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The Irish in America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2011

E. R. R. Green
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Extract

The history of Irish emigration to America is a subject of formidable size of which even the outlines are far from firmly established. Still, as emigration studies develop it seems inevitable that the basic importance and general interest of Irish emigration will be increasingly recognized and attract the attention of scholars on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Research Article
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Bulletin of the British Association for American Studies , Volume 8 , February 1959 , pp. 19 - 25
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Copyright © British Association for American Studies 1959

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Bibliographical note

The only serious general work is Carl Wittke, The Irish in America (Baton Rouge. La., 1956).Google Scholar
On the Irish background, the best books are Edwards, R. D. and Williams, T. D. (eds.), The Great Famine (Dublin 1956) and K. H. Cornell, The Population of Ireland 1750-1845 (Oxford 1950).Google Scholar
There is a stimulating sketch of the Scotch-Irish frontier in Carl Bridenbaugh, Myths and Realities (Baton Rouge, 1952).Google Scholar
An excellent study of a particular period of Irish emigration is W. F. Adams, Ireland and Irish Emigration from 1815 to the Famine (Cambridge, Mass., 1932).Google Scholar
Essential for the American reaction to the immigrants is R. A. Billington, The Protestant Crusade (New York, 1952 ed.)Google Scholar