03054nam 2200661 450 991045961350332120200520144314.00-8131-4760-3(CKB)3710000000333934(EBL)1915062(SSID)ssj0001402619(PQKBManifestationID)12473991(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001402619(PQKBWorkID)11357419(PQKB)10816503(MiAaPQ)EBC1915062(OCoLC)654584832(MdBmJHUP)muse43841(Au-PeEL)EBL1915062(CaPaEBR)ebr11011618(CaONFJC)MIL690820(EXLCZ)99371000000033393420150205h20091989 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOurselves alone women's emigration from Ireland, 1885-1920 /Janet A. NolanPaperback edition.Lexington, Kentucky :The University Press of Kentucky,2009.©19891 online resource (148 p.)Includes index.1-322-59538-0 0-8131-1684-8 Includes bibliographical references 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; YIn 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 -- many of which appear here for the first time -- including personal reminiscences, interviews, oral histories, letter, and autobiographies as well as data from IrishYoung womenIrelandSocial conditionsSingle womenIrelandSocial conditionsWomen immigrantsUnited StatesHistoryIrishUnited StatesHistoryIrelandEmigration and immigrationHistoryElectronic books.Young womenSocial conditions.Single womenSocial conditions.Women immigrantsHistory.IrishHistory.304.8/3730415Nolan Janet1946-1037267MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910459613503321Ourselves alone2458117UNINA