Irish women and Irish migration
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Irish women and Irish migration
(The Irish world wide, v. 4)
Leicester University Press, 1997
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
For significant periods, the majority of Irish emigrants were women. This volume begins with an introduction which explores the connections between women's studies and Irish studies, and includes a women's history reinterpretation of the myths of the "Wild Geese". Five chapters on the 19th century look at the motivations and work experiences of women emigrants to the United States, emigration schemes involving Irish pauper women, the experiences of Catholic and Protestant Irish women in Liverpool, and at female-headed households.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - Irish women and Irish migration
- women "Wild Geese", 1585-1625 - Irish women and migration to European armies in the late 16th and early 17th centuries
- "For love and liberty" - Irish women, migration and domesticity in Ireland and America, 1815-1920
- superfluous and unwanted deadweight - the emigration of 19th-century Irish pauper women
- geographies of migration and religion - Irish women in mid-19th-century Liverpool
- Irish women workers and American labour patterns - the Philadelphia story
- the migration experience of female-headed households - Gilford, County Down to Greenwich, New York, 1880-1910
- "There was nothing for me there" - Irish female emigration, 1922-71
- listening and learning - experiences in an emigrant advice agency
- breaking the silence from a distance - Irish women speak on sexual abuse
- "I'm myself and nobody else" - gender and ethnicity among young middle-class Irish women in London.
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