by Niall Whelehan and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How diaspora activism in the Irish land movement intersected with wider radical and reform causes The Irish Land War represented a turning point in modern Irish history, a social revolution that was part of a broader ideological moment when established ideas of property and land ownership were fundamentally challenged. The Land War was striking in its internationalism, and was spurred by links between different emigrant locations and an awareness of how the Land League’s demands to lower rents, end evictions, and abolish “landlordism” in Ireland connected with wider radical and reform causes. Changing Land offers a new and original study of Irish emigrants’ activism in the United States, Argentina, Scotland, and England and their multifaceted relationships with Ireland. Niall Whelehan brings unfamiliar figures to the surface and recovers the voices of women and men who have been on the margins of, or entirely missing from, existing accounts. Retracing their transnational lives reveals new layers of radical circuitry between Ireland and disparate international locations, and demonstrates how the land movement overlapped with different types of oppositional politics from moderate reform to feminism to revolutionary anarchism. By including Argentina, which was home to the largest Irish community outside the English-speaking world, this book addresses the neglect of developments in non-Anglophone places in studies of the “Irish world.” Changing Land presents a powerful addition to our understanding of the history of modern Ireland and the Irish diaspora, migration, and the history of transnational radicalism.

Great Famine

Author	: Source Wikipedia
Publisher	: Booksllc.Net
Release Date	: 2013-09
ISBN 10	: 1230831568
Pages	: 56 pages
Rating	: 4.3/5 (68 users)

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Download or read book Great Famine written by Source Wikipedia and published by Booksllc.Net. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: Ballinglass Incident, Castle Richmond, Cecil Woodham-Smith, Chronology of the Great Famine, Coffin ship, Corn Laws, Death or Canada, Doolough Tragedy, Dunbrody (1845), Famine (novel), Famine Song, Frederick Douglass and the White Negro, Great Famine's effect on the American economy, Greener Grass: The Famine Years, Grosse Isle, Quebec, Hannah (1849 shipwreck), Ireland Park, Irish Commemorative Stone, Irish Hunger Memorial, Jeanie Johnston, Legacy of the Great Irish Famine, List of memorials to the Great Famine, National Famine Commemoration Day, Praedecessores Nostros, Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet, Souperism, Star of the Sea, The Fields of Athenry, The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845-1849, The Irish Famine (book), Typhus epidemic of 1847, Young Irelander Rebellion of 1848. Excerpt: In Ireland, the Great Famine was a period of mass starvation, disease and emigration between 1845 and 1852. It is also known, mostly outside Ireland, as the Irish Potato Famine. In the Irish language it is called an Gorta Mor (IPA: , meaning "the Great Hunger") or an Drochshaol (, meaning "the bad life"). During the famine approximately 1 million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland, causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%. The proximate cause of famine was a potato disease commonly known as potato blight. Although blight ravaged potato crops throughout Europe during the 1840s, the impact and human cost in Ireland-where one-third of the population was entirely dependent on the potato for food-was exacerbated by a host of political, ethnic, religious, social and economic factors which remain the subject of historical debate. The famine was a watershed in the history of Ireland. Its effects permanently changed the island's demographic, political and cultural landscape. For both the native...

Foreign Entanglements: Transnational American Jewish Studies

Author	: Hasia Diner
Publisher	: Universitätsverlag Potsdam
Release Date	: 2021-12-02
ISBN 10	: 9783869565200
Pages	: 194 pages
Rating	: 4.6/5 (652 users)

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Download or read book Foreign Entanglements: Transnational American Jewish Studies written by Hasia Diner and published by Universitätsverlag Potsdam. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of American Jewish studies has recently trained its focus on the transnational dimensions of its subject, reflecting in more sustained ways than before about the theories and methods of this approach. Yet, much of the insight to be gained from seeing American Jewry as constitutively entangled in many ways with other Jewries has not yet been realized. Transnational American Jewish studies are still in their infancy. This issue of PaRDeS presents current research on the multiple entanglements of American with Central European, especially German-speaking Jewries in the 19th and 20th centuries. The articles reflect the wide range of topics that can benefit from a transnational understanding of the American Jewish experience as shaped by its foreign entanglements.

Oceanic Histories

Author	: David Armitage
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Release Date	: 2018
ISBN 10	: 9781108423182
Pages	: 339 pages
Rating	: 4.0/5 (231 users)

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Download or read book Oceanic Histories written by David Armitage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freshly presents world history through its oceans and seas in uniquely wide-ranging, original chapters by leading experts in their fields.

Ireland and the Americas

Author	: James Patrick Byrne
Publisher	: ABC-CLIO
Release Date	: 2008
ISBN 10	: 9781851096145
Pages	: 967 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (961 users)

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Download or read book Ireland and the Americas written by James Patrick Byrne and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 2008 with total page 967 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides reference entries on interactions between Ireland and the United States, Canada, and Latin America throughout history and the cultural and political impact these relations have had for each country.

Royce's Sailing Illustrated

Author	: Patrick M. Royce
Publisher	: ProStar Publications
Release Date	: 1997
ISBN 10	: 0911284079
Pages	: 164 pages
Rating	: 4.8/5 (79 users)

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Download or read book Royce's Sailing Illustrated written by Patrick M. Royce and published by ProStar Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Irish Global Migration and Memory

Author	: Marguerite Corporaal
Publisher	: Routledge
Release Date	: 2018-03-08
ISBN 10	: 9781315530796
Pages	: 140 pages
Rating	: 4.1/5 (37 users)

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Download or read book Irish Global Migration and Memory written by Marguerite Corporaal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irish Global Migration and Memory: Transnational Perspectives of Ireland’s Famine Exodus brings together leading scholars in the field who examine the experiences and recollections of Irish emigrants who fled from their famine-stricken homeland in the mid-nineteenth century. The book breaks new ground in its comparative, transnational approach and singular focus on the dynamics of cultural remembrance of one migrant group, the Famine Irish and their descendants, in multiple Atlantic and Pacific settings. Its authors comparatively examine the collective experiences of the Famine Irish in terms of their community and institution building; cultural, ethnic, and racial encounters with members of other groups; and especially their patterns of mass-migration, integration, and remembrance of their traumatic upheaval by their descendants and host societies. The disruptive impact of their mass-arrival had reverberations around the Atlantic world. As an early refugee movement, migrant community, and ethnic minority, Irish Famine emigrants experienced and were recollected to have faced many of the challenges that confronted later immigrant groups in their destinations of settlement. This book is especially topical and will be of interest not only to Irish, migration, and refugee scholars, but also the general public and all who seek to gain insight into one of Europe’s foundational moments of forced migration that prefigures its current refugee crisis. This book was originally published as a special issue of Atlantic Studies: Global Currents.

Mariners, Merchants And The Military Too

Author	: Phillip Jones
Publisher	: Lulu.com
Release Date	:
ISBN 10	: 9780956554949
Pages	: 322 pages
Rating	: 4.5/5 (549 users)

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Download or read book Mariners, Merchants And The Military Too written by Phillip Jones and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Kennedy Curse

Author	: James Patterson
Publisher	: Random House
Release Date	: 2020-04-13
ISBN 10	: 9781473579521
Pages	: 448 pages
Rating	: 4.7/5 (795 users)

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Download or read book The Kennedy Curse written by James Patterson and published by Random House. This book was released on 2020-04-13 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now with an all-new bonus chapter - in the bestselling The Kennedy Curse, 'James Patterson applies his writerly skills to real-life history . . . re-telling the political clan's rise and fall and rise again (and fall again) with novelistic style' (People). ________________________________ Kennedys were always taught to win at all costs. And they did - but the price they paid was unimaginable . . . Across decades and generations, the Kennedys have been a family of charismatic adventurers, raised to take risks and excel. Their name is synonymous with American royalty. Their commitment to public service is legendary. But, for all the successes, the family has been blighted by assassinations, fatal accidents, drug and alcohol abuse and sex scandals. To this day, the Kennedys occupy a unique, contradictory place in the world's imagination: at once familiar and unknowable; charmed and cursed. The Kennedy Curse is a revealing, fascinating account of America's most famous family, as told by the world's most trusted storyteller. ________________________________ Also published as The House of Kennedy in the US. 'When I wrote my first novel after several non-fiction works about politics, James Patterson lovingly lambasted me for infringing on his thriller territory. Now I know how he feels as he crosses into non-fiction politics with this juicy and entertaining look at a political family that continues to wield power and influence. He's too good - it isn't fair!' JAKE TAPPER, CNN anchor and author of The Hellfire Club