Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855 by J. Matthew Gallman

Receiving Erin's Children: Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish Famine Migration, 1845-1855

J. Matthew Gallman

320 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history

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Between 1845 and 1855, 2 million Irish men and women fled their famine-ravaged homeland, many to settle in large British and American cities that were already wrestling with a complex array of urban problems. In this innovative work of comparative...

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