Ourselves alone : women's emigration from Ireland, 1885-1920 /

In early April of 1888, sixteen-year-old Mary Ann Donovan stood alone on the quays of Queenstown in county Cork waiting to board a ship for Boston in far-off America. She was but one of almost 700,000 young, usually unmarried women, traveling alone, who left their homes in Ireland during the late ni...

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Author / Creator: Nolan, Janet, 1946- (Author)
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Edition:Paperback edition.
Imprint: Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2009.
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