Ourselves alone : women's emigration from Ireland, 1885-1920 / / Janet A. Nolan

• Autore: Nolan Janet <1946->
• Pubblicazione: Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2009; ©1989
• Edizione: Paperback edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (148 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.8/3730415
• Soggetto topico: Young women - Ireland - Social conditions; Single women - Ireland - Social conditions; Women immigrants - United States - History; Irish - United States - History
• Soggetto geografico: Ireland Emigration and immigration History
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 -- many of which appear here for the first time -- including personal reminiscences, interviews, oral histories, letter, and autobiographies as well as data from Irish
• Titolo autorizzato: Ourselves alone
• ISBN: 0-8131-4760-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910787381103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II