Includes bibliographical references (pages 583-664) and index

1. The making if the emigrants' Ireland. Conquest: exiles in Erin ; Change: Ireland before the Great Famine ; Continuity: the culture of exile -- 2. The patterns of the Irish emigration, 1607-1921. Settlers, servants, and slaves: Irish emigration before the American Revolution -- Liberty, intolerance, and profit: Irish emigration, 1783-1814 -- From "emigrants" to "exiles": the pre-famine exodus, 1815-1844 -- "Revenge for Skibbereen": the Great Famine and Irish emigration, 1845-1855 -- The last "exiles": Ireland and post-famine emigration, 1856-1921

Explains the reasons for the large Irish emigration, and examines the problems they faced adjusting to new lives in the United States

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