- Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 341 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Summary
- This title documents for the first time a representative sample of Irish immigrant families and uses the techniques of family and digital history to explore their long-term fate.
- Uniform Title
- Divergent paths (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Divergent paths (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-331) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Irish emigrants and family history: a new approach -- The context: Irish emigration and Stafford -- Stafford's Irish families: the overall picture -- Pathfinders: labouring families before the Famine -- Refugees from the Famine -- Labouring families in the Famine's aftermath, 1852 onwards -- Lace curtain Irish? The families of craft, clerical and service workers -- Old soldiers and their families -- The Irish in the shoe trade -- The forgotten Irish: entrepreneurs and professionals -- Divergent paths: the conclusions to be drawn.
- LCCN
- OCLC
- ssj0001569010
- Author
Herson, John.
- Title
Divergent paths [electronic resource] : family histories of Irish emigrants in Britain, 1820-1920 / John Herson.
- Imprint
Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-331) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
1800 - 1899
- Other Standard Identifier
60001999429