Leaving Ireland

Author : Ann Moore
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453201008

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Leaving Ireland by Ann Moore Pdf

An Irish mother must flee her beloved homeland for a new life in America, in the “gripping” second novel of the acclaimed historical trilogy (Publishers Weekly). Forced to flee Ireland, Gracelin O’Malley boards a coffin ship bound for America, taking her young daughter with her on the arduous transatlantic voyage. In New York, Gracelin struggles to adapt to a strange new world and to the harsh realities of immigrant life in a city teeming with crime, corruption, and anti-Irish prejudice. As she tries to make a life for herself and her daughter, she reunites with her brother, Sean . . . and a man she thought she’d never see again. When her friendship with a runaway slave sweeps her into the volatile abolitionist movement, Gracelin gains entrée to the drawing rooms of the wealthy and powerful. Still, the injustice all around her threatens the future of those she loves, and once again, she must do the unthinkable. This sweeping novel of the Irish immigrant experience in 1840s America brings a long-ago world to vibrant life and continues a remarkable heroine’s bold, dramatic journey through extraordinary times.

Author : Jane Fadely
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1979472149

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Leaving Ireland by Jane Fadely Pdf

After nearly three years living in Ireland, changes in Ireland's immigration policy forced Jane (and many other Americans) to return to the USA, not wealthy enough to be welcome as anything other than a tourist in "The Land of 100,000 Welcomes." Overcome by loss even before leaving the place she called home, she begins the difficult journey away from Ireland. Even back in America, Ireland's pull is strong. Filled with homesickness and haunted by memories of the life she loved in County Kerry, she struggles to detach and be an American in America again. Spend time in both Ireland and America, from Oregon to North Carolina, and get ready for tears and laughter, new characters, discoveries, and adventures as Jane travels the long road from Ireland trying to turn away from the past and toward a new future, and find a place she might once again call home. LEAVING IRELAND picks up where CHICKENS IN THE GARDEN, WELLIES BY THE DOOR left off. Return to Ireland and enjoy a simple life filled with kind friends and laughter, turf fires and tea, music and flower-filled gardens, and long walks in the rain. Experience the culture shock of being back in America and despite feeling displaced and homesick, look for and find humor and beauty wherever you can. Seek new adventures and enjoy new delights as you search for a place where you can finally say, "Ah, yes, now this is beginning to feel like home."

Author : Francis J Gallagher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1551977796

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Leaving Ireland by Francis J Gallagher Pdf

Author : Clair Wills
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107048409

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The Best Are Leaving by Clair Wills Pdf

Clair Wills's The Best Are Leaving is a study of representations of Irish emigrant culture and of Irish immigrants in Britain.

Author : Stephen Lally
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781481788250

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The Leaving of Loughrea by Stephen Lally Pdf

This is the story of the Lally family between 1818 and 1848. It could just as easily be your story if you have ancestors who were among over a million people who left the beautiful and tragic land of Ireland in the 1840s. This family lived in the Loughrea area, County Galway, Ireland, and their story is similar to that of so many Irish families as they struggled against the odds, were overwhelmed by the tragedy of the Great Famine, and were forced to leave their beloved homeland. This book explores how the Irish lived at this time, how they thought, and the reasons for their situation in Ireland. It brings together the many strands of Irish society and the economics, politics, and philosophy that dominated their lives. It describes the terrible journeys that members of the family undertook to reach England, America, Canada, and Australia.

Author : Johanne Devlin Trew
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781781383063

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Leaving the North by Johanne Devlin Trew Pdf

Leaving the North is the first book that provides a comprehensive survey of Northern Ireland migration since 1921. Based largely on the personal memories of emigrants who left Northern Ireland from the 1920s to the 2000s, approximately half of whom eventually returned, the book traces their multigenerational experiences of leaving Northern Ireland and adapting to life abroad, with some later returning to a society still mired in conflict. Contextualised by a review of the statistical and policy record, the emigrants' stories reveal that contrary to its well-worn image as an inward-looking place - 'such narrow ground' - Northern Ireland has a rather dynamic migration history, demonstrating that its people have long been looking outward as well as inward, well connected with the wider world. But how many departed and where did they go? And what of the Northern Ireland Diaspora? How has the view of the 'troubled' homeland from abroad, especially among expatriates, contributed to progress along the road to peace? In addressing these questions, the book treats the relationship between migration, sectarianism and conflict, immigration and racism, repatriation and the Peace Process, with particular attention to the experience of Northern Ireland migrants in the two principal receiving societies - Britain and Canada. With the emigration of young people once again on the increase due to the economic downturn, it is perhaps timely to learn from the experiences of the people who have been 'leaving the North' over many decades; not only to acknowledge their departure but in the hope that we might better understand the challenges and opportunities that migration and Diaspora can present.

Author : Brian Brennan
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781926855752

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Leaving Dublin by Brian Brennan Pdf

Leaving Dublin: Writing My Way from Ireland to Canada is an engaging and entertaining exploration of a man’s life that begins in middle-class Dublin, includes stints as a travelling musician and broadcaster in Canada, and culminates in a career as an award-winning journalist and bestselling author. With passion, candour, humour and vivid stories, Brian Brennan tells how he left a soul-destroying job in the Irish civil service to seek new opportunities in a country where he had no friends and no family connections. He offers revealing glimpses of suburban life in the postwar Ireland of the 1950s, the commercial music scene in Canada during the 1960s, and the commercial radio and newspaper scene during the last third of the 20th century, when journalism went from being a business with a conscience and a higher purpose to an enterprise owned by large corporations that care more about private profit than public debate.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Combat Poverty Agency
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Children with social disabilities
ISBN : 9781871643671

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Educational Disadvantage and Early School Leaving (Demonstration Programme on Educational Disadvantage) by Anonim Pdf

Author : Emily Lawless
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Ireland
ISBN : 9781465607645

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The Story of Ireland by Emily Lawless Pdf

"It seems to be certain," says the Abbé McGeoghehan, "that Ireland continued uninhabited from the Creation to the Deluge." With this assurance to help us on our onward way I may venture to supplement it by saying that little is known about the first, or even about the second, third, and fourth succession of settlers in Ireland. At what precise period what is known as the Scoto-Celtic branch of the great Aryan stock broke away from its parent tree, by what route its migrants travelled, in what degree of consanguinity it stood to the equally Celtic race or races of Britain, what sort of people inhabited Ireland previous to the first Aryan invasion--all this is in the last degree uncertain, though that it was inhabited by some race or races outside the limits of that greatest of human groups seems from ethnological evidence to be perfectly clear. When first it dawns upon us through that thick darkness which hangs about the birth of all countries--whatever their destiny--it was a densely wooded and scantily peopled island "lying a-loose," as old Campion, the Elizabethan historian, tells us, "upon the West Ocean," though his further assertion that "in shape it resembleth an egg, plain on the sides, and not reaching forth to the sea in nooks and elbows of Land as Brittaine doeth"--cannot be said to be quite geographically accurate--the last part of the description referring evidently to the east coast, the only one with which, like most of his countrymen, he was at that time familiar. Geographically, then, and topographically it was no doubt in much the same state as the greater part of it remained up to the middle or end of the sixteenth century, a wild, tangled, roadless land, that is to say, shaggy with forests, abounding in streams, abounding, too, in lakes--far more, doubtless, than at present, drainage and other causes having greatly reduced their number--with rivers bearing the never-failing tribute of the skies to the sea, yet not so thoroughly as to hinder enormous districts from remaining in a swamped and saturated condition, given up to the bogs, which even at the present time are said to cover nearly one-sixth of its surface.

Author : Colin Barr
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773545700

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Religion and Greater Ireland by Colin Barr Pdf

Stimulating essays that break new ground on religion and Irish identity in modern world history.

Author : Cormac Lucey
Publisher : Gill & Macmillan Ltd
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780717161744

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Plan B by Cormac Lucey Pdf

The political establishment would have you believe that Ireland's economic crisis is over. But leading Irish economist Cormac Lucey shows that it is premature to declare an end to the euro-crisis. He argues that joining the single currency was the pivotal cause of Ireland's economic bust and it is also the single biggest threat to its recovery. Plan Bproposes a concrete plan for exiting the euro and restructuring Ireland's debt mountains, showing that fears of what will happen if Ireland leaves the euro are overstated. It will set Ireland on a path to higher economic growth, lower emigration and a more sustainable future. If you are tired of hearing that Plan A is the only game in town – another difficult budget, meagre economic growth, high unemployment, mass emigration and staggeringly high debt – read Plan B and be reassured there is an alternative.

Author : Brenna O’Shea Cagiano
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781462094936

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Patrick: the Irish Immigrant by Brenna O’Shea Cagiano Pdf

Patrick: The Irish Immigrant is the story of a determined Irish lad who dreamed of a better life of opportunities in America. By the age of seventeen, Patrick J. O'Shea had saved enough money to buy passage to the United States. Upon his arrival in New York City, Patrick used his ambition and determination, mixed with a dash of Irish malarkey, to set himself up with a job and a new life. This recipe served him well throughout his adventures that led him from New York City to the Territory of Hawaii and throughout the world. Along the way, Patrick married the love of his life, Arabell. Together they raised their family against the backdrop of World War II and other life-changing historical events. Patrick's life story is the universal story of many immigrants to the United States of America. He came, he prospered, and he proudly became a U.S. citizen. Patrick wanted his story told to encourage others to persevere despite obstacles and setbacks, to do one's best at any task, and to always conduct oneself with honor and dignity.

Author : James MacGeoghegan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1844
Category : Ireland
ISBN : UOM:39015068455032

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The History of Ireland, Ancient and Modern by James MacGeoghegan Pdf

Author : Christine Kinealy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230802476

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The Great Irish Famine by Christine Kinealy Pdf

The Great Irish Famine of 1845-51 was both one of the most lethal famines in modern history and a watershed in the development of modern Ireland. This book - based on a wide range of little-used sources - demonstrates how the Famine profoundly affected many aspects of Irish life: the relationship between the churches; the nationalist movement; and the relationship with the monarchy. In addition to looking at the role of the government, Kinealy shows the importance of private charity in saving lives. One of the most challenging aspects of the publication is the chapter on food supply, in which Kinealy concludes that, despite the potato blight, Ireland was still producing enough food to feed its people. The long-term impact of the tragedy, notably the way in which it has been remembered and commemorated, is also examined.

Author : Patrick Weston Joyce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Ireland
ISBN : UCAL:B4072735

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A Short History of Ireland from the Earliest Times to 1608 by Patrick Weston Joyce Pdf